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Captain Ken Saunders aboard the 'Audrey Bartlett' schooner1957
Botwood Reach, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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Captain Ken Saunders was born on Gooseberry Island in 1918 and came to Glovertown when he was only nine years old.He learned to build boats from his father. When he was eighteen or nineteen years old he started building boats on his own. He built various boat types such as: punts/rodneys eighteen feet in length; trapskiffs thirty feet in length; two long liners fifty-four feet in length; and he helped build five schooners that ranged from eighty-one to one hundred feet in length.
Captain Saunders, now retired, has a Masters Captain Certificate. In May 1953 he received his Certificate as Master which certified that his sobriety, ability, and general good conduct qualified him, under the Canada Shipping Act, 1934, to be master of a steamship not being a tugboat and not carrying passengers, in the hometrade. He's capable of taking a vessel of up to 1000-ton and sailing her around Newfoundland and Labrador and also across the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Captain Saunders began his studies in Glovertown and then went to the navigational school in St. John's in 1952 where he wrote and passed his test.
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Copy of Captain Ken Saunders' original certificate of radio proficiency1958
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On November 14, 1958 Captain Saunders was examined in accordance with the Radio Regulations appended to the International Telecommunications Convention (Buenos Aires, 1952). He qualified for and received from the Canadian Minister of Transport a Certificate of Proficiency in Radio (ship-to-shore). He used his skills in the coastal trade.5
The following pictures were taken inside Captain Saunders' workshop. We see his drawings, boat timbers in various stages of development, oakum used for caulking boats, caulking irons and other tools.6
Beveling board1985
Captain Ken Saunders' workshop, Glovertown, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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Beveling board1985
Captain Ken Saunders' workshop, Glovertown, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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Boat drawings and beveling board1985
Captain Ken Saunders' workshop, Glovertown, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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Boat drawings1985
Captain Ken Saunders' workshop, Glovertown, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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Bulk heads used for framing small boats1985
Captain Ken Saunders' workshop, Glovertown, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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Counter timber which shapes counter at the stern1985
Captain Ken Saunders' workshop, Glovertown, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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Forehook1985
Captain Ken Saunders' workshop, Glovertown, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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Midship bend1985
Captain Ken Saunders' workshop, Glovertown, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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Mould forehook1985
Captain Ken Saunders' workshop, Glovertown, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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