Jan 1st, 2000 to March 1st, 2000 redesigning the web site 200 hours.
March 3rd.... John MacKay, Bob Trelford and Mike Sterling worked from 9:30 am until 12:30 pm preparing the Peerless for work for the year. It is housed in the building back of the Art School and next to the Coliseum. Today's work involved stripping the deck and starting to work on the cabin. 9 man hours
March 4th, 2000... John MacKay, Bob Trelford and Mike Sterling worked from 9:30 am until 12:30 pm stripping the cabin of poor and dangerous wiring and removing faulty benches and hardware. We moved the heaters, table and other things from the Grey Street Building. Bob cleaned the office and moved things around. Mike Sterling 2 hours on web page. 11 man hours.
March 6th, 2000... John Rigby, Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling.... rewiring Peerless and sanding. Presentation to Art School. Jim Mclay, Mike Sterling range light weather station research. 10 man hours.
March 7th, 2000... Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling sanding the Peerless 4 man hours.
March 8th, 2000... Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling, John MacKay, John Rigby. Worked on the Boat Barn and used red oxide on the Peerless. John MacKay removed some equipment for the rewire. 10 man hours.
March 9th, 2000... Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling, John Rigby. Worked on the Peerless. Painting the hull and cleaning the bilge. Night meeting Marine Heritage Committee with Jane Kramer, John McArthur, Bob Trelford, Ron Seaman, Mike Sterling. Ron brought samples of imitation slate. He will get final quotes. We discussed the docking. Willy will dredge for us and move rocks to form the dock. The final docking will be in an L shape with the long portion being made of stone from the old Keeper's Dock and the short arm a purchased 30x8 foot section where we can bring in our boats. Bruce Martin has the specifications for this. 22 man hours.
March 10th, 2000 John Rigby and Mike Sterling cleaned some junk out of the new building that we have behind the Art School. We named it "The Boat Building". We took the refuse to the dump. Bob Trelford and Tom Marcotte brought an old stairway that we may be able to adapt to the Keeper's Quarters. 6 man hours.
March 12th, 2000 Mike Sterling worked on the web page 2 man hours.
March 13th, 2000. Continued cleaning the boat building. Some work on the "Peerless Too". (small skiff) Spent a couple of hours untangling hundreds of feet of rope that will be used on the beach grass project. Fixed the oil furnace. Stored 50,000 booklets (Chamber of Commerce) Volunteers: Ron Beaupre, Bob and John Trelford, John Rigby and Mike Sterling. 14 man hours.
March 14th, 2000. John Rigby glazed some more windows. Bob Trelford and Mike Sterling put a coat of blue on the Peerless. 9 man hours
March 15th, 2000. John Rigby fixed more windows. Mike Sterling and Bob Trelford apply anti-fouling paint the the bottom of the hull. 9 man hours.
March 16th, 2000. John Rigby on the windows again. Mike finishes the hull in anti-fouling paint. Bob paints a white border on the water line. At the same time 4 volunteers work in Pioneer Park. Eric Luce, Carl Crymble et al. 18 man hours.
March 17th, 2000. John Rigby, Bob Trelford, Bob Chatterton work on the Peerless. We did some minor painting. Bob worked on the accounting in the afternoon. John and Mike Sterling met with Mayor Kraemer and Ron Brown about our progress at noon. 11 man hours.
March 18th, 2000. Painted the "Peerless Too" the small skiff we use. It is carried by the Peerless on the stern. 2 man hours.
March 19th, 2000 Day off
March 20th, 2000 Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling worked on the Peerless inside cabin priming it. John Rigby took more things to the dump. 6 man hours.
March 21st, 2000 Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling paint the Peerless inside cabin. John MaKay works on the wiring. John Rigby works on the building windows. 8 man hours.
March 22nd, 2000. John Rigby paints the building. John MacKay scraping the bilge. Mike Sterling paints the cabin interior and helps with the bilge. 8 man hours.
March 23rd, 2000. Lots of work on the boat shed. Tom Marcotte, Bob Chatterton, John Rigby, Mike Sterling all paint. Bob Trelford works on the Peerless Cabin. Tom used a paint spray while the rest of us used rollers with inexpensive white paint on the interior of the building. Lots of people stop in to observe. 15 man hours.
March 24th, 2000. More painting of the boat shed. Tom Marcotte manned the sprayer. Mike Sterling and Bob Chatterton used rollers. Bob Trelford scraped. 12 man hours.
March 27th, 2000. Mike Sterling paints the walls of the Boat Shed. Bob Trelford works on the Peerless cabin to round a sharp corner of a counter. John Rigby repairs a crack in the wall. Mike works on the automatic access of weather from the Range Light. 14 man hours.
March 28th, 2000. We moved a lot of junk from the Boat Shed over to the Grey Street Landing building. We continued painting the inside walls. Bob Trelford worked on the Peerless cabin putting in a shelf. Tom Marcotte, Bob Chatterton, John Rigby and Mike Sterling moved the junk. John Rigby then repaired the southeast window. 14 man hours.
March 29th, 2000. More work at the Boat Shed. Painting by John Fulham and Mike Sterling. John MacKay worked on the Peerless. John Rigby worked on carpentry. In the evening a presentation the the Rotary Club by Mike Goodwin and Mike Sterling. 15 man hours.
March 30th, 2000 More painting at the boat shed. John Rigby works on fixing the little office walls. Mike Sterling paints the walls. Bob Trelford works on the cabin of the Peerless. John Mackay works on some scuppers. 12 man hours.
March 31st, 2000. Painting at the Boat Shed. The interior walls are now done. We also painted inside the deck. Bob Trelford did some more work on the cabin. John Rigby continued on the little office. Bob Chatterton painted. 12 man hours.
April 3rd and 4th, 2000. Rewiring begins with Tom Shillinglaw. More work by John Rigby and Bob Trelford on the Boat Shed. John MacKay does some cutting of holes on the Peerless for more equipment. Bob Trelford goes out on Willy's barge to see what the winter has done to our work. Total hours 20.
