Page 14. MAINE COASTAL NEWS August 2018 Boat And Ship Yard News


Wayne Beal 36 that is being repowered with a new John Deere diesel engine. Next to her is a sailboat getting a bottom job done. Allan Dugas, owner of the yard, said


there is no lack of work, but he added, “Not like last spring when we did fi ve repower all at once. That was not a lot of fun. Right now it is basically commissioning, but it has been defi nitely a hard spring.” As the 4th


was approaching, they had


more than 80 percent of their storage cus- tomers over and the rest due would be in before the big day. Allan was hoping that it slowed down a bit in July and August so they could get the yard cleaned up and some maintenance done.


One place I always enjoy stopping in is


At Royal River Boat Yard, they are doing the annual maintenance on this boat from MA. At Royal River Boat Yard in Yar-


mouth, things have not slowed down from the busy winter and spring and it does not look like it will for a while yet. Out in the yard, they have a 40-foot


Novi that they have pulled the engine out of. The engine was rebuilt, and they were now starting to put it back in. They also took the fuel tanks out, and to remove the engine they had to cut the deck out. That is all going back


together within the next couple of weeks. Also out in the yard, they have the


Newman 46 lobster boat EMILY BROOKE, which was redone at the yard a couple of years ago. This time she is getting some minor repair work done. The 48-foot lobster boat built out on


Chebeague Island a couple of years ago is in for some minor maintenance. In one bay of the main shop they have a


Riverside Boat Company of Newcastle. It is like stepping back in time with a number of older classics stored and maintained there. A big job this winter was making repairs


on a 50 foot hollow mast that had a lot of rot in it. Nat Bryant has done the work on this, replacing one side completely, the top 15 feet and also putting in several scarfs on the other side. The 36 foot boat this mast belongs to is thought to be a Rhodes design and was purchased by a new owner at another yard last year. When they went to step the mast it broke and the boat was brought to Riverside to have the repairs made. This project took more than a month to complete. It is interesting how when you make


a repair that there is another similar repair waiting to be done. Right now they have the mast out of SAZARAC, which needs repairing. She had copper bands around the mast and these allowed water to get in behind which caused the wood to rot. Presently they are replacing about 22 feet of the bottom of the mast and that should be done by the end of July. The winter and spring did not have any


real major projects, but it certainly had a lot of smaller ones. Paul Bryant, owner of the yard, said, “We've got a boat that was built over in Bremen in 1958 and we have done quite a lot of work on her, cabin and deck. Previous winters we have replaced fl oor timbers, frame ends, dead wood, stern post and bottom of the transom. MATTIE B. is another one we've done a lot of work on. A member of the family ran her aground on a ledge over in Sheepscot River and shook things up a little. She now has a lot of new frame ends, fl oors, and planking up forward


where she hit.” The boat I fell in love was NEENA,


which was built by Frank Rice of East Boothbay in 1925. She belongs to a family from Christmas Cove that have owned her since she was built. Paul added, “They used to have Parker Rice as a skipper to take the family out around Christmas Cove. He passed away and she's been pretty much run by the family ever since. She has had a few engines in her. When we fi rst stored her she had a Gray Marine V8 and then a 318 Chrysler, which has been rebuilt. She's going overboard today or tomorrow.” Another boat that is stored at the yard


is the schooner EAGLE, formerly owned by well-known yachtsman Dodge Morgan. She was his pride and joy and was built the year after NEENA. Paul explained, “She is an Alden Malabar Junior, that Murray Peterson bought from the insurance company. She went ashore over at Port Clyde in Hurricane Carol in 1954. He converted her into one of his schooner rigs and had to repair one side pretty seriously. She now summers over in Rockland.” Many of these Alden designs were built


here in the State of Maine, but this one was built in Rhode Island. Besides the repair work, several of


their customers asked them to build wooden ramps for their docks and fl oats. They built three of these, 30 and 36 feet long.


There is always a lot going on at Brion


Rieff Boatbuilder in Brooklin and right now is no diff erent. In the main shop, they have an 8-metre,


which was built in 1984. They have rede- signed the back half of the boat, making it wider by about two feet. She also received a new keel design with wings. They had to redo the cockpit and cabin house, which is what they are working on at this point. Next to her is a 28 footer Brion designed


and this project has been underway for a while, but she is close to being launched. For this one they built the carbon fi ber rig as well as the carbon fi ber fi n for the keel. If that was not enough they also fabricated all the custom bronze hardware in-house. Next to her, is a sailboat owned by a


Falmouth customer who had her built back in 2005. She is going to have a new carbon fi bre rig and a deeper carbon fi n keel by about a foot and a half fabricated in-house. They also widened the cockpit and then she is going to get a full cosmetic make-over. This boat will be back over in September so she can race in the Fall Series. Just started in the front of the shop is


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a 36-foot schooner designed by Brion. She has steam bent oak frames and planked with cedar. Some of the planking they were able to fi nd was 30 feet long. They hope to have her done next summer. Also in the shop is an Eastsail 25 pilot- house sailboat that they have been working on when time allows. Most of the work now is on her interior and deck. Presently this project is on hold, but they will begin on her again this fall.


One of the busiest boatbuilders of lob-


ster boats on the coast is S. W. Boatworks of Lamoine, but they still have some slots where they can get you a hull and maybe even fi nish it off . Right now they have a Calvin Beal 44


that they are fi nishing off as a lobster boat for a fi sherman from the mid-coast. Next to her is another Calvin Beal 44, which is also being fi nished off as a lobster boat for a fi sherman from the mid-coast. Both these boats are powered with 750-hp John Deere


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Photo Ann-e Blanchard


Photo Ann-e Blanchard


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