Meadus, Calvie. September 22, 2012. Motor boat built by Calvie Meadus, St. Jones Within.

• Main Author: Braye, Crystal
• Other Authors: Meadus, Calvert (Calvie) (1927-), "Calvert (Calvie) Meadus was born in the now resettled community of Loreburn, in Trinity Bay, on December 23, 1927. He learned how to build boats by watching and helping his father, Keid (Caleb), and Uncle Lige Elijah Price, as they built boats using a three-piece mould design method. In 1942, Calvie went to work building boats at the Clarenville Shipyard – the same year they built the shipyard itself. He worked at the shipyard for two or three years, playing a role in the construction of ten identical 500 tonne vessels known as the Splinter Fleet. Calvie spent most of his life as a fisherman and built boats in the off-season. "
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Objects; Work; Architecture; building and construction; Boatbuilding; Boats; Motorboats; Wooden boats; Wooden objects; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/boatmuseum/id/239

Motor boat built by Calvie Meadus in 1989, St. Jones Within. This boat measures nineteen feet, six inches long with a beam of just over six feet. Calvie used spruce for timbers and constructed the keel, deadwood, sternpost and counter strakes from juniper. She was planked with spruce from the garboard to just above the waterline, and with fir planks the rest of the way up to the gunwales. Designed for a three horsepower marine engine, this motorboat has a hull speed of just over five knots. She is outfitted with a three horsepower Atlantic marine engine built by the Lunenberg Foundry in Nova Scotia. As he does with all his motorboats, Calvie included tiller lines (reins) to allow the boat to be steered while tending to the engine.