Hauled our boat yesterday before going to work. It's a busy time for the yard as fishing boats are being readied for the season and recreational boaters do the same. Seaview North works on a lot of wood boats in addition to metal and glass ones. Took a few shots before heading back to Seattle after the boat was braced and blocked.
Squalicum Marina has experienced two fires recently. One was a sailboat that caught fire early in the morning and burned to the waterline and sank. The boat in front of it, a GB36 named Slow Dancer, was downwind and was enveloped in the smoke plume. There was no physical damage but Slow Dancer was black with soot. All her canvas was ruined and there may have been other cosmetic damage as well. Slow Dancer is the second GB36 in the photo and has been undergoing a major cleaning for several weeks now. The guy working on it said he's never seen anything so difficult to remove as soot and of course it is in every nook and cranny.
The crane boom visible in the same photo is on a barge out in the marina and is being used to salvage the 20-some boats that were lost the other week when a fire that started on a yet-undetermined boat in a row of open boathouses swept through and burned and sank everything including the boathouses. Two liveaboards died on their 42' boat-- the woman owned the nice coffee stand at the head of the Gate 3 dock. We idled past the site on our way out of the basin yesterday morning to come around to the yard, and it was a sad sight to see the melted, blackened lumps that were once people's cruising boats piled on the barge like so much garbage.
I've posted photos of the David B before. Built in the 1920s as a buy-boat for the Bristol Bay fishery, she was also used to pull trains of the unpowered salmon boats (unpowered by regulation) out to the fishing grounds. The David B is still going strong with her original huge, direct-revering Washington (I think) engine with the exposed pushrods and rocker arms and flyweight governor. She is used as a charter trip boat in the San Juans, BC, and I think even all the way up to SE Alaska.
I've not seen Showboat before so I don't know if it's a local boat or was brought here because of this yard's experience with wood boats. I've not seen Lady Grace before either, but there are several classic wood cruisers in the private boathouses in the marina so she may be one of them.
Squalicum Marina has experienced two fires recently. One was a sailboat that caught fire early in the morning and burned to the waterline and sank. The boat in front of it, a GB36 named Slow Dancer, was downwind and was enveloped in the smoke plume. There was no physical damage but Slow Dancer was black with soot. All her canvas was ruined and there may have been other cosmetic damage as well. Slow Dancer is the second GB36 in the photo and has been undergoing a major cleaning for several weeks now. The guy working on it said he's never seen anything so difficult to remove as soot and of course it is in every nook and cranny.
The crane boom visible in the same photo is on a barge out in the marina and is being used to salvage the 20-some boats that were lost the other week when a fire that started on a yet-undetermined boat in a row of open boathouses swept through and burned and sank everything including the boathouses. Two liveaboards died on their 42' boat-- the woman owned the nice coffee stand at the head of the Gate 3 dock. We idled past the site on our way out of the basin yesterday morning to come around to the yard, and it was a sad sight to see the melted, blackened lumps that were once people's cruising boats piled on the barge like so much garbage.
I've posted photos of the David B before. Built in the 1920s as a buy-boat for the Bristol Bay fishery, she was also used to pull trains of the unpowered salmon boats (unpowered by regulation) out to the fishing grounds. The David B is still going strong with her original huge, direct-revering Washington (I think) engine with the exposed pushrods and rocker arms and flyweight governor. She is used as a charter trip boat in the San Juans, BC, and I think even all the way up to SE Alaska.
I've not seen Showboat before so I don't know if it's a local boat or was brought here because of this yard's experience with wood boats. I've not seen Lady Grace before either, but there are several classic wood cruisers in the private boathouses in the marina so she may be one of them.