April 5th, 2000. Worked at the Boat Shed painting, adding equipment and rewiring. Volunteers present: Bob Chatterton, John Rigby,Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling, Dick Perkins, Tom Marcotte and John MacKay. John MacKay put on some air vents and a search light from the "Restlees Too". Bob and Mike put some rope around the edge of "Peerless Too" our little skiff. Tom Shillinglaw worked on rewiring. 30 man hours
April 6th, 2000. Bob Trelford works on Peerless. G. Roy does some welding to open up the door to the cabin. The roof is cleared and opened up. Tom Shillinglaw continues on the wiring. John Rigby and Mike Sterling start painting the council chambers for the Art School. 18 hours.
April 7th, 2000. Bob Chatterton paints the little office in the boat shed. Bob Trelford works on the Peerless cabin. Mike Sterling and John Rigby help Carol at the Art School. The roof of the Peerless cabin is almost done. 10 man hours.
April 8th, 2000. Toby Stier (young volunteer) and Mike Sterling paint a couple of windows inside the Boat Shed. 4 man hours.
April 10th, 2000 Bob Trelford, Tom Shillinglaw work on the boat. Tom works 8 hours. Larry Smith, John Rigby and Mike Sterling work in the Art School. 14 man hours.
April 11th, 2000. Bob Trelford worked on carpeting the Boat Shed office. Mike Sterling painted. Another volunteer Ross Coker also painted. John MacKay did more wiring as did Tom Shillinglaw. John Rigby worked on the main door. 16 man hours.
April 12th, 2000. Tom Shillinglaw finished the wiring on the Peerless. Bob Trelford painted the two large doors and some of the stairs. Mike Sterling painted a window and the trim around the office door. John Rigby transported material to the Grey Street building. Dick Perkins worked on trim around the office door. 12 man hours.
April 13th, 2000. Bob Trelford painted the bow of the hull inside with red oxide. Mike Sterling painted the stairway up to the loft in the Boat Shed. John MacKay worked on the wiring. In the evening a Marine Heritage Meeting with John Rigby, John McArthur, Jim McLay, Bob Trelford, Ron Seaman and Mike Sterling. 25 man hours.
April 14th, 2000. Bob Trelford worked on the cabin again as did John MacKay. John Rigby cleaned up and took items to the dump. Paul Smith and Mike Sterling painted the bathroom exterior. Gilles Roy did some welding. 14 man hours.
April 15th, 2000 John Mackay worked again on the cabin wiring. 3 man hours. Mike Sterling continued to work on the WEB site. Over the past 3 weeks 60 hours has been expended on the site. Most of the work entailed writing an automatic program that will dial the Range Light, gather the current weather, hang-up, dial BMI in Tiverton. Then it will format the weather for transmittal to the ISP. After successful transmission, it will again hang-up. This program can be run on a schedule. Currently it works fine. It needs tuning for unforeseen error conditions such as communications failures.
April 17th, 2000 John MacKay worked on the cabin instruments. Bob Trelford replaced the windows on the aft cabin side. John Rigby worked on the northwest window on the Boat Shed. Mike Sterling painted the trim on the bathroom and also painted a sea chest. 16 man hours.
April 18th, 2000. John MacKay continues to work on the wiring. Bob Trelford painted some of the outside of the cabin and also built a small panel for the bulkhead. Paul Smith painted the large doors in the Boat Shed. Mike Sterling painted and repaired a foot locker for the boat. Gilles Roy did some more welding on the ladder on the stern of the Peerless. John Rigby repaired the last window in the Boat Shed. Mike Sterling and Mike Goodwin made a presentation to the Chamber of Commerce in the evening. Total hours 28.
April 19th, 2000. Bob Trelford painted the ladder with red oxide. Mike Sterling painted the bulkhead in the cabin. Paul Smith and Dick Perkins painted one window and a door. We also went to Port Elgin to visit a store, River Road, containing Chantry Island items. Total hours 10.
April 20th, 2000. Bob Trelford and Mike Sterling took a wooden skiff down to the store "River Road" in Port Elgin. River Road is selling Chantry Island artifacts and they will use a nautical theme in their windows with the skiff as window dressing. We then returned to finish some painting details on the boat. John Rigby finished the last window on the main floor of the Boat Shed. Mike Sterling wrote a letter to council requesting permission for the Fish Fry. Total Hours 10.
April 21st, 2000 John MacKay works again on the wiring for the Peerless. In particular the wiring for the loudspeaker. Also the last inside window was painted. 6 hours.
April 24th, 2000. Cleanup work on the boat shed. John Rigby took a lot of junk to the dump again. John and Bob have repaired both large doors near the base with sturdy boards. Also, John put a fine kick plate on the side door. John MacKay finished final details on the wiring. Mike Sterling did a little painting on the outside of the shed. Mike Goodwin scraped the windows and doors and did a little putty work. In the evening the entire Saugeen Shores Council minus Dennis Haggerty plus the staff of Molly and Ron Brown visited the Boat Shed for the a review. Mark Kraemer talked to us about the building and its future. We told them that we would like to continue to improve it over time and allow its use to remain with community groups like the Propeller Club, the Art School and other groups. Mike Goodwin finished up the evening with the song "We Were Here" Man hours 18.
April 25th, 2000. Mike Goodwin caulks. John MacKay continues on wiring and trim detail on the Peerless. Mike Sterling paints outside trim. John Rigby primed a new window built by Michael Cleary. Bob Trelford worked for a while too. Man hours 12.
April 26th, 2000. Mike Goodwin scraped the exterior of the boat shed. Mike Sterling and John Rigby obtained scaffolds from Carol Cleary. John MacKay did some more work on the cabin. The slate was delivered in the afternoon. Total hours 22.
April 27th. Mike Goodwin did a lot of scraping on the gable ends of the Boat Shed. In the afternoon Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling, Vicki Tomori, John Rigby, Joan Rigby, Norm Gurr, Sam Klaman, Elgin Shuler, Nancy Raynor and others worked on packaging the Chantry Island Sunflower Seeds and the newsletters. John MacKay also was working on the Peerless Cabin again. Pat Bowers did some cleanup. Total hours 40.
