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Last year Brian managed to get hold of an old dilapidated fiberglass boat hull. It really wasn’t much of a “boat” at all. There were cracks here and there, the transom was weak and almost everyone who looked at it suggested it would probably be best to send the thing to the garbage dump. 5 […]
Update: June 15 2013: New reports indicate that the tow is scheduled to leave Cowichan Bay around midnight Friday June 21. — Read the Saga of the Dominion I here. — There’s a big tugboat in the bay today and it’s possibly here to take one of our nautical landmarks away for good. The Dominion […]
In a word, Yes. Yes we should. When the Cowichan Bay Maritime Centre proudly unveiled it’s 450k building expansion back in September 2011, few of those outside the organization’s board of directors had an inkling of the financial problems that were then only just on the horizon. According to information published in the Cowichan News […]
Gloria Craig, President of the Cowichan Wooden Boat Society highlights plans for early 2013 in an email sent to Society members; During the Month of March we plan to open the new building museum on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10-4pm. Office hours will be 10-4 Monday to Friday and Shop hours Wednesday to Sunday. […]
Morning Mist Ice-Cream. If you look at it one way, Yves Muselle has made it possible for you to spend the whopping sum of $7.90 on an ice-cream cone at Cowichan Bay Village. If you look at it another way, Yves Muselle has made it possible for you to obtain some of the finest quality, […]
The Cowichan Bay Maritime Center will close it’s doors in January and February, dismiss staff, in a move that will hopefully prevent further difficulties for the financially troubled organization. Be the first to like. Like Unlike
Originally published June of 2012 Hook up, pump out or weigh anchor. That’s the opening line in a recent article regarding sewage treatment issues appearing in the Cowichan News Leader Pictorial. It’s a simple sentence, only seven words long. Those seven words however, showcase the entire philosophy, attitude and handling of an issue that’s gone […]
