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WoodenBoat is an American magazine written for owners, admirers, builders, and designers of wooden boats. The company's headquarters is located in Brooklin, Maine. It was founded in September 1974 by Jon Wilson, a former boatbuilder. [1] [2] Wilson sold his Alden ketch, using $11,000 of the proceeds along with $3,500 from a loan to start the ...
The Kennebec Boat and canoe Company was founded by former railroad station agent, ice cutter, publisher and merchandiser George F. Terry. Walter D. Grant supervised the building of canoes for Terry, who had no personal experience building canoes. Grant had previously worked for the B.N. Morris Canoe Company of Veazie, Maine.
The business was established in 2011. [1] One year later, the ownership group also purchased the neighboring business, Belfast Boat Yard. [2] In 2014, Front Street Shipyard began leasing a building in Bucksport, Maine, where production boats are built. [3] Docks at Front Street Shipyard. Hauling ASOLARE at Front Street Shipyard in Belfast, Maine.
During World War II Gardner went to work building boats in a Marblehead boat shop [3] and during World War II Gardner worked in a boat yard in Quincy, Massachusetts. [2] From 1969 to 1995 Gardner was Associate Curator of Small Craft at Mystic Seaport Museum, Connecticut. He was technical editor of National Fisherman magazine.
He expanded the business by improving its practices, entering new markets, and acquiring other local businesses. By 1882, Hyde Windlass was eyeing the new and growing business of iron shipbuilding, and it incorporated as Bath Iron Works in 1884. On February 28, 1890, BIW won its first contract for complete vessels: two iron gunboats for the Navy.
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Old Town Canoe Company is a historic maker of canoes in Old Town, Maine. The company had its beginnings in 1898, in buildings constructed in 1890 for a shoe business, and was incorporated in 1901. Old Town entered the canoe market as a builder of canvas-covered wooden canoes.