April 28th. Mike Goodwin does some more scraping. Bob Trelford replaced some rotten boards on the eves. Mike Sterling painted the large door. John Rigby got the tangled wiring removed from the outside of the building. John MacKay did some fit and sanding on the entrance to the cabin. Total hours 14.
April 29th. Mike Sterling did some painting on the outside trim. John MacKay some more work on the cabin enterence. Total hours 4
May 1st, 2000. Rain today. Mike Sterling and Bob Trelford go over the donor data base. Mike gets papers from Port Elgin to sign for Fish Fry. Mike places some Sunflowers in River Road. Total hours 4.
May 2nd, 2000. Bob Trelford worked on the east end of the boat shed preparing to put some concrete repair blocks in the corners. Mike Sterling painted the trim on the north side of the building. Mike Goodwin, Mike Sterling and Bob Trelford gave a presentation to the Chantry Island Chambettes. They gave us a $1000.00 cheque. Nice ladies! Total hours 15.
May 3rd, 2000 Bob Trelford and Mike Goodwin repaired the SE corner of the boat shed. Mike Sterling mailed the new project updates to the donors. Mike distributed some more Sunflower Seed Packages. John MacKay did some more work. Total hours 12.
May 4th, 2000. Bob and Mike again work on the blocks at the Boat Shed. 4 hours.
May 5th, 2000. Bob finalized the repair of the east end of the building. He replaced many stone blocks. Mike Sterling and Paul Smith painted the north wall of the Boat Shed. Total hours 9.
May 6th, 2000. John Rigby, Toby Stier, Joan Rigby and Mike Sterling painted two sides of the exterior of the Boat Shed. Bob Trelford did some masonry work. Total hours 11 hours.
May 8th, 2000. Bob Trelford and Mike Goodwin worked on the east gable end of the Boat Shed. Mike Sterling, Paul Smith and John Rigby continue to paint the exterior walls. Total hours 19.
May 9th, 2000. Rain day.... not much work done. Total hours 1.
May 11th, 2000. Mike Sterling painted the front sliding door of the boat shed. Bob Trelford and Mike Goodwin worked on the gable east end. Total hours 12.
May 12th, 2000 Bob Trelford and Mike Goodwin continue to work on the east end of the Boat Shed. Mike Sterling paints the west door 2nd coat. Total hours 11.
May 15th, 2000. Bob Trelford, Mike Goodwin continue on the east gable end. This day they started the planking of the Boat Shed. Mike Sterling, Paul Smith and Ken Rothenberg did some more painting. John Rigby ran some errands for Marine Heritage. Total hours 36.
May 15th, 2000. Rain day. Bob Trelford, Mike Goodwin and Mike Sterling brought a hay wagon of hanging baskets from the farm to the Boat Shed. Mike Goodwin "glazed" the window made by Mike Cleary. Total hours 10.
May 16th, 2000. More work on the boat shed. East end gable. Mike Goodwin, Mike Sterling, Ken Rothenberg, Bob Trelford. Total hours 9
May 17th, 2000. Lots of work on the Boat Shed gable end. Mike Sterling, Bob Trelford, Ken Rothenberg, Mike Goodwin. Total hours 28.
May 18th, 2000. Thead Seaman, Ron Seaman, Mike Sterling and John MacKay put the Peerless in the water in Port Elgin. Mike delivered some Sunflower seeds around town. Very cold and raining. Total hours 9.
May 19th, 2000. Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling and Michael Goodwin worked on the east gable end of the Boat Shed. The planking is now complete. The first coat of paint is complete. Total hours 12.
May 20th, 2000. Bob Trelford, Jim Barlow and Mike Sterling sold sunflowers in front of the bakery. Total hours 9.
Total hours to date 1040+
May 22nd, 2000. A little painting at the Boat Shed. Mike Sterling, Mike Goodwin, Bob Trelford. Total hours 4.
May 24th, 2000 Mike Sterling put more paint on the west gable end of the Boat House. 3 hours.
May 27th. Rain all day.
May 28th, 2000. Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling and Mike Goodwin finished painting the east end of the Boat Shed. Total hours 6.
May 29th, 2000. Mike Goodwin, Mike Sterling and Bob Trelford put up about 110 hanging baskets for Communities in Bloom. Total Hours 18.
May 30th, 2000. Bob Trelford prepares the flags for the poles. Total hours 6.
June 1st, 2000. Bob Trelford and Mike Sterling watered the plants we put up on May 29th. This was accomplished with a large tank on the back of a pickup prepared by Elgin Shuler. It took 2 1/2 hours to water them with a long wand powered by a simple, but very noisy gas pump. Elgin must have spent 3 1/2 hours preparing the truck and pump. Total hours 6
June 12th, 2000. Took a load of scaffolding and tar paper out to the Island using the Peerless. The Peerless towed it using a 17.5 foot Tillbury. Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling and Joe Scholtzes. Total hours 9.
June 13th, 2000. Rain and thunder forecast. Bob and Mike do some work on the July weekend Community Festival. We also water all the hanging plants in town. Team Southampton meets about the July fund raiser. Total hours 10.
June 14th, 2000. Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling, Tom Marcotte and Joe Scholtzes took over a load of slate for the roof and scaffolding. We met the wildlife people on the Island. They were there doing experiments with the birds..... blood tests, banding, counting etc. Total hours 12.
June 15, 2000. Same as June 14th. The weather turned nasty once we unloaded and it poured rain. We had to return to shore after a couple of hours. The wildlife people were still there. They were Glen Fox, Laird Shutt, Kim Williams and Deb Jeffrey. Mike Sterling worked on the Fish Fry and other events for the July weekend. We also had a Marine Heritage Meeting. Total hours 20.
June 16th, 2000. More work on the Island. We cut off the tops of the dock to make it lower for easier load/unload. John Fullam, Mike Sterling and Bob Trelford. Total hours 9.
June 18th, 2000. Mike Sterling and Bob Trelford worked on the Island cleaning up a little bit. Total hours 2.
June 19th, 2000. A little scaffold work. We also started cleaning the basement. I found the legendary "cooling stone" talked about by children of former Keepers in the basement. It is a huge stone that was covered by dirt. Mike Sterling, Bob Trelford, John Fullam and Joe Scholtzes. Total hours 12.
