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Continuing on along the coast of Nova Scotia, this is Lunenburg which is a _UNESCO Heritage Site. One of the loveliest villages to visit and photographed by many.
Taken in a visit to Gloucester Docks a few weeks back. The warehouses have now been converted to retail and residential with a few offices and a couple of museums. There is still a boatbuilder complete with dry dock, on the right hand side of the photo. Must have been very different when Gloucester was still a busy port.
HSS!
Located on a peninsula overlooking an excellent ice-free harbor, the town was first settled about 1775. Originally part of Eastport, it was set off and incorporated on June 21, 1811, and named for Lübeck, Germany.
Following the War of 1812, Lubec was the site of considerable smuggling trade in gypsum, although principal industries remained agriculture and fisheries. By 1859, there was a tannery, three gristmills and nine sawmills; by 1886, there were also two shipyards, three boatbuilders and three sailmakers.
Lubec reached its population peak in the 1910s and 20s, hovering a little above 3,300 during this era. Since then, the population has generally been in a gradual but steady decline, and currently sits at a little over 1,300. (from Wikipedia)
If you want a place to just relax and enjoy the natural beauty, Lubec is the placae to go!
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Hardanger is a traditional district in the western part of Norway, dominated by the Hardangerfjord. The region is one of Norway's most important sources of fruit and constitutes approximately 40% of the national fruit production, including apple, plum, pear, cherry and redcurrant. The area is also known for it`s boatbuilder traditions, crafts and national costumes.
The Hardanger bridge is 1,380 metres (4,530 ft) long, with a main span of 1,310 metres (4,300 ft) Thats almost 30 meters longer than The Golden Gate bridge. The maximum deck height is 55 metres (180 ft) and the towers reach 200 metres (660 ft) above sea level. The bridge was opened to traffic in August 2013.
S.S. MASTER
Length Overall 85 ft
Beam 19.5 ft
Tonnage 225
Power Triple Expansion Steam Engine
Propeller 8′ – 9 pitch
Horse Power 330 hp
Normal Cruise 7 knots @ 100 rpm
The SS Master was built in 1922 for Captain Herman Thorsen. Very few ships were being built in the province during this period, (only 6 over 40′), and the Master was just about the last tug launched with a triple expansion steam engine installed.
The Master was one of a trio of wood hulled tugs that were turned out at the Beach Avenue Shipyard in False Creek. Although almost identical in design and size, the MASTER was however, 5′ shorter than the other two, the SEA SWELL and the R.F.M.
**Information as per www.ssmaster.org/
MV SILVER ANN
Homeport:
Steveston, BC (Britannia Shipyard, National Historic Site)
Built: 1968
Length39’
Draft: 4’
The “Silver Ann” was built in 1968-69, and was the last boat constructed at the Britannia Shipyards, inside the Richmond Boatbuilders building.
This gillnetter was built by S. Asari for George Osaka, in the year of his 25th wedding anniversary (the silver anniversary),
which is why she is named the “Silver Ann.” In 2001, she was acquired by the City of Richmond
and was sent to be restored at the Richmond Boatbuilders Building. She is believed to still have
her original engine.
Info. as per online sources and not verified.
Tugs are by far my favorite boats.
My dad's early career was living and working aboard local coastline and deep sea tugs.
Dad's best friend (in his early years) was the engineer of the SS Master. My dad recalls spending time upon the Master assisting him in fine tuning the steam engines on this beautiful tug.
The Master's sister tug, the R.F.M was another tug my dad fondly remembers working on.
Brittannia Shipyard Museum
Steveston Heritage Fishing Village on the Fraser River
Richmond
BC
Thanks for your interest..........Happy Weekend
Happy Clicks
~Christie ( happiest ) by the River
80 year old Max is on of the few traditional master boatbuilders left in Newfoundland. Max and his Labrador Retriever went for a row in one of his punts on one of the few calm days on Conception Bay, St. Philips, Newfoundland and was still out when this beautiful sunset occurred.
Boyd Coleridge is a gentleman I met in Newfoundland many years ago. He lived in the Trinity area for a good part of his life and was a knowledgeable carpenter and boatbuilder. He died in 2016 at the age of 88 (4 years after I met him). His son, Eric, carries on some of the traditional ways by applying the skills he learned from his dad to restore the doors and windows of heritage homes. boatsandbuilders.com/oral-histories/boyd-coleridge
I took this photo of the Nicholson 70 while she was on her first sea trials in The Solent in 1982. I was a foreman boatbuilder at the time working for Camper & Nicholsons in charge of the fit out. I was out in a motorboat taking a video of her and the South African skipper of Blue Jacket gave me his still camera and asked me to take some shots with it. This is one of those which he presented to me as a framed print when they were about to leave for charters in the West Indies. I recently took a shot of the print with my Canon camera.
