Page 4. MAINE COASTAL NEWS September 2012
Maine Coastal News Winterport, Maine 04496-0710 U.S.A.
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Maine Coastal News is dedicated to covering the waterfront of State of Maine. It covers
commercial fi shing, yachting (power and sail), boat yard and waterfront news and maritime history.
Maine Coastal News is published 12 times per year. The distribution of Maine Coastal News is from Eastport to Kittery and is free on the newsstand. It also can be by subscription. A year subscription, 12 issues, is $20.00. A single copy is $2.00, which covers the postage. Foreign rates for subscriptions are $40.00 per year. The Maine Coastal News offi ce is located at 966 North Main Street, Winterport, Maine. Comments or additional information write: Maine Coastal News, P.O. Box 710, Winterport,
Maine 04496.
Looking for a great cruising boat? This boat is being offered by Royal River Boat Yard in Yarmouth if interested. She is a steel trawler and needs work.
Chinese media tour Maine boatbuilders to promote industry back home A Portland-based strategic advisory
Publisher Editor-in-Chief
Jon B. Johansen Rachel Elward
Advertising Deadlines: The deadline for the October issue is 7 September. The deadline for the November issue is 9 October.
MCN's Calendar On-Going Exhibits:
Summer 2012 Exhibit: Schooner BOWDOIN on the Greenland Patrol”, Castine Historical Society, School Street, Castine, Maine; June 25 through October 15, Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., and Sunday, 1-4 p.m. Explore the untold story of Maine Maritime Academy’s historic schooner BOWDOIN during World War II while serving as U.S. Naval vessel. This exhibit will reveal the vessel’s previously uncelebrated contributions to the strategic operations of the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Navy during World War II as part of the Greenland Patrol.
-October 28
Exhibit: Subdue, Seize and Take: Maritime Maine in the War of 1812 A view into the maritime goings-on of the District of Maine in the fractious atmosphere of double-dealing, defi ance, subterfuge, vitriolic satire, confusion and propaganda that the 1812 war brought to the Maine coast. For more information visit
www.MaineMaritimeMuseum.org. Maine Maritime Museum Bath
AUGUST 24-26 PHRF New England
SEPTEMBER 9 Pirate Festival Lobster Boat Race Eastport
13-16 Newport International Boat Show America’s Cup Avenue Newport, RI Hours: Thursday – Saturday 10 am to 6 pm, Sunday 10 am to 5 pm.
Tickets: Advance discount tickets available on line or at show. Thursday, VIP Day, $30.00 ($27 on-line plus processing fee). On Friday, Saturday or Sunday the tickets are $18.00 ($15 on-line plus processing fee). On Friday only, visitors with a Military ID receive half-price admission and children under 12 are admitted free when accompanied by an adult every day of the Show. Info: Tel. 401-846-1115/800-582-
7846 or
www.newportboatshow.com 15 PYC Lightship 15-16 Maine Rocks Race 22 PYC Fall Series 29 PYC Fall Series
29-30 Working Waterfront Festival New Bedford, MA
An award winning, family friendly event celebrating the history and culture of New England’s commercial fi shing industry featuring live music, children’s activities, cooking demonstrations, vessel and harbor tours, fi sherman’s contests, author readings, fi lm screenings, local seafood, festival bookstore, maritime artisans marketplace & more. The FREE festival presents all that goes into bringing seafood from the ocean to the table in a way that is hands-on, educational and fun.
www.workingwaterfrontfestival.org The theme of the 2012 Festival is Fishtales: Fact, Fiction and Narrative Tradition in Commercial Fishing Culture. Festival programming will explore enduring myths, local legends, and fact and fiction in contemporary fisheries issues.
Information: 508-993-8894
fi rm has teamed with one of Maine’s larg- est and most successful boat builders to bring representatives from China’s three leading yachting and boating magazines to Maine for a six-day visit to promote Maine boatbuilding and marine businesses, Maine tourism and Maine food and lodging. MaineAsia LLC and Sabre Yachts Corporation hosted writers and offi cials from The Hurun Report, China Yachting and Boat Exclusive in touring Portland, Booth- bay, Camden-Rockland, Mt. Desert Island and Phippsburg-Sebasco from August 14 through August 20.
