{"id":182448,"date":"2023-10-01T21:41:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T01:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=182448"},"modified":"2023-10-01T21:41:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T01:41:23","slug":"boat-builder-looks-to-share-unique-skills-with-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/boat-builder-looks-to-share-unique-skills-with-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Boat builder looks to share unique skills with community"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pierre Belcourt and his wife Therese have lived on Cortes for almost 40 years, but this month is the first time they have attended the Friday Market. <\/span><\/p>\n

As a boat builder, Belcourt explained his social motivation to share his skills in blade sharpening with the local community.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe've been here...39 years now, but we hardly know anybody anymore,\" he said. \"They're either left the island, gone crazy, or died.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Belcourt has worked as a carpenter for movie sets like Xmen III<\/em>, Tron 2<\/em>, Paycheck<\/em>, and The Watchmen<\/em>. He has built custom homes, like a German style home with local artist\/builder Volker Steigman. But his most extensive work with his hands has been boat building. He has rebuilt a Baltic sloop and the first New York 30 by Nat Herreshoff from 1905. He has crafted dory skiffs and a 30 foot wooden oyster boat.<\/span><\/p>\n

Through his work, he explains why sharp tools are so important for the craft.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to keep your chisels and planes, draw shaves, adze-all those things sharp to cut wood, to slice wood, not to butcher it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Several market-goers approached Belcourt while CKTZ observed, most with a variety of dull edges in hand. Belcourt says he's happy to sharpen just about anything.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cChainsaws, shears, scissors, knives, wood chisels, wood planes, blades... \u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Though sharpening tools may seem simple, the benefits for the Belcourts have gone beyond the dollars earned, they say.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt's a good excuse to see people I haven't seen in a long time,\u201d Pierre said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Belcourts will continue their skill-share at the Friday Market, hoping to connect with their community in the process.<\/span><\/p>\n

To hear more about how boat building lead to this unique offering, listen to the CKTZ News Update below:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pierre Belcourt and his wife Therese have lived on Cortes for almost 40 years, but this month is the first time they have attended the Friday Market. As a boat builder, Belcourt explained his social motivation to share his skills in blade sharpening with the local community. \u201cWe’ve been here…39 years now, but we hardly…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":182450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57],"tags":[30728,14473,6264,30729,15828,2665,1107,30727,23481],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182448"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184113,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182448\/revisions\/184113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182448"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=182448"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=182448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}