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| 16595 | Henry R. Hinckley's Boatyard |
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| 12360 | Morris Boat Yard |
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| 3688 | Ralph Stanley Inc. |
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| After earning an associate's degree from a college in northern Maine, Stanley returned to Southwest Harbor. Not sure what occupation he wanted to pursue, he decided to try to build a boat. So he earned the money he needed to buy wood and other construction materials and, during the winter of 1951-1952, he built a 28-foot lobster boat. The boat turned out well and a local person bought it. This led to orders for other boats. "I've been building (boats) ever since," he said. Stanley learned how to build boats not by apprenticing himself to another boatbuilder but mainly by keenly observing and using boats and by observing the activities of several professional boatbuilders who specialized in the Mt. Desert Island version of the Maine lobster boat. | 
Description: After earning an associate's degree from a college in northern Maine, Stanley returned to Southwest Harbor. Not sure what occupation he wanted to pursue, he decided to try to build a boat. So he earned the money he needed to buy wood and other construction materials and, during the winter of 1951-1952, he built a 28-foot lobster boat. The boat turned out well and a local person bought it. This led to orders for other boats. "I've been building (boats) ever since," he said. Stanley learned how to build boats not by apprenticing himself to another boatbuilder but mainly by keenly observing and using boats and by observing the activities of several professional boatbuilders who specialized in the Mt. Desert Island version of the Maine lobster boat. [show more] | |||
| 12517 | The Henry R. Hinckley Company - as Manset Boat Yard - Coast Guard Boats on the Old Shore |
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| This photograph was taken before the Manset shore was filled in. – According to Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021), the White boat hauled up on shore in front of the William Spurling Newman house at 102 Shore Road, Map 17 – Lot 100 – was probably built by Leslie “Les” M. Rice (1883-1966) on Great Cranberry Island for William “Uncle Jimmy” Doane Stanley (1855-1950). She was built as a double ender. Someone bought her and put a square stern on her. Work was slow at Hinckleys for awhile so Bill Dunham (Wilfred Manson Dunham (1918-2001) and Lewis Tapley (Lewis Merton Tapley (1916-1985) bought her and went fishing, though not for long. Work picked up at the Hinckley yard soon afterward. The vessel was then bought by Abner W. Lunt (1908-1975), then she was bought by Luther C. Faulkingham (1901-1993) of Prospect Harbor, where she was the last time Ralph saw her. The wharf building with the false front was the building that Francis “Frank” Thompson Chalmers Sr. (1893-1985), F. Dwight Perkins (1902-1981) and Merton S. Alley (1904-1985) had a car dealership in. Almon Frank Ramsdell Sr’s (1873-1946) garage was there later. Hinckley may have owned the building when this picture was taken. James “Jim” M. Willis (1919-2006) later ran “The Boathouse” there. See SWHPL 9363 | 
Description: This photograph was taken before the Manset shore was filled in. – According to Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021), the White boat hauled up on shore in front of the William Spurling Newman house at 102 Shore Road, Map 17 – Lot 100 – was probably built by Leslie “Les” M. Rice (1883-1966) on Great Cranberry Island for William “Uncle Jimmy” Doane Stanley (1855-1950). She was built as a double ender. Someone bought her and put a square stern on her. Work was slow at Hinckleys for awhile so Bill Dunham (Wilfred Manson Dunham (1918-2001) and Lewis Tapley (Lewis Merton Tapley (1916-1985) bought her and went fishing, though not for long. Work picked up at the Hinckley yard soon afterward. The vessel was then bought by Abner W. Lunt (1908-1975), then she was bought by Luther C. Faulkingham (1901-1993) of Prospect Harbor, where she was the last time Ralph saw her. The wharf building with the false front was the building that Francis “Frank” Thompson Chalmers Sr. (1893-1985), F. Dwight Perkins (1902-1981) and Merton S. Alley (1904-1985) had a car dealership in. Almon Frank Ramsdell Sr’s (1873-1946) garage was there later. Hinckley may have owned the building when this picture was taken. James “Jim” M. Willis (1919-2006) later ran “The Boathouse” there. See SWHPL 9363 [show more] | |
| 11647 | Launching Friendship Sloop Freedom Built for Richard Beebe Dudman |
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| Left to Right: Dudman - Richard Beebe Dudman (1918-) Sloane - Helen R. (Sloane) Dudman (1918-) Stanley - Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Two unknown workmen | 
Description: Left to Right: Dudman - Richard Beebe Dudman (1918-) Sloane - Helen R. (Sloane) Dudman (1918-) Stanley - Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Two unknown workmen | |||
| 15384 | Ralph Stanley's boat yard late 1980's |
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| A contact sheet of 2 1/4 x 2 1/14 color negatives taken, developed, and printed by Ronald Monteleon | 
Description: A contact sheet of 2 1/4 x 2 1/14 color negatives taken, developed, and printed by Ronald Monteleon | ||
| 10644 | The Henry R. Hinckley Company - Store |
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| The store was torn down and moved to the other side of the street since this photograph was taken. The car is a 1935 Dodge coup. | 
Description: The store was torn down and moved to the other side of the street since this photograph was taken. The car is a 1935 Dodge coup. | ||||
| 15959 | Deacon Henry Higgins Clark Shipyard |
