Denis Paquette and Brenda Houston purchased Wood Duck in 1998 and registered the name. 

The first thing I did was to spend some time in the engine room to get familiar with the systems and in August we set out on our first voyage. 

I spent the whole winter of 98 insulating the engine room for sound. 

Brenda wanted to create a seating area on the aft cabin so I stripped everything off of the exterior and sent WD to Saltspring for Dave Betts to fit the cabin tops with plywood, to strip the cabin sides and epoxy and to make new cap rails. Unfortunately, I ran out of money and had to bring WD back to my home dock. I cut the aft deck open, replaced the water tanks and added a stove oil storage tank. I got someone to fiberglass the decks and had a friend epoxy paint the cabin sides. I proceeded to finish the cap rails.