June 18th, 2000. Bob Trelford and Mike Sterling do a little Sunday cleanup work on the Island. Total hours 2.
June 19th, 2000. Bob Trelford, John Fullam and Mike Sterling work on the scaffold and basement cleanup. Total hours 9.
June 20th, 2000. Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling and John Fullam do more basement cleanup and also put on two rows of tar paper on the west side of the roof. Total hours 12. We uncover a giant stone in the basement that was rumored to be there. It was said to be used to keep things cool by the Keepers. Dimensions are 6 1/2 feet by 4 1/2 feet.
June 21st, 2000. Bob Trelford, Joe Sholzes and Mike Sterling put in a staiway to the basement. Heavy rain stops further work. Total hours 4.
June 22nd, 2000. Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling and Mike Goodwin work on scaffold. Total hours 8
June 23rd, 2000. Worked again on the Island putting on tar paper and a few rows of slate. Mike Sterling, John Fullum, Bob Trelford and Mike Goodwin. Total hours 12
June 24th, 2000. Mike Goodwin, Bob Trelford, Jim Stark, Paul Smith and Mike Sterling cover most of the west side of the roof with slate. Total hours. 36.
June 26th, 2000 Mike Goodwin, Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling and John Fullam. We moved the scaffold to the east side and put on two rows of slate. In the afternoon we put the sign up at the Boat House. Total hours 18.
June 27th, 2000 Mike Goodwin, Joe Scholzes, Bob Trelford and Mike Sterling work on the roof. The slate is 3/4 done. Total hours 16.
June 28th, 2000. Mike Sterling, Mike Goodwin, Joe Schozes and Bob Trelford finish the slate on the roof. The roof is now ready for the cap. Total hours 16
June 29th, 2000. Preparation for the Fish Fry. Setup in Pioneer Park. Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling, Jon Sterling. Total hours 12.
June 30th, 2000. Fish Fry.... over 30 volunteers headed by Jane Kramer. Total hours 80. Approx. 600 Fish Dinners sold
July 1st, 2000. Beef Bash. Total hours 40. Approx. 600 Beef Dinners sold.
July 2nd, 2000. Art in the Park. 20 hours including cleanup
July 3rd. 2000 more cleanup and some work out at the Island. We took Louise Ryan to do some painting, Tobie Stier and Jim McLay doing setup for GPS survey, Jim Barlow and Bill McDonald did some planting of a rock garden along with some Hollyhocks and some Sunflowers on the south side of the Lighthouse.
July 4th, 2000 more cleanup of the basement of the Keeper's Quarters. The TV station in Wingham came out to film. Total hours 20.
July 5th, 2000. Cleanup of the basement of the Keeper's Quarters continues. Scott & Steve from Sautel came to do a TV spot on the Island. Ian Evens and Burt Oldershoot came too. Total hours 20.
July 6th, 2000. The basement continues. We have two 18 year old girls (Kristen Janke & Adelele Armstrong) come to help along with Tobie Stier 16. Burt Oldershoot former Canadian Olympian comes again with Ian Evens. Burt is 80 and Tobie is 16. We also spend 12 hours at the Craft Fair with John Rigby running our booth. Total hours 30.
July 11th, 2000. Kristen Janke, Adele Armstrong, Dave Brandt, Thornton Douglass, Toby Stier, Bob Trelford and Joe Scholzes. More back breaking work clearing the basement. Total hours 21.
July 12th, 2000. Dave Brandt, Mike Sterling, Bob Trelford, Joe Sholtze, Toby Stier and Jim McLay. Jim and Toby did some soundings for the dock. The others continued to clear the basement. Total hours 18.
July 13th, 2000. Tracy Torrance (F), Jon Sterling, Rob Marshall, Mike Sterling Jr., Mike Sterling, Dave Brandt, Toby Stier and Bob Trelford. Toby traced the outline of the Island. The other members either cleared the basement or brought beach stones up for the eventual floor of the Keeper's Quarters basement. We have removed over 20 tons of rubble and dirt so far.
July 16, 2000. Ride out on Peerless to view the Sail Boat race.... rough water... waves 1 meter. Nikki Sterling, Bob Trelford, Jon Sterling.... Melissa Sterling and Rick Stusek.
July 17th, 2000. The current estimate on ruble removal has been revised to 50 tons due to our lack of including stone that had fallen into the basement and the brush that was put there by the Coast Guard. We continued to work on the cleanup today with Toby Stier, Bob Trelford, Dave Brandt and Mike Sterling. Toby did some research on furniture in the afternoon. Total hours 15.
July 18th, 2000. We made whitewash and tested it in the basement on the north wall. It was composed of salt, lime and water. Tomorrow we will add a little rice and Portland cement. We also started a general cleanup around the Keeper's house. Dave Brandt, Mike Sterling, Bob Trelford and Toby Stier. Toby's replica of the Lighthouse Keeper's weather forecaster seems to work. Total hours 14.
July 19th, 2000 Dave Brandt, Toby Stier, Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling. We again worked on the basement. Bob estimates we have taken 50 tons out. Total hours 15.
July 20th, 2000. Ian Evans, Ray Fenton, Ted Schulnmacheh, Ross Coker, Kristen, George Gould, Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling and Toby Stier. Ray and Ted measure for the window frames. Whitewashing the basement via with our own brew. Total hours 20.
July 22nd, 2000. Bob and Mike take Dan Vooght out to measure for the stairs. Mike Sterling and Mike Goodwin give a presentation at the Boat House. Total hours 15.
July 23rd. Nancy Rayner and Vicki Tomori go to the Island to prepare for the Communities in Bloom judges. Mike and Bob Trelford also go. Total hours 3.
July 24th. Toby, Mike Sterling and Bob Trelford work on the Island. Whitewashing continues and general cleanup. Total hours 6.
July 25th. Toby and Bob and Kristen work on whitewashing. Toby does a GPS survey around the perimeter of the Island. Toby and Kristen work on whitewashing. Mike Sterling and Mike Goodwin give a presentation to the Rotary Club. Total hours 20.
