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The Evolution of Morris Yachts
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Pleasure Craft, Yacht
  • John Snyder
  • Autumn 2007
The Evolution of Morris Yachts
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Article about the Morris Yacht Company, expanded to Northeast Harbor, as it celebrates its 35th year. Brief biography of Tom Morris, owner and designer. Issue 96. See also item 1710
The Evolution of Morris Yachts
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Pleasure Craft, Yacht
  • John Snyder
  • Autumn 2007
  • Southwest Harbor
The Evolution of Morris Yachts
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Copy of an article by John Snyder tracing the development and building of Morris Yachts on and around MDI. Started by Thomas D. C. Morris in Southwest Harbor, the company is co-managed by son Cuyler of SWH. Photographs included. See also item 1593
Wood is Good but Glass May Surpass
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Feb-85
Wood is Good but Glass May Surpass
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Article from Down East Magazine about Robert "Bob Lincoln's small boat building business, RKL Boatworks. He started with the Rangeley Guide Boat and is developing a row boat, now using the less expensive fiberglass.
Shipbuilding on Mount Desert Island
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Ship
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • Ralph Stanley
  • 2010
  • Mount Desert Island
Shipbuilding on Mount Desert Island
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Copy of Stanley's "History of Shipbuilding on MDI "with a list of vessels built between 1782 and 1902. Several photographs of the boats were added by R. Pyle at the Northeast Harbor library.
Repairs to the Brig Factor March 13, 1854
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Administrative Records
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Merchant Vessel
  • 1854
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Repairs to the Brig Factor March 13, 1854
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Certificate for repairs to the Factor (three pages), a ship built on GCI 1832, in for repairs in South Carolina in 1854, with cargo of molasses and other items, with transcription by donor.
William P. Preble receipts
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Financial, Receipt
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • 1852
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
William P. Preble receipts
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Two receipts: (A) Tremont March 10th, 1852, Received of William P. Preble seventy three dollars 80/100 in full payment for ballance doo me for wooden materials to build new Brig Abigail Maria of, furnished by me the last season as per agreement dated at Tremont December 5th, 1850. Signed by Henry W. [xxxx?]. And (B): William P. Preble's taxes 1878 = $1.10.
Vessels Related to Great Cranberry Island by Ralph Stanley
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Ship, Sailing Ship, Schooner
  • Ralph Stanley
  • 1996
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Vessels Related to Great Cranberry Island by Ralph Stanley
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Ships. Copies of three manuscripts by Ralph W. Stanley. (A & B:) Two xerox copies of "Vessels Related to Great Cranberry Island: Notes Collected by Ralph Stanley Boatbuilder, S.W. Harbor, Me" as handed to Bruce Komusin by Ralph Stanley at GCIHS Annual Meeting, Weds. 28 August 1996. Lists Date; Name of vessel, Master and Owner; Length; and Tonnage for the years 1856-1860. (C) is an alphabetical listing of the same information. (D) "List of Vessels Built on Mount Desert Island, Cranberry Island, Tinker's Island, Thompson's Island and Long Island (Frenchboro), According to Year Built, compiled by Ralph W. Stanley." Sources for (D) are listed on page 40. [show more]
"Cranberry Island Notes" by Charles 'Chuck' Liebow
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Other Documents
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
"Cranberry Island Notes" by Charles 'Chuck' Liebow
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Boats. Looseleaf Binder, "Cranberry Island Notes" by Charles Liebow. Contains maps 1607-1881, "List of Vessels From Notes made by Chuck Liebow (Typed & some notes added by Hugh Dwelley 11/1994" (also on cranberryisles.com website), 1912 petition to establish boundaries of roads, census data 1839-1860, the cranberry register 1909-1910, boat building, Liebow's notes on books and articles, miscellaneous, photos, houses showing owners then and now, families, deeds. [show more]
The Wind & the Wood, Ralph W. Stanley Inc., Boat Building
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Document, Advertising, Poster
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Ralph Stanley
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
The Wind & the Wood, Ralph W. Stanley Inc., Boat Building
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Description:
Brochure, "The Wind & the Wood," promoting Ralph W. Stanley Inc., Boat Building business in Southwest Harbor. With his thoughts about wooden boat building, and photos of him, his shop, and his boats. Brochure probably from the mid 1980s.
Fishing Boats at Southwest Boat Corporation Wharf, Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1964-03
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright
Freedom Molds Set Up and the Ribbands Going On
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Friendship Sloop
  • Milner - Craig Milner
  • 1976
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright
Freedom Molds Set Up and the Ribbands Going On
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Freedom - Putting On the Cabin.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Friendship Sloop
  • Milner - Craig Milner
  • 1976
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright
Freedom - Putting On the Cabin.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
"Morning Star" can be seen in the left corner.
Timbering Freedom
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat, Sailboat, Friendship Sloop
  • Milner - Craig Milner
  • 1976
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright
Timbering Freedom
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
Jeff Gold (wearing the 69 tee shirt) is taking timber out of the steamer.
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
The Henry R. Hinckley Company as Manset Boat Yard - Boats in Storage Outside - II
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Image, Photograph
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980)
  • 1938
  • Southwest Harbor, Manset
  • 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
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.
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]
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.
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.
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
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