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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 […]
Name: Lasqueti Fisher Type: West Coast Drum Seiner Length: 44 feet (13.41 m) Weight: 29 tons (58,000 lbs) Hull: Carvel Fir Wood Planking Built: 1958 by Tom Milichap and Peter Forbes at Lasqueti Island Owners: Alma and Tony Owen 6 people like this post. Like Unlike
Originally published October 20 2011 Somewhere in the Cowichan Valley, not too far from Cowichan Bay, there is a magical place. It is a place of iron, steel and wood. Of diesel fuel, kerosene and welding rod. Of leather belting, copper rivets and oily engine parts. To the uninformed the piles of steel appear to […]
Originally published July 24 2011 An individual’s personal hobbies and enjoyable pastimes have a habit of affecting more than one’s immediate surroundings here in Cowichan Bay. If one is a dab hand at catching dungeoness crabs, one shares a few now and again with one’s neighbors. Those with skill at rebuilding outboard motors volunteer a […]
Originally published July 20 2011 I’ll bet there were few people who, in the year 2000 would have guessed that local resident Colleen Underwood’s new hobby would one day lead to a thriving little pottery shop here in Cowichan Bay. Especially if you consider that she began learning the Potter’s craft while on assignment with […]
George Weeks has lived on the southern end of Vancouver Island and around the Cowichan Valley most of his life. Born at the Duncan Hospital in 1937, it wasn’t long before he and his mother were ready for the car and boat ride home to Caycuse, where his father was a steam locomotive engineer and […]
