Nova Scotia Boatbuilders Association (NSBA) Newsletter May 2010

NovaNova ScotiaScotia BoatbuilderBoatbuilder Boat Launchings ABCO Sea Trials Successful ABCO Industries has been building The launch of the next Redden boats since the 1980s. During the last Catboat 14 is expected in early June. Sea trials 15 years the company has focused on of the You can see this boat at the Wooden constructing aluminum boats for the 18.5m Boat Show in Mystic, CT and at the petroleum industry, Canada’s Navy, scientific Nova Scotia In-Water Boat Show in DFO, and the Halifax Regional Police. research Halifax in July. They are exhibiting at SeaWork in vessel Southampton UK in June. www.mahonebayboatworks.com Viola M Davidson, www.abco.ca Long Beach launches Viola M. Davidson built by Mahone Bay Boatworks Eastern Prowler ABCO Long Beach Boatbuilding launched the The Industries of Lunenburg for Canada’s 40’ Eastern Prowler in March for Department of Fisheries & Oceans Redden fisherman Wynn Bieswanger in Port (DFO), have been completed Catboat Bickerton, NS. The boat will be used successfully. “We’re pretty proud of 14 was for lobster and crab fishing. It is the it” said John Meisner, ABCO’s launched first boat Long Beach has built for this President. “It’s a complicated boat in the fall and there’s a lot of stuff in it.” A lot client. of 2009. of stuff is an understatement, as the Redden Catboat 14 It sailed The boat is vessel not only has to carry out 40’ LOA, has scientific research, but also has to be so well that Peter Redden, owner of beam of 15’ an effective search & rescue platform. Mahone Bay Boatworks, spent the In its scientific role the vessel will winter making production jigs and and is trawl, drag and take water and fish templates and standardizing materials powered by a samples for later lab analysis. and suppliers. Peter tries to use local 715hp Volvo that gives it a As part of the trials, the Viola M suppliers when possible. Michele Davidson sailed from Lunenburg to Stevens Sailloft and Traditional Marine cruising speed Eastern Prowler Halifax in just over 4 hours and then Outfitters are examples. “If I use local of 22 knots. back again the same day after a suppliers, I’ll have local supplies” - a The fish hold can take 15,000lb of iced bollard pull and other tests had been simple but effective practice Peter crab. successfully completed. believes in. www.longbeach-boatbuilding.com Re-designed Rosborough upgrades the RF-246 colour. The boat has a re-designed Pilothouse and Centre Console power hull extension and, as always, versions. A re-designed RF-246 will be the semi-custom RF-246 allows www.swfiberglass.com available in early fall of 2010. The Rosborough Boats to tailor each boat 2011 RF-246 Sedan Cruiser offers to its owner’s personal boating style. the same economical and Right: Trawler comfortable www.rosboroughboats.com cruising as Special points of Southwest introduces new always with a interest: Southwest/Retro 18 few new Southwest Fiberglass Products has  Boat Launchings upgrades and introduced two new models of the options  Re-designed Southwest / Retro 18. One is a including Sea dayboat and the other is a pocket  Fore and Aft Green or Deep Left: Dayboat trawler to complement their Blue hull Nova Scotia Boatbuilders Association, 1496 Lower Water Street, Suite 330, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3J 3R5 Tel: 902-423-2378 Fax: 902-423-2379 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.nsboats.com Page 2 Nova Scotia Boatbuilder May 2010 Fore and Aft Twin schooners in frame DSS Marine asks: To breathe or Bluenose II. Their challenge is to not to breathe? design a restoration that incorporates

traditional construction methods and a People often assume that a simple lifespan of 50 years. The final opening from the outside of the hull construction design phase is underway. into the engine room will be adequate to pass an unlimited quantity of air Pilot Boat ‘Grandes Eaux’: into the engine room to feed the The latest engines and flush out the excess heat. LVE pilot boat From time to time, this is true, but design to be more often than not, the engines on Twin schooners built was board a vessel lack enough clean, dry, The two 48’ wooden schooners being delivered to air to operate at their full potential. It built alongside the Dory Shop on the the is as if the engines are being operated Lunenburg waterfront are almost Laurentian with moderate to severely clogged air completely in frame. Between each of Pilotage Grandes Eaux intake filters … all the time. The the vessels’ traditional double-sawn Authority in results include loss of horsepower, Osage Orange frames, there are two September 2009 and is currently increased fuel consumption, increased frames of steam-bent White Oak and working at the pilotage station in Les emissions, and reduced engine life. designer/builder Dave Westergard will Escoumins, Quebec. LVE was soon be putting on the sheer strakes. DSS Marine distributes Delta “T” responsible for the design and total Systems who specialize in all types of project management. The owner is Once framing is completed, the engine room ventilation systems, from extremely pleased with the 20m schooners will be left to set up and an engineered, fully automatic “set it aluminum vessel which has a top season for the summer and early fall. and forget it” system, to a simple speed of 24 knots. This was the preferred practice in manual system that is user-controlled. places like Atlantic Pilotage Authority (APA) Pilot Feeding your engines with an Holland and Boats for Halifax and Saint John optimum amount of air while Germany removing the water and salt from that LVE is currently putting the final where the air is what Delta “T” Systems is touches on a design for the APA’s new frames of old known for around the world. The Joint Pilot Boat project for the ports of pilot lessons learned from more than Halifax and Saint John. This new class schooners 12,000 ventilation systems on vessels of pilot boat were let to set for a year before of all types gives them an unmatched addresses planking to ensure the greatest level of experience in marine engine the need for longevity. room ventilation. No vessel is too a smaller Construction will resume in late fall large or small to benefit from and lighter and continue through the winter and optimum engine room air flow. displacement spring with an aim of launching the vessel for www.dssmarine.com vessels in the summer of 2011. By these two then, the other principal behind the Michele Stevens Sailloft Atlantic project, Capt. Dan Moreland, and ports. The 17m aluminum vessels are Michele Stevens Sailloft Ltd., is proud actor-sailor Billy Campbell, owner of designed to cruise at 18 knots. to be the sole Maritime dealer for one of the vessels, will be back from a PROFURL furling systems. PROFURL www.lengkeek.ca circumnavigation of the world aboard has been designing and manufacturing the Barque Picton Castle. reefing / furling systems for over 25 www.doryshop.com years, and offers units for a variety of boat sizes and budgets. NSBA Gold Associate www.tallships.ca/sailloft Members Lengkeek Vessel Engineering (LVE) July 23 - 25, 2010 Bluenose II Restoration: Halifax Waterfront at Bishop’s Landing LVE has been awarded the design www.nsboats.com contract for the restoration of the In partnership with

The NSBA gratefully acknowledges support for the boatbuilding industry from ACOA, NS Economic & Rural Development, NS Labour & Workforce Development and NS Fisheries & Aquaculture.