Wooden Boat and Maritime Seminars

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.

2009-2010 Maritime Seminars

• Wooden Boat and Maritime Seminars

  • Download the PDF: Understanding Your Navigation Instruments Captain Jacqueline Denee.
  • 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