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Alden Yawls Nirvana and Valhalla
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • 1951
  • In Copyright
Alden Yawls Nirvana and Valhalla
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Identifier:
  • swhpl-15405
Type:
  • Publication, Literary, Article
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
Date:
  • 1951
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
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • 1950-02-11
  • In Copyright
Maine Yard Building Sixty-Foot Yachts
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Identifier:
  • swhpl-15404
Type:
  • Publication, Clipping
Subject:
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
Publisher:
  • The New York Times
Date:
  • 1950-02-11
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]