Description: 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]
File Attachment: Natalie Todd - Schooner - ex Virginia, Araho, later American Pride.pdf …She emerged as the gaff-rigged "Natalie Todd," an excursion boat running out of BarHarbor, 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
File Attachment: Amos Swan - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat.pdf …He was president of the College of the Atlantic in BarHarbor, 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.
File Attachment: 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, BarHarbor, Southwest Harbor and Machiasport.
Description: 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]
File Attachment: 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 Harborbar.