Orcaboats's Blog

New projects | August 11, 2011

I have been working with pleasure on an old Ken Douglas sailing dingy. Ken Douglas built beautiful cedar lapstrake boats right here in the greater Vancouver area until recently. To own one is an honour as each one was built to each customers wishes and specifications. The work being done is minor. Cleaning up the hull, re-caulking some seams, then painting and varnishing. The other more interesting project is a turn of the century canoe built in Peterborough, probably by the Lakefield Canoe Company. It is a unique design in which there are battens over the planking inside seams. No canvas or covering on this one. Just good seams and swelling of the hull makes it watertight. It will not be likely that I will get it watertight again, but the owner only wants it for display.