July 26th. More work on Island environmental cleanup. Lots of plastic, metal and other objects are removed. More whitewashing. Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling and Toby Stier. Total hours 10.
July 27th. Joe Sholzes, Mike Goodwin, Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling and Bob Trelford continue environmental cleanup. The south end of the building is cleared. Lots of metal and other "junk" is removed. Toby continues to whitewash. Total hours 15.
July 28th 2000. Mike Goodwin, Toby, Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling and Joe S. do more cleanup. We bring back lots of "stuff" for dumping. Total hours 9
July 30th, 2000 Bob Trelford and Mike Sterling take 17 people on a tour of the construction site. Total hours 4.
July 31st, 2000. Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling, Toby Stier and Mike Goodwin tour Cove Island Lighthouse for ideas and cooperation with the "Friends of Fathom Five". Total hours 28.
August 1st, 2000. More cleanup at the Island. Also Jim McLay is working on the maps and design for the dock. Total hours 15.
August 2nd, 2000. Rain day. We work on the Boat House cleanup. Total hours 5.
August 3rd, 2000. Too windy to go to the Island. Toby Stier, Mike Sterling and Bob Trelford work on McNabb point Lighthouse cleaning up the vent in the top. We had to cut it to clear it of debris. Total hours 12.
August 4th, 2000. Mike Sterling, Toby Stier and Bob work on the Island again. There is just a little left to do in the basement. We have put in a vapor barrier and beach stone on the floor. Total hours 12.
August 5th, 2000. We took a large group of Fred Berlet's family and Maryanne Moore and her husband to the Island. We also took Lois Trelford and Faith Trelford. Had to "hot wire" the ignition! Total hours 4.
August 6th, 2000. Mike Sterling gave a talk at McGregor Park about Chantry Island. John Rigby came too. Total hours 4.
August 7th, 2000. Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling and Toby Stier along with two volunteers went to the Island to do more on the basement. We also put covering on the McNabb Point Lighthouse. Cleaned up the Boat House after Friday's auction. Total hours 16.
August 8th, 2000. Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling and Toby Stier work on the interior of the house. Total hours 12.
August 9th, 2000. Same as August 8th. Jim McLay has spent about 40 hours working on the dock proposal. Total hours 48.
August 10th, 2000. Same as August 8th. Total hours 12.
August 11th, 2000. Bob Trelford and Mike Sterling work on the entrances to each door and the base of the windows. We chip away excess rock and put in wooden bases. Total hours 8.
August 12th, 2000. Danny Vooght, Bob Trelford and Mike Sterling bring the stairway out to the Island. Danny has fabricated it at home. He assembles it at the house and it is fully in place once we leave. Total hours 75.
August 14th, 2000 Gordon Webb, Mike Sterling, Bob Trelford and Mike Goodwin along with Toby Stier. Toby continues the forest survey. Total hours 20.
August 15th, 2000. John Martin, Laura Martin, Sarah Martin, Allen Martin, Geoff Martin. Mike Sterling, Mike Goodwin, Bob Trelford and Toby Stier work at the Island. Total hours 22.
August 16th and 17th. Bill Fitzgerald, Ricki Romanowski, Katarina, Merideth Fraser, Jon Sterling, Toby Stier, Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling, Mike Goodwin and Gordon Webb .... total hours for 2 days 24.
August 20th Sunday. Bob Trelford and Mike Sterling take Vicki Wolf, Arthur Wolf, Sarah Wolf, Heather Wolf and Stephen Wolf for a tour of the Island. Total hours 3.
August 21st, 2000. Stephen Ward, Katarina Morhousen, Ricki Romanowski, Bill Fitzgerald, Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling, Mike Goodwin, Toby Stier and Gordon Webb do work on the inside doing drywall while Toby Ricki, Bill and Katarina do survey work. Bill, Ricki and Toby do survey for archeological digs and Katarina works on botany. Total hours 30.
August 22nd. Ricky and Merideth (archeologists) and Katarina (botanist), Mike Sterling, Bob Trelford and Mike Goodwin with Toby Stier. Total hours 21.
August 23rd. Carl McCulloch, D. Mcculloch, Matt Little, Cody McCoulloch, Fraser McCulloch, Mike Goodwin, Mike Sterling and Bob Trelford. 20 hours.
August 24 and 25th. Mike Goodwin, Bob Trelford and Toby do work at the Island. Toby continues his survey work using GPS. Mike Sterling is in Michigan for a funeral. Total hours including the Botanist and 2 archeologists is 25.
August 31st, 2000. Bob Trelford and Mike Goodwin. Total hours 8
September 1st, 2000. Peggy Golmes, Chuck Jonas, Geoff Ellwood, Joe Fram Adele Armstrong, Kristen, Nancy Rose, Bill Rose, Bob Murawsky, Chuck Jonas, Mike Sterling, Mike Goodwin and Mike Sterling. Total hours 22.
September 4th, 2000. Mike Sterling, Bob Trelford and Mike Goodwin do more work on the interior. Total hours 12.
September 5th, 2000. Bill Robinson comes to survey the Keeper's House in order to start work soon. Doug Johnson, Mike Sterling and Jane Jagelewski from The Town of Saugeen Shores also comes for a future Wagon Train excursion. Total hours 6.
September 6th, 2000. Chuck Jonas, Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling and Mike Goodwin take sand to the Island and do work on the interior. Hours 16.
September 7th, 2000. Mike Goodwin, Bob Trelford and Mike Sterling do more drywall. 12 hours.
September 8th, 2000. We take 93 people to the Island. We used 9 volunteers over 8 hours. Bob Trelford, Ian Evens, Mike Sterling, Mike Goodwin. Joe S., Jim McLay, Doug Johnson, Chuck Jonas. These were people from the Wagon Train excursion. It was a calm day and the roundtrip took about 50 minutes. Total volunteer time 72 hours.
September 11th, 2000. Bill Robinson, Darryl and Mike return for more stone work and to complete the job. Bob T. Mike S. and Mike G. do 12 hours of drywall work.
