Page 14. MAINE COASTAL NEWS January 2017 Boat And Ship Yard News
The crew at Rockport Marine has ground out the damaged laminates on the 50-foot sailboat and are now getting ready to put in the new ones.
Maine Yacht Center in Portland has
two sport fi shing boats, one a 48 foot Ocean and the other a 52 foot Post, in for the winter. Both will be having paint done as well as their annual seasonal maintenance, which will include some minor engine and gener- ator service work. They just fi nished installing a custom
carbon fi ber teak deck and lift on a Hinckley 48 jet boat. This was to allow her owner to launch his dinghy much more easily. The carbon fi ber pieces were built by Goetz Composites of Bristol, RI, Teak Decking
Systems did the teak deck and Sealift did the hydraulics. They are still storing a number of the
F-40s racing sailboats, but none have any major work scheduled this winter. One will be heading south to do the Pineapple Cup in early February. This is a race from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Jamaica. Brain Harris is the yard manager and
has just returned from preparing Rich Wil- son’s GREAT AMERICAN IV in France. Brain has become well-known for his ability in getting racing sailboats prepared for an
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The sheer clamp is now in place and the crew is getting ready to clamp it in place on the Friendship Sloop BLACK JACK.
up-coming event. Preparing a racer such as GREAT AMERICAN IV for a non-stop race round the world is not an easy process. They have a lot of systems, which are backed up numerous times, and you have to stay ahead of the new technologies and gear that are becoming available. You may not be inter- ested in doing the Vendee Globe, but if you are having a race boat prepared for a major event Maine Yacht Center certainly has the talent to get it done.
At Royal River Boat Yard in Yarmouth
they have just completed a complete resto- ration of a Jarvis Newman 46 lobster boat. She was stripped down to the bare hull and they made repairs or replaced sections of her fore deck, washboards and platform. Once the structural aspects of the boat were corrected they put in a completely new electrical system, new fuel tanks and sys- tem, and rope locker. She was launched late fall and went right back to work for a local fi sherman. Another major project underway is re-
placing 14 feet of keel on a 38-foot Young Brothers lobster boat. The damaged areas have been cut out and ground back and they are now putting in new layers of fi berglass. A Hinckley Southwester 50 has had ev-
erything stripped off and they are re-glassed in the hull and deck as needed. Once this is done, the hardware will be remounted and she will have her annual maintenance. In the mechanical bay, they are present-
ly repowering two Wayne Beal 36s. Both had Caterpillar 3208s and at least one is be- ing replaced with a 400 hp QSL9 Cummins
At the Sail Power Steam Museum
in Rockland they have been rebuilding the Friendship sloop BLACK JACK, which was built by Wilbur Morse of Friendship in 1900, the last few years. Last August she had been planked up to the waterline, but now they have nearly fi nished planking and are working on her interior. This includes putting in her ceiling planking, deck beams and sheer clamps. At my visit, I was able to watch them put in the port sheer clamp and clamp it in place. They also showed me her trail boards. They are not going to repair the original trail boards, but are planning to build new ones and save the old ones for an exhibit. Their goal is to have BLACK JACK completed this summer and hopefully launched for a summer of sailing.
Rockport Marine in Rockport is busy.
They have three major projects underway at their shop in Rockport and in their other shop off -site they have 30 boats stored. This building has two paint and a carpentry bay. A major project underway are repairs to
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a 50-foot sailboat they built two years ago, which had a severe grounding off southern New England this past summer. She has extensive damage around her keel. Because they did not want to remove her raised panel varnished mahogany interior they rolled the boat upside down to make repairs from the outside. As this is a cold molded hull they ground away the damaged areas and laid up a new section. The big project under construction is a 92-foot hull for Brooklin Boat Yard over in Brooklin. The bulkheads with carbon lami- nations are all set up and they then vacuumed bagged the sheer clamp in place. A steel girder was fabricated at Brooklin Boat Yard and this fi t perfectly in place along with the G10 wing which was designed to distribute loads better. They have also put in the keel- son which was laminated in place. The hull will be built with four layers covered with two layers of fi berglass all done in epoxy. She is scheduled to be completed in early April launched and towed over to Brooklin Boat Yard where she will be fi nished off . As for the sardine carrier WILLIAM
UNDERWOOD, she is progressing well and looking absolutely incredible. The hull
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diesel. They will also be repowering four sailboats, all with diff erent types of engines. Every year there is a vast amount of
varnish work that needs to be done and they have already started to make sure they are fi nished before the season begins in the Spring. In mid-December they hauled out their
last fl oat and almost all the storage custom- ers are up for the season and shrink wrapped. The last few boats still needing to be hauled should be in by early January.
Photo Ann-e Blanchard
Photo Ann-e Blanchard
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