February 2011 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 15. Boat And Ship Yard News Front Street Shipyard to Open in Belfast This Summer Continued from Page 1.
the regional infrastructure and available la- bor force which are key to building global composite products: wind turbine blades, towers, spars, and platforms.”
Another strength of the project is the city of Belfast itself. Mid-coast Maine has long been recognized for its stunning cruis- ing grounds and top-notch boatbuilding, and Belfast is a choice destination for both cruisers and tourists. “Belfast is the ideal location to create Front Street Shipyard,” remarked Turner. “It has a broad range of businesses, hotels, restaurants and stores, not to mention the cluster of local suppliers to the shipyard.”
“The city of Belfast will offer a diverse and interesting destination for both crew and owners,” added White.
Dining, leisure activities, shopping and the arts will be within walking distance of Front Street Shipyard, which abuts the down- town. Belfast is within driving distance of Acadia National Park, Sugarloaf Mountain Ski Area, Baxter State Park, and the larger airports of Portland and Bangor, plus Belfast has a local airport with a 4000' runway that can support private aircraft.
JB Turner has 24 years of experience in the marine industry. After graduating from Bryant College with a degree in Business Management he began working at Dodson Boatyard as service manager in 1986. By 1994 he was interested in expanding the size and scope of projects he worked on, and so he moved to Camden, Maine, to work at Way- farer Marine as a service manager. At Way- farer he worked with both local and interna- tional customers doing work from winter maintenance to refits on large vessels bound for the Caribbean. He was then hired as Gen- eral Manager for Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding Co., and in 2001 he became managing partner, then president of the business. During his time at Lyman-Morse he helped to develop the company from 43 employees to 200. In 2010, Turner joined Kenway Corporation as a Project Engineer.
Kenway Corporation specializes in cus- tom composite manufacturing and field ser- vice. The company is strategically posi- tioned to serve customers by offering com- plete composites engineering and design capabilities as well as fabrication. They bring standard items as well as “one-off” special molded fabrications from the design phase, through the manufacturing phase, to the final on-site installation. Custom work and custom service are what distinguish Kenway as it manufactures products for industries rang-
ing from marine, to coal-fired power, to infra- structure, to pulp and paper, to transporta- tion, to renewable energy. What links the company’s various business lines is: techno- logically advanced manufacturing tech- niques; products manufactured for exacting service applications; and the highest quality assurance procedures and processes. See
www.kenway.com.
Brooklin Boat Yard was started in 1960 by Joel M. White and is now owned and operated by his son, J. Steven White. Lo- cated on Eggemoggin Reach between Blue Hill and Penobscot Bays, BBY offers a com- plete design office, new boat construction and classic yacht restoration services, stor- age and maintenance services, and a yacht brokerage office. Today the majority of the new construction projects are cold molded, with an occasional hull still being tradition- ally planked. The 90' Pilot House Yawl BEQUIA was the largest project to date. Past restoration projects have included ENTICER, a Trumpy motor yacht; a refit of a 1931 Herreshoff Fishers Island 31; OLYM- PIAN, a 1913 P-Class racing sloop; SEMI- NOLE, a 1916 Lawley gaff-rigged yawl; and APHRODITE, a 74-foot Long Island Sound Commuter Yacht. This winter BBY is building a wood-composite sailing yacht for a long- time repeat customer (who also had them
build GINGER and GOSHAWK), plus we are doing a refit for the 76' W-class WILD HORSE, which was designed and built here. See
www.brooklinboatyard.com. Rockport Marine, Inc. is located on the west side of Penobscot Bay in Rockport. Founded in 1962, Rockport Marine has grown in reputation to become one of the industry’s premier wooden boat yards. Spe- cializing in new construction, restoration, and design work, RMI has built a wide variety of boats, from traditional plank-on-frame to modern wood-composite vessels. This win- ter, the yard is completely restoring ADVEN- TURESS, an 83-foot Fife schooner, and
TRADE WIND, a 62-foot Alden motorsailer. Rockport Marine offers design services, storage facilities, and has an on-site metal fabrication shop, and 55-ton boat hoist. Re- cent projects include the refit of the famous Sparkman and Stephens design, BOLERO, the S & S six-meter JILL, restoration of the P- class BERNICE, a new transom for the S & S schooner BRILLIANT, construction of the cold-molded schooner SPIRIT OF BER- MUDA, and the historic replicas ADVEN- TURE and GODSPEED, See
www.rockportmarine.com.
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