Boats
Morris Yachts: Ocean Series 48 GT
The new Morris Ocean Series 48 GT has more sail area, a lighter hull, and a redesigned interior. Morris Yachts also took note of many small features that customers appreciate and worked them into this distinctive Chuck Paine design.
Islesford Boatworks: Tubby Legs
<em>Tubby Legs</em>, a Finboat designed by Harry Bryan of New Brunswick, Canada, has a flexible fin off the stern. Reciprocating foot pedals push the fin back and forth, propelling the vessel through the water like an undulating fish. It’s the eighth boat built at Islesford Boatworks, a summer boatbuilding school.
Sabre Yachts: Salon Express 42
Cruising with the Sabre Salon Express 42.
Big, Bold, and Handsome
Most Maine boatbuilders who cater to commercial fishermen will tell you the same thing: 2014 was the year of the big boat. The majority of those big boats were built for lobstering. We look at a few of them.
D.N. Hylan: Bagatelle
<em>Bagatelle</em> is a pretty 26-foot wooden weekend cruiser designed and built by D.N. Hylan and Associates in Brooklin.
Front Street Shipyard: T33
The new Trefoil 33 Patrol Cat could play a starring role in a spy novel. Front Street Shipyard is building these nimble catamarans, high-speed patrol boats designed for shallow rivers and rough ocean water, for Trefoil Marine.
Cottrell Boatbuilding: Two Moths
Cottrell Boatbuilding of Searsport, Maine, built a pair of custom classic Moths for a customer who had raced Moths when he was young. His charge to the Cottrells: “Design and build me two identical Moths within the classic Moth rules.”
Cottrell Boatbuilding: Two Moths
Cottrell Boatbuilding of Searsport, Maine, built a pair of custom classic Moths for a customer who had raced Moths when he was young. His charge to the Cottrells: “Design and build me two identical Moths within the classic Moth rules.”
Brooklin Boat: Dreadnought
Dreadnought</em> is a sleek cold-molded sloop launched by Brooklin Boat Yard the summer of 2014.
Artisan Boatworks: Vim
Rebuilt and re-engineered this year by Artisan Boatworks, the 1950s lobsteryacht <em>Vim</em> houses a full suite of modern systems, hidden under a classically restored exterior.
