Page 14. MAINE COASTAL NEWS October 2010 Boat And Ship Yard News


footer with a beam of 15 feet, which they hope to start in mid-September. She will have a longer house then the typical lobster boat with more interior. They hope to finish her next summer for her customer from Australia.


At Maine Cat in Bremen, they are ex- tremely busy finishing off four boats. One is a sailing catamaran and the other three are power cats.


One of the sailing catamaran under con- struction is the Maine Cat 30. For accommo- dations she has a head in the forward part of the starboard hull with a double berth aft. In the port hull she has a V-berth forward, galley amidships, and settee aft.


The new 24-footer built by John's Bay Boat Co., launched in September.


Rollins’s Boat Shop in York is working on a very interesting 22-foot camper/sailing cruiser for a customer in Massachusetts. This trailerable boat was designed by Roger Long of South Portland. She is lapstrake using cedar above the garboard plank in fastened with clinched nails. This will be covered with fiberglass. The owner will be building the oars, spars and doing the canvas work. This boat probably will not be ready until next summer.


This spring a ketch, built by German Frers, was in the shop and made ready to compete in the Bermuda race. They replaced floors, frame ends, added some sister frames, removed the tankage and redid a mast part- ners.


The Soule built sailboat, which is been in the shop for a couple of years, should be ready for the water soon.


Paul E. Luke in East Boothbay has stayed busy all summer.


Storage business has remained good, but there has been a decline in anchor and stove sales. Propeller sales have been down a bit, but have been steady.


For repair work, in the spring they had three boats to get ready for the Newport- Bermuda Race. This kept them very busy.


At John’s Bay Boat Co. in South Bristol, they were getting ready to launch a new 24- footer for owner Peter Kass, which went over on 18 September. This 24-foot wooden boat was designed by Kass and will be used for lobstering.


The big project this summer was making repairs to a 38-foot Newbert & Wallace built boat from 1950. They removed her 3208 NA Caterpillar diesel and replaced it with a B series 425 hp Cummins diesel. They also worked on a hydraulic steering, wiring, and plumbing, which included replacing the sea cocks. They also had the bottom soda blasted and replace four planks and then re- caulked the bottom.


On the railway in early September was the JULIE ANN, which was built nine years ago by John’s Bay Boat Co. She had just been sold and was being surveyed for her new owner. They were also going to add wind- shield wipers and bug screens.


The big project this winter will be a 44-


The power cats are the Maine Cat P-47. One of these, with a flybridge, was built and launched in May. She went to the West Indies. Another P-47 is being finished off as a liberal board and will be delivered in Septem- ber for a customer who has lived on the water for 10 years. Another P-47 is being finished as an express model and will be launched the end of the year.


C. Stickney in St. George as two din- ghies in the shop, which he has making re- pairs to. Both these dinghies belong to a 1913 75 foot Matthews power yacht which is being restored in Virginia. One dinghy is 10 foot and the other 12 foot, both need various amounts of repair work to put them back into shape. Stickney hopes to have both of these done early this fall.


Another boat in the shop was a speed boat, which had some of her transom re- paired. She also had work done on her bow. She was then put up for sale.


During the spring, Stickney did some work at Johanson Boat Works in Rockland. He helped replace of teak deck on one of the fiberglass boats they were working on.


Clark Island Boat Works in St. George has had a busy summer.


They finished off an Osmond 32 as a


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pleasure boat for a customer in Bermuda. For accommoda- tions she has a double V- berth, head and small galley. She is powered with a 480 hp Cummins die- sel. When she was completed she was ship- ped to Ber- muda.


A 38 Northern Bay is being finished up as a yacht. They are pres- ently working on her interior, which has been roughed out with some of the bulkheads in place. This boat will be powered with a C 9 Caterpillar diesel engine. She is sched- uled to be fin- ished later this fall


A 36 Northern Bay lobster boat was brought in


for just some small repair work this summer. A Mussel Ridge 28, designed by Calvin Beale Jr., is being finished out as a cabin cruiser for a customer from Wheeler’s Bay. This is a dressed up boat, but will not have a hauler. She is powered with a John Deere diesel engine, but it is unknown which horse- power the owner will settle on. Presently, they are working on her house and bulkhead. She should be done later this fall.


Brooklin Boat Yard in Brooklin has a 68 foot pilothouse sailboat underway designed by Stephens Waring & White of Brooklin for a customer from Camden. They already have started on the frames, stem, keel and transom. They will soon begin setting up the stations and putting on the layers for the cold moul- ded hull. They hope to have the hull done and rolled over by Thanksgiving. The owner was looking for a comfortable cruiser, which had accommodations for a crew. She also has been designed with a square top mainsail with no running back stays and a fixed bow- sprit. She will have a more modern finish with no exterior varnish, which is the first one of this size to be finished like this at Brooklin Boat Yard. She is scheduled to be finished in June.


Another major project this winter will be refitting the W-70 WILD HORSES. She will need framing replaced up forward, which were broken in heavy seas. They will also add stringers to strengthen this area. Her teak deck will be replaced. She also has a vibration in her engine train, which needs to be re- moved.


A 53 foot sloop will be in this winter to have her rudder and deck hardware replaced as well as engine and system improvements made.


A 27 foot Hacker, SCOTTY TOO, was started in December. She is going to be pow- ered with two 680 hp Hipsano Suiza engines, which weigh 600 pounds. These are Spanish engines which were used during World War I. They also had to build a custom trailer for this boat.


STINGRAY was launched in early Sep- tember after having a new teak deck and some systems work done. She is for sale and three people were interested in purchasing her.


Brion Rieff Boatbuilder of Brooklin has two Alerion 26s under construction. Hull #1 was built last spring and launched on 5 Au- gust. Rieff said that she sailed extremely well under the conditions. These Alerions are designed without a center board with full keel, are cold moulded, and sport a modern- ized rig. Both of these boats will be launched in the spring.


Another boat under construction is a 42 foot cutter with the typical Norwegian rounded stern. She is being built for a couple who had Seaconnet 23 daysailer and wanted a bigger boat to cruise in. Her hull will be cold moulded and sport seven berths, full galley, nav station and full head. She is also sched- uled to be launched in the spring.


Nautilus Marine in Trenton has been very busy this summer building custom hard- ware for a power yacht under construction at Hodgdon Yachts in East Boothbay. They have also been busy doing work for other builders which includes rudders, hand rails, and stern ladders.


Propeller work has been real good this summer, which is likely related to the good season the lobster fishermen are having. Some of the propellers coming in are dam- aged, but others are simply being recondi- tioned.


Nautilus Marine also feels that this win- ter could be a busy one.


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