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A couta boat is a type of sailing vessel originally designed and built in Victoria, Australia, around the fishing ports of Sorrento and Queenscliff, and along Victoria's west coast as far west as Portland. Mostly used from around 1870 until the 1930s, the couta boat survived as a commercial fishing vessel until the 1950s. From the 1970s onwards ...
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The Dead Boats Disposal Society (DBDS) is a non-profit society dedicated to the removal and disposal of abandoned boats and marine debris from shorelines in British Columbia, Canada. [1] The Victoria-based Society [2] has hauled 124 boats out of the water since 2017, [3] [needs update] most from bays and inlets in the Capital Regional District ...
Land-based game fishing – Land-based game fishing is a form of fishing where anglers attempt to catch game fish, that are generally caught from ocean-going boats, off the shore. Salmon run – The salmon run is the time when salmon, which have migrated from the ocean, swim to the upper reaches of rivers where they spawn on gravel beds.
Portland Island is an island of the Southern Gulf Islands of the South Coast of British Columbia, Canada. It is located in the Salish Sea west of Moresby Island and off the south tip of Saltspring Island , adjacent to the main BC Ferries route just offshore from the terminal at Swartz Bay at the tip of the Saanich Peninsula .
Launched on Oct 15, 1860 James Bay, Victoria, BC Boiler explosion April 14, 1861 Forty-Nine: Leonard White Big Bend Gold Rush/CPR Survey: 1865-1866/1870s end of gold rush, revived for CPR survey Big Bend service was from Marcus, Washington to La Porte, British Columbia; from 1871 supply ship for Walter Moberly's survey party
Vancouver, British Columbia: Sail training/ecotourism vessel; former yacht and fishing boat 2 masted, gaff fore and Marconi main Margaret Todd: 1998 Bar Harbor, Maine: Tourism vessel; steel hull and deck 4 masted schooner Marité: 1921 3 masted gaff, square topsails Mary Day: 1962 Camden, Maine
The rich collection of some 35,000 artefacts includes 800 models of ships and items related to the maritime heritage of BC. There is a reference library of 6,000 volumes including a collection of 200 titles of historical significance, an archival collection of records of local ship-owning and shipbuilding firms, logbooks, naval records, ships' plans of 1800 vessels, maps and charts, an art ...