The silva bay shipyard school is canada's only full-time traditional wooden boat building school, located at silva bay, gabriola island, british columbia. the silva bay shipyard school offers three full-time, accredited courses: wooden boat building, ships cabinetry, and introduction to marine woodworking.. Classic wooden boat restorations and wooden boat building, servicing the west coast, vancouver island, the puget sound, seattle, vancouver and victoria. we offer haulouts, wood boat renovations and refits with our large capacity marine ways. /. Boatbuilders. barefoot wooden boats. builders of barefoot5.8, a sail and oar race boat, ratty, a 20' cat-ketch, and 6 pogies, 12' sailing dinghies.commissioned the electric launch 15, barefoot 175 raider, and the 18.25 runabout..
Stories of bcs wooden boats, past and present. boat tales. published by admin on september 24, 2012. welcome to my library of stories and pictures about british columbia’s wooden boats, the people who built them, and those who worked an played on them. rampart boat building works was well-known for building “sturdy, quality gentlemen. Here are several spectacular wooden boats that caught our eyes as we sailed between the gulf islands and desolation sound this summer. “native girl” was designed and built by west coast legend allen farrell.. Welcome aboard the vancouver wooden boat society. as a non-profit society in the province of british columbia, canada, we are a membership driven organization with a focus on promoting, encouraging and facilitating interest in wooden boats and developing a center for wooden boats in vancouver..
