Ketch Harbour, Nova Scotia find out more about the Ketch Harbour Area Residents Association (KHARA) at ketchharbour.org. The community has been an important fishing spot for well over two hundred years. It is situated close to the City of Halifax at a time when most travelled by boat. A fisherman's catch could be easily transported to Halifax by water for sale in the city's markets. This convenience made it one of the earliest spots to be settled following the colonization of Halifax in 1749. By 1752, seventy-five people lived in Ketch Harbour. Within ten years it was known as Catch Harbour and a number
Norda steel keel is added under the wooden keel, to provide more counterweight in order to add higher masts and more sail. Its sail plan is wishbone ketch. Norda Norda is a wooden sailing vessel that was commissioned in 1928, originally used as a research vessel in Poland. It served as research vessel, fishing vessel and is now a yacht. The vessel was commissioned in 1928 by MIR (Polish Fishing Institute). It was built in 1928 to order of in the Andersen Shipyard in Frederikssunde, Denmark. It was christened "Ewa", inspired by the names of daughters of both Professor Michał Siedlecki