Page 14. MAINE COASTAL NEWS August 2014 Boat And Ship Yard News
A comparision of an old and a new lobster boat at James H. Rich's Boat Yard in Tremont. A new Northern Bay 38 fi nished out by Morgan Bay Boat of Penobscot, ready to launch.
Kittery Point Yacht Yard in Eliot and Kittery Point has been busy this spring and summer.
In the shop at Eliot they have a Holland 32 that is a total restoration project. In early July the hull had been primed and was wait- ing for the fi nal coat. They were presently working on the interior. Most of this has been built and just need to be installed along with the trim. She is expected to be done the end of summer.
Coming in soon is a Wilbur fl ybridge
cruiser. They will be removing the fl ybridge, make repairs to the house and replace the side windows. They will also add modify the aft bulkhead, add a visor on the house; do some interior carpentry work; and cos- metics.
The yard in Eliot also been kept busy servicing the small boats of the U. S. Navy. In the upper shop at Eliot there is a
John’s Bay Boat in a bay getting her annual maintenance. This is being done by her owner.
Soon they will be breaking ground on a new storage building, which will be 70 x 150 feet with a solar-gain membrane shell. They have already fi lled half the building and if you are looking to store in the Kittery area call soon these spaces will not last long. Over at Kittery the transient traffi c has been good and a couple of repair jobs have come in. One broke their swim-platform and another had mechanic problems. During the winter they had a lot of projects underway, the biggest being on a Hinckley SW51. She has been sailed hard in the Caribbean for the last ten years and needed a complete going over. She received all new systems, pumps, standing rigging, chain plates and electronics. She will be coming back next year for additional work.
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Rollins Boat Shop in Eliot was work- ing on a12-foot rowboat the day I stopped by. She was found in a New Hampshire barn and it is thought she was built around 1912. Paul built a completely new boat, but added she was not exactly like the old one. The old one had joggled frames, which is frames that are fi tted into each of the lapstrakes. She also had a solid gunwale with the framing mortised into the gunwale.
Custom Composites in West Bath has been busy over the winter, spring and into the summer.
They are doing some work for Hodgdon Yachts, they recently built a prototype of
a bank kiosk, which they have now done three; they have been building light-weight Kevlar/carbon rifl e stocks; and rotor blades for Sikorsky.
In Friendship at the Boat Works is a Pete Culler designed 42-foot schooner, which was built at the Concordia Company in 1966. Jim Loney has been doing the work, which has included replacing the bulwarks, frame heads, covering board, top half of the transom, cockpit gallery, chainplates, and then her cosmetics. She is scheduled to be launched in August.
Three years ago the owner purchased the property and put up a barn so as to do work on boats. One of the boats that had been in the barn was a Jarvis Newman fi berglass Friendship sloop, named SABRINA. She is for sale if you are interested.
Presently Jim is looking for another project to keep him busy when the schooner is fi nished.
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bor – There are similarities between the Bermuda 50 and its famous predecessor, the Bermuda 40 was built to serve the dual purposes of pleasurable competition and spirited cruising. The Bermuda 40 was designed by Bill Tripp Jr. whose son, Bill Tripp III, designed the Bermuda 50. Also some of the same hands who crafted the Bermuda 40 will shape the next generation boat. “It’s enormously exciting to fi nally have the molds here and to have our crew start the process of building a new sailboat,” said Jim McManus, president and CEO of Hinckley. The company has two Bermuda 50s on order, the fi rst of which will launch next spring. The molds were built in Rhode Island by mouldCAM. Differences do outweigh the similari- ties between the two generations of Hinck- ley sailboats. When the Bermuda 50 mold transfers to the lamination department, work will commence laying in the components for an all-carbon fi ber infused hull. The lighter, stiffer characteristics of carbon fi ber are preferred in most modern custom racing craft. The SCRIMP resin infusion process, and Corecell coring allow for even greater weight savings. The new Bermuda 50 will weigh in at 25,000 pounds where her prede- cessor, ten feet shorter with narrower beam, weighed in at 26,500 pounds. The Bermuda 50’s standard equipment list includes many innovative features, both primary and outsourced. Chief among them are Mastervolt’s electronic switching panel to replace the breaker panel. This brilliantly simple platform for communication and connections ensures that all components speak the same language. It utilizes one communication protocol with high-speed
Photo Ann-e Blanchard
Photo Ann-e Blanchard
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