November 2009 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 15.
Boat And Ship Yard News
shop in the last several months was at in Brooklin has put up a 40 x 60 foot storage
Holland’s Boat Shop in Belfast. Owner Glenn building, which he is adding a 24 x 60 foot Norman Hodgdon
Holland stated that he was within two weeks extension to on one side. This will be just for
of running out of work when six orders came storage and already he thinks it is full.
in, four in one week. In the shop they were building a
In the shop was a Holland 32, which was Caladonia yawl for a customer from Cincin-
getting an interior, which presently con- nati. He had two planks to go and said that she
sisted of just a V-berth. The owner now opted would be finished later this fall.
to add a galley and head. This will be done this So far there are no major jobs lined up,
winter and launched in the spring. but plenty of little ones, which will keep them
Presently they were laying up the first of busy this winter.
their newest orders, a 32 kit. This will be
finished as a tuna boat for a customer in York. Classic Boat Shop in Bernard has had a
Next in the glass shop will be another 32 good summer, which is continuing into the
kit, finished out as a tuna boat for a customer fall. In the past year they have built seven
from York. Pisces, one of which was shipped to Japan in
Then they will lay up a Holland 38 kit, early October. Before that they shipped one
which will be going to Massachusetts to be to Bermuda and then went there to do her
finished out as a lobster boat. commissioning. It was said that both of these
This will be followed by another 32 kit orders were via the Internet and that every-
boat heading down to be finished at Yachting thing was done by e-mail, which shows that A view inside Norman Hodgdon's shop.
Solutions in Rockport for a customer from marketing on-line can be a major resource for
The last boat listed is the 24-foot launch
Casco Bay. your next customers.
Continued from Page 5.
SALT E, built in 1966. Unfortunately
Next is another 32, which Holland will Another new Pisces is nearing comple-
worked closely with Ken Smith in the 1950s Hodgdon was diagnosed with pancreatic
finish out as a pleasure boat for a customer tion and will be shipped out in November to
and early 1960s. Smith had designed a 42- cancer in the spring of 1966 and died on
from New York. her owner in Ontario.
foot cruiser, which Hodgdon built a few of as Labor Day that same year at a mere 54 years
The last one on order is a 32, which will As for storage they have 80 boats and
well as a couple of 38 footers and a 36 footer. of age.
be finished out as a tuna boat. At the time it will be busy until December getting them
was not known whether this will be a kit boat packed away for the winter. They will also
Thompson also
or a finished hull when it leaves the shop. start getting them ready for next season by
remembers going over to
Holland added that he has work now doing some varnishing, especially on the
McIntire’s Wharf to sail
until next July and still had several other very spars, since this will allow the varnish time to
Town Class sailboat. L.
hot prospects. harden. They also said that they would do as
Francis gave her father a
many wooden boat repairs now so they do
design for a small
Over at Sunset is Buxton’s Boat Shop, not have to bring them in a heated shop to
sailboat, and her father
which is just beginning to gear up for the work on them.
built it for her. She added
winter. Others were talking about storage and
that this was how she
The 38-foot Northport, Long Island oys- repair work, and a few were discussing a new
caught her husband,
ter sloop is still in the shop. He began working boat. Already this year is better than last.
Dick.
on her keel the beginning of
the summer before he
closed up for the summer
and did cruises. The keel is
about half done and he
thought they would be able
to get that completed this
winter and may be a little
more.
In the shop is a 34-foot
cutter, English built, which
he is putting back together.
The keel is done and she
has been replanked. Next
they will either work on the
interior or decks.
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