September 12. We took Roberto who owns a Pizza shop in Southampton. He is a retired stone mason. Mike Goodwin, Bob Trelford and Mike Sterling worked 12 hours.
September 13. Stone masons continue work. Volunteers do 12 hours of work. Bob, Mike and Mike Goodwin.
September 14th, 2000. Bill, Daryll and Mike H. stonemasons continue to work on the Island. The ridge stones on each gable are now on the roof. We continue to work on the inside. Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling and Mike Goodwin. Bob was hurt on the way back from the Island. He slipped on the deck and hurt his ribs. Total hours 15.
September 15th, 2000. It was too windy to get to the Island.
September 17th, 2000. Mike Sterling spent 3 hours on donor logs.
September 18th, 2000. Bill Robinson Darryl and Mike H. the stonemasons continued working on the building. The two chimneys are complete. Bill is replacing some stones on all the walls to complete the work. We are still working on the interior. We brought sand today and the "giant" chimney capstone. Joe S., George, Mike Sterling and Ian Evans worked. Total hours 12.
September 19th, 2000. We took a massive load of sand to the Island today because the masons were going to work in the basement and this requires lots of mortar for chinking the rubble walls. Daryl, Bill, Mike, Mike Goodwin, Ian Evans, Mike Sterling and guest Hart Doran went to the Island. The masons started work and Mike Goodwin and Mike Sterling moved the sand up to the work site. We then loaded excess scaffolding back off the Island via the Tillbury Boat and the Peerless. When Ian Evans and Mike Sterling returned to the Island at 3:45 we moved scaffold planking out to the Peerless in a very heavy SE wind which is dangerous. The line to the wet anchor must be replaced due to fraying. The masons made excellent progress today and only about 4 hours work remains in the basement. Both chimneys are now complete. Bill repaired the vent in the south wall used with a stove. He also cleaned up all the lower edges of the building. The basement windows are complete except one. The east entrance is done also. Total hours today 16.
September 20th, 2000. The last day for Bill Robinson and crew. We take 25 pails of sand to the Island. A strong SE wind makes it difficult to bring the loads into the Island. Bill completes all work and we bring two loads of equipment back to the Peerless. Lorne Shantz is a new volunteer. Bob Trelford is partially recovered from his rib injury. Mike Sterling and Lorne replace the wet anchor line that was frayed. Total hours 14.
September 21st, 2000. Very strong winds from the west (50) made it impossible for us to go to the Island. I updated the diary entries and worked on some Internet things. Total hours 2.
September 22nd, 2000. We took Ray Fenton Ted Schuhmacher, "Dutch" Schuhmacher to the Island for more measurements of the windows. Ray is going to make them soon with some work done in Paisley. Joe S, and Bill Rose also came along with Mike Sterling and Bob Trelford. Joe and Bill did a lot of cleanup work. We also mounted the Town of Southampton map on the Boat House that Ian Evans had done. Total hours 18.
September 24th 2000. We did a little work on the Island. Joe S. came with Bob and Mike. Total hours 3.
September 25th, 2000. Mike and Bob make some anchors for our dock on shore. They are approx. 4x4x1 with a cone in the middle. Total hours 6.
September 25th. We arranged with Miller concrete to pour our forms. Total hours 4.
September 26th. We took out a reporter from the Kitchener Record.... Lynn Friday and Heather Pletch. Joe, Mike and Bob do some minor work on the Island 5 hours.
Septemeber 30th, 2000. We start whitewashing with Coast Guard Material. John Rigby, Joan Rigby, Chuck Jonas, Bill Moulton, Mr Wilson, Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling and LoriLi MacMillian and her two children work on whitewashing. Total hours 32.
October 1st, 2000. More whitewashing. We are finished with the west wall, part of the east and north and south walls. Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling, Bill Moulton, Joan Rigby and Chuck Jonas go to the Island along with Jim McLay and his two boys. Total hours 20
October 2nd, 2000. Threat of rain. Bill Rose, George Gould, Mike Sterling, Bob Trelford. We went to the Island to pick up old batteries so that the Coast Guard can dispose of them. The Coast Guard will get us some more whitewash. So far we have used 3 1/3 pails of whitewash mix that they gave us. Bob T. & Mike Sterling also fixed the hole in the skiff Peerless Too at the Boat House. Total hours: 9
October 3rd, 2000. We finished the east wall before running out of whitewash. Bob Trelford, Bill Rose, Bill Moulton and Mike Sterling. Total hours 8.
October 4th, 2000. Bill Moulton, Joe Sholtzes, Mike Sterling, Bob Trelford and Abe Hassenoot worked on completing the beach stone floor in the basement. We also put a chamfer ridge of beach stone all the way around the building to serve as a splash area to disperse the rain coming off the roof. This involves bringing stone from the shore in buckets and a wheelbarrow. We brought back more debris from the Island. The Coast Guard brought two more pails of condensed whitewash powder and took away the remaining batteries. We have now removed all the batteries from the Island. We are proud of the first environmental cleanup on the Island ever! Total man hours 12.
October 5th, 2000. More work around the house. Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling and Bill Moulton. Total hours 9
October 7th & 8th, 2000. We spend the entire weekend with the Boat House open for visitors who pick up the bus to Pumpkinfest. Jane Kramer, Bob Trelford, John McArthur, Mike Sterling etc Total hours 40.
October 10th, 2000. Mike Sterling, Joe Scholzes, Bob Trelford and Mike Goodwin complete the whitewashing of the house exclusive of the roof caps which will be done soon. The house looks wonderful from shore. Joe cleared some underbrush from in front to make the view clearer. Total hours 18.
October 11, 2000. Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling, John Rigby and Mike Goodwin attended a Light House conference at the Bruce County Museum. It was chaired by Bryan Plumstead of the Bruce County Development Corporation. It was also attended by representatives from Point Clark, Cove Island, Cabot Head and Flower Pot Island. The general discussion involved the cooperation that can be achieved by marketing together. The conference lasted from 9 am until 3pm. After the meeting we had a Marine Heritage meeting attended by Jane Kramer, Mike Sterling, John Rigby, Jim McLay, Ron Seaman, John McArthur and Bob Trelford. Total hours: 30.