So its not too bad considering.
Camper and Nicholsons started building boats in 1782 on it's site in Gosport. You can see some of the fantastic yachts built there if you enter Camper & Nicholsons and search photos on flickr.
Yes it`s just a shot of some boats , but what caught my eye here was how the masts almost lined up in a x . The boat in the foreground is just a small fishing boat but the two boats in the background are called Jumbo boats, one is called Celeste and the other is called " William Paynter " .They are both scaled down replicas of Luggers ,they were built as a tribute to William Paynter the boatbuilder who designed these Jumbo`s in the 1880s.
I was chatting with a fellow Flickr user about this exact location last week. Just by chance, I wound up at Southbank last night. I thought I'd take a minute to stop by and re-visit this composition.
I was hoping for a different angle, to include the Pollywood Side, but due to a military expo at the Convention Centre, the entire venue has been cordoned off with fences, concrete barriers and literally hundreds of police. That's even a week before the Expo opens!
Expo's aside, still very happy with this 70s exposure.
Ariadne, designed by Axel Nygren and built by August Plym´s Stockholms Båtbyggeri in 1895, was probably the most well known keelboat at the turn of the century in Sweden. The first owner of the 15.70 m x 3.15 m boat was Gustav Wicander.
Sven V. Bratt´s image - here restored and colorized by me - in the SCIF archive shows Ariadne in Marstrand on the Swedish west coast in September 1900.
In a recent interview the famous Swedish boatbuilder Anders Annell chose Ariadne as one of his ten all-time favorite boats. He also mentioned that the yacht disappeared in the fifties.
My sister and I only ever met Danny Sheehy - Domhnall Mac Síthigh - once.
It was on a boat trip to, and around, the Blasket Islands - the furthest west you can get in Europe before hitting Newfoundland (apologies to those in Iceland and Greenland...).
This particular shot is of Inishtooskert - or An Fear Marbh (The Dead Man) as it's better known - just north of the Blasket Islands. This is a view that most people have never seen - the Fear Marbh with a dagger through his neck. The island to the left is An Tiaraht.
On that trip to the Blaskets and to An Fear Marbh, my sister and I found out that Danny knew my father’s family. For me, that felt pretty weird but Danny knew everybody in North Kerry. He regaled Helen with stories of his time in the area doing, well, pretty well everything that a poet, sailor, boatbuilder, traveller, fisherman could possibly do and know.
A lovely man - taken from us too early.
Danny - this photograph is for you.
"The 1899 America's Cup was the 10th challenge for the Cup. It took place in the New York City harbor and consisted of a best of five series of races between the defender, Columbia, entered by the New York Yacht Club, and Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock, representing the Royal Ulster Yacht Club. Columbia won all three races against Shamrock."
"Columbia, a fin keel sloop, was designed and built in 1898-99 by Nathanael Herreshoff and the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company for owners J. Pierpont Morgan and Edwin Dennison Morgan of the New York Yacht Club. She was the third successful defender built by Herreshoff."
"Shamrock was designed by third-generation Scottish boatbuilder, William Fife III, and built in 1898 by J. Thorneycroft & Co., at Church Wharf, Chiswick, for owner Sir Thomas Lipton of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club (and also of Lipton Tea fame). However her draft was too great for construction at Chiswick and she was built at Millwall."
Tally Ho is a gaff-rigged cutter yacht designed by the artist and yacht designer Albert Strange. The 48 ft yacht was built in 1910 at Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex in England. Tally Ho was one of only two yachts from the fifteen starters to complete the 1927 Fastnet Race under heavy conditions. While still based in Southampton until the 1960s, Tally Ho made multiple transatlantic crossings. Later (until 1987) she worked as a fishing boat out of the Port of Brookings Harbor, Oregon. By 2017 she had nearly rotted away, and was in danger of being scrapped. She was sold it to an English boatbuilder to be completely refit. Seven years later, in June 2024, with the restoration nearly complete, Tally Ho sailed in the open water of Port Townsend Bay.
