Category: Projects

Report on a Coquitlam Shed project Location: Gordon Church, Burnaby Charity: “Don’t Go Hungry” Food Bank Visionary: Rhonda Gale The Team: Cal, Robbie, Dave3 & Doug2 What is to be accomplished? Move the groceries from the parking lot to the Church basement. The plan: Build a chute from the parking lot to the basement (Static […]

Thanks to the Men’s shed I was able to finish off a hand railing for a great mom. In time for her Mother’s Day.  

At the beginning of August 2016 I finally finished building Tootee my 15’ row, sail and motor boat (if you ever finish a boat like this). The first thing I did was show it off at the Richmond Maritime Festival in Steveston and that is where these two photos were taken. Then it was time […]

I am working on hand carving some chess pieces, mostly during our Tuesday meetings at the shed. I have 3 so far. I did a king, a queen and a rook. I add lead weight to them, stain and varnish them and add green felt on the base. The chess board I made previously as […]

I was reading the Wooden Boat Magazine and came across a series about how to build a 15’ sail and row boat called the Phoenix 3. It is an Australian design by Ross Lillistone. I liked the look of the boat, the series was written in a way that drew me in and the skill […]

I was so happy with my Chesapeake Light Craft Chester Yawl that I joined the Vancouver Wooden Boat Society and took it to the Wooden Boat Festival on Granville Island. There were a couple of small wooden runabouts there and I was intrigued. That fall I started to look around for a small wooden runabout […]

When I sold my cruising sailboat because it wasn’t getting used enough I missed having an excuse to be on the water. I had read a book about keeping fit and the author said that he had bought a Whitehall skiff and how much he enjoyed rowing it. This seemed like the answer to me […]

After most of a lifetime I have come to the conclusion that I love boats. This is my current cedar strip canoe, the second I have built. Both were built using the book “A Strippers Guide to Canoe Building” as inspiration. I do mean inspiration, while the book comes with patterns for moulds etc. it […]