Page 14. MAINE COASTAL NEWS June 2018 Boat And Ship Yard News
Outside of Osmond’s shop is this Osmond 40 which was fi nished by Patrick Kelly, Winifred Alley and Raymond Alley this winter. They are now waiting for windows.
Gamage Shipyard South Bristol has
had a very busy fall, winter and spring and it does not look like it is going to let up anytime soon.
A major project was on a Murray Pe-
terson schooner built 1963, which was in to have repairs made to her keel, re-caulk her decks and running rigging. Next year she will be back to have additional work, which will include dropping the keel and repairing
her deadwood. Inside the main shop, is a Dyer 29 which is having a new mahogany house with hard top put on. She was also repowered with a 220 hp John Deere. A Shannon 38 was painted, deck re-
done, bowsprit, rigging and some teak joiner work.
An Alden 48 was in for an electronics package.
This is the yacht ATLANTIDE, which is getting her annual maintenance, which includes lots and lots of varnish, at Front Street Shipyard in Belfast.
A Legacy received a new fuel tank, gen set and varnish work. A Grand Banks trawler had some re-
wiring done, new water tanks installed and repaired the black water system. The Crosby launch from Oceanside was
in to be upgraded and readied for the new season.
Four Banks Cove 22 was in this winter
and Awlgripped with one more scheduled to be done.
The bus, has been a major project over
the last two winters. This was a total rebuild with an entire custom wood interior, lots of systems, solar panels on top and a complete- ly new suspension system to make her road legal. She is now being used by her owner.
To keep up with what is going on at
Front Street Shipyard in Belfast you would have to be there every month. A major project over the last two win-
ters was the motor yacht SINBAD, which was mechanically and systems-wise a total rebuild. JB Turner, President of the yard, said,
“The interior woodwork is generally orig- inal. As far as the engine room goes, only the main engine, but not the transmission. Everything else two new generators, wa- ter-maker, water system, black and gray water tanks rebuilt, plumbing systems re- done, air conditioning system redone, and hydraulic systems redone. The wiring we got the go ahead on last fall and that was what kept her here for the winter. We had to do
a whole new main distribution panel. Then full paint, top to bottom, plating on the bot- tom in the way of the engine room, stainless steel fl ange under the cap rail, so it won't rust there anymore, rebuilt the windlass, rebuilt the bow thruster, everything.” She was launched in April and they
were commissioning all of the systems, bringing them online one at a time. Once all this work is done she will be ballasted once they receive all the calculations for the new tankage. They hoped that by the end of April they would start up her main engine. In another bay in the main shop is
ZENYTTA, a gunboat 62. They have re- moved the generator and are completely rewiring the entire boat from 12 to 24 volts, which meant that all her systems had to be converted. They put in a solar system with Lithium ion batteries, and this system will be enough to charge the batteries and will be able to run the air conditioning and basically not have to have a generator anymore. JB added, “We had to peel her bottom and then get the water out of the core. We added new carbon davits, new traveler system, new aft tiller steering system, so we had to rebuild the whole backend of the boat. They then repainted the whole boat. In Building 1, they have a Hinckley
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70, which is also a massive refi t. They re-confi gured the cockpit, so that it is more ergonomically viable; engine was removed and sent over to Billing’s Diesel & Marine to be rebuilt; new generator; new PTO system; new stern thruster and the bow thruster was rebuilt; three new fuel tanks up forward to replace a water tank, so they can motor all the way to Bermuda; cut the skeg and rudder off and put on a carbon rudder; new mast wiring and electrical layout, new hydraulic system, new fuel manifold system, new electronics; and then the hull and deck were painted and a new teak deck was laid. A Burger 80 has had a new sewage sys-
tem added and this meant a lot of replumb- ing; new water heaters; new plumbing for the fresh water system; a lot of deck work; repainted the bulwarks; repainted the over- head, side deck and boat deck. A Dogger Bank 88, was brought in in
early May. While outside they started the hull prep and are putting on new stabilizers. To do that they had to cut the water tank open all the way across the boat, move the forward end of it aft by two feet, so they could fi t the new stabilizers in. Another major refi t was on a Morris 36 sailboat, one of Morris' older models. They were completely redoing the deck and hull, which included paint. While doing the hull, they discovered water in the core and deck areas. They removed the eff ected core and replaced it, fi lled a number of holes, and now
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Photo Ann-e Blanchard
Photo Ann-e Blanchard
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