October 12, 2000. Mike Goodwin, Joe Sholzes, Mike Sterling and Bob Trelford went to the Island. Mike Goodwin painted the cap stones on the gable ends with whitewash. These are distinctive and are raised 4" above the roof line. They are the key feature of the roof as designed by John Brown. The Keeper's Quarters at both Point Clark and Cove Island have been fitted with a "modern roof". This destroys this look of the structure. Ours is now perfectly restored. From the land in the sun you can see the shadow cast by them with good field glasses. It is very distinctive when on the Island. Mike Goodwin also installed a thin wire from chimney to chimney on the roof. This will keep the gulls off the roof peak. Joe, Mike Sterling and Bob Trelford also did extensive brush clearing from the north-east side of the approach to the Keeper's Quarters. The clearing that was done in June has resulted in the growth of beautiful ground cover and wild flowers. We also collected more plastic refuse and debris and brought it back. Mike Sterling worked on some national archive material in the afternoon. These amounted to just hints of funds allocated to John Brown on other projects. Total hours: 15.
October 13th, 2000 Bill Moulton, Bob Trelford, Chuck Jonas, Mike Sterling, Bill Fitzgerald, and Kerry Kitchenham from the museum were the Island visitors. We spent a lot of time clearing brush and lilacs from directly in front of the house. We found two old flower beds and cleared them of debris. Bill Fitzgerald the archeologist did some more surveying. He looked in the area of large boulders that is south of the house. He found some old china under the rocks. It has a German crest that he has seen before. He has also found some old barrel stays under this area indicating that it was placed there rather than random placement by nature. This is the area that I located on the old map that indicates boulders are to be placed in order to stop erosion. See note 12 on the map. Bill also noticed some lilacs growing on the high ridge south of the house some distance. He tell us he found an old map at the museum that shows a building there north of the mysterious south building. He will excavate. Lilacs do not germinate by seed, but spread by root expansion. So this clump must have been planted in the area of the building. He found evidence of its existence.
Bob Trelford and I went to see Ray Fenton and picked up the upstairs window frames and the basement frames. Ray is almost done with the door frames and downstairs window frames. Wonderful work. Bob and I then took down some flags on the bridge. Total hours today: 22.
October 14th, 2000. We went to the Island with four women. Debbra Bender and Dawna McQuarrie from Designing Women, Christine Andrews a friend of the Rigby family and Barbara Elias of Bruce County Museum and Archives. Debbra and Dawna are going to do interior period designs for us. Bob Trelford and Mike Sterling picked up all the window and door frames from Ray Fenton. We took the basement and second floor frames to the Island. Total hours 8.
October 15th, 2000. Some guy from Owen Sound wanted to go to the Island. He called John Rigby, Mike Sterling and Bob Trelford twice. He confirmed the time to be 9AM Sunday morning. We waited, called, waited, fumed and finally gave up at 10:30. Very inconsiderate. We did pick up the remainder of the frames from Ray Fenton. Total hours 4:
October 16th, 2000. We took the remainder of the windows and frames to the Island. Very heavy construction requiring two trups in the Tillbury. Total hours 6.
October 17th, 2000. We took Tim Eaton Port Elgin Chamber of Commerce, Janine Dunlop Town of Saugeen Shores, Connie Barker Port Elgin Chamber, Corrine Schreiber CIBC Southmapton, Ron Brown Saugeen Shore City Manager, Ginny Wall and Brenda Yourth of Southampton Chamber. Mark Kraemer made his first trip to the Island to view our progress. He is the Mayor of Saugeen Shores. Jim McLay, Mike Sterling and Bob Trelford did the tour arranged by John Rigby. In the evening Mike Goodwin, Mike Sterling and John Rigby did a presentation to the Saugeen Shores Chamber in the evening. Total hours 12.
October 18th, 2000. Bob Trelford, Bill Moulton, Joe Scholzes and Mike Sterling worked on setting in place the window frames constructed by Ray Fenton. We were able to put in place the two upstairs window frames, the 3 first floor frames, one basement frame and the two doors on the first floor. The doors will be interesting in that they will have a rectangular window on the frame above the door to the outside. The frames fit very well in the reconstructed Keeper's house which just recently was a complete and utter ruin. We used shims and foam to hold the frames. We had no difficulty. Tomorrow we will use mortar to fix the frames in a permanent manner. Total hours 16.
October 19th, 2000. Bob Trelford and Mike Sterling continue to work on the window and door frames. Today we applied mortar to the basement windows and to the second floor windows. We also completed the first floor doors and windows. We had to trim and fit the basement windows. They are now ready for windows which should arrive in a week or so. Total Hours 10.
October 20th, 2000. Bob Trelford and Mike Sterling finish the mortaring of the windows and doors. Total hours 6.
October 22nd. Bob Trelford and Mike Sterling take Ron Mulchey, Heather Mulchey, Barry and Lind Brice from the USA to the Island. We also pick up some more of the smaller windows at Ray Fenton's house and the doors. We damage a propeller. Ron makes another donation. Total hours 3.
October 23rd, 2000. Tom Shillinglaw repairs the propeller and we move to the island with the doors. Total hours 6.
October 24, 2000. Bob glazes some of the windows. Total hours 3.
October 25, 2000. We take the Sun Times to the Island. Joe S. does some gardening. We finish the day with a big Propeller Club party. Total hours 12.
October 26, 2000. Bob Trelford and Mike Sterling go to Allenford visiting Sharon Antiques. We purchased 3 sets of door knobs for the interior of the house. Total hours 4.
October 27th, 2000. Bob Trelford, Mike Sterliing and Joe Scholzes work on the gardens and doing some "pointing" inside the Keeper's House. Total hours 9.
October 29th, 2000. Bob Trelford and Mike Sterling take out Mimi Buffet and Heather Briggs along with Lorali McMillian and her child. Total hours 3.
October 30th, 2000. Bob fits the main door into position in the front. Mike works on mortaring in the lathe boards inside the house. We replace a number of damaged boards. Joe works outside on the gardens. Total hours 9.
October 31, 2000. Same as October 30th. Total hours 9.
