This traditional Whitehall rowboat is known as the most beautiful rowing boat in the world. It rows as beautifully as it looks. It can be rowed by one person, usually from the rear seat. Two fixed seat rowing stations with gunnel-mounted oarlocks enable two rowers to row at the same time in tandem. [...]
This sailing rowing boat is custom made by our master craftsmen in our shop in Victoria, BC Canada. It is a sailing boat built to last 100 years or longer, providing rowing pleasure for generations of rowers. Our commitment to highest quality plus superior design makes this the best boat of its type in the [...]
The Tyee Spirit® 14 Fixed Seat Traditional Rowboat is renowned for the way it carries a load and comfortably handles wind, waves, and choppy tidal waters. It has a fullness of beam which extends along the hull, and the transom is three inches broader than the Whitehall Spirit® 14. The Tyee 14 traditional rowboat has [...]
The Whitehall Spirit® Tyee 14 Sailing Rowboat will delight both experienced sailors and beginners. Using oars it can be smoothly rowed for hours at around 4 knots (8kph) The efficient, easily-handled sail rig sets up in less than five minutes and when not in use it stows neatly inside the boat. It accommodates three or [...]
Campbell River is a coastal community on the east coast of Vancouver Island where in early fall a large run of Chinook Salmon returns to the river to spawn. Those fish that have matured to over 30 lbs are called “Tyee” salmon. Around 1910 Ned Painter, a local boatbuilder, began building beautiful lapstrake cedar-planked rowboats [...]