OLIVE
Number one hull at G and S 1921. Built for and maintained in the Prescott family for 104 years. Converted to diesel engine 3 yrs ago. Rick Prescott restored her in 1991 in the original boatyard. She is maintained by Rene Goulette in South Bristol
Tusk
“Penbo” Runabout built by Penobscot Boat Works in 1961. She was acquired by the current owners in 2019 and transferred from Deer Isle to Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Tusk has a 1987 Yamaha two-stroke engine. In the off season, maintenance and restoration work is done by Bristol Marine.
Breakaway III
1983 Classic sportfisherman. One of Viking's most successful models for over ten years. #611 out of the very popular 40’ Sportfisherman. LOA 40’
WINSOME
Built in 1983, 48’ Winsome has sailed in 4 Bermuda races with a 2nd place in one of them, 1 Caribbean 1500 Rally of 60 vessels sailing from Chesapeake Bay to the Virgin Islands (came in 6th place), has more than 50,000 miles under her keel of sailing between Maine and Trinidad.
Brigadoon
Brigadoon is a Cape Dory built in East Taunton, Massachusetts and is 33’. She was designed by Carl Alberg and has enjoyed sailing the Maine coast for six years with the current owner. Brigadoon has spent most of her time in the North East. Andy Vavalotis founded Cape Dory Yachts and lives in Georgetown, ME. This boat has a full keel and keel hung rudder. From Wikipedia: “Carl Alberg designed many of the company’s models, favoring simple lines, narrow beams, and often utilizing a full keel for superior handling in heavier winds and seas.”
hayval
HAYVAL is a 1968 sport fisherman built by Brownell Boats in Mattapoisett, MA. She was designed by Eldgidge-Mcinnis, and is one of the earlier cold molded boats built by Brownell. Bruce White is her 4th owner and have owned her since 2002. She had a new bottom installed in 2005, one layer of 1/2x6 inch Mahogany laid fore and aft, and 2 layers of marine plywood laid diagonally on that, all epoxied and coverd with fiberglass. Her original Detroit 8V-53 engines were replaced with two 315 HP Cummins engines in 2013, she cruises at 17 knots comfortably. She has accommodations for 4, with a 3 burner gas stove with oven, a full head with a stand-up shower, and I have cruised her from Bristol Rhode Island to Lunenburg Nova Scotia. She hails from Southport Island now and hopes to find herself cruising in southern waters in the future. She is available for private charters in the summer.
neena
Built for the Prescott family - 5 brothers and sister Olive. Original engine was built by the Rice Bros. yard - Now a Chrystler Marine 225HP - Forward cockpit was added later. Neena won the Boothbay speed boat race 3 times in the 1920s and 1930s so retained the silver trophy.
hesper
Hesper was built in Queek Quay, Cornwall in 2004. She was built by world renowned Pilot Cutter shipwright Luke Powell. Luke has gone on to build 9 of these beautiful cutters. Eve of St. Mawes, Agnes, Lizzie May, Hesper, Ezra, Freya, Amelie Rose, Tallulah and Pellew all are great testaments to Cornish boat building and the West Country. Hesper was built for long distance cruising. She has been up to Greenland, down south to the Azores, and as far east as Sweden. She has summered in Scotland, and been to France (what a charmed life!). She was designed to be sturdy, and to take care of the people on board. Her recent build lends herself to a cozy, safe and comfortable sailing experience on board.
just cruisin’
This boat first appeared in the parade in 2007 when her captain, a Boothbay Harbor native, was just 12 years old! Now completely restored and repowered, she is making another appearance this year with the same captain at the helm. She is an early attempt at fiberglass boatbuilding with a lapstrake design-- the hull molded from a 15' Lyman of the same vintage. She has a mahogany deck, windsheild, seats, and transom. She was sold brand new off the dock in Boothbay Harbor and has spent her life cutting the local waters. She is currently moored in Bayville, Linekin Bay.
JULIET
Presented to the present owner in 2009 by friends, family and shipmates. Completely rebuilt/restored in 2020.
hallelujah
Hallelujah, a 36-foot Jarvis Newman hull, was built in 1977 and is powered by a 210-hp Caterpillar 3208. Like most of Jarvis Newman’s hulls, Hallelujah was finished by another builder—in this case Lee Wilbur of Wilbur Yachts—for a customer who was an executive at Central Maine Power. Eventually, the boat became a part of the energy company’s service department, a reliable response craft berthed in Portland, Maine, to serve customers on islands in Casco Bay. Often times, it would go out in the worst weather to restore power knocked out by coast-lashing Nor’easters. Years later, the boat was rehabbed to yacht-like status at Farrin’s Boat Shop in Walpole, Maine for new owners Matt and Nancy Monroe. They launched their Jarvis Newman 36 in 2014. Wendy and I purchased her in 2023. Hallelujah is now moored in Little River, East Boothbay, Me. Hallelujah winters in PE Luke boat yard in EBB.
