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📣 Exciting news to share about the beloved 30’ sailing yacht SV Dorothy in the Maritime Museum of BC’s Collection!
She has been nominated for the Classic Boat Awards 2024, administered by Classic Boat Magazine.
Until March 11, 2024, You! can vote for your favourite “Victoria Built in 1897” and cherished living traditional sailboat, SV Dorothy. Dorothy's category is Restored Sailing Vessel under 40ft (12.2m), and she faces fierce competition. You can only vote once, but sharing this post or telling your friends about Dorothy's story will propel her to victory! 🏆⛵️
Vote today: https://awards.classicboat.co.uk/vote-now/

A friend, Mark Reuten from Nomad Boatbuilding, just did this video on caulking a boat in my shop and working on Dorothy.

Caulking 101 - on Canada's oldest sailboat More about Canada's oldest sailboat, Dorothy: https://mmbc.bc.ca/dorothy/Tony Grove's personal and school websites: http://www.thegroveschool.cahttps://www....

B.C.’s oldest wooden tugboat being scrapped at shipyard in Nanaimo - North Island Gazette MV Sea Lion, built in 1905, had a part in 1914 SS Komagata Maru incident

Sit back and take a little time and listen too this excellent radio show with Suzanne Simard, about our forests, logging and how essential it is to keeping the last old growth standing..

Suzanne Simard on the secret societies of trees | The Current with Matt Galloway | Live Radio | CBC Listen Suzanne Simard has spent a lifetime trying to understand the secret societies of trees — how they work together, help each other and even how they speak to one another. Simard is a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia. She tells us about her work, what it means for old...

Today, less than 1% of all the forests here in BC contain big Oldgrowth trees (which are still actively being logged), and an even smaller percentage of that are the groves available to the general public. You may be familiar with a few of them - Stanley Park, Cathedral Grove, Ancient Cedars Trail, etc - and if you are, you may also know that they tend to be overrun tourist or urban hotspots, with full parking lots, screaming children, and overflowing trash bins. These groves aren’t quite the picturesque functioning ecosystems you may imagine, as they have essentially become theme parks or zoos, highlighting the last remaining few of their kind, drawing in crowds from near and far to show off what once made #BeautifulBC a hashtag in the first place. A majority of these places are already fairly remote, requiring transportation, gear, skill, etc to access them - visiting them at all has essentially become a thing of privilege, a tick box on the weekend adventure list or something you’re saving up to visit once you retire. Yet their attendance grows year after year and despite this growing demand, they remain disconnected from the broader ‘economy’ that says trees are worth more on the ground. Our society has for the most part severed our connection to these places from our daily lives so that they only exist in areas like this, almost as a fairy tale. All the while industry and lame politicians fail to protect that which lies just out of sight, out of mind to the general public, in those areas where only the truly privileged gets to access them through rigorous physical effort via a long eroded logging road, or helicopter. It’s here, where the often white settler employed by a logging company, finally gets to meet these intact ecosystems and have a chance to know them…if only for a few moments before cutting them down, robbing future generations of the ability to have any sort of connection to these places. Yet that too is justified in a way, because they are just trying to make a living like all of us, and the system we live in makes that a viable option, so who can really place blame there? The conversations and politics here are not balanced. They

Abernethy & Gaudin is looking for skilled and hardworking people who love wooden boats. You don’t necessarily have to be a fully qualified boatbuilder. Just have a good work ethic and willing to learn. Contact Rob. Either DM here or email [email protected].

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