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Club Boats
Members' Boats P1
Members' Boats P2
Members' Boats P3
Members' Boats P4
Members' Boats P5
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Currently
the club owns five boats, with two of these still under construction.
Eventually, we plan to make all of these boats available to OSBUG
members. |
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Boat Name: |
Fancy Pram |
| Length: |
7 feet |
| Launch Date: |
September 2000 |
| Designer: |
A.C. Fancy |
| Builder: |
OLAS Members |
| Boat Type |
Pram |
| Owner: |
OLAS |
| Email: |
contact@woodenboatclub.ca |
| Description:
Mr. A.C. Fancy was a solitary boat
builder who worked in a small shop on Coal Harbour (near today’s
Bayshore Inn) circa 1930 - 1950. For many years Mr. Fancy produced boats
similar to this one as tenders for salmon trollers. With her
smooth-skinned hull and relatively heavy planking, this boat can withstand
beaching on rocky shores better than a clinker-built hull whose planking
laps might be damaged by such treatment.
Oarlock
and Sail Wooden Boat Club members took the lines of this small but rugged
craft from an original boat that was donated to the Britannia Heritage
Shipyard in Steveston by Alan Haig-Brown. The Fancy pram is the first boat
built as a group project by Oarlock and Sail members. She is carvel
planked of western red cedar over steam-bent oak frames and is copper
fastened. The pram was launched in September 2000. One of these days
we’ll get around to making a set of floor boards for her! |
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Boat Name: |
Sam Mc |
| Length: |
12 feet |
| Launch Date: |
October 2002 |
| Designer: |
Richard Kolin |
| Builder: |
OLAS Members |
| Boat Type |
Rowing/Sailing Skiff |
| Owner: |
OLAS |
| Email: |
contact@woodenboatclub.ca |
| Description:
“Sam Mc” is a 12-foot
flat-bottomed skiff built to Rich Kolin’s “Heidi” design. She is
named after Sam McKinney, a maritime historian and author who was
responsible for forging the Oarlock and Sail Wooden Boat Club’s present
association with the Vancouver Maritime Museum. During the summer months,
Oarlock and sail members demonstrate wooden boat building techniques in
the museum’s Heritage Harbour, and that is how Sam’s namesake came to
be constructed.
Following
the detailed instructions in Kolin’s book Traditional Boatbuilding
Made Easy – Building Heidi, Oarlock and sail members built this boat
over two summers. She was launched in October 2002.
“Sam
Mc’s” bottom is cross-planked in Douglas fir, and the sides are
lapstrake (clinker) western red cedar. The frames are Douglas fir, as is
the transom. The stem is laminated oak. All fastenings are copper and
bronze. “Sam Mc” is rigged with a single spritsail and she has proven
to be lively under sail.
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Boat Name: |
Vogler |
| Length: |
12 feet |
| (Re)Launch Date: |
TBD |
| Designer: |
Vogler Brothers Boatbuilders |
| Builder: |
Vogler Brothers Boatbuilders |
| Boat Type |
Clinker row boat |
| Owner: |
OLAS |
| Email: |
contact@woodenboatclub.ca |
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Description:
Vogler Brothers Boatbuilders
constructed this 12-foot clinker-built (lapstrake) boat at their shop in
Victoria, circa 1920 – 1930. For many years it was used as a livery boat
at the Yellow Point Lodge on Vancouver Island.
Following
its stint at Yellow Point, the skiff came into the possession of the
Gordon family, and she entered a new career as a recreational rowing
craft. When the Gordon family decided that she was “worn out”, the
boat was carefully stored in the rafters of the family garage. When garage
demolition loomed in 2002, Alistair Gordon donated the skiff to the
Oarlock and Sail Wooden Boat Club.
Thanks to its dry storage in the
Gordon’s garage, the boat was a good candidate for repair, and since its
acquisition by the club, it has been an on-going restoration project for
Oarlock and Sail members. Restoration is nearing completion, and the
Vogler skiff will soon be ready for another 70 years of use. |
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Boat Name: |
Diablo |
| Length: |
15 feet |
| Launch Date: |
Under Construction
(currently on hold) |
| Designer: |
H.
"Dynamite" Payson |
| Builder: |
OLAS
Club Members |
| Boat Type |
Open Runabout |
| Owner: |
OLAS |
| Email: |
contact@woodenboatclub.ca |
| Description:
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See http://www.instantboats.com/diablo.htm
for more information about the Diablo |
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Boat Name: |
OLAS Dory |
| Length: |
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| Launch Date: |
? |
| Designer: |
? |
| Builder: |
? |
| Boat Type |
Dory |
| Owner: |
OLAS |
| Email: |
contact@woodenboatclub.ca |
| Description:
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