September 2008 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 17.
Boat And Ship Yard News
The big news at Finestkind Boat Yard table, which can be removed. They faired the
in Harpswell is the new storage building hull and deck, redid the boot and cove strip.
going up. The building is 7,200 square feet They also had to redo some of the work last
and is already 25 percent filled. The yard is year in the cockpit, because the wood
offering package deals, which includes moved.
everything. This building was delivered on Next in the shop will be an 18-foot
24 July and will be completed by Labor Day. Lyman Islander built in the 1950s. She needs
If you are interested in storing close to to have work on the windshield, rails, deck,
Portland, here is a great opportunity. transom and some frames.
However call quickly it is filling up fast! Also a dory is waiting for new rails and
There has been a lot of engine work breasthook. All were attached to the
done at the yard this year. A Beal 31 was in forestay, which was ripped out when the
this past winter and was repowered. They owner tried to launch her near a tree.
removed a four-cylinder John Deere and They will also be replacing the rail on a
replaced it with a 6 cylinder John Deere 46-foot sailboat. This was damaged in a
diesel. Another Beal 31 was in for engine hurricane. Hadden will be doing the wood
work. She had her 318 Chrysler gasoline work and her owner the fiberglass.
engine replaced with a 63-Series Volvo
Work progressing on the bow of the Grand Banks schooner ERNESTINA at Boothbay
diesel. They also did some rewiring. A JC 31 Boothbay Harbor Shipyard (formerly
Harbor Shipyard in Boothbay.
was in and changed out her older 63-Series Sample’s) in Boothbay Harbor has been
sardine carrier GLEN GEARY, which was fall, but it must be clean.
Volvo diesel for a new DG Volvo. A Navy extremely busy this summer.
built by Newbert & Wallace in 1946 and Last winter they worked on a 30-foot
launched was in and she is having her Up on the main railway is the 114-year
worked for years for the Stinson company. Blackwater with twin 350s. They replaced
Atomic diesel rebuilt. She will go in later this old Grand Banks schooner ERNESTINA (x-
The yard purchased her and they are now her battery boxes, some thru-hulls,
summer. E. F. MORRISSEY) from New Bedford. She
looking for some purchase her. They have windows, cockpit decks and then repainted
A Cal35 was in and had her hardware was designed by George McLain and built
had her surveyed, rebuilt the engine, the cockpit, exhaust and engine work,
and hatches removed and rebedded. She by James and Tarr of Essex, Massachusetts.
removed the fiberglass fish hold and done replaced the cutlass bearings, shaft and
then had her topsides repainted and they She is treenail fastened with double sawn
cosmetics. propellers, added heat exchangers,
rebuilt her diesel engine. frames. The ERNESTINA was once owned
electronics and stereo.
The charter boat FINESTKIND III was by the Putnam family and sailed within 578
Coastal Boat Works, right on Route 1 One of their major jobs this summer was
in last winter and they removed her miles of the North Pole, which is the closest
in Edgecomb has had a steady flow of work on a 32-foot Sea Ray. She suffered some
pilothouse to put on a composite roof and a sailing vessel has come to the pole. She
all summer. They have done a lot of boat fiberglass damage, along with bent shafts,
then put the pilothouse back on. then became a Cape Verde Packet and did
hauling, which includes the delivery of new struts, propellers and rudders.
One of the big jobs was on a catamaran, numerous voyages between the Cape Verde
boats to their owners, especially Back Cove They just finished work on the lobster
a Stiletto 27, which was struck by lightning. Islands and New Bedford. She was donated
and Southport Island. They are well known boat STACY ANN, a Duffy 35, from Round
The lightning damaged the honeycomb by her owners to the Commonwealth of
for shrink wrapping and this has been going Pond. She had her cutlass bearing and zincs
core, which has been replaced and they also Massachusetts and has become the
on all year. Not only do they wrap boats for replaced, a new engine box and hydraulic
rewired her. Commonwealth’s vessels. She was towed to
outside storage, but also for boats being tank added. They then painted the bottom
Another good project was repairing a the yard earlier this summer by the tug
worked on. They covered the HMS and boot stripe. She was scheduled to be
Tanzer 22, which had gone aground. The JAGUAR for work on her bow. They are
BOUNTY, which was 6,000 square feet and launched early in August.
keel was removed and the damaged area was replacing fifteen frames from the waterline
was done in six hours. Also every one that A lot of small repair and engine work has
reglassed. They also found areas in the deck up. All the pieces that are removed are being
shrinkwraps their boat should know that already been scheduled for the coming
where the core was soft, and these were also cataloged by a group of children.
they recycle shrinkwrap. They will be
repaired. ERNESTINA needs more work on the hull,
accepting this at their Route 1 location this
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The well-known lobster boat racer but the yard is waiting for an okay from the
WHISTLIN’ DIXIE was in the yard early this Commonwealth.
summer and had lifting rails added, which One the other ways is the schooner
did give her some added speed on the race HAVEY GAMAGE, which is up having a
courses. series of frames and planks replaced
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Hadden Boat Company of Georgetown end of August. This vessel is owned by the
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put on hold. This was the total rebuilding of home in Boothbay Harbor.
a 32-foot Harold Gower built lobster boat for Up in the shop is the Fife designed
a customer from Massachusetts. BELLE ADVENTURE, which was built at
Hadden is now working on a Beetle cat, Fairlee, Scotland in 1929. They had
which is in for her annual maintenance. She completed the work requested, which
was scheduled to be launched the third week included systems, interior facelift, upgrade
of July. to an American electrical system and
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