Ship Details

Four Winds (II)

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Photo Credit: Robert Lawson

 
 
Registry #1 121750 (Canada) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1906 Four Winds (II) Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1906 Place Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer Day, Thomas Fleming (et al.) Measurement (imp) 26.0' x 9.7' x 5.8'
Builder Wallace Shipyards Ltd. (False Creek), Vancouver BC Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Wood Displacement
Gross Tonnage 7.91 Type 1 Yacht, sail (yawl)
Registered Tonnage 5.38 Type 2
Engine 0.50hp engine (1906); Engine Manufacture Termeast & Morehen, Oshkosh WI
Repower Repowered with a 20hp gasoline Kermath engine (1958c) Propulsion Sail/screw
Rebuilds She was rebuilt about 1970 by Bruce Bott. Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1906-1908 she was owned by James E. Macrae, Vancouver BC. In 1910 she was owned by Frederick Buscombe, Vancouver BC. In 1913-1918 she was owned by Donald G. Forbes, Victoria BC. In 1919 she was owned by Henry F. Hope, Oak Bay BC. In 1921 she was owned by Percy Bodkin, Sidney BC. In 1931-1933 she was owned by Archibald J.R. Buller, Victoria BC. In 1937 she was owned by Mr. & Mrs. William Simpson, Victoria BC. In 1942-1947 she was owned by Albert E. James, Victoria BC. In 1949 she was owned by Herbert Jeune, Victoria BC. In 1954-1974 she was owned by Richard J. Ellis, Prince Rupert BC. In 1975-1980 she was owned by Patricia Bott, Victoria BC. In 1981 she was owned by Ocean Life Systems Ltd., Nanaimo BC. In 1982-2002 she was owned by Canada Current Charters Ltd., Victoria BC. In 2015-2021 she was owned by Bruce Bott, Powell River BC.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 2002-04-05
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel was a double-ender hull design. Don Reksten (Curatorial Committee Royal Victoria Yacht Club 15/02/2016) reports that "During the Second World War this vesselparticipated in the RCN Motor Boat Squadron, a project involving owner training and participation in drills. The only compensation was dispensation from gas rationing." Robert Lawson (Email to Nauticapedia 01/09/2021) stated "was built to a design that appeared in Rudder Magazine in 1906. Apparently this vessel was the first boat in the Vancouver Yacht Club. We very nearly ended up owning her in 2005 when we were selling the Anne Marie as this vessel was offered to us as part payment but another offer came in before we could conclude negotiations with the owner. There are very few early sailing yachts left in BC that were built here and are still in commission." In 2021 this vesselis berthed in Powell River BC where this vesselis in remarkably good condition and virtually unchanged from her 1930 configuration.
 
References
Canada List of Shipping; Email (Don Reksten - Nauticapedia 15/02/2018);
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