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Boat builder Henry Vokey of Trinity, Newfoundland, Canada has built all kinds of wooden vessels from dories to schooners. In this one hour documentary we follow Henry as he builds a 54 foot, two masted schooner in his backyard. . From the laying of the keel to its launch 3 years later it closes a chapter on a part of Newfoundland's boat building history which saw hundreds of schooners being built in most of the many isolated bays and coves and eventually being used to fish and deliver its salt fish cargoes to customers in England, France, Spain, Portugal and South America. ....
The Globe and Mail Joan Sullivan Published February 16, 2021 Wooden boats built Newfoundland and Labrador, said Pauline Thornhill, host and producer of CBC-TV’s Land and Sea. And “Henry Vokey has undoubtedly built more wooden boats than anyone in the province.” When she first met him, as the subject of the Land and Sea episode Wood or Nothing in 2009 (a second, One Last Schooner, would be filmed in 2012), Mr. Vokey “was hitting 80 at the time, and suffering from arthritic hands, [but] was still building, in the shed beside his house. He was the guy who just never retired.” Mr. Vokey, who died on Jan. 27 at the age of 91, had been building boats since he was young, beginning with a scale model and teaching himself. At that time fishermen would have built schooners, “but for their own use, not to make a living,” said his daughter Josephine Johnson. In 1964, when Newfoundland was gearing up to its organized resettlement program, he ....