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added rails and cosmetics. In the next bay is a Wesmac 46 su-


per-wide, being fi nished out as a lobster boat for a fi sherman from Owl’s Head. Down below she has a bunks, galley and head and will be powered with a C-18 1,000-hp Cat- erpillar. She will be launched next spring. In the next bay is an Osmond 32 lobster boat that is being converted into a sportfi sh- erman. The major change will be extending the cabin. A Holland 41 will be coming soon to be


fi nished off as a lobster boat. In October they will be starting on a


Calvin Beal 36. She will be fi nished out as a sportfi sherman for a customer from Wheel- er’s Bay. Three years ago they fi nished off a 28-footer for the same customer. Just launched was the Duffy 46 lobster boat, which they fi nished for a fi sherman on Vinalhaven.


Previous to that they partially fi nished a Holland 38, which the owner was to com- plete.


Millennium Marine in Eastport


opened last April and has survived a fi re and presently has four boats under construction. The fi re occurred on 23 July. It started during the middle of the night and was not


discovered until the fi rst person arrived that morning. Fortunately the sprinkler system activated, but it did not initiate an alarm. So for a number of hours the sprinkler sprayed water, stopped the fi re, but fi lled the boats with water. One boat suffered fi re damage and the other had so much water inside that the weight forced the jack-stands up through the hull. Most of the damage was due to the soot and they lost some material and tools. Fortunately they were back up and running a week later.


They have two Donnell 43s underway.


One is being fi nished off as a herring/lob- ster boat for a customer from Stone Haven, New Brunswick. She will be powered with a 600-hp Cummins. The other is also being fi nished out as a lobster boat for a fi sherman from New Brunswick. She will be going out as a kit boat. A Millennium 45 was just getting ready to come out of the mould. She will be fi nished out as a lobster/herring boat for a fi sherman from New Brunswick. She is being shipped out as a kit boat. A 52 is being fi nished off for Dungeness


crab fi shing in Washington. They are just starting to lay this one up. This is replacing one of the boats damaged in the fi re. Also needing to be laid up is a Donnell 35. She will be shipped out as a kit boat.


MASSACHUSETTS Crocker’s Boat Yard in Manchester- by-the-Sea is in the midst of their hauling season and has just completed a rebuild on a Crocker schooner. She was started in Janu- ary and they replaced the stem, rudder, eight frames, some planks, some of the deadwood, replaced some of the keel bolts, raised the mainmast nine inches, added bimini to main boom, replaced the standing and running rigging, overhauled the engine, and paint


and varnish. The new sails were made by Nat Wilson of East Boothbay. She formerly had double head sails, but this has been changed to one big club footed foresail.


Now coming in is a Concordia 39, which will be receiving a new deadwood. The yard now stores fi ve Concordias, four 39s and one 41. The 41 will be refas- tened this winter. There are fi ve boats from the yard heading south this winter and two of them will have new electronic packages installed before they depart.


In mid-August they started their hauling season, which will extend to Christmas. Up at their yard in Essex they added another 8,000 square feet of space, which is in a fabric building. They will now be able to store about 100 boats at this facility.


Gloucester Marine Railways in Gloucester has just relaunched the schoo- ner ROSEWAY. Her big job this time was caulking, which was done by a group from Maine.


Several boats have been up on the rail-


way. FLIGHT 1, a dragger, and was up for annual maintenance. OLYMPIA, owned by Salmon Fall Trawler Co., will be coming in the end of the month for annual mainte- nance.


Up on the ways is PHYLLIS A., which is getting new frames on the port side. She has been up all summer.


EXPLORER II is at the dock. She was in for winch work. They are outfi tting a research boat, which will be doing dragging for counting fi sh.


Also several lobster boats have been hauled up this summer for annual mainte- nance.


Hodgdon Opens Offi ces and Announces Launch of 100-foot COMANCHE


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Services offering boatyard services as well as superyacht refi t services at Hodgdon’s facilities in Maine. The Newport offi ce will also be home base for superyacht industry veteran Holly Paterson who has served as Hodgdon’s Marketing Manager since Janu- ary 2014.


Hodgdon to launch carbon race boat Hodgdon Yachts has announced the anticipated launch of the 100 foot pre-preg carbon race boat code named NewCubed will be on or about the 27th of September. A variety of factors will affect the launch schedule including weather condi- tions and fi nal paint detailing.


Vsll sbouy Halu-out & winter storage Now taking storage reservations


Hodgdon said the confi rmed launch date and time will be announced on so- cial media outlets including the Hodgdon website, Hodgdon facebook page and the Boothbay Register on-line.


Members of the public are invited to view the launching but not from the Hodg- don Shipyard property. The NewCubed project is one of the


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