October 2014 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 19. Correction: The Right Photographs of TWIST


South Shore Boatworks announced the launch of the 45-foot TWIST, a 41-year-old wooden lobsterboat rebuilt and converted to a lobsteryacht. TWIST will sail the waters of Europe with owner Dr. Eric Megevand of Switzerland. TWIST, originally HAZEL W III, was designed and built in 1973 by Rhode Island boatbuilder Donald Wilcox and his sons. Her strip-planked Philippine mahogany over white oak hull was still in excellent condition after 38 years of mussel dragging, research, and lobstering with the Wilcox


family in Narragansett Bay. “The condition of the hull was like new, it was a testament to the Wilcoxes and their attention to detail and construction techniques,” said Bob Fuller of South Shore Boatworks. The Wilcoxes put the boat up for sale


in 2011 due to increased fi shing regulations. Dr. Megevand, a sixth-generation Swiss surgeon, saw the boat online and fell in love with the lines. He asked Fuller to look it over and bought it sight unseen when Fuller reported the boat was in excellent condition. TWIST was gutted and beautifully


Stanley Boatbuilding Moves Continued from Page 5.


about having Richard build him a 30-foot sailboat. First he has to sell his 46-foot powerboat.


Richard was born into the boatbuild-


ing industry. His father, Ralph Stanley, is a self-taught wooden boatbuilder. In the summers he was captain of a schooner for some summer people. Richard said that the fi rst time he assisted in the yard was when he was three years old. He said, “My father was out scrubbing the bottom of a boat in the back yard. So I went up to the house and I asked my mother for a bucket, broom and some boots. She set me up and out I went and I started scrubbing. Ever since that time I was doing that in the fall and I was out there greasing the tracks in the springs, lugging and dragging planks. I went around to boat yards and watch them build boats. I would watch my father and his crew work. My father hauled an old derelict boat and I ended up taking it apart for him. You learn a lot by taking a boat apart.”


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Richard is also a graduate of the Boat School in Eastport. He know a lot about boatbuilding and feels he should have gone to design school. However, he is not that fond of designing in a computer. He prefers to make a half model, take off the lines and leave the rest to some who does like working with computers.


What is impressive as to who was in his class that are still working on boats: Peter Buxton, Scott Edgerly, John Vinal, Marshall St. Cyr, Bob Turcotte, and Scott Worthington.


Richard did his co-op with his father and when he graduated from school he went to work for my father. After a number of years he purchased the company from his fa- ther. He added, “My aim now is to put more effort toward building boats and repairing them. I would really like to be able to build some wooden lobster boats. I don’t want to build big boats, 36 and smaller.” Richard Stanley is a very talent wo oden


boat builder, so if you are looking for a new wooden boat or have one to repair, go to Bass Harbor and stop in.


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rebuilt, highlighted by gorgeous custom teak deck, foredeck, and interior. The hull was sheathed in West system fi berglass and Awlgripped for a svelte and shiny fi nish. Modifi cations were made to meet CE stan- dards under the direction of naval architect Bob Turcotte of Bob Turcotte Yacht Design. Nate Tynan of Windward Power Systems repowered the boat with a 500-hp Caterpillar C-9 engine modifi ed to CE standards. Other special features include a full- width hydraulic tailgate transom/swim plat- form; a desalination unit that produces 40 gph of freshwater; original 1973 compass, rebuilt & rechromed; and a large graywater tank since discharge is not allowed in the Mediteranean. Accommodations include a V-berth, double berth down to port, dining table that converts to berth, 2 day beds on deck with overhead bimini, galley up with


a Techempex Italian-made electric galley stove and 13-cubic-ft. capacity icebox, and head with shower. All materials and equip- ment are incorporated to be easily service- able in Europe. When TWIST was completed, Al and


Ernie Wilcox piloted her from Massachu- setts back to Wickford Harbor, RI, where she had fi shed for so many years. She was freighted out of Newport, RI, to Geneo, Italy. Fuller and Tynan travelled to Italy to commission the boat and cruised with Dr. Megevand part of the way to his family’s vacation home in Croatia.


Bob Fuller is a third-generation boat- builder in Halifax, MA. He is well known for his high-quality boat building and fi nishing in wood and glass, as well as his exquisite traditional wooden shipswheels.


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