Posted by The Dory Shop | Tags: Billy Campbell, Lunenburg Schooners, Martha Seabury, The Dory Shop, wooden boat, wooden boats
Jay is still working away on a lovely steam-bent Alaskan Yellow Cedar dinghy for the Schooner Martha Seabury.
It’s a much fussier project than a Banks dory, which planks up lickety-split using nice, wide planks fashioned from pine with no need for a steam box.
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| Aug 23, 2012
Posted by The Dory Shop | Tags: boat, boatbuilding, boats, dories, Dory Shop, Jay Langford, Lunenburg Dory, sailing, schooners, The Dory Shop, The Dory Shop Boatyard
Posts to this blog regularly bear witness to the incredible boatbuilding talents of our team here at The Dory Shop, particularly the work of our master dory builder Jay Langford.
But Jay’s talents extend well beyond the boatbuilding world as proven by the painting – his latest! – shown here.
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| Mar 07, 2012
Posted by The Dory Shop | Tags: boatbuilding, boats, dory, Dory Shop, Lunenburg, schooner, schooners, The Dory Shop, The Dory Shop Boatyard, twin schooners, wooden boats
There was much merriment in the boatyard this weekend (too much?) as we celebrated the installation of the last plank in our twin schooners – the Shutter Plank.
Actor-adventurer Billy Campbell, for whom one of the 48-foot schooners is being built, did the honours – dousing the plank with rum and hammering in the fastenings. The more than 150 people who joined us also got a look at the dory being built by participants in the Boatbuilder Employment Preparation Training Program.
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| Jan 23, 2012
Posted by The Dory Shop | Tags: boatbuilding, dories, dory, dory building course, Dory Shop, handline dory, Lunenburg, Lunenburg Dory, Nova Scotia Boatbuilders Association, schooners, The Dory Shop, The Dory Shop Boatyard, wooden boats
Participants in the Boatbuilders Employment Preparation Training Program (phew – what a name!) are making good progress with the 13-foot-bottom Handline dory they are building.
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| Jan 20, 2012
Posted by The Dory Shop | Tags: boatbuilding, CBC-TV, Dory Shop, Land and Sea, Lunenburg Schooners, schooner, schooners, The Dory Shop, Tom Gallant, twin schooners, wooden, wooden boats
A new television documentary featuring interviews about the building of the twin schooners out in The Dory Shop boatyard premieres this weekend on CBC Television.
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| Nov 30, 2011
Posted by The Dory Shop | Tags: boatbuilding, dories, dory, dory building course, Dory Shop, Gloucester, Lunenburg, Lunenburg Dory, schooners, The Dory Shop, The Dory Shop Boatyard, wooden boats
An article in this month’s issue of Classic Boat, entitled 10 Iconic American Boats, lists both dories and working schooners.
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| Nov 22, 2011
Posted by The Dory Shop | Tags: boat, dories, Lennie Gallant, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia Schooner Association, September Classic, The Dory Shop, The Dory Shop Boatyard
We’ve just become aware of some great short videos of some of the live performances that took place in The Dory Shop as part of the Nova Scotia Schooner Association’s September Classic two weekends ago.
Check out this one of the über talented singer-songwriter-musician, and sailor, Lennie Gallant singing his haunting Peter’s Dream at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTQxvjGCUYo Or how’s about some blues with Steve Hickmore at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4is1JNdxNXg&feature=related. Check them out!
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| Oct 06, 2011
Posted by The Dory Shop | Tags: boat, boatbuilding, boats, building, Dory Shop, Lunenburg, Lunenburg Dory, Nutshell Pram, schooners, Spirit of Bermuda, The Dory Shop, The Dory Shop Boatyard
Dory Plug has been away on vacation (and even Jay took a week off to sail aboard the stunning schooner Mistral!), so that explains why there haven’t been any posts here lately.
However we did have the lovely Miss B taking some photos for us as Jay continued to build not one, but two lovely Nutshell Prams with the assistance Arran.
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| Aug 17, 2011
Posted by The Dory Shop | Tags: boats, dories, Dory Shop, Lunenburg Wooden Boat Reunion, Nutshell Pram, sailing, schooner, schooners, The Dory Shop, The Dory Shop Boatyard, traditional, waterfront, wooden, wooden boats
We’re delighted to report that the first-ever Lunenburg Wooden Boat Reunion held over the weekend was a great success. Two very full days of activity including the Heritage Cup schooner race, sloop, small boat, even putt-putt-powered boat races, displays and demos by boat builders, oarmakers and sailors, shop tours, musical entertainment and much oogling of beautiful wooden boats, wrapped up last evening. Phew!
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| Jul 25, 2011
Posted by The Dory Shop | Tags: Barque Picton Castle, Black Rocks dory, boat, dories, dory, Dory Shop, Lunenburg, Lunenburg Dory, Lunenburg harbour, Lunenburg Wooden Boat Reunion, Nova Scotia, Nutshell Pram, schooners, The Dory Shop, The Dory Shop Boatyard, wooden, wooden boats, WoodenBoat Show
So the little Black Rocks sailing dory that we had planned to take to the WoodenBoat Show – but then, receiving an order for a rowing dory, took that instead – is finished.
As you can see, it’s a sweet little boat with a simple lug sail rig. Perfect for a beginner sailer as the boat provides a very safe and stable platform from which to learn. Plus a dory of this size is easily rowed by a child as young as nine or 10 but can still hold a few people (her capacity is over 1000 lbs.!).
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| Jul 15, 2011
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