Western Mariner – August 2019

Contents

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Departments

From the Editor’s Desk 4

Wonderful Wood

BY SIMON HILL

From the Publisher’s Desk 4

Alder Bay

BY DAVID RAHN

Letters 5

A Letter from Home 6

My Slop Chest

BY MRS. AMOR DE COSMOS

Deck Watch No. 175 50

Monique

BY CAPT. BARB HOWE

Name This Spot 56

In the Shipyards 57

ABD Boats; Arrow Marine

Services; Esquimalt Drydock;

Fraser Shipyard & Industrial

Centre; Point Hope Maritime;

Seaspan Vancouver Drydock.

COMPILED BY SIMON HILL

AND DAVID CONN

Calendar 62

Classifieds 63

Features

29

7 WATERFRONT: Southern Vancouver Island

Victoria, Sidney and Sooke

PHOTOS AND TEXT BY SIMON HILL

29 WORKING IN WOOD

In the Boatshops

COMPILED BY SIMON HILL AND DAVID CONN

42 Wood wrapped in Steel

A Mullins Sea Eagle runabout takes on

a new life as Sea angel

BY DAVID RAHN

45 Captain John Voss and the Tilikum

The trailblazing voyage of BC’s most famous yacht

BY JOHN MacFARLANE

51 WESTERN PORTS & TERMINALS

Arctic Shipping Challenges

BY FRED McCAGUE

CANADA’S COMMERCIAL MARINE MAGAZINE

AUGUST 2019 VOLUME 17 NUMBER 6

On the Cover:

The 1937 wood-hulled sloop ZesT undergoing

sea trials in Saanich Inlet following restoration

at Abernethy & Gaudin (see page 29).

ROB ABERNETHY PHOTO