Salish Sea Boathouse

The boathouse was built in 1948, extended twice without drawings, and had spent about fifteen years holding boats up while it came down. The survey found eleven of the thirty-two fir posts rotted through at the sill and a ridge that had dropped four inches.

We kept the post-and-beam frame, the ridge line, the two sliding doors on the water elevation, and the concrete ways. We replaced the eleven posts, the whole roof structure, and every fastener in the building. The 1974 lean-to came off.

Douglas fir posts and beams, repaired in place with scarf joints wherever a post had ten good feet above the rot. New glulam rafters at the original spacing. Galvanised steel ties and plates, left bright.

Nothing here is painted. The shop is a wet room with a boat in it, and on a working building a connection you can inspect is worth more than one you cannot see.