Wooden Boat and Maritime Seminars

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.

Vanishing Beacons: BC's Lightkeepers

7pm, Thursday, February 18th Wednesday, 17th

Local maritime historian and journalist Ivan Bulic talks about BC's Lightkeepers. Location, Roxy Theater, Gabriola VillageSilva Bay Resort family room.

Understanding Your Navigation Instruments

7pm, Thursday March 19thWednesday, March 18th

Captain 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.

Beached Bird Survey Guided Walk

10:30am, May 1st, 2010 Aril 24th, 2010

Join 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.

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).

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

• Winter Maritime Seminars

  • Shipyard Raid ('05-'08)
  • Early Cartography of Gabriola
  • Winter Seabirds of Gabriola: Monitoring our seabids here and in the Arctic
  • From Dream to Reality: Building and Sailing a 50' Traditional Wooden Schooner
  • Traditional Italian Boats of Sardinia and Venice

2008 Wooden Boat

• Silva Bay 10th Annual Maritime Festival Wooden Boat Seminars