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Boat And Ship Yard News
jobs and the telephone has been ringing with completed early this summer.
people interested in boats for sale. Maybe the In the same shop, they are finishing a
economy is turning around! new 23-foot Mermaid, which was designed
by E. Farnum Butler of Mount Desert Island.
Samoset Boat Works in Boothbay was This was started last summer, is carvel
putting some finishing touches on the planked and presently they were putting
Samoset 30 before she heads for the Maine down the deck. They hope to have her done
Boat Builder’s Show this March. early this summer.
The next major project will be building a Up above, students were working on a
22-foot daysailer, which was designed by three metre Abeking & Rasmussen tender.
Doug Zurn. The hull will be cold moulded and They built one of these last year, which they
sports an interesting rig, which will be free- sold, and this one has also found an owner.
standing with a wishbone. This project She has a very traditional look, but a little hard
should be completed early summer. to plank.
Also being worked on up here was a 14-
Paul E. Luke, Inc., of East Boothbay, has foot Whitehall.
had a steady winter of work.
They are preparing three boats that are Billings Diesel and Marine Service in
heading to Bermuda this summer. A Whitby Stonington thought it may have been a slow
This Haj is being rebuilt at the Apprenticeshop in Rockland.
47, which will be getting new electronics; a winter, but they have yet to slow down.
Strouts Point Wharf Company in South known for rehabilitating wooden runabouts, Nautic 44 and a two year old Shannon 50. All During the fall, it looked like it might be
Freeport is busy trying to get their normal especially Lymans. The fiberglass boat, an three will be gone over to make sure that a little slow, but then two major railway jobs
winter storage work done for the upcoming East Bay 38, which is owned by an owner of everything is working properly. showed up. The first was on a 125-foot
season. one of these runabouts, was in to have her The 55 year old Friendship sloop EAST- Feadship, which received a lot of bottom
Some of the major work this winter in- brightwork redone, repaint the mast and add- WARD, was in for a new transom and aft work. This included replating around the sea
cluding a new rudder on a 39-foot Concordia. ing new electronics. deck. chests. The Feadship was followed by a big
This was damaged from a grounding. She Do not worry, they still specialize in the Another project is rebuilding the 60 year Turkish steel power boat. She had her decks
also received her regular annual mainte- wooden runabouts. They just finished a 24- old wharf, which is in need of some pilings. replated where needed, a skylight and a sta-
nance. foot Lyman, which received a new bottom, As for the stoves, that has been a little bilizer replaced and then lots and lots of paint.
A 24-foot Hackercraft was in for some frames and planks, rewired, new fuel tanks, slow this year, as has propeller sales. How- The big job this winter has been on a
major work after she flipped doing about 30 and transom work. ever, propeller service as been doing well. Stanley 36, which is in the carpentry shop.
mph. She has had her wiring, windshield and A 20-foot Lyman was in for a new bot- First they removed the flybridge due to some
engine hatch replaced and her engine over- tom, replaced half the transom, new swim The Apprenticeshop in Rockland has a soft spots in it and the pilothouse top. This
hauled. platform and then a complete cosmetic job. couple of interesting projects underway. was cause by it being bolted down and new
A 22-foot Banks Cove is in being refur- A 26-foot hardtop Lyman had a roof They are restoring a Haj, which was built hardware that had been installed and not
bished and given a new coat of paint. removed, they redid cabinsides, refinished in Finland and was a one-design sailboat properly bedded. They also had work to do
Two Hinckley 36s are stored at the yard the roof and put it back on. She also had some raced by the Camden Yacht Club beginning on the truck cabin where water got up inside
and they are getting their regular annual bottom repairs. back in the 1930s. However, they have not the core, likely condensation from the inte-
maintenance, as is a Hinckley 44 twin jet boat An Alerion 38 had had her keel removed. been sailed there for a number of years. This rior, and rotted out underneath the handrails.
and a 29 jet boat. There is a new keel coming as well as new deck boat needed a lot of work, which included a In the engine room they have done a lot of
A 36-foot Murray Peterson schooner, hardware. new stem piece, transom, some floors, frames work. They cleaned up the wiring, added a
built by Malcolm Brewer, is in to be repow- An 18-foot Century was in to have her and planks. They are now working on the charger with an inverter, replaced the batter-
ered. She had a Perkins/Westerbeke diesel bottom repaired, which included some deck, cockpit and interior. She is being fin- ies, added sound deading and re-gelcoated.
and this will be replaced with a new frames. They also are building a new wind- ished for a local owner and hope to have her They also re-plumbed the holding tank,
Westerbeke. She is also having tank and shield, redid her brightwork and painted the
exhaust work done. hull.
And of course there is more than enough Another big job at the yard is the 40-foot
MISC. COMMERCIAL FISHING NEWS
paint and varnish to keep them busy. Norman Hodgdon built cabin cruiser. They
are going to redo the enclosed cockpit with a
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and special management areas, and 2003, the
Believe it or not there was a fiberglass different arrangement and they may replace number of harbor porpoise that died in
boat in the shop at Edgecomb Boat Works in the sternpost.
Between 1998, when gillnetters were first
gillnets declined from more than 1,500 per
Edgecomb. This yard has become very well This year there are also a lot of smaller
required to use pingers, gear modifications,
year to just a few hundred per year.
In 2003, however, bycatch numbers
started to increase and about 1,000 animals
are estimated to have died in gillnets in 2006,
the most recent year for which there is an
estimate. This exceeds allowable levels.
NOAA’s Fisheries Service met with a
team of stakeholders in late 2007 and early
2008 to discuss ways to reverse this trend.
The measures announced today are a result
of those meetings and recommendations
made by the team, as well as comments and
recommendations from the general public.
The stakeholder team is one of several
created in 1996 by the federal Marine Mammal
Protection Act to help NOAA’s Fisheries
Service devise better ways of reducing
bycatch of marine mammals to allowable lev-
els in the nation’s commercial fisheries. The
harbor porpoise team’s goal is to reduce
serious injuries and mortalities of harbor
porpoises from interactions with gillnets to
just a few dozen animals annually. The team
currently has about 40 members, comprising
affected fishermen, environmentalists, fed-
eral and state fishery officials, and marine
mammal scientists.
Harbor porpoises are found in both the
North Atlantic and the North Pacific, prima-
rily in subarctic temperate, coastal and off-
shore waters. There are estimated to be about
89,000 animals in the population found off the
Northeastern U.S. Harbor porpoises are pro-
tected under the federal Marine Mammal Pro-
tection Act, but are not listed under the
federal Endangered Species Act.
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