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PRST STD US Postage Paid Permit, #454 THE STATE OF MAINE'S BOATING NEWSPAPER Portland, ME Maine Coastal News Volume 32 Issue 2 February 2019 FREE More News from the Boat Shops and Boat Yards The schooner BOWDOIN, owned by Maine Maritime Academy, has been hauled up at The Shipyard Boothbay Harbor to have some bottom work done. Atlantic Boat with a D6 435 Volvo diesel and will have a Brooklin varnished teak interior with LP gas stove, Like most of the yards on the coast of Isotherm dual-draw refrigeration system, Maine, Atlantic Boat Company has a full Espar heat, Raymarine electronics. When winter’s schedule of work. done late this spring, she will the most In one bay nearing completion is a well-appointed 31 out there. Northern Bay 38 sportfisherman, which is A Duffy 26 is being finished off as a being finished off for a customer from Mas- yacht club launch for the Riverside Yacht sachusetts. She is powered with a Cummins Club in Connecticut. They also have the QSM-11 600 hp. For accommodations she down payment on another launch, which has a V-berth, shower with head, galley with will be used as a water-taxi in Massachusetts Corian countertops, and large settee up in the and Florida. pilothouse. The interior is finished with gel- There are a number of sizeable repair coat and no woodwork. She also has air con- projects underway and then there are all ditioning, an Espar heater, and two outside the storage customers who have to be ready helm stations. She has already been in the for the upcoming season, which is just five water and sea trialed, but the owner added months away. a few other items and she is now scheduled At Six River Marine in North Yarmouth here are three of their projects this winter. Left is to be finished in February and delivered to Bath Iron Works the new boat; centre is an Albury Skiff, and to the right is a Dyer Dink. her owner on her bottom soon after. Bath ry,” said Dirk Lesko, President of Bath Iron awarded this fall. BIW also is building the Also being finished is a Calvin Beal The U.S. Navy has awarded General Works. “This award demonstrates the vital third Zumwalt-class destroyer, LYNDON B. 36, which is being finished out as a lobster Dynamics Bath Iron Works a contract to role the DDG 51 plays in the security posture JOHNSON (DDG-1002). boat for a local fisherman. She started as a build a fifth DDG 51 destroyer as part of the of the United States and the confidence the basic boat, powered with a Volvo diesel, but multi-year award announced in September. Navy has in our shipyard to produce these John Williams Boat Yard now there will be a basic interior, which will In the most recent multi-year competi- important assets.” Hall’s Quarry include a V-berth, head and galley. They also tion, BIW was awarded four ships. The Navy There are currently five DDG 51 de- In the main production bay they have a think she might need a generator. She will held a separate competition for an option stroyers in production at Bath Iron Works: 1988 Stanley 36, which was sold last spring be done this spring just in time for lobster ship as part of its commitment to growing the DANIEL INOUYE (DDG 118), CARL M. to just her second owners, and she is in fishing season. fleet. The Arleigh Burke class destroyer will LEVIN (DDG 120), JOHN BASILONE for an overhaul. They are stripping all the Another new build is a Duffy 31 being be funded in the Fiscal Year 2019 budget. (DDG 122), HARVEY C. BARNUM (DDG exterior varnish, new hull paint, soda blast finished out as a yacht for a local customer “Bath Iron Works is privileged to 124) and PATRICK GALLAGHER (DDG the bottom, add a bow thruster and all new who is downsizing from a Newman 46 continue producing state-of-the-art surface 127). The shipyard’s backlog includes LOU- electronics, including chart plotter, radar, cruiser. All the parts are moulded and they combatants for the longest running naval IS H. WILSON JR. (DDG 126) and the five are starting to assemble her. She is powered shipbuilding program in our nation’s histo- ships that are part of the multi-year contract Continued on Page 14. - C o n t e n t s Publisher's Note 4 70s Memories: Renting Boats... 7 Commercial Fishing News Maritime History Calendar of Events 4 U. S. Navy News 8 DMR News 11 Industrial Journal - 1882 22 Downeast Fishing Gear Moves 5 U. S. Coast Guard News 9 From the Director-DELA 11 Classified Ads 28 Sloop PROVIDENCE 6 IMOCA Class Meeting 10 Misc. Commercial Fishing News 12 Passed Over the Bar 6 Boat and Ship Yard News 1 Page 2. MAINE COASTAL NEWS February 2019 Maine's Propeller & Fabrication Experts are 200 Maine St. Brunswick, ME 04011 Now Your Source for Marine Hardware! 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