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Odd Angles

Restoring vintage wooden boats is a passion which combines an obsession with wood, a love of the water as well as an appreciation of history and heritage. Seldom does the practice of bringing an historical wooden boat back to life involve square cuts; everything has either roundness or odd angles since, obviously, perfectly “square” boats...
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Crafting Oars

The keeper of a lighthouse on Georgian Bay would spend the whole summer at his post, sometimes with his family, often miles away from the nearest land access. A lighthouse boat was therefore standard equipment. But without a serviceable set of oars, 2 or 4 on a tandem boat, he would be the open water...