July 2012 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 15. Boat And Ship Yard News
BROOKS TRAP MILL & MARINE SUPPLIES
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MORE THAN JUST LOBSTER TRAPS!!
A. L. Pettegrow of Southwest Harbor has a Duffy 35 and a Pettegrow 30 in for upgrades.
totally gone through so she is just like new. Down below she has a V-berth, galley and head with shower. She is powered with a 3406E Caterpillar diesel. They hope to have her over early this summer.
In the far bay was a 42 kit boat that they were putting the top on and installing the 700-hp John Deere diesel before shipping to Connecticut the middle of the summer. She will be finished out as a sportfisherman. A 46-foot Wesmac is being finished out as a lobster boat for a fisherman from Vinalhaven. The hull and top are done and
they are now installing the engine, which is a C-18 Caterpillar. She will be done late this summer.
Still to do are two salmon seiners, built on the 38 foot hulls, which will be going to Alaska.
Hewes Company in Blue Hill has just been given the contract to build the interior of an 86-foot carbon fibre racing sled under construction in the State of Washington. This project is waiting for designs and they do not expect to begin until August. Most of
In 2008-2009 a New Jersey businessman came to Maine and sought the services of Lash Brothers Boatyard of Friendship, Maine. The NJ businessman has a fish char- tering business in Southern New Jersey. He was familiar with another boat in New Jersey built by Lash and was impressed with the quality of the hull and finished construction. The NJ businessman contracted with Lash to furnish a 34 foot Calvin Beal lobster boat. Lash delivered the boat in April 2009 in Friendship, Maine. The boat was taken to New Jersey and use for fishing charters off Cape May.
During one of the 2009 fishing trips, one of the blades of the propeller, installed by Lash, broke off “causing the propeller and shaft to become unbalanced and to strike and damage the underside of the boat,” as
Lawsuit Against Maine Boat Builder Dismissed
claimed by the boat owner, Stalker Fishing Charters, LLC. Thereafter one of the passen- gers on this trip filed suit in 2011 against Stalker Fishing Charters, LLC in Superior Court in Cape May.
Apparently this passenger, Michael Bradley, a resident of Broomall, Pennsylva- nia, fell off a cooler on which he was standing when the propeller broke off. The passenger claims the vessel somehow came to an abrupt stop because of the failure of the propeller. This caused the passenger to fall sustaining injuries. Mr. Bradley claims injury to both knees requiring surgery and bilateral knee replacement. He also developed angina which resulted in two separate heart surger- ies. In addition, Mr. Bradley claims loss of
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