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started getting orders so he kept adding to the building making it larger to accommodate the bigger boats. Then he rebuilt that build- ing. Then he made it into a bigger building and then and '58 he made that building big- ger again and that building burnt in ’71. The shop that is there now Donny Woodward and I built. We got the fl oor down and the trusses up and then Brenda’s brother helped me fi nish it. “Building with Harold was Vinny Mc-
Lain who also worked with Uncle Bert,” said Doug. “Vinny McLain stayed with him quite a while. He had Nathan Burt who was a real good carpenter, but you didn’t know when he was going to show up because he liked the bottle quite well. Richard Alley worked with him when he got out of the Army. I was probably a freshman in high school then so it was probably ‘59. Then Richard and Cliff ord went in together.” Doug had a near mishap when the
mould for the 22 footers he was building, known as the “Wedge,” fell on him in 1977. He was pinned on the bench and if Donny Woodward had not been there, Doug added, “I would still be there. He picked that up so I could crawl out and they could get me to the hospital. I broke the clavicle and my shoul- der blades. That was a hard year. I was trying to build TIME MACHINE and I ordered the oak from Pennsylvania and they got it to New York and the truck caught on fi re. So I had to send a truck down to get the logs. In April of ‘77, I went down, the logs were delivered to Dennysville to a sawmill, so I went down to see how they were making out and on the way home a car hit me broadside and busted my tailbone.” “Grampy Frost came over after World
War I,” said Doug. “He come over before the war and he started building what we call the torpedo boats. Then World War I broke out and he was Canadian so he went back to Canada and built minesweepers. Then after World War I, he came back to Beals and he built the shop where mine is today. He got orders for rum luggers. Then he moved to Jonesport, Sawyers Cove. He got in with the Sawyers and they owned the land. He built a couple of rum luggers on Beals where my shop is, but because there was no bridge, they either had to barge or fl oat everything over. He built a lot for the people up in Milbridge. Milbridge was called ‘Little Chicago’ back then. You could be shot and disappear just as well there as you could in Chicago in the
rum lugging days. Finally the government came to him to get a boat to chase them and he said I made them go just a little bit slow- er and that kept my job going. Then about 1926, Uncle Harold came over to work for him until Grampy Frost failed, He then went to Tiverton, Rhode Island and built draggers until the war broke out and then went back to work building minesweepers for this country. Bert come back to South Portland and they had a shop somewhere down near the Coast Guard base. Bert wanted to build boats on a jig upside down and make these big wheels to roll them over. The idea was good but not to Grampy Frost. They split and Grampy Frost died (about 1965) in Milbridge because his daughter Irma built that nursing home there.” Doug has his own ideas about the de-
sign of a lobster boat. He explained, “I like a reverse curve with dead rise because the reverse curve in the bottom keeps the boat steady. Some boatbuilders put dead rise in but it is round like a barrel. In my boats the dead rise is 6 or 8 degrees. What that does is it picks them up when you’re going fast. You got to go fast you know. Instead of the bilges dragging they get a little bit up on that V, which is what makes them go and they don’t pound. You can see this in the boat I race, BRENDA. I got Uncle Harold in 1965 to put dead rise in his boats, you know in the transom. Every boat after that he put reverse curve or dead rise in the transom. The last 8 feet of my boats everything back is parallel. So I can add on 4 feet or take off 4 feet and it doesn’t bother the design.” Talking further about design, Doug
added, “The torpedo boat I think originated from Hooper Island in the Chesapeake Bay. It was really an ingenious design because hardly anybody knows why it was built that way, but those boats had small engines, fi ve horse, the transom just set in the water and it went good for its power. Loaded, the water fl owed around and you didn’t get any drag.” We mentioned Avery Kelley already
and this was Doug’s closest friend. He said, “He was four years older than me and he was the fi rst guy I met when I landed on Beals when I went off the doorstep who did I meet but Avery. We were buddies right up to when he passed away. There wasn’t anything that he wouldn’t do that wasn’t crazy. The kite incidence was too wild and it took the power off of Beals. He wanted me to make a basket and put him on the tail of it. I said, ‘Avery let’s see if it will fl y fi rst.’ It’s a 14 foot kite and it took a 30 foot boat with a big Buick
engine just a fl y the damn thing off of the bridge. Then he tied it to the bridge and the wind died and the tail, which was chain, came down across the power lines put the power out. So we made the front page of the news.
Boatbuilder George Brown of Beals Island. 15 feet wide.”
(Photo: Beals Island Historical Society) “Boatbuilding you either got to love or
“He was really knowledgeable about sardine boats,” said Doug. “He knew every sardine boat and he has got journals of them. He had the sardine boat called the KENNETH D., right out of high school he was the captain of her. Then he got into seining, some guy down to the south went into partnership with him who had all of the twine. I went with him for a year. I love seining, but you didn’t know if you were going to be killed. He loved seining, that was his life. Lobster fi shing he just putted around. Then he went from seining to the salmon pens down in Eastport.” Avery had the fi rst 45 foot boat that
the Young Brothers made, QUEEN D’AN- NA. Doug added, “I had just built TIME MACHINE, and she was 41 feet 3 inches. Avery wanted a 45 foot boat so he went to the Young Brothers and they were going to make her like 13 feet wide. He said, ‘Christ sakes Dougie got one down to his shop that’s 15 feet 2 inches wide and she is only 41 feet 3 inches long. So that is how she ended up
you can hate it because it is so time-consum- ing you get bored you know,” said Doug. “Who wants to put 5000 plugs in holes. While you are doing it you are thinking about a girl in a bikini.” Doug Jr. told his father, “Dad, you must be crazy to want to do this.”
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