Summer happenings

We have a boat in the shop! The exterior sanding and sealing were completed, and the hull has been turned upright, ready for interior work. We’ve got a good start on the interior sanding, and will soon get started on floors, centerboard trunk, and bulkheads. It’s wonderful to get a look at the shape of the hull!

We had marked the locations of the molds before we flipped the boat, and we also marked the waterline before taking the hull off the molds. We’ve put some molds back in to hold the shape, and will also use them to mark the locations of interior elements such as thwarts and decks.

The work we did on the Vogler a while back was put to use right away, as it was rented for a photo shoot for a florist. They had a model in a wedding dress in the boat – their final result hasn’t been posted, but Ben snapped a shot after they’d decked out the boat in flowers.

We had a visitor at the harbour a few weeks ago – the Hōkūleʻa, a Hawaiian voyaging canoe which is making its way around the Pacific. It was great meeting the crew, hearing their stories, and getting a close-up look at this fascinating craft!

There have been a few boats in the harbour changing stewardship lately, but the biggest news by far is that North Star of Herschel Island has been sold, to one of our own OLAS members, no less!! We are delighted to hear this news, and that she will be staying in our harbour!!

A few of our members are doing the festival tour, last weekend at Victoria Classic Boat Festival, and this coming weekend at Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. They’ve collected some wonderful awards to go along with their stories – we look forward to hearing all about their experience in the coming weeks!!

Coming up in just over a week is the Heritage Harbour Classic, with boats from our harbour engaging in some friendly competition. The race will happen the afternoon of Sunday September 17th – please let us know if you’d like to take part – we expect to have all of our OLAS fleet involved, in the sailing race and the rowing race.

Hope to see you at the dock!