DPB
9th October 2004, 03:01 PM
Here’s a picture I took at the Fishing Museum in historic Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada. It’s an 11 metre schooner-rigged Tancook Whaler, being constructed using traditional wooden boat building techniques. It’s a replica of a fishing vessel built at Toncook Island, Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia in the 1870s. They will be cheating a little by installing a 40 HP Volvo diesel engine and using the schooner for harbour tours as part of the museum experience.
These whalers were used to handline for cod and to set nets for herring and mackerel. They carried cargoes of pickled fish, cabbage, firewood and sand to markets along the coast.
The keel, stem and sternpost is oak, the planking is pine and the gunnels and bilge stringers are of spruce. The fastenings are stainless steel screws. The keel for the vessel was laid on September 25, 2002 and they plan to launch the boat on July 23, 2005. It will be christened Amos H. Stevens after one of the best known builders on Tancook. [Amos H. Stevens, 1850-1935].
These whalers were used to handline for cod and to set nets for herring and mackerel. They carried cargoes of pickled fish, cabbage, firewood and sand to markets along the coast.
The keel, stem and sternpost is oak, the planking is pine and the gunnels and bilge stringers are of spruce. The fastenings are stainless steel screws. The keel for the vessel was laid on September 25, 2002 and they plan to launch the boat on July 23, 2005. It will be christened Amos H. Stevens after one of the best known builders on Tancook. [Amos H. Stevens, 1850-1935].