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_ Started last week by
a minum Craft,
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f Yukon River beginning June !.

_ river dur’

The 65-foot ‘cruiser _ was
Western
a. young
ney company: atits shopina
hangar at the Pat Bay Airport.
Co-owners Russ Crawford
and John Stanners have a little

' more than two months to com-

plete the vessel. They plan to

4 ~=launch it in Patricia Bay May 7. »
_ whe Karpes and Pugh

ng Company of

cursions up and down the

Overnight accon 1modation
for 12 people. will allow. the
vessel to n Ki ; along the

will be there for four moi
each | year,
September

go up there i in E) years,” said

_ berths.
passengers in total and is a_

pany has laid —

iorse plans to make ex-

. Excursions
ths,
from June’ to

Crawford. “It's basically a ‘river
dle boat, t without the wheel

expected to travel at a max-

imum of 14 knots. .

The boat features a complete.
galley, saloon and_ passenger
It can carry 40

ng 25-feet wide.

tly they already have
’ Crawford said. The
will travel from
ehorse to Dawson City.

So far the Sidney-based com-

started cutting | aluminum plate

“So f

heads
far. things _are looking

pretty good,’? Crawford said.
wich | bow w ll be constructed

1 _ alumir jum pine

9 We ph : to do.
can ourselves.”’ ca
and painting will li

contracted.

- About» 40,000 “pounds: of
aluminum Plate, angles and

Thy ~ shouted obscenities %

keel and —

“as tall as a house,’ have 2
“square feet of living area, and

be ‘‘superwide’’ at 25° feet,
Stanners said.

. been building boat .
- for almost two years. it started ©
-as a two-man operation. and

each

pipe is sitting outside the

hanger. .
Crawford estimates the boat

will be worth about $675

when they complete it, without

engines. a
“John Stanners q the other co-

owner of Western Aluminum —
Craft, says the boat will be one
of akind. |

“This is. the only aluminum
boat with overnig rht ac
commodation built in Canada

‘in the last twenty years,’’ Stan-

ners said...
‘He says construction will cost
twice as much to provide over-

night ace dation because the
vessel must meet more rigid
federal transport regulations.

The finished product will be

- Western Aluminum Craft has
its in Sidney

now employs 14 people, in-

one. oup. of peo
a Brentwood Bay park y

other, .

He arrested Manaleso

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cluding hard-to-find aluminum and ve

welders.
“We try to hire as many peo-
ple from this area as | le,”’

_ Stanners said. ‘This is a ‘perfect “
. location for boat building.”’ »

“There is no reason Van-

couver should get all the
‘business,’’ he said. ‘‘We can do

just as good of a job over here,
‘in some} instances be

The company went up against

tter.”’

several Vancouver-based boat

‘builders in bidding for the con-

tract to build the boat.

Recently the business part-
‘ners — both under 30 years old
— completed a 28-foot ©
aluminum crab boa
at abou 32 jmiles sper hour.

* Both
have more ‘than. six years ex:

perience in aluminum manufac-
turing. -

“It’s a clean industry. There
is a lot of potential for ongoing
Projects,’" Stanners said.

“We’. nothing

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