Page 14. MAINE COASTAL NEWS June 2009
Boat And Ship Yard News
Rollin’s Boat Shop in York has been A Yamaha SX230 runabout was in and
working on a Ralph Winslow designed had her bottom redone. They also peeled the
sailboat, which was built at T. H. Soule’s yard lifting strakes and the put a water barrier on
in South Freeport in 1929. This project has her bottom.
been a total rebuild, which has included the
backbone, all floors, all planking below the The Lowell Brothers in Yarmouth are
tuck, decks, bulwarks, caps and a new still working on the 38-footer. They are now
engine, a three cylinder Westerbeke. getting ready to lay up the hull and the top
Presently they are trying to get her ready for is already been done. This boat will be
sailing this summer. They are putting in the finished off as a cabin cruiser with a V-berth,
skylight and companionway. The owner is head with shower, hanging locker and
also trying to decide whether to save the galley.
original spars or build new ones. The hope is They have been busy with a lot of spring
that she will get launched this season. work, which included replacing the swim
Other work at the yard includes work on platform on a 26 footer. They also had to
two sets of spars. One, which is done, was for make repairs to her keel and send her
a ketch located in Newburyport, propeller out for work.
Massachusetts. Another project is Joe Lowell has been spending much of
replacing tanks in a BHM cruiser. his time working on the motorsailor
WILLIAM HAND, which is being rebuilt by
The crew of the schooner BOWDOIN, flagship of Maine Maritime
New England Fiberglass in Portland has Greene Marine. He has been working on her
Academy in Castine, getting her ready for her trip to Canada.
worked on several boats this winter. planking that is now nearly complete.
One of the major projects was on a 34-
foot Sabre, which is nearing completion. Robinhood Marine at Robinhood
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They peeled her bottom, taped the keel and started putting their customers over for the
hull joint so that there was no seam, and then upcoming boating season on 1 April. Within
barrier coated and painted her bottom. They a month they already had 50 boats in and
also redid the boot and cove stripe, re-gelled would have the rest over by July. They have
the transom, pulled out all the port lights and also been busy this spring getting the rest of
hatches and installed new windows and their winter work complete.
frames, rebedded the hardware, fiberglass One project was a Cape Dory 30
the floor frames and then re-gelled the bilge, sailboat, which was in for a refit. They made
and then installed a new cabin sub-floor with repairs to the fiberglass hull, which had been
a teak and holly sole. hit by another boat that went up onto the
Just in front of the Sabre is a Correctcraft cabin. Once the fiberglass damage was
Ski Nautique. They had worked on this boat repaired, they replaced the damaged teak
a couple of years ago, replacing the floor and bow pulpit.
frames and deck. This year they buffed out Also in this winter was an Alden 40. She
the gel-coat and removed and replaced all the had the seams in the cockpit teak redone.
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