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Page 14. MAINE COASTAL NEWS November 2011 Boat And Ship Yard News


including a berth on either side and a head. She was launched here in Maine and Walter Greene, owner of Greene Marine, said she sailed very well. What he found interesting about this boat was her self tacking jib. The jib sheet is led up the mast to a fitting which allows the jib to tack on her own. Greene said that he had heard of this before, but had never used one and thought it really worked well. Other work in the yard has included repairing the port bow on a catamaran. She had been in a collision, which removed 6 feet. This was totally rebuilt along with adding a new keel with stringers. This was all done by cold molding three layers and then vacuum bagging them together. She is now being painted and then will be taken outside and stored for the winter.


The 28 footer, Jim Taylor designed, and built by Greene Marine of Yarmouth.


The Lowell Brothers in Yarmouth have just finished a 22 foot center console out- board boat, which will be going to Freeport. She will be used for tuna fishing, but the owner wanted it trailerable. She has a lot of room under the console which could be used either for a berth or a head. She is powered with a 150 hp Etec Evinrude. She has a 90 gallon fuel tank and a 42 gallon live well. She also sports a pot hauler. She was launched in early August and during sea trials reach speeds of 32.4.knots.


Another 22 footer is being laid up, which will be going to Harpswell.


The 38 footer is at Casey Yacht Enter- prises in Freeport for painting. The Lowell boys are working on her interior which is pretty close to being done. They hope to get her back later this fall and install the interior pieces.


An interesting upcoming project is on a 1957 Lowell built boat, which was finished off for L.L. Bean. She is a 36 footer and has had several owners, but unfortunately sat in Port- land out of water for several years as her last owner tried to sell her. They need to replace the cabin, redo the gunwales, resheath the


cockpit deck and put in a new engine. Joe Lowell has been working off-site replacing her deck frames on an Alden schoo- ner.


Greene Marine in Yarmouth recently finished a Jim Taylor designed sailboat. She is a smaller version of the Saber Spirit which Taylor designed in 2007. The perspective owner came to Taylor looking for a boat that he could use in the Chesapeake area that was small, sailed well and was well constructed. Taylor said that he had met Greene back in the 1970s when he was working at the Hood yard in Marblehead. He also worked with him back in 1992 when Greene constructed sailing models used to assess his designs of America’s Cup boats. When they put this 28 footer out to bid it was found that Greene Marine could do the job for a lot less than yards south of Boston. This boat is 28 feet in length with a beam of 8 feet 6 inches, draft approximately 5 feet and weighs 4000 pounds. She was constructed of E glass with a foam core, ½-inch Corecell. She was started last December and was launched in mid- summer. Down below are accommodations


The next boat coming into the shop is another catamaran that needs repair work on her ama.


Outside workers were replacing the rail- way which had rusted out. This will be done mid fall just in time for the hauling season.


The Apprenticeshop in Rockland is building a new Barnegat Bay duck boat. This design is similar to the Barnegat Bay sneak box and is the predecessor to the laser. She has mahogany frames and backbone. Pres- ently they are planking her. Her bottom con- sists of white cedar and her topsides of red cedar. Her owner is from Maine, but will race her in New Jersey.


Also under construction is a peapod for the Cockhold’s lighthouse. A Coast Guard 15 foot peapod was brought in and her lines were taken off. What is interesting is how heavily planked she is, which consists of ¾ inch cedar. Her backbone is a white oak. An Alden Indian, which was a donated boat, has been sold and her owners are hav- ing the Apprenticeshop do the work needed. They are replacing the garboards, removing the butt blocks and scarphing the planks together, replacing deck frames and half the deck, and replacing the coamings. This boat


was built in the early 1950s and will be going back to Quincy to race next season. The school was also building a work skiff which they call the AS 17, designed by Mark Fitzgerald of Camden. She is double planked cedar on her bottom lapstrake topsides, which are also cedar and will have a workboat finish. Fitzgerald designed the boat to hold a 35 hp outboard but the school will fit her with a 20 hp engine.


Also under construction are to Susan skiffs, which will be launched in mid-Decem- ber.


DELIVERANCE, a forty three foot tradi- tionally inspired wooden powerboat, was launched this summer at D. N. Hylan & Asso- ciates from the shores of the Benjamin River in Brooklin. The yacht, which is based on a 1920s cargo vessel, was custom designed by Doug Hylan and custom built at D. N. Hylan & Associates using a combination of tradi- tional and modern techniques.


DELIVERANCE is the latest in a series of yachts by D.N Hylan & Associates that com- bine the good looks and seaworthiness of traditional work boat hull shape with elegant and comfortable interiors, custom cabinetry and state of the art electronics. Other ex- amples of this theme are GRAYLING, a 62 foot sardine carrier that was converted to a yacht, and BRENDA KAY, a 29 foot traditional lobster boat hull design with simple and el- egant accommodations for two.


DELIVERANCE’s accommodations are elegant with raised panel doors, dovetail drawers and cherry trim in the forward cabin as well as varnished cypress cabinetry in the galley, and a cherry dash at the helm. Modern conveniences and equipment are all dis- creetly incorporated including: chart-plotter, radar, VHF, autopilot, freezer, refrigerator, propane stove, hot water, shower, and marine head. Her hull is built in the traditional carvel fashion, with Douglas fir planks fastened to steam bent white oak frames, while her fantail (round) stern and deck frame are laminated from Douglas Fir and epoxy. Her deck has the appearance of traditional canvas, but is made more rigid and watertight by employing ep- oxy, marine grade plywood, and synthetic fabric.


In the case of DELIVERANCE the owner plans to do plenty of long range cruising in east coast and Caribbean waters, so the hull is designed to be easily driven by a low horse power, fuel efficient engine, which gives the


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