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27 January Page 59. It is said by a man acquainted with the


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business, that in addition to the ice staked out on the Penobscot by regular companies, fi eld aggregating 180,000 tons in contents have been staked out from this city to Emery’s Point by adventurers in the business who would cut under favorable circumstances. The recent cold wave will however have a dampening eff ect on the ardor of these people. The regular companies here will cut about as much as originally intended no matter what the weather, but a contin- ued cold spell would probably put an end to stacking preparations. [Commercial] * * * * *


Messrs. Goss, Sawyer & Packard of


Bath have nine vessels, large and small, under way in their yards. They have over 600 names on their pay roll. T. R. Hagan has ready for launching a fi ne schooner of about 80 tons, named GEORGE W. CUSHING, owned by Cushing and McKenney, and oth- ers of Portland. She is to be employed in the fi shing business under command of Captain George Cushing, late of schooner YOUNG SULTAN. Master Hagan has a fi ne fi shing schooner of 140 tons under way to be off in March, for Carney & Prince and others of Portland, and one of 150 tons to be off in May for Lewis & Whitten, and others of Portland. * * * * *


Hallowell is now a beehive of industry.


In addition to her regular manufactories scores of men are employed in the ice busi- ness. The Granite Ice Company are laying foundations for two permanent houses on Granite Wharf and have some 50 men at work. The houses will each be 200 feet long, 35 feet wide and 30 feet posts and their combined capacity will be about 12,000 tons. This company has a fi eld of 15 acres all scraped and will begin housing the middle of next week. Right across the river from this wharf on a little island, Elias Milliken of Au- gusta is to stack some 10,000 to 15,000 tons. The Knickerbocker folks are increasing the capacity of their houses on Steam Mill Point. * * * * *


Orland derives quite an annual income


from her fi sheries. Powers & Emerson, John Buck and E. B. Gilley own collectively eight vessels which annually sail for the Grand Banks in the spring and usually return with good fares. The last season’s catch of codfi sh footed up $30,200. Large quantities of smelts are taken in nets near the Orland shore, opposite Verona, in the winter. A. R. Buck, a trader at Orland village, made one shipment by steamer last winter of 7,800 pounds. The largest catch at one pulling of a net yielded one ton in weight. The markets are Boston and New York and the price received averages about 7 cents per pound. The salmon weirs are arranged on a large scale and at considerable cost. The shores from Orland extending to Fort Point are well occupied by weirs extending into the river but many are taken at diff erent points along


Boat & Shipyard News


the shore extending nearly up to Bangor. * * * * *


Mr. C. J. Hall of the Belfast Foundry and


the Otter Creek (Mount Desert) Red Granite Quarry is making arrangements to largely increase his already fl ourishing business. The embarrassments connected with the Foundry property arising from litigation between the present owner and former owners have recently been amicably settled leaving it in proper shape for development. Mr. Hall is now establishing a granite yard on the wharf of the Foundry Company and putting in polishing machinery, where he intends to fi nish up red granite for all kinds of ornamental work and do monumental and cemetery work in all its branches from gray, white and red granites. Mr. Hall has recently shipped some of his red granite to O. A. Crockett of this city and is fi nishing more for other parties here. The buildings and yard at Belfast are spacious and so situated that cars or vessels can be loaded or discharged with the power directly from the engine in the Foundry building. By having the polishing works so contiguous to the Machine Shop and Foundry it will greatly facilitate that branch of the work, as well as give excellent opportunity for improving and producing polishing machinery of the highest class, which Mr. Hall intends to make a specialty.


Page 60. The Halifax Herald says: The Inter- colonial Railway offi cials are making in-


Two Calvin Beal Boats


Continued from Page 1. The motor vessel STAR is a Calvin Beal


fi nished out as a very well-appointed cruiser. The owner of this boat heard about the Cal- vin boats from friends and then researched S. W. Boatworks on the Internet. They came and met Stewart at the Newport Boat Show three years ago. Got a ride on the boat that was there at the show, and placed their order. Stewart Workman, owner of S. W. Boat-


One of the most interesting projects over the last couple of winters on the coast of Maine has been this bus, which has been totally rebuilt into an incredible showcase for the owner at the Gamage Shipyard in South Bristol.