November 1st, 2000. We take 3 teenage girls and two mothers along with a couple from Wiarton. Also, Chuck Jonas comes. We have a total of 11 workers including Mike, Bob and Joe. The girls paint the trim inside prior to installation. The couple from Wireton Mr. & Mrs. Young work on the old circular garden south of the Keeper's house. It looks very good at the end of the day. Bob fits the rear door in place and Mike does more interior mortaring. We break a shear pin on the little boat coming back out to the Peerless. Total hours 33.
November 2nd, 2000. Bob Trelford and Mike Sterling work on the interior of the Keeper's Quarters. Bob does some interior painting and Mike works on "pointing" the mortar under and over the wood strips embedded in the walls. Mike and Mike Goodwin do a presentation for "The Burgoyne Women's Institute" at the Fenton Farm outside of Port Elgin. They have been in existence for 61 years. Total hours: 10.
November 3rd, 2000. Bob Chapman, Bob Trelford, Joe Scholzes and Mike Sterling are on the work crew today. Bob puts in two interior door frames, Mike continues to "Point", Joe works on landscaping around the Lighthouse proper making a Flower Garden. Bob Chapman paints trim and some of the walls inside. Total hours 12.
November 6th, 2000. Bob Trelford and Mike Sterling continue to work on the house. Bob installs the basement window sashes in the frames. Mike continues to point the stone on the interior of the "Great Room" in the house. The pointing includes work around the 24 foot ceiling joists. Also, each wall has a horizontal board about every 3 feet from top to bottom. Some of these were rotted out due to neglect. We are replacing all the rotted ones and placing them in a concrete "bed". When this is done, they are mortared in using a pointing tool. Bob Chapman does some painting and sanding of the ceilings and walls. Total hours 12.
November 7th, 2000. The work continues. Bob works on the doors and Bob Chapman does some sanding and painting of the walls. Mike does more pointing. The walls will be cleaned soon making the stone brighter. Total hours 12
November 8th, 2000. Bob Chapman does more painting. Phil, Becky's brother does works on the stairway using shellac to cover the knots. Bob works on the back door putting hinges on it. Mike continues with the stone work. At the Propeller Club meeting Bruce Chapman who has a keen eye points out that the Burlington Lighthouse built by Mr. Brown had a strange venturi on its peak. This could be the same as the copper one show to us by Dave Young of Mar Ontario. Mr. Young thought it was from Chantry. Total hours 16.
November 9th & 10th.... Too stormy to go to the Island. Mike Sterling does some Internet work. Total hours 8.
November 12th, 2000. Bob Trelford and Mike Sterling take down the hanging baskets in Southampton. Total hours 3.
November 13, 14 and 15, 2000. Bob Trelford and Mike Sterling take down Marine Heritage banners in Southampton. These require service each year. We also paint the window sashes for the Keeper's Quarters in the Boat House. The wind is just too high to go to the Island. It is averaging over 30km/hour making the journey too dangerous for all 3 days. Total hours 24.
November 16, 2000. Bob Trelford, John MacKay, Mike Sterling and Bill Moulton paint more sashes and the interior doors for the Keeper's Quarters inside the Boat House. It is still a little too windy to go to the Island, but we are preparing all we need for one final push, if the weather breaks. We have more painting to do tomorrow. Total hours 12.
November 17, 2000. Still too stormy to go to the Island. John MacKay, Bill Moulton, Mike Sterling and Bob Chapman do more painting on the sashes and interior doors. Total hours 12.
November 18th, 2000. Again too stormy. Wind 40 mph, snow. John MacKay, Bill Moulton, Mike Sterling and Bob Chapman do more painting on the sashes and interior doors. Total hours 12.
November 19th to November 28th, 2000. The weather was terrible with howling winds, snow flurries and cold. We could not do much, but prepare the trailer for pulling the Peerless and do some final sanding on the windows. We should note that the 200 hours and more that John Rigby has spent on the extensive accounting and bill paying has not been noted in this journal so far. Each time an expenditure is made or a donation is received John has to process it with the town and note it in his accounting journal. We will accumulate these hours now. Total hours 220.
November 29th, 2000. The weather has been terrible and very cold. We have been unable to get to the Island. Today was not so bad. It was about 0 C and a medium wind from the north. Bob Trelford and Mike Sterling used the Tillbury and ran it down to the Long Dock. There we loaded on the windows for the Keeper's quarters that were made by Ray Fenton. We had trouble with the 9.5 HP engine due to a bad load of gas. After sputtering down to the Long Dock we managed to load there and head for the Island. We quit a couple of times, but managed to gain a land fall. The windows went in very well. The windows in the loft are single hung while the 3 on the first floor are double hung. They all were put in place with a minimum of trimming. They fit the frames well. The two external doors had been worked on before and fit well in place. We nailed in supports and closed the house in from the inside. We exited by a basement window, boarded that up leaving its window inside. The area was made secure and clean and we put a new load of gas in the can and headed home uneventfully. If we do not return until spring we have done what we started out to do this year. Total hours 12.
December 1st, 2000. We took the Peerless out of the water this morning. This was done in conjunction with 3 large fishing boats (e.g. Little Snick and the Gav-N-Jim). Working this morning were Bob Trelford, John Rigby, Mike and Doug Huber, Jim and Ray McLay. Total hours 18.
December 10th, 2000. We have had terrible weather for working. The Peerless is out of the water and only our trusted Tillbury remained in the Saugeen. Since it has been very cold and we have had a lot of snow, it has been impossible to get this boat out of the water. Today Bob Trelford, Mike Sterling and Jim McLay prepared it for removal from the river. Bill Jackson volunteered to pull it out with the winch on his truck. We tried to remove the ice from around the water line and moved it toward the mouth of the river. We also took removed the snow from it. Bob, Jim and Mike moved the trailer to the docks for Bill. We will paint the Tillbury and repair some gashes, bumps and bruises on it.
December 20th, 2000. We had a gathering of Chantry Island Supporters at the Walker house for "grog and cheese". It was attended by over 80 stalwarts who still remained in the area and who still could fight the weather to attend. Thanks to all for a magic year.