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You searched for: Contributor: Southwest Harbor Public Library✖Date: 1950s✖Place: [blank]✖Subject: Businesses✖Subject: Boatbuilding Business✖Type: Publication✖
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Alden Yawls Nirvana and Valhalla Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Alden Yawls Nirvana and Valhalla Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Floor and sail plans for two yawls, the Nirvana and the Valhalla, designed by John G. Alden in 1948 and built by the Henry R. Hinckley company in 1949-1950. | ||
Maine Yard Building Sixty-Foot Yachts Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Maine Yard Building Sixty-Foot Yachts Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The clipping reads: "MANSET, Me., Feb. 10 (AP) Yacht builders of Manset have resumed an art dormant since pre-war days, the fashioning of king-sized pleasure craft on Mount Desert Island. Of "two sixty-footers now building, one is a future. Bermuda race contender ordered by Harry G. Haskell Jr. of Wilmington, Del. and Northeast Harbor. The other will fly the flag of Cummins Catherwood of Philadelphia. The yachts are. on ways of Henry R. Hinckley & Co. Shipwrights expect Mr. Haskell's craft will be launched in April or May. The tentative date for the other launching is June 17." The Catherwood boat was the Valhalla. The Haskell boat was the Nirvana. [show more] |