“This is an exciting opportunity to spread the word about the extraordinary quality of Maine-built boats and the great opportunities that Maine offers for both tourism and investment,” said Tony Kieffer, Managing Partner of MaineAsia. “China is the fastest growing market for boats and yachts in the world,” added Daniel Zilkha, President and CEO of Sabre Yachts in South Casco. “The Chinese are beginning to discover the recreational opportunities that their thousands of miles of coastline offer.”
The media visit to Maine will include lobstering in Boothbay, a dinner aboard one of Maine’s windjammers, a tour of Acadia National Park and Mt. Desert Island, and opportunities to watch Maine-built boats race in the MS Regatta and in the Portland Lobster Boat Races. In addition to Sabre, the Chinese will visit Hodgdon Yachts, Back Cove Yachts, Morris Yachts, and Hinckley Yachts.
MaineAsia Chairman Eliot Cutler has emphasized the importance of bringing Chi- nese business representatives to Maine. “We can visit China and tell the story of Maine all we want,“ Cutler said, “but nothing can match the impressions that we can make by bringing the Chinese to Maine to see fi rst- hand how we build boats and why Maine is such a great place to visit.”
Hodgdon Shipbuilding of East Booth- bay has announced that James Anderson, Engineering Manager of SP Gurit/High Modulus (USA) has joined Hodgdon to serve as head of the Design and Engineering department there.
After several years of successful col- laboration between Hodgdon and SP Gurit/ High Modulus, James will be leaving the engineering fi rm to join Hodgdon’s exist- ing yacht building design and engineering team of 11 and take over its leadership on January 1, 2013. James brings a breadth of superyacht knowledge and experience in the structural engineering of advanced compos- ite construction to Hodgdon’s already broad
experience base.
James holds a MEng in Aeronautical Engineering from Bristol University in the UK and has served in a variety of consult- ing and management roles in a structural engineering capacity including some of the world’s most notable superyacht and avia- tion projects.
The excellent working relationship be-
tween SP Gurit/High Modulus and Hodgdon will likely continue as the demand for both supplemental structural engineering and SP Gurit’sSmartPac ® kits warrants.
Farrin’s Boat Shop in Walpole has a 36-foot Newman, which had been built by Lee Wilbur in 1977 in the shop to be rebuilt. They have removed her shelter and will make her bass boat style with a soft top. Down below she will have a V-berth, head and small galley. She will be launched next spring.
In the back shop they have a Calvin Beal 38, which is being fi nished for a customer from California. They are presently putting in her interior, which includes an island berth forward, head with shower, guest stateroom and galley. They are now doing some paint- ing and installing the systems. This boat will be launched later this fall.
At Flowers’ Boat Shop in Walpole they have numerous projects underway. In the main shop is a 42-footer that they
are fi nishing off like a tug with a rounded steamer stern. They also raised her sheer 15 inches and will put on a custom house. They have just started on the hull and adding on the stern.
They also have a Flowers 33 being
fi nished out as a tuna boat for a customer from Cape Ann, MA. She is powered with a QSC 8.3 500-hp Cummins. Down below she has a V-berth, head and simple galley. She is expected to be launched later this winter. In the back shop is a Padebco 21 that
needed some fi berglass repair work done. An East Coast 23, which is a Seaway 23
hull, has been fi nished and will be heading to New York soon. She has a seven-foot bunk forward and is powered with a 150-hp Johnson outboard.
In mid-August they plan to have com- pleted a 21-footer, from the same Seaway mould. She is powered with a 60-hp Mer- cury outboard. A Repco 37 will be coming in for a new
house. They are going to use the top for the Flowers 38.
Rockport Marine Debuts 70’ Spirit of Tradition Design, Sophia
Rockport Marine, known for their fi rst-class restorations of classic yachts,
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