May 2011 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 15. Boat And Ship Yard News
As for new construction a Foggcraft 26 is expected to be started in May and over- board late June or early July
Another project is a wooden 26 foot sailboat from Massachusetts which is com- ing in to be totally rebuilt.
Six River Marine in North Yarmouth has done a refit on a Pearson 33 along with up- grading her systems.
The Dawn cruiser is in the shop for her annual maintenance and some work on her engine. This includes a lot of paint and var- nish. This will be done before she heads out on a cruise up the Hudson River. They are also building an Al Spaulding designed Pixie. This is an 11 foot 1 inch by 4- foot 8 inch sailboat, which is cold moulded. They are planning to build two of these, which they will start, the end of April. A cold moulded West Pointer is in the shop for some repair work after it suffered some damage in a storm last fall. She received two holes in her portside, but this should not take long to repair.
They also added a keel on a Dyer dink.
At Hadden’s Boat Shop in Georgetown they are progressing well in the Vinny Cavanaugh boat. Her backbone is complete, the moulds have been set, frames have been put in place and now they have begun plank- ing. When I was there they had six strakes of planking done and were getting one strake on a day. This project will not be completed until 2012.
Flower’s Boat Shop in Walpole has a Flowers 38 in the shop being finished off as a cruiser for a customer from Cape Cod. She is about 80 percent done. Down below she has a queen berth forward, head with shower and galley. She is powered with a 500-hp Cummins diesel. She will be launched early this summer.
Another 38 is underway. She is being finished out as a sportfisherman for a cus- tomer from Long Island, New York. The hull is done and has just been Awlgripped. This one is not scheduled to be done until spring 2012.
A Flowers 33 hull was taken in trade and is being offered for sale. They have cleaned her up, and already have a couple coming up from Connecticut to take a look at it. They would like to finish it off for a pleasure boat.
Bittersweet Landing Boat Yard in South Bristol has been busy getting their storage customers ready for the upcoming season. The first boats will be going over 1st
of May.
They have also had some more involved work. They had two Lymans, which received new teak decks. They also had a Southport 30 in for a teak deck. They then did a complete electronic package on a Freedom 35.
At Rockport Marine in Rockport they have two major projects underway. ADVENTURESS, a William Fife sailing yacht, also known as ISABELLE for a time, is in for a complete restoration. They have re- placed her steel floors, with bronze ones. They also made repairs to her backbone. They have removed her deck and interior, including the sole. New framing has been put in for the sole and deck. They have also replaced the covering boards and bulkheads. This project will not be completed until 2012. The motorsailer TRADE WIND, which was designed by John Alden, is nearing completion of a total restoration project after several years. All that is left is little details, which includes carpentry details, paint and varnish. She will then head to her homeport of Newport, RI. For those interested in seeing this boat head to the WoodenBoat Show at Mystic the end of June. She will be on display there.
If that is not enough there are also 40- plus storage customers, which need to be ready for the upcoming season.
At Buxton’s Boat Shop in Sunset has been working most of the winter on the En- glish cutter he has had in his shop the last couple of years. This winter he has been working on the interior. He has put in a V- berth, enclosed head, settee with bunk and a bunk over and a chart table on the starboard side. On the port side she has dinette, which converts to a double berth, and galley. He is now working on the deck. He is hoping that she might go over this year.
The oyster boat on the other side of the shop had some work done on her this fall. Buxton put in more timbers in the stern and tore more out in the bow and replaced them too.
Classic Boat in Bernard has a new wooden Pisces under construction for a cus- tomer from Christmas Cove. She was started
A view of the replaced deck beam on ADVENTURESS, being rebuilt at Rockport Marine.
mid-winter and will be done early this sum- mer.
They also have two fiberglass Pisces under construction. One will be heading to the Great Lakes, the other to Martha’s Vine- yard. Both will be done this summer. In the shop they have done a major refit on a Sarah 32, which was built by Loomis of South Dartmouth, MA. She has teak bulk- heads and these have been finished off in the Herreshoff style. They have replaced the propane stove with one that burns wood, added an ash headliner, removed the nav- station and converted it into a quarter berth and then added a pilot berth on the starboard side.
The new storage building was com- pleted the end of last summer and they have been using it to work on storage boats. They have a large fleet of classic wooden boats, which they are just getting to, but will be
ready in plenty of time for the upcoming season.
Down on Beals Island at Osmond’s Boat
Shop Erick Blackwood and Brent Davis was building a mould for a 16-foot work boat. She was built on Vinal Beal’s moulds, which Harvey Alley had. The boat built on these moulds was back in the 1950s. They stripped planked the hull and covered it with glass inside and out. They were now fairing the outside and getting ready to pop a mould off of her. The plug will go to Brent Davis. Also they did some work on Steve Carver’s BIGGER DIRLS, which was on for a new platform. They also raised the platform 2½ inches so that she drains better. Another project was on a Bruno 42, which was also in for a new platform, hatches and winterback.
Next they have a 42-footer coming in for some cosmetic work.
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