These are good looking CCG vessels... Of course there's the Bart Roberts too.
FACT IS the decline of the wild stocks is a result of not just one culprit, but a vast number of contributors from logging, to watershed...
From 14 to 85 million?? Yuck!...what the heck will we all be doing? Desolation Sound may have to change to Population Sound! Gonna have to look...
Here's another interesting site plus a simple video to explain the issue with the sea lice to people new to this....
Thanks for that link K1W1. There's a few scientists signed on for changing the status quo. Here is some more interesting reading......
I also do not want to create a downbeat thread here. I haven't had a chance to read from your link but I will (getting the boat ready to launch:)...
Battle of the Brians! Boy, I really hit a nerve.:eek: "...refuted by government scientific reports"...I'm going to read up on that link Brian,...
Wow, those are monsters!! Must have been a fun day.
Sooke is on the southern end of Vancouver Island for those of you from "away". Blackfish, that sure is a nice Hourston. Sounds like you had...
Here's a story of another founder of a local boat builder......
Here's Hourston's site. Take a look at the history page for neat old photos... http://web.mac.com/hourston/iWeb/Hourston%20Glascraft/HOME.html
Hi Brian, you're close but ours is a Double Eagle (similar though). That's a nice clean Hourston! Can you suggest some good one boat anchorages...
Here's another one I like...a Willard 30'. Yes, so much to see here in our Gulf Islands or north to Desolation & Discovery Islands. We would put...
That sounds like us! 20' boat + wife & me + 3 kids = 6 beautiful days throught the Gulf Islands last summer. We got some funny looks from a...
Oohh, is the last one for me? Love those old conversions! I like the Beneteau 42. I think the small trawler will be making a comeback; Nordic...
Interesting stuff there Out My Window. I don't think that Niigata makes engines though, you probably meant Cat engines in Cates3. Vancouver does...
An asumption was made there I guess. I believe they're fitted with twin Niigata drives, these are 360 deg. Z drives. I don't think Cates tugs...
That looks like Northern Marine's "After Eight" in the third photo. The third photo is a full marina! I like how the masts mimic the towers behind.
That looks familiar!:) The "Breakaway" from Bracewell Boatworks.
I remember having my lunch down by the water on Commissioner road by the Tiger Tugz (now Smit) docks a few years ago. The Cannery resturaunt was...
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