Wooden Boat and Maritime Seminars
Silva Bay, Gabriola Island, '09 - '10Upcoming, 2010
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Traditional Rigs Symposium
10:00am, Saturday, February 13th
Admission is free; however, advance registration is helpful. Please email Tad by January 30th to let us know you are coming.
Our programme is about traditional rigs and their advantages, especially for owner/users; ease of use, ease of modification of sails and rig, and so on, with emphasis on boats 50 feet and under. Our schedule from 10:00am to 4:30pm with breaks for lunch: we start with a session by Storch Sails Nanaimo on traditional rigs from the sailmaker's perspective, a panel discussion, and Q and A; break for lunch. Afternoon, a talk by yacht designer Tad Roberts on balance and rig design followed by a Q and A. Location, Silva Bay.
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Vanishing Beacons: BC's Lightkeepers
7pm, Thursday, February 18th
Wednesday, 17thLocal maritime historian and journalist Ivan Bulic talks about BC's Lightkeepers. Location, Roxy Theater, Gabriola Village
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Understanding Your Navigation Instruments
7pm, Thursday March 19th
Wednesday, March 18thCaptain Jacqueline Denee will talk on "Understanding your Navigation Instruments" including the operation of and limitations of: radar, VHF radio/DF, GPS/DGPS, Sonar, and Electronic Navigation Chart Systems (ENC). Location, Silva Bay Resort family room.
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Beached Bird Survey Guided Walk
10:30am, May 1st, 2010
Aril 24th, 2010Join Karen Barry of Bird Studies Canada at Drumbeg Provincal Park for a Beached Bird Survey Guided Walk. Part of Bird Studies Canada Citizen Science data collection initiative.
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Shipyard Raid 09
May 19th, 2010
Tad Roberts and Raiders share stories, adventures, and slides from the past Raid (a retry of the November talk that was canceled by a storm and power outage).
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2009-2010 Maritime Seminars
Wooden Boat and Maritime Seminars
- Vanishing Beacons: BC's Lightkeepers Thursday, February 18th. Speakers: Ivan Bulic, Steve Bergh, and Alice Woods
- Traditional Rigs Symposium 10:00am, Saturday, February 13th. Speakers: Barbra and Gary Storch; Tad Roberts
- Help Save Our Wild Salmon Speaker: Michelle Young
- Restoring Carlotta, 1899 Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter Speaker: Stephen Mohan
- Taking the Lines of Sea Star 2: A 1934 Matsumoto Troller Speaker: Tony Grove
- Shipyard Raid 2009 (rescheduled for May '10) Speaker: Tad Roberts
- How Citizen Science Can Assist in Bird Conservation Speaker: Karen Barry
2009 Wooden Boat
Silva Bay 11th Annual Maritime Festival Wooden Boat Seminars
- "Running a Traditional Boatyard and Current Restoration Projects", Speaker: Rob Abernethy
- "Skin-on-frame Kayak Construction", Speaker: Mark Reuten
- "Building Tern", Speaker: Steven Brouwer
- "Voyages, Raiding, and Camp-Cruising in Small Boats", Speaker: Quill Goldman and Colin Masson
- "Legacy in Wood", Speaker: Ryan Wahl
- "Building the Cockle, a replica of J.R. Purdon's 1913 cutter. A journey into madness...', Speakers: Jon Brown and Alex Low
- "Restoration of the Last of the Klondike Goldrush Paddlewheelers", Speaker: Wayne Loiselle
- "Restoration Issues and the Value of Studying Historic Vessels to Develop Craft" Speaker: Mark Wallace
- "Silva Bay Museum Harbour", Speaker: Tad Roberts
- "A Hands-on Lesson in Boat Design", Speaker: Tad Roberts
2009-08 Maritime Seminars
2008 Wooden Boat
Upcoming Gallery
Entrance Island Lightstation
Photo credit: Tad Roberts
Rigging, schooner Martha
Photo credit: Cameron Eckhert
Pacific salmon troller
Photo credit: Don McMillan
Headlands and Beaches
Photo credit: Tad Roberts
Traditional Wooden Boatbuilding, Details
Photo credit: Tad Roberts
Raiders
Photo credit: Jan Sabine
Raider Hornpipe Surfing Downwind
Photo credit: Ryan and 'Stella'
Tad Roberts 60' schooner
Photo credit: Tad Roberts
Navigation Instruments
Photo credit: Cameron Eckhert
Prev Gallery
Mallards in Flight
Photo credit: Jennifer Provencher
Surf Scoters, Piper's Bay
Photo credit: Karen Barry
Sea Star 2
Photo credit: Tony Grove
Sea Star 2
Photo credit: Tony Grove
Carlotta Under Sail
Photo credit: Stephan Mohan
Carlotta's New Decks
Photo credit: Stephan Mohan
Sea Star 2: A 1934 Matsumoto Troller
Photo credit: Tony Grove
Surf Scoters, Piper's Bay
Photo credit: Karen Barry
Shack Island
Photo credit: Tad Roberts
Traditional Italian Fishboats
Photo credit: Tony Grove
Building Cockle
Photo credit: Alex Low
Photo credit: Jennifer Provencher
Grail Dancer
Photo credit: Jennifer Provencher
Longboat Bear
Photo credit: Cameron Eckhert
Photo credit: Jennifer Provencher
Longboat Bear
Photo credit: Tad Roberts
Traditional Skin-on-frame Kayak Construction
Photo credit: Mark Reuten
More Information
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About The Wooden Boat and Maritime Seminars are put on on an independent non-profit basis, as a benefit to the maritime community and the Shipyard Raid, an 8-day staged race for traditional sail and oar boats. Contact tadroberts@shaw.ca. Admission is free.
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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.
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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.