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STEAMBOATS, LOBSTER BOATS
AND MODEL BOAT BUILDING

The lobster boat I used to own

Thanks to the computer skills of my wife Kathi, I am able to have this website to show off my work. Thanks Kathi.
I grew up on the coast of Maine and fished with my father throughout my adolescent years. After high school, I attended the University of Maine at Machias, married during this period, and graduated in 1973.
After graduation from college, we returned to Stonington where I bought a 34 foot lobster boat and fished for about 8 years. For the next ten years, I worked at a local shipyard where I acquired my boat building knowledge. Now I work as a building contractor.
My interest in model boat building began at an early age, when I played with toy boats on the shore near my grandfather's place. I built my own boats from whatever materials I could scavange, old boards, shingles, bits of metal, etc.
I have always loved lobster boats. Some are much more beautiful than others, and these are the ones I like to model. (Mine was one of those of course). I will be adding pictures of more of these boats to this site at some point.

My interest in steam boats was sparked by a local man who built models of Maine coast steamers and displayed them in his shop window on Main Street in Stonington. These boats were so different from the boats I was familiar with. With their overhanging guards, paddle wheels, sponsons, tall smoke stacks and multi-decks. I determined at this point that I would build myself one of those.
At the library I found a wonderful book on these ships written by a local man, John M. Richardson. The title of this book is "Steamboat Lore of the Penobscot". This book is a collection of steamboat pictures with a brief history of each one. Mr. Richardson also includes all of the basic dimensions, length, width overguard, width of hull, depth, displacement, etc.

I will be putting pictures of the models I have built on this website, and a description of how they were done. I will also be putting on some history of steamboats, and photographs of lobster boats which I like.

STEAMBOATS

A brief history of the Steamer J T Morse

The Steamer Penobscot

The Steamer Frank Jones

The Steamer North Haven

The Steamer Bay State

The Steamer City of Bangor

LOBSTERBOATS

More photographs of my lobsterboat.

Photographs of a Beals Island lobsterboat.

TUGBOAT

A tugboat I built from plans.

MODEL BOATS

A model I am building of the J T Morse.

A model I built of the Vinal Haven.

Photographs of a model lobsterboat I am working on.

Photographs of a model scallop dragger I built.

Photographs of another model lobster boat which I built.

I just finished this model of the schooner Grace Bailey for someone. He wanted it built as it was when it was a coasting schooner, and remembers it as "The Mattie". (It is still in my wife's photo gallery, where I put it so the client could watch it's progress).

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