FAIRHAVEN, MA – While southern shipyards continue to be a major force in new vessel construction for the New Bedford fleet, the recent completion of the scalloper C.B. Keane by Fairhaven Shipyard Companies makes one point clear. Big steel boatbuilding is back in New England and Fairhaven Shipyard is leading the charge. When father-son team …
25 NEW BOATS of 2014 – sponsored by Furuno • DETAILS • SPECS • PHOTOS • COMMENTS • PLUS: Featured launching Sea Monster – Modified REPCO honors Pinkham’s father Click cover to open Flip-book
BASS HARBOR, ME – Cold – oh, wasn’t it cold. Whatever the thermometer said was one thing; the wind screeching out of the northwest added its own twist. You almost had to lean into it to make headway from the car to the door of Richard Stanley’s boat shop on the nubble of Little Island …
New 42 gets the XXL beam treatment Sometimes 15’3″ just isn’t wide enough. Take Matt Huntley’s new 42 Osmond Mattie Lynn II, for instance. H&H Marine of Steuben, ME offers the Osmond Beal-designed model with a standard beam of a little over 15 feet – but Bucks Harbor lobsterman Matt Huntley wanted all the optional …
Thirty years or so of saying ‘Why not?’ STEUBEN, ME – “Man, that’s a big boat.” Not a very insightful statement, for sure, but it’s the first thing that came out of my mouth when I looked down into one of the hulls being finished at H&H Marine Inc. “Seventeen feet six inches wide by …
Modified REPCO honors Pinkham’s father BEALS ISLAND, ME – You’re never going to find another REPCO like lobsterman Veril “Suki” Pinkham’s. To be clear, you shouldn’t have a problem finding a REPCO 37, which is what Suki Pinkham’s Sea Monster was when it first hit the water back in 1976. During the 1970s, a …
NEW BEDFORD, MA – Launched last year, the Kelly S is life-long fisherman Ray Starvish’s sixth new boat and likely the last he will personally commission for his fleet. The 95-footer is identical to Starvish’s Defiant, which was launched in 2002. Why the new-build now? Starvish explained that there were three reasons: He knew his …
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Builder: SW Boatworks, Lamoine, ME Finisher: David Schlaefer, Bernard, ME w/ John Thurston and Lance Closson Owner: Lewis Bishop, Bass Harbor, ME Dimensions: 40’x13’6″x3’10” Designer: Ernest Libby Jr., Beals Island, ME Fishery: Lobster Hull: Solid fiberglass Top: Custom top by David Schlaefer; fiberglass w/foam core Power: QSL9 Cummins (405 hp @2100 rpm) w/2:1 ZF 305A …
NEW BEDFORD, MA – So what’s happening at Eastern Fisheries in New Bedford these days? Plenty, it turns out, with the arrival of two more brand new 90′ scallopers for long-time business partners Peter Anthony and Ron and Roy Enoksen of Nordic Fisheries and the O’Hara family of Rockland, ME. The partners are moving towards …
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