Wooden Boat and Maritime Seminars

Silva Bay, Gabriola Island, 2010-2008

Upcoming, 2010

  • Wooden Boatbuilding Today: Combining Traditional and Modern Practice

    10am-4pm, Saturday, October 16th

    Yacht designer Tad Roberts will give a day long presentation on "Wooden Boatbuilding Today: Combining Traditional and Modern Practice". There will be a break from noon to 2pm for lunch and question and answers. Of interest to professional wooden boatbuilders and serious students and amateurs. Covers pros and cons of methods, materials, and fastenings.

  • Traditional Rigs Symposium

    10am-4pm, Saturday, December 4th

    Yacht Designer Tad Roberts will give a day long presentation on "Traditional Rigs", taking up where last year's traditional rig symposium left off. There will be a break from noon to 2pm for lunch and question and answers.

  • BC Traditional Boats: History and Current Status

    10am-4pm, Saturday, February 5th

    Yacht designer Tad Roberts will give a day long presentation on "BC Traditional Boats: History and Current Status". There will be a break from noon to 2pm for lunch and question and answers.

  • Vessel Stability: Myths and Reality

    10am-4pm, Saturday, March 19th

    Yacht Designer Tad Roberts will give a day long presentation on "Vessel Stability: Myths and Reality". There will be a break from noon to 2pm for lunch and question and answers.

Gallery

  • Photo credit: Tad Roberts

  • Rigging, schooner Martha

    Rigging, schooner Martha

    Photo credit: Cameron Eckhert

  • Pacific salmon troller

    Pacific salmon troller

    Photo credit: Don McMillan

  • Headlands and Beaches

    Headlands and Beaches

    Photo credit: Tad Roberts

  • Traditional Wooden Boatbuilding, Details

    Traditional Wooden Boatbuilding, Details

    Photo credit: Tad Roberts

  • Raiders

    Raiders

    Photo credit: Jan Sabine

  • Hornpipe

    Raider Hornpipe Surfing Downwind

    Photo credit: Ryan and 'Stella'

  • Tad Roberts 60' schooner

    Tad Roberts 60' schooner

    Photo credit: Tad Roberts

  • Navigation Instruments

    Photo credit: Cameron Eckhert

Prev Gallery

  • Mallards in Flight

    Mallards in Flight

    Photo credit: Jennifer Provencher

  • Surf Scoters, Piper's Bay

    Surf Scoters, Piper's Bay

    Photo credit: Karen Barry

  • Sea Star 2

    Sea Star 2

    Photo credit: Tony Grove

  • Sea Star 2

    Sea Star 2

    Photo credit: Tony Grove

  • Carlotta Under Sail

    Carlotta Under Sail

    Photo credit: Stephan Mohan

  • Carlotta decks

    Carlotta's New Decks

    Photo credit: Stephan Mohan

  • Sea Star 2 1934 Matsumoto Troller

    Sea Star 2: A 1934 Matsumoto Troller

    Photo credit: Tony Grove

  • Surf Scoters, Piper's Bay

    Surf Scoters, Piper's Bay

    Photo credit: Karen Barry

  • Shack Island

    Shack Island

    Photo credit: Tad Roberts

  • Italian Fishboats

    Traditional Italian Fishboats

    Photo credit: Tony Grove

  • Building Cockle

    Building Cockle

    Photo credit: Alex Low

  • Coats Island

    Coats Island 01

    Photo credit: Jennifer Provencher

  • Grail Dancer

    Grail Dancer

    Photo credit: Jennifer Provencher

  • Longboat Bear

    Photo credit: Cameron Eckhert

  • Coats Island

    Coats Island 02

    Photo credit: Jennifer Provencher

  • Longboat Bear

    Photo credit: Tad Roberts

  • Galiano
  • Mark Reuten

    Traditional Skin-on-frame Kayak Construction

    Photo credit: Mark Reuten

More Information

  • About The Wooden Boat and Maritime Seminars are put on on an independent non-profit basis as a benefit to the maritime community.

  • Location The seminars take place on Gabriola Island and at Silva Bay, home to the historic Withey Shipyard and the CNN docks, now the Silva Bay Resort, Shipyard and Shipyard School, Canada's only full-time wooden boatbuilding school.

  • NotesThe 2009-2008 Winter Maritime Seminars and the 2009 and 2008 Silva Bay Maritime Festival Wooden Boat Seminars were put on as benefits for the Shipyard School on an independent non-profit basis. Admission was free. Our generous sponsors helped defray seminar costs.

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