Somthing different

At our shop in Brentwood Bay, We're not just creative on boats. This in-house project is my latest creation. Hopefully if the design and Geometry are good this will be a scooter built for speed!! I'll let you know if it works. Thankfully I have very talented friends who can weld. In the picture is Mike Harris a good friend and AG employee. Jean Gaudin also helped me with this project.

Euphimia

After a long bottom end rebuild. Euphimia is ready to go. Now that the fresh new Garboard planks are on, you would never know that almost all the floor and keel bolts were replaced. Engine timbers were re fastened and heat exchanger was reconditioned and re mounted. Euphimia was built in 1929 in Seattle. There was no doubt that the fasteners that we replaced were original. I'd be very happy if our bolts lasted 81 years. Euphmia will be launch Wednesday June 9 2010 just in time for a short sea trial and the off to the first of the summer Classic Yacht rendezvous. You may also notice by the pictures that we gave her a new pain job and a reconditioned swim grid. A new laminated rubbing strip re places the steam bent oak one. Euphmia is a member of the CYA Classic Yacht Assosiation.

New decks for Kotic

Kotic is a lovely little gaff cutter that we have done quite a bit of work to over the years. Now she is being fitted out with some new decking. We are installing yellow cedar decks. This will be the third deck we have done in yellow cedar. The first one was the Duen over ten years ago. Those decks look as fresh as the day we installed them. The yellow cedar is very tough, tougher than most people think, and the price is right. As teak soars to $32 a board foot we have to look for these kinds of alternatives. We will have more pictures soon.

Teak blocks

Jean has built these teak blocks. Real blocks are hard to find and the quality of the ones we have found are not so good. So Jean built these. Nice hey!
Oh and the nickles are fake;)

Bristol chanel cutter

Here we re-built a hatch for a customer. The end result is something that we are pleased with.

Boatbuilders weekend

I suspect that most boatbuilders go boating on the weekend, but Jean and I like to go looking for adventure on our motorcycles.
OK! we are not straying form our original passion boatbuilding and operating wood boats, Just having fun.

New boat

Alice is a new build. She is a Paul Gartside designed 12' double-ender. The construction is red cedar carvel on Garry oak frames. The keelson is oak and the keel is Douglas fir. The planks are fastened to the frames traditionally using copper nails and roves.
We hope to have her ready for the Open Boat Festival in September!!
In the picture shown here, the boat is upright and the rub rails are going on to create stiffness.