Author: Oarlock and Sail Wooden Boat Club

We are a club for those interested in wooden boats. Building, Repairing and Sailing. We operate out of a small floating boat shed on the Vancouver waterfront at the Maritime Museum's heritage harbour.
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A Visit With Ricochet

May we present: Ricochet

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This upcoming saturday, March 15,  Brent Ash has invited all interested OLAS members to visit with his project, a 1956 46′ Kettenburg PCC (Pacific Cruising Class) Sloop called Ricochet.  After an unfortunate sinking, Brent with help from Ed Sturgeon and various others, has been rebuilding Ricochet with hopes to launch summer 2014.

The boat is currently on the hard at Shelter Island Marina, 6911 Graybar Rd, in a white with red-ends tarp-on-frame shelter in the north alley near the parking lot.  Park in the lot, walk in the main gate, turn north (away from the river) at Variety Marine and walk through the boats toward the red-ended shelter.  Or if the small north gate is open, come right in and find us four or five sheds in.  Sounds more complicated than it is.  Hope to see you there!

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Painting the Pram and the Vancouver Boat Show

Well now, the pram is coming along swimmingly, and soon shall be swimming.  Painting and final fitting out is underway at Peter’s shop these past few weekends, so you won’t find us at the boat shed this saturday.

Instead we’ll be armed with brushes in our painting clothes, putting the finishing touches on this beautiful little Paul Gartside-designed, Oarlock and Sail-built pram.   After six or seven years this little craft has become quite a beauty.

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 This past weekend we attended the Vancouver Boat Show at B.C. Place.   Wooden Boat Alley was another great success.  Many members volunteered to represent the OLAS at the show.  Under the banner of the Vancouver Wooden Boat Society, we were flanked by a strip plank builder, a wooden surfboard artisan, and a creator of skin-on-frame kayaks.

Below a stalwart sentry takes a break during a slow moment, likely before the show opened to the public, as brewed bean bevies can be seen near at hand.

The Gartside pram made an appearance in fine form, and attracted plenty of complimentary interest.   Many thanks to all those who volunteered at the show!

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Come see us saturday mornings at the boat shed on the harbour in front of the Vancouver Maritime Museum.

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