Oceana
Built in 1973 by Egg Harbor (5 years old) she is reportedly Hull #1 in the 38ft Class. Originally owned by a Marina in Newburyport, then an Eastern Airline pilot and then a Sherriff, all reportedly used as a stationary vessel for weekend visits. Gas powered twin 454cid, 750 hp, re-powered in 2002 by previous owner.
DAGNY
Dagny is a 1984 Nauset 35. The hull was designed by Royal Lowell and she is a sister to the popular Bruno Stillman 35 cruiser. The current owners purchased her in the fall of 2024 and are in the process of restoring her and plan to cruise on her.
rijkel
This mahogany boards on an oak frame clinker (lapstrake) built yawl rigged whaleboat, whale gig or service whaler with a standing lug main sail and a leg-of-mutton mizzen sail was built on Malta in 1943. After WWII it came to the Hingham Shipyard in Massachusetts on a Lend/Lease destroyer escort as a replacement for a lost or damaged lifeboat.
My father, Walter, learned of these boats coming to various shipyards from a chance encounter with an English Navy lieutenant whose family he knew from the Channel Islands who encouraged Dad to seek one out and ask for it as they were being broken up. Dad found several in Hingham and asked for one and a few days later he sailed and rowed it away. It came with two masts, sails and 5 17' long sweeps. Dad added power in the forms an outboard and later an air cooled gas engine. I installed a diesel in it. The Rijkel is named for a town in Belgium that Dad was billeted in at the time of the Battle of the Bulge.
The Rijkel has cruised from Boston to Cape Breton. It has been in Boothbay and Squirrel Island since the later 1940s. It is not much of a sailor but is a great boat for outings and transport of folks, goods and building materials from Blake's to Squirrel.
bravo
Bravo is a 20’ Lyman built in 1962 and was acquired by Laura Burns in 2006. She has since been repowered.
whiteflash
Whiteflash was built by the Penobscot Bay Boatworks in Rockport, Maine in 1962. The offshore cruiser was hull number 7 of the cruising pleasure boats designed by Carl Lane and built by this yard. The Burns family purchased the boat from the original owner in 1971 and she remains in the family 52 years later. Boothbay Region Boatyard/Hodgdon Yacht Services has cared for Whiteflash since 1988, replacing the original palmer diesel with a Yanmar in 2003 and then removing and replacing the entire house/superstructure over the 2013 and 2014 winters. She has been berthed at Browns Wharf for 37 years.
salty paws
Salty Paws is one of only 76 built during the seventies and eighty’s. She was designated to look like a 1950’s New York City tug boat. She is 37 feet long and 13.5 feet wide. Cruise speed is around 7 knots. There is an active owners group with a list of want-to-be owners.
rugosa
Built 1952 in West Bath by Fred Larrabee, major restoration 1991-1994 in Scarborough by Tim Swinburne (owner). Originally owned by a Mr. McCallister, owner of Burnam & Morrill in Portland, where it was moored and I first saw it as a young child. Hull, built down keel, white pine on oak frames...decks, sprung Honduras mahogany...power, 1964 Palmer BD 264 6 cylinder gas 135 hp.
QUEST
Quest was built by Cape Dory Yachts in 1986 in Taunton, MA. Clive Dent was the designer. The MS 300 was Cape Dory's only motor sailor. Joe Mair is the second owner of Quest and she has been moored in Linekin Bay since 2005. The first owner was Peter Converse of Marion, MA from the Converse Rubber Company and Converse sneakers.
FLYING CLOUD
Flying Cloud, owned by Thomas Woodin and Eileen King is a 35’ sloop that was built in Bristol, Rhode Island in 1967. Flying Cloud was purchased in 1997 by Russ Woodin. Russ spent the winter refurbishing her, but unfortunately passed away in April of 1998 before ever being able to sail her. She was passed down to his son Thomas, who has lovingly kept her in pristine condition for the past 24 years. Tom and Eileen enjoy sailing Flying Cloud locally and also enjoy longer cruises downeast.
zoom-ah
Originally built in 1965, the boat found it's way to Maine. It had restoration work done in early and mid 2000's by Androscoggin Boat Works and Edgecomb Boatworks when named "Sal". The Churchills have owned and maintained the boat for the past 10seasons renaming it "Zoom-ah".
casey anne
A Bruno & Stillman 42' working lobster boat that fished and lobstered on Monhegan (winter only) for 18 years before relocating to Boothbay Harbor. She continues to ply the waters of the Harbor and surrounding environs.
