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MAINE BUILT BOATS NEWS
Maine Built Boats Year in Review tional Boat Show in Florida in October. At Boats: Art and Soul, at The Mystic Art Cin- nized a two-day bus trip to visit a group of
By Jane Wellehan, President, MBB both shows, we had representatives from ema in Mystic, Connecticut on March 27
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at Maine Boatbuilders. The trip will appeal to
2009 was tough year for Maine’s member companies working the show with 1 pm. The event is open to the public. boaters who want to see what goes into
Boatbuilding and Marine Industry. During me help educate consumers about Maine and Maine Built Boats worked extensively making boats.
these difficult times, Maine Built Boats has our boatbuilding capabilities. with world class sailor, Gary Jobson in 2007 Karin Soderberg, Assistant Director,
continued to build awareness and apprecia- We sought press from magazines, to produce a documentary about Maine’s Membership, of Mystic Seaport organized
tion for Maine’s Boatbuilding Industry. We emagazines, and newspapers, and worked boatbuilding tradition, its 400 year old his- the trip. “The idea for the trip began when we
have used traditional and modern marketing over the year to develop relationships with tory, its expert workforce and the state-of-the started working on our Maritime Matinee
tools to help spread the word about Maine. editors. One highlight was Voice of America art innovations at work in Maine today. “The movie series. We decided to show the movie
Our website continues to be a focal point Radio visited Mount Desert, and interviewed challenge now is to get the movie shown to “Maine Built Boats: Art & Soul” and I
of our marketing strategy. Traffic continues several different builders. The news feed as many audiences as we can,” said Jane thought how wonderful it would be to take a
to grow in visitors. Over the last year, we had from that has appeared in many magazines, Wellehan, President of Maine Built Boats. group of our members on a tour up there.”
visitors over 26,000 visitors from over 126 and in newspapers as far away as Turkey! “We were absolutely thrilled when Mystic The trip will start with a visit to the
countries. Visitors viewed an average of over We organized two Marketing Training Seaport, one of the leading Maritime Muse- internationally recognized Landing School in
7 pages, and spent an average of over 3 Seminars with financial help from NSAI. The ums in America, asked us to be part of their Kennebunkport, where the Mystic
minutes on the site, as they get their fix of first seminar was held in April at the Maine Maritime Matinees series.” Seaporters will see first hand how the Land-
beautiful boats. Maritime Museum in Bath, and the second Weaving together interviews with ing School teaches Boatbuilding and Sys-
MBB produces a monthly eNewsletter was held in December in Ellsworth. We had boatbuilders, designers, journalists, boat tems. The next stop will be to Sabre Yachts
that features news of our members and is sent great seminars on everything from email mar- owners and historians with footage of boats in Casco Maine, where they build production
to interested consumers, boatbuilders, keting to blogging to taking better pictures. and of Maine’s Coast, Maine Built Boats: Art fiberglass power and sailing yachts from 38-
people in the marine press and marine trades Many members have started to send out & Soul showcases the unique and world- 52 feet that are sold all over the world. The
all over the world. The newsletter serves to email newsletters and have started blogging, renowned qualities that make up Maine’s following day, the tour will visit Rockport
remind people regularly about Maine using modern technology to help attract cus- boatbuilding industry today. Gary Jobson, Marine, a boatbuilder that builds exclusively
Boatbuilding. We just received notification tomers. the producer of the film, is an ESPN commen- in wood or wood composite construction.
from Constant Contact that we have been Membership has diversified over the tator and sailing analyst, former America’s We will see an almost completed restoration
named a “Constant Contact All Star” for 2009. past year. We have companies that build Cup Tactician, lecturer and writer. Gary of John Nicolas Brown’s famous Bolero(due
This means that our bounce rate is low, our boats, but also have marinas, naval archi- Jobson will be on hand to introduce the to be launched in June) and the 83' William
“click through” rate is high. People read our tects, hardware manufacturers, and boat documentary. “The best part about this Fife designed ketch, Adventuress. The next
newsletter. yards that concentrate on repair work. We project was the opportunity to interview 32 stop is to Artisan Boatworks, a small wooden
We had two great showings of the movie hope to continue to grow and diversify in different boat builders, explained Jobson. “ boat shop also in Rockport. Artisan
“Maine Built Boats: Art & Soul” we produced 2010, so that we can build awareness for all Everyone is very passionate about their work Boatworks specializes in timeless class de-
in 2007 in April in Ellsworth and in June at the aspects of the Boatbuilding Industry. and in the end Maine boat builders build an signs such as Herreshoff, Crowninshield,
Maine Maritime Museum in Bath. March 27
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, extremely high quality product. It is the skill Starling Burgess, Alden, Joel White, and
we will be showing the movie at the Mystic Screening of “Maine Built Boats: Art & and the pride that goes into each boat that many more. The final stop will be to Lyman-
Seaport in Connecticut. Soul” in Mystic, CT makes a Maine built boat so special.” Morse Boatbuilding in Thomaston. This
We exhibited at the Newport Interna- Portland, Maine –Mystic Seaport, in col- To watch the trailer for Maine Built custom boatbuilding yard on the coast of
tional Boat Show in Newport, Rhode Island in laboration with Maine Built Boats, will Boats: Art & Soul go to Maine has a distinguished history. For more
September, and the Fort Lauderdale Interna- present the documentary, Maine Built www.mainebuiltboats.com. than a century, graceful Alden Malabar
schooners and sturdy Friendship sloops slid
Mystic Seaport to tour Maine down the ways in Thomaston. In the late
Boatbuilders March 30
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Portland, Maine –Mystic Seaport, in col- its focus to produce exceptional custom sail-
laboration with Maine Built Boats, has orga- ing yachts and custom motor yachts.
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