Sturge, S. Boat Building Timber, Salvage

Juniper timber taken from the roots of a juniper that was uprooter during Hurricane Igor, 2010. Used for the knees in a rodney built by Stewart Sturge during winter in 2011-12, Salvage.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Braye, Crystal
Other Authors: Sturge, Stewart John, Stewart Sturge was born in Salvage, Bonavista Bay in 1942. His father Fred and grandfather Peter were both fishermen that worked in the Labrador fishery during the summer and hunting seals in the winter, and like most fishermen they also built their own boats. Stewart learned how to build boats as a young boy, going from stage to stage and looking on while older men built boats. He built his first punt at the age of seventeen. A carpenter by trade, Stewart builds boats for personal recreation and for sale locally, but primarily he continues to build as a past-time. He has built punts and rodneys, trap boats, speed boats and a cabin boat.
Format: Still Image
Language:English
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Objects
Architecture
building and construction
Boatbuilding
Boats
Newfoundland
Online Access:http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_crafts/id/1728
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spelling ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:ich_crafts/1728 2023-12-31T10:13:07+01:00 Sturge, S. Boat Building Timber, Salvage Braye, Crystal Sturge, Stewart John Stewart Sturge was born in Salvage, Bonavista Bay in 1942. His father Fred and grandfather Peter were both fishermen that worked in the Labrador fishery during the summer and hunting seals in the winter, and like most fishermen they also built their own boats. Stewart learned how to build boats as a young boy, going from stage to stage and looking on while older men built boats. He built his first punt at the age of seventeen. A carpenter by trade, Stewart builds boats for personal recreation and for sale locally, but primarily he continues to build as a past-time. He has built punts and rodneys, trap boats, speed boats and a cabin boat. Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador-Salvage Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador-Salvage 2012-06-22 image/jpeg http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_crafts/id/1728 eng eng Intangible Cultural Heritage - Knowledge and Skills to Produce Traditional Crafts http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_crafts/id/1728 CC BY-NC 2.0 CA Wooden Boat Museum of Newfoundland and Labrador Intangible Cultural Heritage Inventory Objects Architecture building and construction Boatbuilding Boats Still Image Photograph 2012 ftmemorialunivdc 2023-12-04T11:29:31Z Juniper timber taken from the roots of a juniper that was uprooter during Hurricane Igor, 2010. Used for the knees in a rodney built by Stewart Sturge during winter in 2011-12, Salvage. Still Image Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI)
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topic Objects
Architecture
building and construction
Boatbuilding
Boats
spellingShingle Objects
Architecture
building and construction
Boatbuilding
Boats
Braye, Crystal
Sturge, S. Boat Building Timber, Salvage
topic_facet Objects
Architecture
building and construction
Boatbuilding
Boats
description Juniper timber taken from the roots of a juniper that was uprooter during Hurricane Igor, 2010. Used for the knees in a rodney built by Stewart Sturge during winter in 2011-12, Salvage.
author2 Sturge, Stewart John
Stewart Sturge was born in Salvage, Bonavista Bay in 1942. His father Fred and grandfather Peter were both fishermen that worked in the Labrador fishery during the summer and hunting seals in the winter, and like most fishermen they also built their own boats. Stewart learned how to build boats as a young boy, going from stage to stage and looking on while older men built boats. He built his first punt at the age of seventeen. A carpenter by trade, Stewart builds boats for personal recreation and for sale locally, but primarily he continues to build as a past-time. He has built punts and rodneys, trap boats, speed boats and a cabin boat.
format Still Image
author Braye, Crystal
author_facet Braye, Crystal
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title Sturge, S. Boat Building Timber, Salvage
title_short Sturge, S. Boat Building Timber, Salvage
title_full Sturge, S. Boat Building Timber, Salvage
title_fullStr Sturge, S. Boat Building Timber, Salvage
title_full_unstemmed Sturge, S. Boat Building Timber, Salvage
title_sort sturge, s. boat building timber, salvage
publishDate 2012
url http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_crafts/id/1728
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Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador-Salvage
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op_source Wooden Boat Museum of Newfoundland and Labrador
Intangible Cultural Heritage Inventory
op_relation Intangible Cultural Heritage - Knowledge and Skills to Produce Traditional Crafts
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