October 2009 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 15.
Boat And Ship Yard News
Clark Point Road in 1973. He also raised a In mid-summer A. W. Pettegrow, Inc. in the Maine coast is. and repainted the decks.
family there, in a house next to the shop, and Southwest Harbor launched a M. L. One of the scheduled jobs was on a 58- This summer has also brought several
his son Richard began working full-time in the Pettegrow 33, named ISLAND GIRL, for a foot Trumpy, which was in for cosmetic work. groundings to the yard. A Morris 38 was in
shop after graduating from the Boat School in customer from New Jersey. This was a She had her varnish redone along with her after hitting the bottom. She suffered damage
1982. Richard bought an interest in the busi- stretched version of the MLP 30, which had hull, bottom and topsides. to her keel, stringers and hull. WILD HEART,
ness in 1986 and has been running the shop three feet added to her length. For accommo- A refit was done on a Victoria 30 (the a Sabre 34, hit bottom and did extensive
since then. Over the course of the last year, dations she had a V-berth, head with shower English version of the Leigh 30). This boat damage to her keel, hull and internal struc-
Ralph has decided to sell the business to and a basic galley. The galley had just a sink was originally owned by the current owner’s ture. So much so that she was totaled by the
Richard and sell his property on the Clark and a microwave. For power, this boat was sister. He brought the boat to Morris so that insurance company and was heading to
Point Road. fitted with a 450-hp Yanmar diesel. they could make her into a full-fledged Canada where she would be salvaged.
While the view was not to be missed, In the shop they are finishing up a 46- cruiser. A lot of woodwork has been done in Over the last month the telephone as
newer shops on flatter land will be a vast foot Wesmac, which is about 75 percent the Herreshoff style with white panel trimmed been ringing. A lot of bids have been made
improvement for the crew. Brownell trailers, complete. Most of the work centred around with varnished wood. and it looks like it might be a busy winter.
boom trucks and forklifts will do the work men finishing the interior. In September the boat
The Fountain de-
used to do with grease, come-alongs and would be moved to the Hinckley Company in
signed Morris 58 was
winches. Richard and his wife, Lorraine, are Manset, where her hull would be painted and
back this summer for a
looking forward to running Ralph W. Stanley, her tower put on.
lot of cosmetic work.
Inc. from their Manset location. The work and Other work for the company involved
The Morris 48,
storage bays are presently being some minor jobs on transient boats. This was
BARRA, which spent a
reconfigured to accommodate building work, keeping them running, and probably would
lot of time down south
alongside the maintenance work that has right up until it was time to begin haul boats
and did a trans-Atlan-
been done there for the last 15 years. This at the end of the season.
tic crossing, came in to
winter they will be maintaining boats, finish-
have her hull Awlgrip
ing the rebuild, and possibly beginning a 19- Over at Morris Yachts in Bass Harbor
touched up. They also
foot spec sailboat. there have been several big repair jobs, some
upgraded the electron-
from transients who found out just how hard
ics, added new sails
Turcotte New Boat School's Director
The new director of The Boat School, an custom yachts for a number of reputable boat sign) classes at a voca-
affiliate of Husson University, in Eastport is building companies as well as with Custom tional high school.
Bob Turcotte. Turcotte has 30 years of boat Composite Technologies in Bath. Turcotte is looking
building experience. This includes yachts, For the last twelve years Turcotte has forward to the chal-
commercial, passenger & fishing vessels. run his own design and engineering com- lenges and the rewards
Turcotte grew up on the coast of Maine pany in Mid-coast Maine. As he worked with of overseeing a new gen-
sailing and power boating. He spent his teens a number of high end boatbuilding compa- eration of boat builders
and early twenties fishing commercially for nies, including a high end composite com- & designers as they
tuna and lobster with his father. His passion pany owned by a Boat School graduate, he learn the skills of a long
of seeing and experiencing new boats being learned the latest in vacuum infusion pro- time Downeast tradi-
built in other shops around the state of Maine cesses. Turcotte also passed on what he tional vocation.
brought Turcotte to the Boat School. learned teaching CAD (Computer-Aided De-
He graduate from the school in 1982 and
always strived to learn more. Most recently
he continued his studies with the Westlawn
Institute of Marine Technology graduating
in 2009.
After graduation he started in the field of
wooden boatbuilding. He gained much of his
experience on building and design from the
late Carroll Lowell of Even Keel Marine, a
company he worked closely with that is now
run by Carroll’s two sons Jamie and Joe
Lowell in Yarmouth. From there he went into
the field of composite building doing design,
engineering and construction for one-off
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