The term "Lobster Yacht" denotes a pleasure boat built on the lines of a working lobster boat. The term is more commonly used "away" than on Mount Desert Island. This name describes the look of these boats in a world where so many working and pleasure boats resemble each other. Boat builders on MDI would probably not use this term so this database generally uses the term "pleasure boat" and leaves the viewer to make his or her own distinction. The following publications and many others use the term Lobster Yacht: - National Fisherman, Volume 70, 1989 - Understanding Boat Design by Edward S. Brewer and Ted Brewer, published by McGraw-Hill Professional, 1993 - The Illustrated Dictionary of Boating Terms: 2,000 Essential Terms for Sailors & Powerboaters by John Rousmaniere, W. W. Norton & Company, 1998 - Wooden Boat, Wooden Boat Publications, 2005 - Sorensen's Guide to Powerboats, 2 by Eric Sorensen, published by McGraw-Hill Professional, 2007
Description: The term "Lobster Yacht" denotes a pleasure boat built on the lines of a working lobster boat. The term is more commonly used "away" than on Mount Desert Island. This name describes the look of these boats in a world where so many working and pleasure boats resemble each other. Boat builders on MDI would probably not use this term so this database generally uses the term "pleasure boat" and leaves the viewer to make his or her own distinction. The following publications and many others use the term Lobster Yacht: - National Fisherman, Volume 70, 1989 - Understanding Boat Design by Edward S. Brewer and Ted Brewer, published by McGraw-Hill Professional, 1993 - The Illustrated Dictionary of Boating Terms: 2,000 Essential Terms for Sailors & Powerboaters by John Rousmaniere, W. W. Norton & Company, 1998 - Wooden Boat, Wooden Boat Publications, 2005 - Sorensen's Guide to Powerboats, 2 by Eric Sorensen, published by McGraw-Hill Professional, 2007 [show more]
The photograph was taken in the vicinity of the Lewis Kennison Robinson house at 465 Maine Street, Southwest Harbor. Addison Packing Company, at the head of Southwest Harbor, can be seen in the background of this picture. - Interview with Ralph Stanley, October 2008.
Description: The photograph was taken in the vicinity of the Lewis Kennison Robinson house at 465 Maine Street, Southwest Harbor. Addison Packing Company, at the head of Southwest Harbor, can be seen in the background of this picture. - Interview with Ralph Stanley, October 2008.
The house on the shore behind “Theoline,” between the schooner and the sailboat, is the Samuel Walker Mead Cottage, H.W. Foote’s “House of Four Winds” at 30 Connor Point Road, Southwest Harbor, Tax Map 11 – Lot 9 – MHPC #405-0009.
Description: The house on the shore behind “Theoline,” between the schooner and the sailboat, is the Samuel Walker Mead Cottage, H.W. Foote’s “House of Four Winds” at 30 Connor Point Road, Southwest Harbor, Tax Map 11 – Lot 9 – MHPC #405-0009.
The foremost boat is loaded with big open barrels - they look like half barrels - to store fish as they were caught. The long poles on each side may have been to hold the handlines away from the rails.
Description: The foremost boat is loaded with big open barrels - they look like half barrels - to store fish as they were caught. The long poles on each side may have been to hold the handlines away from the rails.