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Cape Islanders in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. A Cape Islander, a style of fishing boat mostly used for lobster fishing, is an inshore motor fishing boat found across Atlantic Canada having a single keeled flat bottom at the stern and more rounded towards the bow. The Cape Island style boat is famous for its large step up to the bow.
Eastern Canada Towing was purchased in 2007 by Svitzer, a tug boat division of Maersk. Point Chebucto is powered by twin diesel engines which put out 4000 HP and is an azimuthing stern drive tug. Her tonnage is 434 gt and she is 33.31 meters long. Her breadth is 10 meters, she sits 4.24 meters in the water and has a max speed of 12 knots. [2]
East Wind 25 (Paceship), Armdale Yacht Club, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2024. The company's predecessor was the Mahone Bay Plycraft Company Ltd, which sold plywood boats as kits for amateur construction, as well as completed boats. These were marketed under various brand names. [2] Paceship Chance 32/28
It has been claimed that Amos Stevens produced Tancook's first counter stern schooner the Black Nance, a 38-footer, around 1903. [1] Within a few years the characteristic "spoon bow", with its greater buoyancy and fullness compared to the so-called Aberdeen or clipper bow of the Tancook whaler, was standard among the island's four boat building families who collectively produced most of these ...
On July 31, 1980, Margaret Jane was returning an injured crew member to Lunenburg after three days of scallop fishing with an 18-member crew. [4] [7] [8] Cape Beaver, a steel-plated 160-foot wetfish trawler owned by National Sea Products, was undergoing her first shakedown cruise in Nova Scotia waters and had dignitaries on board.
The Bell Boatyard was a boatbuilding facility which operated as part of Alexander Graham Bell's laboratories in Baddeck, Nova Scotia from 1885 to 1928. The boatyard built experimental craft, lifeboats and yachts during the first part of the twentieth century.
The Cat in Casco Bay. The ship is a 98-metre (321 ft 6 in) vessel built by InCat Australia at Hobart, Tasmania in 2002 as The Cat. The Cat is constructed from marine-grade aluminium alloys.
Marine Atlantic Inc. (French: Marine Atlantique) is an independent Canadian federal Crown corporation which is mandated to operate ferry services between the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia. Marine Atlantic's corporate headquarters are in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.