This was taken at Port Townsend’s 2024 Wooden Boat Festival. woodenboat.org
Compadre is a 43-foot bridge-deck cruiser built in 1929 to a design by Stevens Brothers in Stockton, California. Her hull is Port Orford cedar on white oak frames, and her house is solid teak. She was originally powered by twin 6-cylinder Lathrop Mystic gasoline engines and was recently re-powered with twin 80hp Yanmar diesels. Her interior layout and cabinetry are nearly all original. She was built for Mr. Leland Adams of San Francisco, a vice-president of Leslie Salt Co. She spent many years cruising the sheltered waters of San Francisco Bay and the San Juaquin River delta. She relocated to the Pacific Northwest in 2007. Compadre is her original name.
Tally Ho is a gaff-rigged cutter yacht designed by Albert Strange. The 48 ft yacht was built in 1910 at Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex in England. While still based in Southampton until the 1960s, Tally Ho made multiple transatlantic crossings. Later she worked as a fishing boat out of Brookings, Oregon, until 1987. By 2017 she had nearly rotted away. She was sold it to an English boatbuilder to be completely refit. Seven years later, in June 2024, , Tally Ho sailed into Port Townsend Bay.
This photo was taken at Port Townsend's 2024 Wooden Boat Festival woodenboat.org/
Built in 1999, by Nichols Brothers Boatbuilders of Freeland, Washington as the Scout for Crowley Marine Services Incorporated of San Francisco, California.
Oste bei Gräpel
Gräpel liegt direkt an der Oste, es spielte über rund 200 Jahre neben Bremervörde in dieser Region als Hafen und besonders als Werftstandort eine wichtige Rolle. Gräpel hatte neben zwei kleinen Neubau-Werften (Barthold Siems und Johann Steffens) zwei kleine Reparaturwerften und um 1900 waren hier 18 Reeder beheimatet. Die von Gräpeler Werften gebauten Schiffe wurden vorwiegend an die Schiffer der näheren Umgebung bis Hamburg und Cuxhaven geliefert, die vorwiegend als Eigner fuhren. Die kleineren Schiffe wurden hauptsächlich in der Flussschifffahrt bis Hamburg, Bremen oder Bremervörde genutzt. Zu dieser Zeit spielte für die kleinen Segler besonders im Sommer die Torfschifffahrt eine große Rolle. Die größeren Schiffe dieser Werften wie auch die von tom Wörden wurden auch im Küstenverkehr bis England eingesetzt.
Die Oste, ein Nebenfluss der Elbe, war zu der Zeit bis Bremervörde schiffbar und ein Großteil des Warenverkehrs, begonnen bei den täglichen Gebrauchsgütern bis zum Baumaterial, wurde mit Schiffen transportiert. Als Rückfracht gab es besonders Torf, aber auch Holz, Glas, Wolle und Wachs sowie landwirtschaftliche Produkte. Um 1850 befuhren jährlich um 700 Schiffe die Oste von Bremervörde bis zur Elbemündung, daher spielten die Häfen und besonders die Ostewerften zu dieser Zeit eine wichtige Rolle. Mit dem Bau von Straßen und Schienen nahm die Bedeutung ab, und nach dem Bau der Ostebrücke in Hechthausen konnten Segelschiffe Bremervörde nicht mehr erreichen. Heute verfügt Gräpel über einen sehr kleinen Hafen und eine Fähre über den Fluss.
John MacAuley, Hebridean Boatbuilder, Flodabay, Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
Handheld, Pentax K3 II paired with the Sigma 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM ART lens.
A standard run through in DxO Optics Pro on Mac, then battered in Snapseed on iPad Air.
For more info.:-
intheboatshed.net/2009/06/17/a-traditional-hebridean-lugg...
When the boatbuilder and excellent amateur photographer Eino Antero Bergius (1884 - 1978) shot this picture of a brand new motor yacht built at this yard in Vesilahti, I think he was rather pleased with what he saw, and probably a little bit proud, too. The picture, here shown restored and digitally hand colorized by me, is not dated, but I estimate that Bergius took the photo in the early 1910s. The original BW image is in the Vapriikki museum archive (finna.fi).