Dream
Build in 1909, 22’ Dream was inherited from the owner’s Grandfather, Edward J. Norris. She has had the boat restored; he used it for pleasure on Linekin Bay.
Freedom
Freedom is 28’ on deck and about 44’ overall. Built in 1976 by the late Ralph Stanley, her original owner was Richard Dudman. Dudman was a journalist covering the Vietnam war when he was captured by guerrillas in Cambodia. Along with his colleagues, he spent 40 days in captivity and subsequently wrote “40 Days with the Enemy.” While held in captivity, legend has it that he told his colleagues, “If I get out of here alive, I’m going to Southwest Harbor to have Ralph Stanley build me a wooden friendship sloop and I’ll name her ‘Freedom.’” Mr. Dudman owned Freedom for approximately thirty years and sailed her in Maine and Nova Scotia. Freedom hails from Boothbay Harbor and is currently owned by Karen & Rich Schwartz.
GLEam
Designed by renowned naval architect Clinton Crane as his own racing yacht, Gleam enjoyed a very successful early career as a 12 Meter thoroughbred winning regattas from NYC to Newport. Later in her career, when the 12M design became the designated Americas Cup Class, Gleam served as a "trial horse" for numerous local and international campaigns. Her speed was highly respected, and to train alongside Gleam was a true test for any new 12 Meter yacht that hoped to win The America’s Cup. Gleam later fell into disrepair, but ultimately was rescued in 1970 by Bob Tiedeman. She became the first chartering 12 Meters in Newport, RI, and has continued to sail and win races throughout New England. Over the course of her career, Gleam has brought thousands of smiles to many years of sailors.
Jacqueline
Jacqueline is a 38’ Jonesport style lobster boat. She was built on Beals Island by Fred Lenfesty in 1967. Originally commissioned as the Roque Island Ferry she has never been a working lobster boat. She has changed hands and names a few times over the years, now bearing the name of owner’s daughter. With a small 130 horsepower diesel Jacqueline cruises comfortably at 9 knots. She hails from Boothbay Harbor and is docked at Bristol Marine, The Shipyard in Boothbay Harbor. She is owned by Ross Branch.
Just Enough
Just Enough was a freshwater barn find given by John Kruder of Erie, PA. John knew that Rene would appreciate her and could do the restoration work. For an original, she was in fairly good shape, solid hull and intact down forward. She dd need a new transom, to be varnished and painted, rewired, and get an upgraded head. Just Enough is powered by the original engines, twin screw Chevy 283’s, which have been rebuild. The restoration was first done by owner and son, taking 5 years between working for customers. Friends and family have helped along the way and are fond of cruising the Midcoast. Just Enough is mostly used for beautiful day adventures, but she has comfortably fit 4 adults over a long trip.
nellie g ii
Nellie G II was built and launched on May 18, 1932 by Goudy & Stevens Shipyard in East Boothbay. She was built for Boothbay Harbor Captain Williams, who served Squirrel Island from her summer dock directly behind the Smiling Cow, with frequent ferry service. In the wintertime she was housed in the captain’s boathouse, just north of the former swing bridge, now the footbridge. Her ownership later moved from Captain Williams to Boothbay Harbor Fire Chief Harold Dodge and Captain Ross Dickson, who lived in the house adjacent to the Boothbay Region Greenhouses property on Howard Street. Later, it was sold to Captains Raymond and Bob Fish who owned her from the ’50s to 1967. During all those years, she served as a ferry boat to Squirrel Island. It has been said that the Nellie G II has never operated off of local nautical chart #314 in its entire career.
SEANCE
Seance is a Hacker-Craft 26 RE. According to their website, the Hacker Boat Company, Inc. is the world’s largest builder of classic mahogany boats. In the 1930’s Hackers were called “The Steinway of Runabouts.” Séance is not a reproduction, but part of a continuing production legacy that dates back to 1908 with modest (Hacker has added a bow thruster and the bottom is now cold-molded) modifications.
whistler
1946, 36’ Goudy & Stevens power cruiser