Old Lines

Some mornings the boat never leaves the dock. This was one of them. A slow walk down a Honey Harbour slip, past hulls older than the people who own them, while the grey burned off into gold.

Nothing to catch. Just old lines, cracked chrome, and the light turning over.

A Vanguard runabout, built around 1967.

Vintage red-and-white runabout moored at a wooden dock, cottage behind, overcast morning
 
Chrome bow hardware and cleats on a vintage runabout, dock and cottage soft behind

Kildonan Canoe Company, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Building boats from the 1940s until it quietly disappeared in the late 1970s.

White steering wheel and Kildonan Canoe Co. builder's plate inside a vintage boat
 
Red mooring line hitched to a chrome cleat on a red boat hull
 
Red braided rope looped through a rusted iron ring on a weathered dock
 
Close-up of a tan-and-white braided rope knot on weathered dock boards
 
Coiled red dock line beside the chrome Vanguard badge on a boat hull

By now the sun had come around.

Bow of a runabout over golden water at sunset