Page 14. MAINE COASTAL NEWS August 2017 Boat And Ship Yard News
At Boothbay Harbor Shipyard in Boothbay Harbor they are progressing well on the Gloucester fi shing schooner ERNES- TINA-MORRISSEY, which they are totally rebuilding. All of her frames are in place, as well as her keelson. They are now putting in every other fl oor above the keelson and then putting in central line 1¼ inch bolts. The 40-foot stringers, which are Douglas fi r from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, are also in the process of being put in place. The yard sent workers to upper New
York to work on the schooner LETTIE G. HOWARD. They did some miscellaneous deck repairs, as well as repairing the wind- lass and rigging.
At Eric Dow’s shop in Brooklin he was getting ready to launch this North Haven Dinghy. The replica vessel FRIENDSHIP OF
SALEM is up at Gloucester Marine Railway in Gloucester, MA and is nearing comple- tion. They have done extensive work to a section of her bow that was found to be rotten due to water coming down her foremast and getting into the structures at the base of the mast. Presently they are putting her back together and she should be done by fall. Another U.S. Navy tug (YTL-602,
built in the 1950s) will be arriving from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery. She is in to have her bottom painted.
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At Morgan Bay Boats in Frankfort, they are nearing completion on their newest model.
being fi nished off as a lobster boat for a fi sh- erman from Northeast Harbor. She will have a split wheelhouse, with an open transom and powered with an 800-hp Scania. For an interior she will have a double stacked V-berth, utility lockers on both the port and starboard side and a workbench with storage. Presently they were putting in the fl ange for the platform and working on items under the deck. She is scheduled to be done and over this winter.
At the Gamage Shipyard in South
Bristol they are nearing completion on the bus that they have been converting to an RV. They were installing the solar panels, fi nishing up the electrical system and join- ery details. She should be out sometime in August. Just completed was a Young Brothers
40 lobster boat which had been in a colli- sion with a pleasure boat last summer. She suff ered extensive damage to her stern, but was still able to rescue the people from the pleasure boat, which sank in a few minutes after the collision. Extensive fi berglass re- pairs were made to her transom and cockpit sole, and was also completely rewired and then Awlgripped. The Oceanside Hotel in Boothbay Har-
bor needed their Crosby 22 launch upgraded. She arrived at the yard and they stripped her bright work put in all new cushions and Awlgripped her. She was back in service in less than three weeks. The paint bay has been busy and they
have four Awlgrip jobs pending and pres- ently they are doing a 1966 Sparkman & Stephens 36 foot wooden boat. A Dyer 29 is in with a blown engine.
They have removed her 454 and replaced it with a 383 Magnum gasoline engine. An- other engine job they did this winter was on a Sisu, which received a 4.3 Bravo engine. If that was not enough they had to get 150 boats ready this spring for the water.
The busiest yard on the coast has to be
Front Street Shipyard in Belfast. Every bay is full and the transients have started to come in with various problems. In Building #5 is the 80-foot motor
yacht SINDBAD, which is receiving a ma- jor refi t. She started life as a fi shing boat in Norway and was later converted to a yacht. She was purchased by the current owner’s father, who had a bulbous bow added and some minor refi ts done over the years. He passed away, and his son brought her back to us to go through. We had a total hull survey and have repaired where needed. The engine room has been completely gutted and is be- ing rebuilt now. The steering system, shaft system, and all of the tanks have been gone through, sandblasted and recoated. She is now going back together and is in shape for another long career. Next to her is the yacht LITTLE VIG-
ILANT, which was built at Abeking and Rasmussen in 1950. She was used for about 11 years and then put in a barn in England for 45 years. She was purchased by the cur- rent owner and he had some upgrades done 15 years ago. It was time to go through her again and they have pulled all of the cap-rails off and sandblasted the fl anges around the whole boat; pulled all of the margin planks around the boat and checked the steel under that; and now going through her steering system and tanks. J. B. Turner said, “She is an interesting boat because she was built just before they started building the Concordia yawls and if you go into her interior you will see it is very much like a Concordia, varnished pine interior and white ceilings.” In the opposite bay is SSV CORWITH
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KRAMER, which is a 134 foot steel brigan- tine. She was built at ASTACE Shipyard in Bilboa, Spain in 1987 and is owned by the Sea Education Association of Woods Hole, MA. They are doing a lot of plating work, more than what was expected; a number of frames; the engine have been pulled, and sent off to Billings to have rebuilt along with the gear; and they are jackhammering out concrete ballast to be able to check ev- erything. They are also rebuilding the galley, and doing a lot of interior repair work; doing mast repairs which includes redoing rigging fi ttings; then they will paint the hull and bottom. She should be over by the end of summer.
Across the way in Building #4 is a 62
foot Abeking and Rasmussen built wooden ketch that is in need of new deck. Right now they are doing a basic a repair. They have taken the teak decks off and found rotten deck beams and carlins as well as a ques- tionable sheer plank and bulwarks. They are going to patch her as best they can as the
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Photo Ann-e Blanchard
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