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CAMDEN – There are several classifications kept up with Multi-surf, which is a computer
as to the quality of a ship model. Some are design program. Eddy had used this program
(207) 223-8846 Fax (207) 223-9004 what we call primitive, which is just a nice way in the past, but it had changed and it would
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of saying crude, and then there is museum save time to use someone who was familiar
quality, which is the best of the best. Over the with the changes to do the final design.
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years I have had the pleasure of looking over With the final 3-D design done, the next
the models produced by Rob Eddy and step was to take it over to a friend who owned
Reuben Brown and they are on a whole other a three dimensional milling machine. He took
level, three dimensional exquisite art. the information they had in 3-D and milled the
At the beginning of March, Eddy com- port and starboard side of the hull. Eddy then
pleted a Jarvis Newman 36 cabin cruiser for a defined the waterline, put on the rails, quarter
customer from Mount Desert Island. He said, guards and cut in the scupper. Then he made
“The client came in here with another person a silicone rubber mould that sit in a wooden
that we were building a model for. He never frame. Eddy added, “I made a deck mould, but
said a word, but a day went by and he calls me I didn’t use it. It just didn’t look right, so I
on the phone any says, ‘I’d like you to do a ended up building it out of plywood and
model of my boat can you come up and see gluing it in.”
me?’ I went up and saw his sailboat, but then There is no interior in this model, be-
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he said why don’t you go over see my other cause it could not be seen. Eddy has done
commercial fishing, yachting (power and sail), boat yard and waterfront news and maritime history.
boat over in Southwest harbor. I think that’s interiors in some of his models before. He
Maine Coastal News is published 12 times per year.
the one I might like you to do. I didn’t have said, “Actually the model that we are doing
The distribution of Maine Coastal News is from Eastport to Kittery and is free on the
much involvement with the sailboat, but the downstairs you will be able to look into the
newsstand. It also can be by subscription. A year subscription, 12 issues, is $20.00. A single copy
power boat he was involved with and it meant windows of the main saloon and see what is
is $2.00, which covers the postage. Foreign rates for subscriptions are $40.00 per year.
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a lot more. I also think he was thinking about in there. The last Hinckley 70 we did had large
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the physical space that the model would take windows. The charcoal glass made it hard to
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up in a room. This is a smaller scale, smaller see too much detail so we put a limited
size, more transportable, and it can sit on the amount. You are really mocking up the inte-
coffee table once it’s done.” rior and it is just enough to see and give you
The first thing that Eddy needed was a an idea that something is there.”
good set of plans to work from. He explained, A lot of the boat is built from mock-ups.
“I went several times down there. Once to the He explained, “
Publisher Jon B. Johansen
Hinckley facility where she was tied up and When you are working from 2-D drawings
Editor-in-Chief Rachel Elward
photographed and did some measuring. you have things have shape and arcs have
Then I went to Pettegrow’s, where she was greater length than they appear to have when
stored and spent the better part of the day they are in 2-D. You need to figure out the
basically measuring everything and gather- ending points, where your miters are going to
Advertising Deadlines: The deadline for the May issue is 16 April. ing notes. That was the beginning of the be, how your front is going to come in and
The deadline for the June issue is 14 May. process, then, refining it was the next step.” how the back part is going to come together,
Eddy turned to Steve Hudson, who had and spacing two pieces so that everything is
MCN's Calendar of Coastal Events
UPCOMING & ON-GOING EXHIBITS with freighters as 14 sailors learned to 449 Thames Street 19 MMA Campus Development Plan
– 18 April 2010 survive and thrive on the 105-foot fishing Newport, RI Community Forums – Follow-up
Big Ships, Bulk Cargoes vessel. Info: www.iyrs.org or www.moy.org 12 to 5 p.m.