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| "A workshop stood for many years on the shore side of the road almost opposite the above-mentioned house. Many different families occupied the living apartment on the second floor. Work for the shipyard was done in the shop on the first floor. The shipyard was a busy place for many years and many small vessels and boats were constructed there." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 167. The schooner “Kate Newman” was built at Clark’s Point, Southwest Harbor in 1874. | 
Description: "A workshop stood for many years on the shore side of the road almost opposite the above-mentioned house. Many different families occupied the living apartment on the second floor. Work for the shipyard was done in the shop on the first floor. The shipyard was a busy place for many years and many small vessels and boats were constructed there." - “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 167. The schooner “Kate Newman” was built at Clark’s Point, Southwest Harbor in 1874. [show more] | |||
| 14319 | Albert Bartlett's Sail Loft |
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| 11026 | The Henry R. Hinckley Company - Shop Construction at Manset Boat Yard |
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| 11016 | A.E. Parker Boat Shop |
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| 3495 | Henry R. Hinckley Company Manset Boat Yard Hinckely Company Hinckley Yachts |
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| The Hinckley Company started in 1928 as the Manset Boatyard in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Henry R. Hinckley’s focus was on servicing the local lobster boats as well as the yachts of summer residents on Mt. Desert Island. Today Hinckley builds boats at its production facilities in Trenton, Maine, but the original Manset yard is at the heart of the Hinckley legend. Today it ranks as a world class service facility. | 
Description: The Hinckley Company started in 1928 as the Manset Boatyard in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Henry R. Hinckley’s focus was on servicing the local lobster boats as well as the yachts of summer residents on Mt. Desert Island. Today Hinckley builds boats at its production facilities in Trenton, Maine, but the original Manset yard is at the heart of the Hinckley legend. Today it ranks as a world class service facility. | |||
| 15860 | William R. Keene Boat Builder |
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| 13798 | Simeon Holden Mayo's Boatshop and Wharf |
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| 13562 | Jarvis Newman Boat Yard |
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| 13653 | A.E. Parker Wharf and Boat Shop |
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| 13266 | Rich & Grindle Boatbuilders |
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| Rich & Grindle Boatbuilders was founded in December 1946 when Roger Clifton Rich (1913-1996) and Ralph Merrill Grindle (1915-2005) formed a partnership to build boats in Roger's barn at Tracy Cove on Clark Point Road. The barn was next to Roger's house at 50 Clark Point Road. | 
Description: Rich & Grindle Boatbuilders was founded in December 1946 when Roger Clifton Rich (1913-1996) and Ralph Merrill Grindle (1915-2005) formed a partnership to build boats in Roger's barn at Tracy Cove on Clark Point Road. The barn was next to Roger's house at 50 Clark Point Road. | |||
| 15438 | Yard and Shop of the Henry R. Hinckley Company |
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| 13665 | Hinckley Military Boats |
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| “1941 - With World War II on the horizon, [Henry Rose Hinckley II (1907-1980)] goes to Washington D.C. to secure contracts for military boats. His first order is for twenty 38-foot Coast Guard picket boats. By the end of the war, 93 of these boats are built for the Coast Guard, using production line techniques developed for the Islander. The yard also builds 24-foot Navy personnel boats, motor mine and tow yawls (using a hull design that would briefly reappear 30 years later in fiberglass yacht club launches), shallow-draft towboats and sailing yawls as part of the war effort… By the end of the war, Hinckley will have built nearly 40% of the 1,358 boats built in Maine for the war.” - “The Hinckley Company History” | 
Description: “1941 - With World War II on the horizon, [Henry Rose Hinckley II (1907-1980)] goes to Washington D.C. to secure contracts for military boats. His first order is for twenty 38-foot Coast Guard picket boats. By the end of the war, 93 of these boats are built for the Coast Guard, using production line techniques developed for the Islander. The yard also builds 24-foot Navy personnel boats, motor mine and tow yawls (using a hull design that would briefly reappear 30 years later in fiberglass yacht club launches), shallow-draft towboats and sailing yawls as part of the war effort… By the end of the war, Hinckley will have built nearly 40% of the 1,358 boats built in Maine for the war.” - “The Hinckley Company History” [show more] | |||
| 12518 | The Henry R. Hinckley Company - as Manset Boat Yard - Pouring the Lead Keel for Circumstance |
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| See item 15409 for many more images of Circumstance. | 
Description: See item 15409 for many more images of Circumstance. | |
| 12509 | 26-foot motor tow yawl under construction |
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| The photograph shows a 26-foot motor tow yawl under construction. | 
Description: The photograph shows a 26-foot motor tow yawl under construction. | |
| 6366 | The Henry R. Hinckley Company as Manset Boat Yard - Boats in Storage Outside - II |
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| 9466 | Aerial View of The Henry R. Hinckley Company, Manset, and Southwest Harbor |
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| 11025 | The Henry R. Hinckley Company - Main Shed at the Manset Boat Yard |
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| 10657 | The Henry R. Hinckley Company - Early Office |
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