Oarlock & Sail Wooden Boat Club

The Xmas party this year was hosted in the lovely home of two of our members, Georgina and Tom Arntzen. Food, drink and song was the order of the day as well as lots of conversation. We had piano, drums, clarinet, guitars, banjo and assorted percussion instruments. Lots of Xmas songs, sea shanties and other favourites. Special thanks to the Arntzen family…Tom, Georgina, Evan, Kirsten and both Arnt’s and Rob O’dea too for playing and everyone else for singing. It was also Georgina’s 60th birthday so lot’s of cake was eaten!

Was wonderful to have the time to catch up with everyone with no other agenda except for fun! Here are a few photos. My apologies as my camera was not on a good setting and with my broken arm I was one handed so a bit shaky…but you will get the feeling of the night.

Finally all the best for the holiday season and the new year to you and yours! …..Valerie

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Each week throughout this past summer, members of OLAS have been gathering at the shed on the docks to build a beautiful little wooden boat. A pram designed by Paul Gartside.

Earlier this summer the last of the planks went on and a celebration was called for to celebrate the hanging of the ‘whiskey plank’. Some whiskey may have been consumed.

Then, long time member Gerry Stensgaard came down to lead a refresher course on the finer points of creating rivets with copper nails and specialized washers called roves and how to use them to make fast the boat’s frames or ribs, to the planking. Thanks again Gerry!

We then brought this little barq’ie to the Vancouver Wooden Boat Festival and ‘she’ fit right in. The weather was fine and as always, it was lovely to see a fleet of folks messing about in wooden boats. One of our members paid a quick visit to the festival in false creek is his new little double ender, shown below with a full compliment of crew. Many thanks to all our members who volunteered to make this year’s festival another success!

So the pram came back to the shed on the heritage harbour and we started to frame in earnest. Here a club member uses a pair of end nippers to clip off a nail after a rove has been driven home in preparation for peening. This is how a rivet is made.