Continued from Page 14.


she is going to look brand new. The motor yacht ATLANTIDE went


into the water early in May. She had been stored in the main shop and they put in a new galley sole, replaced a couple of windows that were getting foggy and lots and lots of varnish work. A couple sportfi shing boats are also in


the main shop, a Merritt and a Ribovich, which have had their annual maintenance and some other work and are almost ready to go over. The Merritt had some fairly major work done on one of her main engines and then had some stern work done, which in- cluded stripping the transom and revarnish- ing. The Ribovich had some rudder bearing work done. A 36 foot excursion boat from Nantuck-


et was in for a new cockpit, new fl ybridge deck, new electronics and she was scheduled to be in the water early in May. Like all the storage yards on the coast it is now time to start commissioning for the


upcoming season and every day more are put overboard. As this work winds up, the summer will still be extremely busy right through the fall. Yes, there are the transient boats for various work, but they already have four paint from boats coming up from the south to do this summer as well as two others in the fall. They also are putting up Building 6,


which will go into the parking lot next to the big new building, Building 5. (See article on page 15.) As for the ferries, JB said, “We’re put-


ting out more of bids as there is a bunch of activity right now. They don't give you much time to turn around the bid, like two or three weeks. So we are trying to do the pre-work on that so when we adjust to what they want and put the numbers in. It seems like we clearly have an upper hand on the electric side because the boats have to be light. We can give them much more performance, especially if you've got a long run. It looks good, and hopefully later this summer, late fall we will have an order.”


works, said, “She is rigged for whatever you want to do: cruising, diving, or sportfi shing. She is fi tted out with a galley down with Corian countertops, a big old fl uff y nest up front and a head with shower to starboard. Up here we have some Pompanette chairs, two on the portside and one at the helm, all state of the art equipment, Furuno nav-net system and lots of solar panels. You can sleep two up front and two in the settee and one on the bench seat on the starboard side. She is all trimmed out with cherry.” She is powered with a QSC 8.3, 500-


hp Cummins. Stewart said that she top out about 20 knots and cruise nicely around 15 or 16 knots. He added, “She is an economi- cal engine and very, very quiet. You want to fi gure these boats rigged up this way, are big and heavy, about 34,000 pounds. This boat makes a cruiser, because they don't roll, very stiff , a nice comfortable platform.” In fact, if you want to see this boat S. W.


Boatworks will be showing her at the New- port International Boat Show in September. In the shop, they have a 45 foot Young


Brothers sportfi shing yacht, which will be going to Boothbay Harbor; a 44 Calvin Beal lobster boat; and they have a 50 foot Calvin Beal hull they are fi nishing up. They have got a number of Calvin 44 lobster boats to do after that, plus a Calvin 36 pleasure boat and they just received a contract for a Rhode Island Marine Patrol vessel, which will use a Calvin 36 hull .


quiries for a vessel to carry 20,000 bushels of wheat from Halifax to London and the lowest rate that will be accepted for ocean freight. The shipment it is understood depends upon the rate of ocean freight. * * * * *


The steamer MAY FIELD is now


running regularly between Bucksport and Rockland, touching at way landings. * * * * *


The steamer CITY OF PORTLAND


of the International Line, is laid up at Portland for repairs, and the NEW BRUNSWICK is running in her place. * * * * *


The fi rst assessment of $20 per share


upon the capital stock of the Portland, Bangor Mount Desert and Machias Steam- boat Company is payable at the offi ce of the treasurer at Portland, February 10. * * * * *


The CAMBRIDGE, which is hauled


up at Boston, is having very extensive repairs on her boiler and engine. Very fortunately there will be no repairs on her hull needed. She will not come on the route again for five or six weeks. * * * * *


The new International Line steamer


building at Bath is progressing fi nely. The boilers are in position and the heavy machin- ery is now being put in and the boat covered over to enable the fi nish to be put on. The company have hired workmen and will do the brass and tin work on the boat themselves. * * * * *


The new steamer PENOBSCOT is un-


der the Atlantic Company’s shears at East Boston to receive her engines and other machinery. The engines are to be fi tted in the shops, which will save very much trou- ble after being put aboard. She will come on the route at the opening of navigation and run one season without coppering, after which she will be nicely coppered and probably run as a winter boat. She will cost fully $150,000. [Rockland Courier-Gazette]


Willis Beal


...SPRUCE III Continued from Page 6.


close, but I could see the round of the stern wasn't completely round, it was a little bit egg-shaped. Some people thought that it was completely round, and might have been on some of them, but Frost boats had a little bit of an egg-shape to them.” Willis added, “I had one of Alvin's


miniature boats, torpedo stern, and I talked with him quite a bit,” said Willis. “He told me, diff erent things. The main thing that really helped me the most, was how to put in a round coaming. I had never put one in, never had seen one put in and he explained what I needed to do and it fi t perfectly.” When Willis launched the fi rst torpedo


stern boat, ALICIA B. in 1988 it was like a 4th


of July celebration as one had not been


launched for nearly 50 years. The wharves and bridge was full of people as was his shop with people wanting to help. Willis said, “We got it in the water and Farrell Lenfesty came over from the wharf next door and he said “Willis, tears coming right down his cheeks, I've got to tell ya, it looks just like the DART that I had that Frost built.” It brought back such good memories to him and a lot of others the same way. They told me how blessed they were to see another one of those boats.”


ALICIA B. is now the O. M. P. and


homeported with her sister TATIANA in Port Clyde.


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