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An invitation arrived in my email box the other day, I’ll let it speak for itself: Join us for this year’s Boat Festival! We have three businesses looking to sponsor teams to participate in the Fast and Furious Boat Building Competition. Contact the office if you are interested! Prize is 50/50 of entrance fees gathered […]
Brian, Peter and I are enthusiasts of all things mechanical. Oily, dirty, smelling of gasoline or diesel fuel, loud and noisy or nearly silent, it doesn’t matter. If there’s a tugboat in the harbour we go take a look. If the steam train is running at the Forestry Visitor Center, you’ll find us hanging on […]
Professional shipwright Eric Sandilands is returning to the Cowichan Bay Wooden Boat Society’s wood-room to guide another of his highly successful lapstrake boat building courses. This is great news for those who wanted to take courses last year, but were unable to do so. These workshops provide a very full, challenging and rewarding week of […]
From the Maritime Center Mailing List: Northern European Boats and Boatbuilding in the pre-Viking Iron Age Presented by Dan Dalby Thursday, July 11, 2013 at 7pm 1 person likes this post. Like Unlike
Dominion replacement SS Beaver, lately put out in our Bay at anchor, appears to be developing a slight list to port. Photographs taken the day of it’s arrival show it leaned a touch to it’s port side, however today the list seems to have undergone a slight increase. Furthermore, As of Sunday June 30, the […]
Ermott’s Landing, our little float-home in Cowichan bay Village, has gone green. When our old marine toilet needed replacement, we decided not to buy another one of the same type, but instead to get something that would be of benefit to our environment. At the same time, we wanted to lessen our impact on the […]
Have you heard about the Vancouver Island Tanker Fleet? We have had a rather large one for some time you know. Every time you fuel your car, your boat, your motorcycle, your lawnmower, your tractor or even one of those noisy horrible leaf blowing things, you are using fuel brought here by the Vancouver Island […]
