Page 14. MAINE COASTAL NEWS December 2015 Boat And Ship Yard News
BATTLE WAGON, a Wesmac 46 Superwide, ready for launching.
Six River Marine in North Yarmouth is about half done planking the 46-foot bridge deck cruiser.
Last winter they replaced her back bone, began work on the interior and started planking. This winter they will be fi nishing the planking. As the planking is going one the interior is going in. Presently they are working in the head and getting ready to put in a copper shower pan and grate. This grate came from a Canadian mine-sweeper. Also in the shop is a 40-foot Greenline Hydrid powerboat. She is powered with a diesel electric engine that is fed by three huge solar panels on the shelter top. She is a new boat, and the owner wants to change the heads from salt to fresh water.
Out in the yard is the Black Horse 29. She will have her annual maintenance and varnish work done in the spring. Also a 38-40 foot schooner is coming in to have repairs made to her aft deck.
Flowers Boat Works in Walpole has been busy trying to get boats fi nished. In the shop they have a Flower’s 38
being fi nished out as a sportfi sherman for a customer from Massachusetts. She is powered with an 825-hp FPT diesel. As for accommodations she has a queen-sized cen- tre-line berth forward, with enclosed head down and galley and settee up. Another 38 is being fi nished out as a sportfi sherman for a customer from New
The high-tech sailing vessel BAMBOCHIP is hauled up at Portland Yacht Service.
York. She is powered with a 660-hp QSM 11 Cummins and has the same interior. Also in the shop is a Flower’s 36 being
fi nished off as a sportfi sherman for a cus- tomer from Nantucket. She has the same interior arrangement, and is also powered with a 660-hp QSM 11 Cummins. Just getting ready to take out of the layup shop is a Flower’s 43. This is Hull #1 and is being shipped to John Brackett of New Harbor, who will fi nish her off.
John’s Bay Boat Company in South Bristol is nearly finished planking the 42-footer they have under construction. She has a beam of 14 feet and will draw 4 feet 4 inches of water. She is being fi nished out as a pleasure boat for a customer from Friendship. For accommodations she will have a V-berth, head with shower down with galley up. She will be powered with a 500-hp Cummins. She will not be done until early next fall.
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has a Flower’s 38 in the shop they are fi n- ishing out as a cruiser for a customer from Gloucester, Massachusetts. For accommo- dations she will have a V-berth and head down, with galley up. Most of the interior will be fi nished by the owner. She is pow- ered with a 825-hp FPT, which along with her drive train, is in place. Next they will be putting in the windows.
Out in the yard getting some repair work done is a lobster boat that found the bottom. She damaged her skeg, shaft log and rudder
box. The damaged areas were ground down and repaired.
After the Flower’s 38 is done, they have
a Young Brothers 42 to fi nish out as a lobster boat for a local fi sherman.
Brooklin Boat Yard in Brooklin has been making the frames for a 23 meter sailboat, designed by Marcellaneo Botin of Spain, which is for himself. She started out as a cold moulded hull, but that has changed to composite. The frames and ceiling are all wood with a carbon infused hull. For accommodations she has a lot of cabins with a raised saloon and galley. She has water ballast with a lifting keel. The hydraulics, furlers, ram and keel will be built in Italy. She will draw 16 feet with the keel down and 8 feet six inches with it up. They have already started setting up the frames and bulkheads, but she will likely not be ready to roll over for several months.
Also under construction is an Egge- moggin 49, designed by Jim Taylor. She has been modifi ed slightly for the fi rst one they built. She has a shorter cabin by two and a half feet and this space was used to make a bigger cockpit. They have already made frames, backbone and bulkheads and have started setting her up. They are now waiting on the owner for the interior style. This project will not be done until 2017. They are also building a 23-foot skiff. As for repair work they are just fi nishing
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an Alden 46, they had built. She got into a storm in the Atlantic Ocean and she lost steering. The owner tried to make repairs, but could not and was forced to abandon the boat. After the storm blew through he sent out a salvage boat to retrieve her. They made temporary repairs and she arrived at the yard needing a new steering system as well as some electrical and mechanical work done.
A 32-foot June Day cruiser is in to have the top of her stem replaced, glass the top and decks and may be repower. A 59-foot motorsailer is in to have work done on her sternpost, rudder, electrical and mechanical systems, and put dinyl down on the cabin top. A big refi t is underway on the 44-foot
PATIENCE. This will include electric and mechanical systems. Believe it or not, APHRODITE is back for a ten year upgrade. They are stripping all the brightwork, new rudder bearing, ex- haust work, new refrigeration systems, and complete paint. A Centre Harbor 31 is in for modifi ca- tions to her keel. She is going from a 6 foot 8 inch keel to a 4 footer since she will be sailing on Lake Minnietonka. They are also going to change her from tiller to wheel steering and redo the cockpit.
One of the busiest boatbuilders on the Continued on Page 18.
Photo Ann-e Blanchard
Photo Ann-e Blanchard
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