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You searched for: Subject: BusinessesSubject: VesselsSubject: Boatbuilding Business
Title Type Subject Creator Date Place Rights
Yawl, Venturer - Coming Out of the Shed
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1956-05-14
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • In Copyright
Yawl, Venturer - Coming Out of the Shed
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
The automobile to the right of the vessel is a circa 1948 Jeep CJ (Civilian Jeep) Note the peavey stuck into the ground (above the “O” on the “DETOUR” sign). A peavey is a logging tool with a wooden shaft and metal hook invented in 1857 by blacksmith Joseph Daniel Peavey (1799-1873) of Stillwater, Maine, as a refinement to the cant hook to manhandle logs on logging runs. The Peavey Manufacturing Co. is still located in Maine (Eddington, Maine) and manufactures several variations. [show more]
Launching Lobster Yacht Albacore III at Robert Farnsworth Rich, Bass Harbor Boat Inc.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
  • Rich - Roger Clifton Rich (1913-1996)
  • 1955
  • Tremont, Bernard
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
R-Class Racing Sloop Jack Tar - Rebuilt for Margaret Peggy (McGrath) Rockefeller
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Sloop
  • 1978
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Lobster Boat Ajax Built for Carl Colson Buddy Lawson Jr.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
  • 1970
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Lobster Boat Ajax Built for Carl Colson Buddy Lawson Jr.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
  • 1970
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Open Streamlined Boat
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
  • 1948
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Open Streamlined Boat
Southwest Harbor Public Library
The Henry R. Hinckley Company - Southwest Boat Corporation - Howie Robinson in a Lobster Boat
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
The Sheet Metal shop is on the left and the Lower Shop is on the right. Howie Robinson at left.
Open Streamlined Boat
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
  • 1948
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Open Streamlined Boat
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Open Streamlined Boat
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
  • 1948
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Open Streamlined Boat
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Ralph W. Stanley's Lobster Boat Seven Girls Under Repair
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
  • 1992-05-20
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Lobster Boat Rachel Ann Built by Ralph W. Stanley for Emerson Forbes Spurling Sr.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
  • 1961
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Lobster Boat Built for Oscar Ove Krantz - In the Shop
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
  • 1957
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Tugboat Benj. F. Jones launching at the Bass Harbor Boat Shop
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Service Vessel, Tugboat
  • Tremont, Bernard
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Lennox L. Bink Sargent and Chester Warren Stanley with Framework for a Mine Yawl at Southwest Boat Corporation
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat
  • 1944 c.
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Mine Yawls were built for the army during World War II for laying and tending mines. This one could have been either a tow yawl or a mine yawl.
R-Class Racing Sloop Jack Tar Stripped to the Timbers
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph, Photographic Print
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Sloop
  • Westphal - David Westphal
  • 1978
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Hauling a Ronald Dean Rich boat at Rich & Grindle Boat Shop
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Lobster Boat
  • Rich - Roger Clifton Rich (1913-1996)
  • 1962
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
The man on the tractor may have been Kenneth E. Billings (1915-2002) of Billings & Hamblen Construction. The vessel may be the "Carolyn J." built for Arnold Jenks and launched in the spring of 1962.
Raymond Adelbert Bunker at Work in the Hinckley Shop on Cruiser Patsy S.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1938-04-20
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • In Copyright
Description:
The photograph shows the use of spliced frames, "split frames." Split frames were sawed on the band saw. "Every boat around here was built that way." They would bend the frames in. "The timber goes down in the gain socket." - Ralph Stanley, March 4, 2013.
Ferry Vinalhaven II Under Construction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1943-03-04
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright
Ferry Vinalhaven II Under Construction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Ferry Vinalhaven II Under Construction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1943-03-04
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright
Ferry Vinalhaven II Under Construction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Ferry Vinalhaven II Under Construction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1943-03-04
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright
Ferry Vinalhaven II Under Construction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Ferry Vinalhaven II Under Construction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1943-03-04
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright
Ferry Vinalhaven II Under Construction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Robert Farnsworth Rich in overalls.
Robert Farnsworth Rich and Crew Lengthening a Boat at Southwest Harbor Boat Corporation
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1943
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright
Ferry Vinalhaven II Under Construction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel, Ferry
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1943-03-04
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright
Ferry Vinalhaven II Under Construction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Ralph Stanley fitting a deck plank on Freedom
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Friendship Sloop
  • Milner - Craig Milner
  • 1976
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright
Ralph Stanley fitting a deck plank on Freedom
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Friendship Sloop Morning Star - Construction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Friendship Sloop
  • Milner - Craig Milner
  • 1976
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright
Friendship Sloop Morning Star - Construction
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Ralph fitting fascia piece