The National Biography of Finland gives this background information about Bergius as a boat builder:
"During his travels abroad, Bergius had been able to taste the lifestyle of the Belle époque, which included the belief in progress and the charm of speed created by technological development. He understood that the future would belong to vehicles powered by a combustion engine. The first boat equipped with a combustion engine was built in Germany in 1886 by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz. The first actual motor boater in the waters of Tampere was apparently the linen factory manager Henrik Solin (1848 - 1902), who acquired a kerosene boat in 1899. In the fall of 1905, Tampere's first yard that manufactured motor boats began operations. These could act as inspiration when Bergius founded a boatyard in 1910 on the family farm in Suomela, Vesilahti.
Bergius boatyard specialized in fast and high-quality mahogany motor boats. Ordinary people could not afford motorboats for years, but the gentry of Tampere instead got their fine saloon boats from the Vesilahti yard, which immediately began to claim the title of the fastest boat on Tampere's waterways in the Näsijärvi Sailing Club's competitions. As early as December 1910, Tammerfors Nyheter published an illustrated presentation of Bergius' boatyard. According to the news, the shipyard had direct water connections to Tampere and Hämeenlinna, and in addition, boats could be delivered even further from the Lempäälä or Tampere railway stations. The maximum sizes of the boats were determined by the size of the railway wagons. Already from the opening year, the motorboat mentioned as the fastest in Tampere's waters, the Tarvakivi built for the bank manager Albert Snellman, had a speed of 13 knots, which means it could beat even the biggest steamships in speed. Even better was Turso, which Bergius built for himself, which won the 1911 Helsinki-Hanko race as a representative of the Näsijärvi Sailing Club, with an average speed of 19.2 knots despite the heavy waves. The journey took about half of what it would have taken for the big steamships of the time. In 1912, the Helsingin Kaiku magazine mentioned Turso as the fastest boat in this country. She was sold for a large sum to St. Petersburg. Bergius mahogany boats are known to have been sold as far as New Zealand.
Bergius's bigger boats were pretty much built based on the same, probably American drawings, and thus looked very similar to each other. It is known that none of the Bergius dream boats have survived: all that remains are the photographs taken by Bergius himself."
The Bergius boatyard in Vesilahti was destroyed during the 1918 civil war, after which he relocated it in Tampere. The activity continued throughout the 1920s, until the beginning of the depression put an end to the boatyard in 1930.
The mural at Andress Boat Works (started up in 1921) in Rockport, Ontario, Canada.
Andress Boat Works' history dates back to the early 1920s, when Mr. Ed. Andress, born in 1886 and raised in the area, like his father and uncle, began building boats.
This fellow also gave rise to the Elva Boat Line, named after a 20 passenger passenger boat named "Elva" (his daughter's middle name) which he built among many others. The last Elva passenger boat was commissioned in 1956 and was decommissioned in 2006.
The men who built the boat. Örebro photographer Samuel Lindskog´s 1907 image shows boatbuilder Gustaf Lindberg and his staff standing on a small cargo steamer they have built. Lindberg´s yard (Skebäcks båtbyggeri) was located in Skebäck, Örebro.
My colorization of the original image in the Örebro county museum (Swedish Digital Museum).
Now I might be wrong but in my mind LA (and San Francisco) is as far from the Delta as you can get!
Built in 2009, by Nichols Brothers Boatbuilders Incorporated of Seattle, Washington (hull #S-155) as the Delta Billie for Bay and Delta Maritime Services Incorporated of San Francisco, California.
In 2022, the tug was chartered to AmNAV Maritime Services of Oakland, California. A subsidiary of the Foss Maritime Company of Seattle, Washington. Where she retained her name.
Powered by two, Caterpillar 3516C diesel engines, with Rolls Royce US255 z-drives for a rated 6,800 horsepower.
Her electrical service is provided by one, 215kW generator set. Driven by a single, Caterpillar diesel engine. And, one, 50kW generator set. Driven by a single Caterpillar diesel engine. The tug's capacities are 70,000 gallons of fuel, 8,000 gallons of water, and 1,400 gallons of sewage.
The tug's towing equipment consists of a single drum, towing winch. Outfitted with 2.5(in) towing wire.
Got a glimpse of the Delta Billy and had to give her a shot, maybe she'll become Flickr Famous?
At f/8 I must've been shooting in AP mode. I still hadn't become the Master of My Domain!
Decided that I needed to get going with some new images as I been pretty lazy of late. This is an image of some of Melbournes most iconic buildings, Australia 108, Eureka Tower, Crown Casino on a cloudless sunset. The Boatbuilders Yard was great for a top up refreshment as well.
“Keep the river on your right
and the highway at your shoulder
and the front line in your sights, Pioneer...“