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The Old Troller Reaper now the Skyla Brianne
by John MacFarlane 2019
The Reaper (Photo from the Kevin Nichol collection.)
Kevin Nichol recently sent me images of his fishboat converted to power cruiser the Reaper. Kevin converted to a live aboard on Kootenay Lake at Nelson BC. In 2006 she was rebuilt to 39.9’ x 10.1’ x 6.5’. He also renamed her to Skyla Brianne.
The Reaper (Photo from the Kevin Nichol collection.)
In 1950 she was built by Avo J. Taivo at Sointula BC. In 1958–1971 she was owned by Joseph Norman, Vancouver BC. In 1972–1999 she was owned by George S. Stonehouse, Hornby Island BC. In 1999–2006 she was owned by Fraser Kaye, Kootenay Lake BC. In 2006–2019 she was owned by Kevin Nichol.
The Reaper (Photo from the Kevin Nichol collection.)
For many years as the Reaper she fished out of Winter Harbour but is now (2019), as Skyla Brianne, located on Kootenay Lake.
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MacFarlane, John (2019) The Old Troller Reaper now the Skyla Brianne. Nauticapedia.ca 2019. http://nauticapedia.ca/Gallery/Reaper.php
Site News: February 12, 2025
ANOTHER MILESTONE REACHED
The vessel database has been updated and is now holding 95,146 vessel histories (with 16,409 images and 14,064 records of ship wrecks and marine disasters).
The mariner and naval biography database has also been updated and now contains 58,599 entries (with 4000 images).
My thanks to Ray Warren who is beginning a long process of filling gaps in the photo record of the vessel histories in the vessel database. Ray has been documenting the ships of Vancouver Harbour for more than 60 years.
Thanks to contributor Mike Rydqvist McCammon for the hundreds of photos he continues to contribute to illustrate British Columbia’s floating heritage.
My very special thanks to our volunteer IT adviser, John Eyre, who (since 2021) has modernized, simplified and improved the update process for the databases into semi–automated processes. His participation has been vital to keeping the Nauticapedia available to our netizens.
Thanks to John Spivey who is beginning his 4th year of fact checking all of the entries in the vessel database.