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Nautical Heritage Videos
Few People have the opportunity to view the beautiful stained galss memorial windows commemorating the centenary of the Royal Canadian Navy. (Please hit the ‘LIKE’ button and the ‘SUBSCRIBE’ buttons on the YouTube site to support the creation of new videos in the future.)
Access Canadian Nautical Heritage Records
Don Feltmate has been working toward getting public access to ship registration data. (Please hit the ‘LIKE’ button and the ‘SUBSCRIBE’ buttons on the YouTube site to support the creation of new videos in the future.)
Canadian Archives Digitizing Heritage Records
Don Feltmate describes the need to have nautical records digitized. (Please hit the ‘LIKE’ button and the ‘SUBSCRIBE’ buttons on the YouTube site to support the creation of new videos in the future.)
Victoria Harbour History Project
Denton Pendergast curates the Victoria Harbour History Projevt. (Please hit the ‘LIKE’ button and the ‘SUBSCRIBE’ buttons on the YouTube site to support the creation of new videos in the future.)
An Operating Easthope Engine
See and hear an operating Easthope engine. (Please hit the ‘LIKE’ button and the ‘SUBSCRIBE’ buttons on the YouTube site to support the creation of new videos in the future.)
HMS Qualicum
A Second World War Royal Navy vessel named for Qualicum Beach BC. (Please hit the ‘LIKE’ button and the ‘SUBSCRIBE’ buttons on the YouTube site to support the creation of new videos in the future.)
Collecting S.S. Beaver Artifacts
Mark Garner owns the world's largest collection of artifacts from the S.S. Beaver. (Please hit the ‘LIKE’ button and the ‘SUBSCRIBE’ buttons on the YouTube site to support the creation of new videos in the future.)
Rum Runners – Rick James Tells the Real Stories
Rick James describes his research into rum runners and his book on the subject. (Please hit the ‘LIKE’ button and the ‘SUBSCRIBE’ buttons on the YouTube site to support the creation of new videos in the future.)
Collecting Memorabilia of the Bathtub Races
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Creating a Floating Heritage Registry
Naval Architect Rob Allan makes the case for a register of floating heritage. (Please hit the ‘LIKE’ button and the ‘SUBSCRIBE’ buttons on the YouTube site to support the creation of new videos in the future.)
The International Maritime Library
Jon Joahansen describes his work creating a summary off all vessels built in the United States. (Please hit the ‘LIKE’ button and the ‘SUBSCRIBE’ buttons on the YouTube site to support the creation of new videos in the future.)
Bruce Bott Describes Sailing the Four Winds in a Storm
Bruce Bott owns one of the oldest sailing vessels on the British Columbia coast (115 years old). He describes a voyage through a storm while under sail in the Four Winds. (Please hit the ‘LIKE’ button and the ‘SUBSCRIBE’ buttons on the YouTube site to support the creation of new videos in the future.)
Four Winds – 115 year old sailing yawl owned by same owner for 50 years
The Four Winds is a 115 year old sailing yawl that has been owned by Bruce Bott for 50 years. She is virtually unchanged from her original external configuration – a rarity in old sailing vessels. When you enter its like stepping into the past and her owner has a special passion for the tradition of the sea and wind. (Please hit the ‘LIKE’ button and the ‘SUBSCRIBE’ buttons on the YouTube site to support the creation of new videos in the future.)
Dock Walk at Fanny Bay BC
Fanny Bay is a tiny seaport on the east central coast of Vancouver Island. Its mainly serves the shellfish aquafarming industry in nearby Baynes Sound. They produce world famous oysters there. Take a gentle relaxing walk on the floats to observe the working vessels that berth and operate there. (Please hit the ‘LIKE’ button and the ‘SUBSCRIBE’ buttons on the YouTube site to support the creation of new videos in the future.)
Collecting Bowditch’s Navigator with Bob McCauley
Nautical researcher Bob McCauley has become an expert on a classic navigation text that is still in use after 200 years. Nathaniel Bowditch wrote the book. (Please hit the ‘LIKE’ button and the ‘SUBSCRIBE’ buttons on the YouTube site to support the creation of new videos in the future.)
Dock Walk at French Creek BC
French Creek Marina is located on the east central coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. It is a working harbour and this a walking tour of the docks crowded with vessels. (Please hit the ‘LIKE’ button and the ‘SUBSCRIBE’ buttons on the YouTube site to support the creation of new videos in the future.)
Site News: November 20, 2024
The vessel database has been updated and is now holding 94,591 vessel histories (with 16,203 images and 13,900 records of ship wrecks and marine disasters).
Vessel records are currently being reviewed and updated with more than 40,000 processed so far this year.
The mariner and naval biography database has also been updated and now contains 58,599 entries (with 3996 images).
Thanks to contributor Mike Rydqvist McCammon for the hundreds of photos he has contributed to illustrate British Columbia’s floating heritage.
My very special thanks to our volunteer IT adviser, John Eyre, who (since 2021) has modernized, simplified and improved the update process for the databases into semi–automated processes. His participation has been vital to keeping the Nauticapedia available to our netizens.
Also my special thanks to my volunteer content accuracy checker, John Spivey of Irvine CA USA, who continues (almost every day for the last couple of years) to proof read thousands of Nauticapedia vessel histories and provided input to improve more than 14,000 entries. His attention to detail has been a huge unexpected bonus in improving and updating the vessel detail content.