Winterton Boat Building Museum
Winterton, Newfoundland and Labrador
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Traditional Boat Building of Winterton
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Collecting the timber
73 of 94 		Lugging the timber
74 of 94 		Lugging the timber
75 of 94 		Timber pieces stacked
76 of 94 		Goats were sometimes used to help pull out firewood or boat timber pieces
77 of 94 		Wilson Reid (left) and his brother Hubert (right) at Reid's saw mill
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Ralph Coates' sawmill
79 of 94 		Marcus French, a boatbuilder and fisherman, in his store with his partly completed rodney.
80 of 94 		Boats under construction outside
81 of 94 		A 16' 4" rodney or punt with an outboard motor installed. Built by Marcus French.
82 of 94 		Punt and motorboats tied up at the wharf
83 of 94 		Installing battens on the hull of a 32 foot trap skiff at Reid's Mill.
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Eleazor Reid planing a plank
85 of 94 		Uncle Sandy Downey (left) and his son Ambrose (right) planking.
86 of 94 		Boatbuilder, Ralph Coates, caulking his boat with oakum using a caulking iron and mallet.
87 of 94 		John Reid, uses a caulking iron and mallet to drive oakum between the planks of a fishing boat.
88 of 94 		Moving the sticks
89 of 94 		Pulling the boat
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