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BELFAST – When you create a new model, even if it is from an existing one, you cur- rently produce, how she is going to look and perform can be a worry. In the fall of 2016, Holland Boat Shop
in Belfast was asked to build a Holland 35 by shortening a Holland 38, to replace a Holland 32, which was lost to a fi re. The hull was delivered last winter to her owner Steve Carver of Jonesport, who fi nished her off on Beals Island and named her ANOTHER DIRLS. She went overboard in mid-spring and since that time the reviews by her owner and several others who have had rides has been extremely positive. However, the real test would be what would Glenn Holland think as he can be extremely critical on looks and performance, especially on his own boats. Glenn said of the building aspect, “Ba-
sically we just built a 38-footer and cut 2½ feet out of it so she's 35 feet 6 inches long. It wasn't real diffi cult, just time consuming. The actual man hours to do something like this aren't too bad, it's just that you gotta get things in shape and then glass them and go off and leave it for a few hours or the rest of the day. You've got to wait for the glass to cure, and that depends on how much strain is on it. Some parts went together a little tough so you could only glass a section about 6 inches long and go off and leave it.” Glenn added, “The only hard part really
was in the end, black shows every blemish. You had to be super fussy and we spent an awful lot of time trying to blend everything in.”
We know Glenn liked her looks as it was said if he did not, it would never have left
BERNARD – One of the most popular day- sailors built has to be the Bridge’s Point 24. For years this classic looking boat was built at Bridge’s Point Boat Yard in Brooklin, but about four years ago the moulds were sold to Bill Wright of Bernard. He has his fi rst one under construction with the hope to have her ready for the Newport International Boat Show this September. Bridge’s Point Boat Yard is owned by
Wade Dow and he was looking to sell the moulds for the Bridge’s Point 24 and he ap- proached Jock Williams at Hall’s Quarry to see if he was interested. He was not, but Bill Wright, who was working there at the time, along with his father, purchased the moulds.
the shop. He would have sawed it up right there and burned it. At the Moosabec Reach Lobster Boat Races, Glenn jumped on board ANOTHER DIRLS and now the question what did he think of her performance. After- wards he stated, “The boat goes pretty good. He hadn’t touched the engine, she is stone stock and if you just touch that throttle she jumps. If you ain't hanging on, you are on your ass or overboard.” Glenn was not concerned with the changes and how she was going to perform as he said when you scale the 35 down she has the proportions as the 30, which was the original design for the 32. He added, “For some peculiar reason, I think she is going just as fast as the 38. Usually when you cut a boat off , they end up going a little slower. This one doesn't seem to. I was talking to Mark Dickinson at Nautilus Marine and the effi ciency numbers he was giving me were unbelievable. Most lobster boats will fall in the 80 percent range, 80 percent effi ciency, 20 percent slippage. These boats do a little better, usually in the mid-80s. Well, if he's right, and he said he calculated it a couple of times just to make sure, he said that one of Stevie's is way above that.” Glenn would not disclose the number,
as he wanted to make sure they were right and if they were he wanted to fi nd out why. The why could be an interesting question. He added, “That's a damn good question. Maybe in the process of cutting her we actu- ally fi xed something that wasn't quite right. We spent an awful a lot of time under the boat making sure everything was just exactly the way we wanted it. Come this fall, when he hauls that thing up for the winter, I want to
Bridge's Point 24 Back in Production
A couple of years ago he had a hull laid up and has been working on it when he could. Earlier this year, Bill left John Williams & Company and now can focus full-time on building them. Unfortunately, Bill’s father passed away about a year ago. Bill is about 75 percent done, the interi-
or is complete and the engine is in, and now what is let is the fi nish work. Over the years Wade built 82 Bridge’s
Point 24s. Bill’s father, who lived on Cape Cod, owned Hull #23 and loved the boat. She was designed by Joel White for Wade giving him something to do in the winter when he
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The fi rst Holland 35, ANOTHER DIRLS, competing in the lobster boat races at Rockland.
get down there and look around and see if I can see something.” The problem might be there were other
changes made, most notably rails were added just under the waterline before she was launched. That means that you do not know which change made the diff erence. Glenn did notice that when the big boats went by them at the start line at the races she did not roll, but was this because of the rails, he said, “Who knows. I would have loved to have seen that boat go overboard without the damn things, just to see if there is a diff erence.” Most know what Glenn thinks about
rails and he said, “If I ever fi nish one here, it ain't going to have any rails on it when it goes out the door. If they want, they can do it later, because I ain't doing it. I don't care how much money they want to give me.” Glenn said that he had not heard any
feedback, but everyone knows what Stevie Carver thinks, he absolutely loves it. He wanted a 35 back when he built BIGGER DIRLS in 1999, but just could not get Glenn to do it. The silence might be attributed that
fi shermen right now are waiting to see what this season brings before they think about a new boat. The next questions is should he build a
mould for it? Glenn said, “It would take a hell of a lot of orders.” When asked if ten would do it he responded, “I'm not even sure that would do it. I will tell you what happens, I have got a mould out there at the end of the driveway for the 38, a cruiser-type top. All the way through the 90s, half of the boats we were building had that top on it. We took the standard top and modifi ed it. Well, fi nally we said we might just as well build a mould for that thing. You know how many decks have come out of that mould, two. I spent all that money on that mould and I built two decks out of it. It's down there now with trees growing out of it. If I'm only going to end up building a half a dozen of the 35sit wouldn't justify building a new mould. People don't realize how much work, aggravation, and money it takes to do that.” One can be assured that another will be
ord ered as she certainly lived up to expecta- tions, so who is next?
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