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Natalie Todd - Schooner
Virginia - Schooner
Araho - Schooner
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Natalie Todd - Schooner
Virginia - Schooner
Araho - Schooner
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Schooner "Araho" began life in 1941 as the two-masted wooden schooner, "Virginia," designed by Alan Woods and built at Muller Boat Works, Brooklyn, New York for the Virginia Corporation, Inc. "Virginia" was 129’ long, 21’ beam, 10’ draught, 199 gross tons and had a single screw propeller driven by a 150 HP diesel engine. She was built of white oak with a teak deck. She spent 40 years commercial fisher trawling the Grand and George’s Banks. [show more]


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Natalie Todd - Schooner - ex Virginia, Araho, later American Pride.pdf
…She emerged as the gaff-rigged "Natalie Todd," an excursion boat running out of Bar Harbor, Maine. …Todd" was purchased by the Children's Maritime Foundation in October 1996 and began a 7500 mile sail through the Panama Canal to her new home in Rainbow Harbor
Amos Swan - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Friendship Sloop
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Amos Swan - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Amos Swan - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat.pdf
…He was president of the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, and he had bought this old twenty-six-footer sloop called the Amos Swan. …In the fall I brought her across the harbor, and we finished her in the storage building behind my house on Clark Point Road. …The shop on Clark Point Road was Ralph s great uncle Jimmy s house and shed at 102 Clark Point Road, Southwest Harbor, Maine.
Forest City - Sidewheel Walking Beam Passenger Steamer
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Vessels, Steamboat
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
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Forest City - Sidewheel Walking Beam Passenger Steamer.pdf
…She was largely responsible for the capture of the daring Confederate raiders who boarded Revenue Cutter, Caleb Cushing in Portland Harbor in 1863. the …Charles Deering organized the Boston and Maine Steamship Co. to run Boston, Castine, Bar Harbor, Southwest Harbor and Machiasport.
No-Name - Lobster Boat - Built for Joseph Elwood Spurling
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
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This no-name spray hood lobster boat was originally owned by Joseph Elwood Spurling. The vessel had been brought up to Maine by summer people and so started out life as being slightly more elegant than the common fishing boat. She was planked with southern cedar and copper fastened. Elwood used her for weir fishing. He later sold it to Henry Lewis Linscott. When Ralph Ober Phippen owned the vessel he used it for lobster fishing. – Ralph Warren Stanley, 2009. [show more]


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No-Name - Lobster Boat – Built for Joseph Elwood Spurling.pdf
…Clement is an expert boat builder and this product of his skill has brought him much praise from those who understand seagoing craft. " Bar Harbor
Aloha I - Brig Rigged Yacht
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Vessels, Ship
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Aloha I - Brig Rigged Yacht
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Aloha I - Brig Rigged Yacht.pdf
…By 1939 James owned Aloha III, a steam yacht that visited Bar Harbor. Author: Charlotte Morrill
Betty Lou - Lobster Boat
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
  • In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Betty Lou - Lobster Boat
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Betty Lou - Lobster Boat.pdf
…The theory was that he and Fred ran out of gas outside of Baker s Island somewhere, and they drifted across the Bass Harbor bar.