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.
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]
Built As: Lorilynn Class: Lobster Boat Hull: Wood Designed By: Stanley - Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) – “built on the same 34’ model as Wolfhound for Wendell Seavey and Russell Pettigrove’s boat” Build Date: 1966 Built by: Ralph W. Stanley Inc. Built at: Stanley 1st Shop - SWH – Main Street – 376 Built for: Bracy – Wesley “Junior” Peterson Bracy Jr. (1938-) Named for: Probably Junior’s wife: Lorraine R. (MacAllister) Bracy (1948-) and a daughter Lynn? Power: Built with 8 cyl. Buick engine – later – 1980s – Caterpillar Diesel Length: 35’
Description: Built As: Lorilynn Class: Lobster Boat Hull: Wood Designed By: Stanley - Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) – “built on the same 34’ model as Wolfhound for Wendell Seavey and Russell Pettigrove’s boat” Build Date: 1966 Built by: Ralph W. Stanley Inc. Built at: Stanley 1st Shop - SWH – Main Street – 376 Built for: Bracy – Wesley “Junior” Peterson Bracy Jr. (1938-) Named for: Probably Junior’s wife: Lorraine R. (MacAllister) Bracy (1948-) and a daughter Lynn? Power: Built with 8 cyl. Buick engine – later – 1980s – Caterpillar Diesel Length: 35’ [show more]
“Driftwood” was a 34’ lobster style pleasure boat built by Rich & Grindle Boatbuilders for Henry Bucknam Wass (1906-1986) in 1950. She was later owned by the Dwight Blaney family of Ironbound Island. Jarvis W. Newman rebuilt her in 1988 and sold her to Gerrit Livingston Lansing (1942-2010), an art historian and expert on American Surrealism, of Northeast Harbor and Greenwich, Connecticut who renamed her “Chicken of the Sea.”
Description: “Driftwood” was a 34’ lobster style pleasure boat built by Rich & Grindle Boatbuilders for Henry Bucknam Wass (1906-1986) in 1950. She was later owned by the Dwight Blaney family of Ironbound Island. Jarvis W. Newman rebuilt her in 1988 and sold her to Gerrit Livingston Lansing (1942-2010), an art historian and expert on American Surrealism, of Northeast Harbor and Greenwich, Connecticut who renamed her “Chicken of the Sea.”
Ralph Stanley built the 38’ lobster boat, “Miss Julie” for Robert P. Stevens of Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts in 1975 to be used for offshore lobster fishing. She had bunks in the bow and carried a Caterpillar V-8 diesel engine. Robert later had a second, larger and more elaborate “Miss Julie.” Frederick W. Dauphinee of Scituate, president of the South Shore Lobster Fishermen's Association later owned the first “Miss Julie,” probably named “Acadia” by then.
Description: Ralph Stanley built the 38’ lobster boat, “Miss Julie” for Robert P. Stevens of Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts in 1975 to be used for offshore lobster fishing. She had bunks in the bow and carried a Caterpillar V-8 diesel engine. Robert later had a second, larger and more elaborate “Miss Julie.” Frederick W. Dauphinee of Scituate, president of the South Shore Lobster Fishermen's Association later owned the first “Miss Julie,” probably named “Acadia” by then. [show more]
"In 1933 Henry [Hinckley] built his first boat [Ruthyeolyn], a 36-foot fisherman trimmed in Philipine mahogany. Her owner, Les Morrill, chartered to summer people for the summer, fished the boat himself for nine months, then cleaned her up and chartered for the next summer. The boat was so beautifully maintained that in 1973 when Les had to give up fishing, he offered to sell her back to the yard for $3,000." - "The Hinckley Story "by Benjamin B. Hinckley, Jr., published by Pilot Press, Dedham, Massachusetts, 1997, p. 21.
Description: "In 1933 Henry [Hinckley] built his first boat [Ruthyeolyn], a 36-foot fisherman trimmed in Philipine mahogany. Her owner, Les Morrill, chartered to summer people for the summer, fished the boat himself for nine months, then cleaned her up and chartered for the next summer. The boat was so beautifully maintained that in 1973 when Les had to give up fishing, he offered to sell her back to the yard for $3,000." - "The Hinckley Story "by Benjamin B. Hinckley, Jr., published by Pilot Press, Dedham, Massachusetts, 1997, p. 21. [show more]
Ralph Warren Stanley built this 36' lobster boat for Carl Colson “Buddy” Lawson Jr. (1921-2005) of Goose Cove, West Tremont, in his 1st shop at 376 Main Street, Southwest Harbor. "Ajax" had more flare in the bow than Ralph's previous designs. She was powered by a diesel engine.
Description: Ralph Warren Stanley built this 36' lobster boat for Carl Colson “Buddy” Lawson Jr. (1921-2005) of Goose Cove, West Tremont, in his 1st shop at 376 Main Street, Southwest Harbor. "Ajax" had more flare in the bow than Ralph's previous designs. She was powered by a diesel engine.