Maine Maritime Museum G.W. Blunt White Building Harborview Room, Harold Alfond
243 Washington Street Mystic, CT 9 Maritime Surprises from the Student Center
Bath, Maine Info: (860) 572-5339 Museum’s Collections Maine Maritime Academy
(207) 443-1316 Mystic Seaport Castine
www.mainemaritimemuseum.org 29 Ad-hoc Town of Castine/MMA “Gideon Denison, Southern Land
Waterfront Committee Deals and the Slave Trade” 20 IYRS-MOY Lecture Series Begins
1500 hrs. 5:30 - 7 p.m. Dorade, The History of an Ocean
MARCH Harborview Room, Harold Alfond Mystic, CT Racing Yacht, Doug Adkins
19-21 Maine Boatbuilder’s Show Student Center Info: (860) 572-5322 7:30 pm
Portland Yacht Services Maine Maritime Academy IYRS Restoration Hall
Portland Castine 10 BIG SHIP SMACK DOWN: Who’s 449 Thames Street
Info: (207) 774-1067 Got the Biggest Newport, RI
Maritime History Symposium Info: www.iyrs.org or
20 A Night By the Bay APRIL 0800 – Registration www.moy.org
MMA Charity Auction and Social 6 Interspecies Committee Meeting 0900 – Welcome
Event 0900 0910 – Introduction 23 Big Ships, Big Cargoes: Lecture
Portland Marriott at Sable Oaks Agenda: The Interspecies Committee 0915 – Panel Discussion, The Largest Series
South Portland will meet to: Develop its work plan and Wooden Ships 6 PM
Info: (207) 326-2177 explore the operations of the Committee in 1030 – Coffee “Fragile: Handle with Care -
conjunction with existing management 1100 – Arthur Sewall & Co.’s Big Maritime Mistakes”
23 IYRS-MOY Lecture Series Begins plans; Consider NOAA’s recent draft report Wooden Ships By Chet Hopkins
J.E. Buttersworth: 19th-Century on catch share policy and possibly draft 1200 – Lunch Maine Maritime Museum
Marine Painter, Andrew German comments on behalf of the Council; Discuss 1330 – Giants from the Past: Caligula’s Bath
7:30 pm consolidation of FMPs and examine joint Ships in the speculum Dianae Info: (207) 443-1316
IYRS Restoration Hall plans with other Councils; Begin to consider 1400 – Longitudinal Stiffness in
449 Thames Street accumulation limits for the multispecies Wooden Vessels: North American 28 Mystic Seaport
Newport, RI fishery, including possible control dates for Solutions echoed in SW Europe, Maritime Authors Series
Info: www.iyrs.org or such limits, and hear a presentation from the Mid 19
th
– Early 20
th
Centuries William H. White, avid sailor and
www.moy.org North Atlantic Marine Alliance on their Fleet 1445 – Coffee maritime historian, will discuss When
Visioning project. Other business. 1530 – The Largest Steel Sailing Ships Fortune Frowns, his account of the 1790
24 Mystic Seaport Seaport Hotel 1615 – Steel Shipbuilding as it voyage of the HMS Pandora that sought
Maritime Authors Series One Seaport Lane Happens Today – Tour of BIW to find the men who revolted against the
Stephan J. W. Platzer will discuss Boston, MA 1715 – Dinner (on your own) Bounty and Captain William Bligh. The
Bringing E Home, the true story of his Info: (978) 465-0492 1830 – Fish House Punch reception historical novel details the quest and
journey as radio operator on a 1930 – Silent Films – “Old Ironsides” capture of the remaining mutineers and
transatlantic voyage from Cape Verde to 6 IYRS-MOY Lecture Series Begins and “Yankee Clipper” the perilous return trip.
America. Based on the author’s journal Photography of Classic Yacht Maine Maritime Museum G.W. Blunt White Building
entries, the book details the 3,400-mile sail Restoration, Benjamin Mendlowitz Long Reach Hall Mystic, CT
that included weeks of becalmed seas, 7:30 pm Bath Info: (860) 572-5339
unexpected squalls and close encounters IYRS Restoration Hall Info: (207) 443-1316
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