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36 men in the crew and some of them came was clean when the workmen came Monday Full said, “A few years ago I ran into a
from including, Stonington, Deer Isle and Isle morning. I’d prime stuff out, put a coat of problem surveying boats that were laid up in
summer, but in the fall I left, because there au Haut. Full worked on her for the winter, paint or varnish on this or that so it was done the wintertime. I was never happy with that
was no question this boat was going to have but in the spring he was hired to go to sail on for the painters when they come in Monday because there are too many unknowns. If it
an accident sooner or later and a year or so the yawl MAGGIE FURY, built by Goudy & morning. It was a real pleasure to be involved is a boat with just a four cylinder gas engine
later he sank her. He ran her up on the Stevens in East Boothbay. She was named with building that boat. And I ran her for 12 there isn’t too much to that, but if you get
Gloucester breakwater on a full moon night.” for the cook, who had an Irish temper. They years after that. She was just beautiful boat into some bigger, more expensive yachts,
Full next job was on a power yacht down had this boat for 11 years and then decided and sailed like a dream.” there is so much machinery that is laid up.
in Florida, but he only stayed the winter be- to build another, a little bit bigger and more Full would work for this family for 23 How do you know if they are really in good
fore coming back and working on a 104-foot comfortable, a motorsailer that had to sail. years. But during his time with them he was shape or not? So I started a thing that upset
ketch owned in Blue Hill. She had a crew of This boat was designed by John G. Alden asked to do something he never thought of a lot of people. I would tell the buyer that I
11 men and Full worked as a deckhand. Un- and built by Sonny Hodgdon in East doing, surveying boats. He explained, “I think this boat should have an escrow ac-
fortunately, he worked just that season, for Boothbay. Full added, “That was a wonder- didn’t know any better. I said well I think I count [this was to cover mechanical issues
in the fall she was put up for sale and sold. ful experience. I not only helped with the can do them all right, but I told them right up that might arise from not being able to run
Then he went to work on the 260-foot design and some of the details in the boat, front, that I had several surveys done on them]. The boat needs to be trial run and
motor yacht, ELPETAL, which was being re- but I worked on building her. I helped Sonny boats and I told them I thought that they everything checked for proper operation.
built at Bath Iron Works after the war. She lay her down. I’d work weekends when no- were really poor. It’s very poor when a man That raised hell with the yacht brokers. I got
spent three years at BIW and when she left body was around. One of the things I did comes down to a boat that he is hired to a couple of calls and told they would never
so ended BIW’s yachting work. There were was vacuum out everything so everything survey, knocks on the hull and hollers. So I use me again and everything else and now it
come up from down below to see what is is the standard practice today.”
M
going on, and he says is there a warmer place After 35 years Full said that he did not
ARINE EQUIPMENT WANTED
to go than this? So we went in the stock want to live with the paper work. It needs to
room of Grave’s Yacht Yard and he started to be very, very fussy work.
ask me all kinds of questions about the boat. After Full was getting ready to leave the
REMEMBER NEXT YEAR MAKE A TAX DEDUCTIBLE What were the gas tanks, what were the wa- motorsailor he got a call about a possible
ter tanks, what was this, what was that. I job, which he was interested in. Within min-
DONATION OF YOUR UNWANTED OR LITTLE USED
said so this is a survey of the boat. I was utes he received a call from the yacht’s owner,
kind of shocked. I had another person come Helen Mosely, who lived on the North Shore.
CANOE, KAYAK, DINGHY, YACHT, ELECTRONICS,
to survey one of those boats and the guy She owned the yacht VANITY, which Full
SAILS, ENGINES, MOTORS, LINES, AND MORE. DO-
didn’t know any more about the boat when knew. They agreed to meet on the boat, which
he left than when he came. If I am going to Full was operating at the time so she could
NATIONS WILL PAY FOR SCHOLARSHIPS TO MAINE
survey a boat I am going to do the whole see how he ran the boat, the following morn-
boat, everything in the boat.” ing. The launch man brought her out and
MARITIME A CADEMY. ALL ITEMS WILL BE SOLD He added, “I was very fortunate, one she was impressed with the boat and offered
day I had the opportunity to watch a man Full the position. But now for the interesting
AT THE M AINE B OATBUILDERS S HOW.
that I respected. He was surveying a fairly part of the story. Full’s wife, Charlotte, knew
CONTACT MMA.donations@verizon.net OR
sizeable old wooden boat hauled out in a he was talking to a woman about a job, so
boat yard in Florida where I was. I watched she asked who Helen Mosely was. He said,
CALL 207-773-1800
him, and said that man knows what he is “She is a very, very wealthy lady that has a
doing. That man had gone over every inch
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of the boat. That’s the way I’d do it.”
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