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Cabin cruiser 'High Tide' built by Samuel Feltham1989
Alexander Bay, Glovertown, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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The 'High Tide' measures twenty-two feet in length, eight feet in width and three feet in depth. She was built in 1989 when Clyde Wells brought the Liberals back to power in Newfoundland and Labrador. Samuel Feltham named his cabin cruiser to celebrate the Liberal return.Incidentally, it might be important to point out that cabin cruisers, very popular in Central Bonavista Bay, are used primarily for pleasure - going out the bay for a weekend of fun and relaxation, taking friends for a ride, mussel collecting, trouting and other pastimes.
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Rodney built by Samuel Feltham1993
Glovertown, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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This little rodney, or small punt as some would call her, was built in three weeks. She measures thirteen feet in length, four feet two inches in width and eighteen inches in depth. [Rodneys generally don't go longer than fourteen or fifteen feet]. This one was built as a sailing boat. Typically, such boats are used by one man for hook and line fishing, for squid jigging, for traveling settlement to settlement to shop. The norm was one sail, one set of paddles, one sculling oar. When towed behind a larger boat as a convenience in going from the larger boat to shore, a rodney was called a go-ashore.25
Trapskiff built by Samuel Feltham1955
Glovertown, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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This scaled-down trapskiff was built in less than three months. Samuel Feltham used the moulds for his regular trapskiff but shortened the length to give the boat less weight, more flexibility and faster speed.After the invention of the codtrap in the late nineteenth century, trapskiffs became the most popular of fishing boats, the first lot being powered by sails which were quickly, in the early twentieth century, replaced by marine engines.
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Speedboat built by Sam Feltham1963
Glovertown, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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This speedboat was built by Samuel Feltham in approximately two months. She measures eighteen feet in length, six feet in width and twenty four inches in depth. Speedboats have now become the most popular of the current boat types in Bonavista Bay. Wooden speedboats are now giving way to ones made of aluminum, fiberglass and other products. The speedboat is still used for fishing, birding, sealing, hunting, transportation and pleasure riding.29
Sailboat built by Samuel Feltham1983
Alexander Bay, Glovertown, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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Here you can see a sailboat built by Samuel Feltham. She measures twenty two feet in length, seven feet four inches in width and thirty eight inches in depth. She is not rigged in this picture: her mast and sail were in storage when picture was taken. This is the type of wooden boat that Newfoundlanders spend much of their leisure time in enjoying the natural beauty of Canada's most easterly province.31
A modified punt built by Samuel Feltham14 November 2003
Glovertown, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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Here's another variety of boat - a modified punt by Samuel Feltham. She's still under construction and when finished will be fitted with a sail. Newfoundland boatbuilders regularly adapt their boat styles to suite their needs and their whims. This punt, atypically, has a center board and a rudder. In other words, she's been adapted so she can do the work of a punt (fishing, say) and the work of a sailboat (recreational sailing, say).33
Model of the 'Bluenose II' built by Samuel Feltham1993
Glovertown, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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Many Newfoundlanders build model boats and Samuel Feltham is no exception. Here is his model of the 'Bluenose II.' She measures twenty-seven inches in length. Central Bonavista Bay boatbuilders admire superb boats wherever they come from. The 'Bluenose' is probably the most famous sailing boat in the world's sailing lore. She is often chosen as the model prototype by Newfoundlanders and Labradorians. |
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