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the spring. A Mitchell Cove 35 is in to be refur-
bished for a fi sherman from Vinalhaven. They are replacing the windows, vents, decks, hatches and radar stand. They will re-gel coat the fl at surfaces and then add Phili-clad to the platform deck.
An Osmond 40 caught a piece of chain in the propeller, and this created a problem with her gear. This is being replaced. A Calvin Beal 36’s owner passed away and the boat sat for two years. Her new owner put her aground so she is in the shop for repairs to her keel, shaft and propeller. The next new build will be on a stretched Mussel Ridge 42.
Buxton Boats in Sunset (Stonington) is working on a Holland 30 for a local fi sher- man. Pete thinks she was originally named GEORGIANNA of St. George, followed by ROBERT W. and then WALKING ON WATER. She was purchased by a local fi sherman last spring and she is now getting a new 210-hp Cummins and a total going over, which includes steering, hydraulics and paint.
Next a John’s Bay Boat will be coming in for some minor refi nishing.
Earlier this fall it did not look like the wooden oyster sloop was going to get worked on, but the owner surfaced and Pete hopes he can fi nish her this year. He will start with the sheer clamp, then sheer strake, motor, transom, deck and spars.
Eric Dow, Boatbuilder in Brooklin, has all their storage customers hauled up and in the sheds or covered for the winter. They just fi nished a total rebuild of a
Herreshoff 12½. Everything was replaced and she is now being offered for sale. There is no major job this winter, but there are enough little ones to keep them busy. They have another two 12½ coming in for various work; a couple of peapods in need of repairs; and a Lyman grounded and needs some keel and strut work. Also they have a shed of fi ve boats (up to 32 feet in length) over in Blue Hill that need to be ready for spring.
Hewes & Co. in Blue Hill has been doing a lot of custom C&C work. Presently they are cutting the dead- wood for the keel of a Center Harbor 36 for Brooklin Boat Yard. This is being made from Alabama yellow cedar. They are also cutting pieces for the new 72-footer under construction there. These include the mould frames, which has 1/2-mm stops for each layer of glass so that when complete it is fl at.
Vsll sbouy Halu-out & winter storage BAMBOCHIP II Repaired at PYS
The refurbished Contessa 26 at Casey Yacht Enterprises in Freeport.
Not a boat, but an extremely interesting project is the trolley under construction at Redfern in West Tremont. All the mahogany window casings were cut on the C&C ma- chine and now they are additional pieces to hold the windows in place. These are also out of mahogany and only a quarter of an inch in thickness.
They have also been cutting the foils for
the Arctic Tern, which is made in two pieces, the lead put in place and then the two pieces are laminated together.
Upstairs they are making the ladder treads for a boarding ladder for a customer in Florida.
It is amazing what a C&C machine will do, including half-hulls. Anyone needing a number of them will fi nd this the most cost effective way to do them.
One interesting change is that when
large fl at pieces were cut they had an in- ter-locking puzzle joint that was uniform. For one project they sent out their method to a design offi ce that said that joint would be a weak point and could fail, but if you stag- gered them that would solve the problem.
News from Away Gloucester Marine Railway in
Gloucester, MA has just fi nished work on the tug ANGUS, owned by S.J.S. Construction Company of Amesbury, MA. She was in for shaft, keel coolers, propeller and engine work.
The dragger TERRY M. from Provinc- etown was in for her annual maintenance. Also up for maintenance was AMERICAN PRIDE and UNICORN from Lunenburg. The winter storage customers are all up and covered and now they are looking for work on the railways. However, they will be doing some work on the south rail- way, which probably will not be ready until spring. The north railway is open and can handle a vessel up to 200 tons.
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PORTLAND – How would you like to walk into a new job and immediately become the project manager on a high-tech cruising yacht? It is all in the challenge and Rick Barkhuff was up to it.
At the end of summer, the yacht
BAMBOCHIP II arrived at Portland Yacht Services in Portland for some much needed repair work. She had been built in Slovenia in 2007. She had a cored carbon fi ber hull with a retractable ballast keel. She was cutter rigged and the spars were built by Hall’s Spars of Holland. The accommodations below were all maple veneer with a teak veneer cabin sole.
Rick said, “The things we did on the boat was replace all the black water and gray water systems and all the fl exible hoses. Another big repair that we did…she had hydraulic rams that held the safety pins for the retractable keel and the pin had been deployed when the keel wasn’t all the way up so it had ripped out the side of the car- bon fi ber centerboard trunk. We contacted Eric Gurit in Bristol, Rhode Island and they walked us through a repair job on that. We routed a bunch of carbon out and replaced it with carbon plate and tapped in hela coils and epoxied everything together. That was a signifi cant job. Another signifi cant job was replacing all the soles in the main salon and the two heads up forward. All of those soles came up off of the fi berglass deck and were replaced back the way it was originally. We also built a new wood and foam cored door for the head as well as replacing a bunch damaged wood trim in the head. We had to replace all the glass in the hatches that were on deck. Some of the hatches were shipped to a place in Connecticut called Hatch Masters. They put new glass in them and when we got them back we trimmed them all out with wood and reinstalled them. We
replaced all the displays and ran new wires. Then we recalibrated everything so they would all work together. There was quite a bit of painting. We remove the speakers in the cockpit and repaired those holes and painted them. Some railings were removed and repaired and painted over. All the carbon on the exterior of the boat, such as the pedestals, wheel and the cockpit table, were sanded and clear coated. The hull was buffed and touched up and the guy who did all of that work was really good and it came out beautiful. One more little thing that we did was rebuild the outboard and did some transom repairs on the infl atable and then painted the garage were the infl atable was stored. All the departments at Portland Yacht Services stepped up to the challenges and performed their job beautifully.” The next project will be going to the op- posite end of the spectrum. In the new main shop they have an S&S designed wooden built originally known as BLUE HERON built in the 1930s. Rick added, “There is a lot of work that has been done on this boat. We still have got some more work on the hull. It needs new frame ends and new fl oor timbers. The deck frames are in surprisingly good shape. It needs a new plywood deck with glass over it. It is kind of an interesting house top, it is like a moulded house top and has no beams on the inside. We are going to cold mould over the top of that. The interior is in serviceable shape, so I don’t think we are going to be doing a whole lot of interior work. However, some tanks need to be re- moved so I am not sure how much interior is going to have to be disassembled.” Rick’s last job was at The Landing
School in Arundel, where he had been the last 25 years. He said, “Primarily what I
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