I can hardly wait to see it off the forms, and with maple gunwales... Should be a great contrast.
I've been wanting to stain the hull of a boat for a long time. This boat was bought on the forms and stripped so is a perfect opportunity for an experiment! I chose a water-borne cherry stain, applied it after the final sanding, and then sealed it two days later with epoxy. In this picture, the glass is on, and the first fill coat has been applied.
I can hardly wait to see it off the forms, and with maple gunwales... Should be a great contrast.
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I love some of the detail on the newest Wherry, the rope guards on the outwales: And the quarter knees at the stern; The way the strips on the bulkheads match the colors in the hull This is hull number 12, to be delivered for Christmas.
I just finished another Wherry, and the owner can't take delivery until September. So I've received his permission to show the boat at the Vancouver Wooden Boat Festival .
Now I just have to lift it on and off the roof of my Westfalia without dropping it!!! The show is at Granville Island, August 27th to 30th. See you there! The latest cosine wherry has hit the water on Vancouver Island. It was picked up Wednesday by it's new owner, and I received this photo on Saturday. Looks like a great place to row!
More Gallery Pictures Here is a picture showing the matching pair of Wee Lassie II canoes suspended from the ceiling in the Gibsons public art gallery.
The Pair of Wee Lassie canoes are suspended from the ceiling at the public art gallery in Gibsons Landing. This is a show featuring woodworkers on the coast, and I was fortunate to be asked to participate (and fortunate to have a pair of boats waiting delivery). There are two boats displayed in the show, but the local paper only showed one in the photo. See the article Here
We've finished stripping the handliner. In this photo, the bottom strip is installed, and the outer stems are being laminated in place on the boat. I'll remove the stems to add more layers, and square the sides on the table saw.
This is the first of a pair of matching Wee Lassie II's that I'm building for a client in Ontario. This is the view from the stern, it has been sanded the first grit, and has a bit of epoxy filler on a couple of gaps. These will be sanded when they are cured, and will virtually disappear. The hull is red cedar, with yellow cedar features and outer stems and was built staple-less, using fishing line.The wee lassie II is 13"6" in length, and can carry paddlers up to 280 lbs. It should be a bit faster than the standard wee lassie due to the 2 feet of extra length. In conjunction with the Pender Harbour Living Heritage Society, I will be starting a boatbuilding class at the Sarah Wray Hall January 14, 2015. I've never built a boat of this size with a class, but I hope we can complete it in 3 months worth of Wednesday evenings, roughly 2 hours each. the finished boat will stay with the society, possibly as the start of a livery fleet in the harbour.
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AuthorRick Crook of Oyster Bay Boats Pender Harbour BC Archives
July 2023
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