March 2011 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 19. Boat And Ship Yard News Continued from Page 15. hatches and then do some cosmetic work.
The new Front Street Boat Yard in Belfast is moving forward.
Building No. 1, which is on the north side of the property, is being torn down. They hope to have this completed by the end of February.
Marine contractor Mike DeLong was hired and he removed the pilings, which had been put in several years ago, when the condominium project was started. These pil- ings were for the proposed marina and travelift dock. Prock Marine of Rockland has been hired to build the new travelift dock, which will be started in March. The permits have been issued and they hinge on sound emitted from the on-going work. When the salmon begin their run up the river, they will have to cease, but they hope to be done before this.
They have also started building the 36 floats needed for the marina. Half of these floats will be used by the fishermen on the south side of the travelift dock. The others will be for pleasure boats on the north-side. Work is also progressing on building No. 3. The interior of this building has been cleaned out and the heating system is going in. This building will be used for office space. Next they will present plans for the modi- fications they would like to make to buildings No. 3 and 4. Mostly they want to re-side and put in new windows in building No 3. These plans also include what they would like to do with building No. 4.
Another busy place on the coast of
Maine is Billing’s Diesel and Marine Ser- vice in Stonington.
Always one of the busiest departments at Billing’s is the mechanical shop. They are continuing to do a number of re-power and rebuilding projects. They are also installing a number of new engines.
The GULF CHALLENGER, from the University of New Hampshire, will be coming in for two new engines, gears and generators.
She will also be given a new control system. This project will take a month to complete. A 50 foot Columbian sailboat is in having her fiberglass deck repaired where there is an issue with the core. This will then be refin- ished with Awlgrip and where needed a regu- lar nonskid pattern. The hardware has been removed and will be re-installed and rebedded. They also need to make repairs to the cockpit.
On the inside railway is the 53-foot wooden power boat CHAMPION. She was built in the Far East by Choey Lee Lockworth with two inch teak planks. She is in for engine work and they will be replacing one of her generators, wiring and some carpentry work on the cabin top.
A 36 foot Stanley flybridge cruiser is in for phase 2 of her rehab. This year they will be doing interior cosmetics, meaning lots of varnish, replace the steering system and an- nual maintenance,
In the carpentry shop they are rebuilding a Jim Steele peapod. She was damaged in a storm and needed a number of new frames and planks, and rails.
Also in the shop is a cold moulded lob- ster yacht. They made some repairs to the hull and tried to quiet her down while she us underway.
The paint shop is busy, just no big jobs. The yard is making plans for the future. They have a 60 x 96 foot heated storage building going up. Presently the framework has been erected and the plan to have this project completed late this summer.
Eric Dow, Boatbuilder in Brooklin is working on his second Herreshoff 12½. This one he had to refasten the topsides and refinish. The first one was much more exten- sive. They had to replace the keel, floors, keel bolts, scarph in new frame bottoms and a third of the bottom planks.
In the shop is a 22-foot plywood out- board boat, which they are finishing up for the owner. The owner built the hull and plat- form. They are working on her deck, console and then will fair the hull before painting. Dow has been busy building several
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Light Fiberglass in Corea has a long list of work ahead of them this spring. In the shop is SLO-RIDE, which had her bottom and platform glassed two years ago. This year they will work on the trunk and
house.
CAPT. BRANNON, a Repco 37, which almost sank, is in for some work. They have rebuilt the skeg, fabricated a new rudder, and added a split-wheelhouse.
A BHM 31 is also in the shop for some upgrades. They have added a split-wheel house, hauling cleat and a new rudder. They also closed in the transom, added another bilge pump and have re-gelled the platform. Think you are busy. Well there are an- other 36 projects on the board, mostly small jobs, but they all will take between one and three weeks to complete.
Coming soon is a Wayne Beal 40 hull, which will be finished out as a lobster boat for a customer from Friendship. She is going to be powered with an 850-hp Caterpillar diesel. Her completion date is sometime this summer.
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