Built As: Lorilynn Class: Lobster Boat Hull: Wood Designed By: Stanley - Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) – “built on the same 34’ model as Wolfhound for Wendell Seavey and Russell Pettigrove’s boat” Build Date: 1966 Built by: Ralph W. Stanley Inc. Built at: Stanley 1st Shop - SWH – Main Street – 376 Built for: Bracy – Wesley “Junior” Peterson Bracy Jr. (1938-) Named for: Probably Junior’s wife: Lorraine R. (MacAllister) Bracy (1948-) and a daughter Lynn? Power: Built with 8 cyl. Buick engine – later – 1980s – Caterpillar Diesel Length: 35’
Description: Built As: Lorilynn Class: Lobster Boat Hull: Wood Designed By: Stanley - Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) – “built on the same 34’ model as Wolfhound for Wendell Seavey and Russell Pettigrove’s boat” Build Date: 1966 Built by: Ralph W. Stanley Inc. Built at: Stanley 1st Shop - SWH – Main Street – 376 Built for: Bracy – Wesley “Junior” Peterson Bracy Jr. (1938-) Named for: Probably Junior’s wife: Lorraine R. (MacAllister) Bracy (1948-) and a daughter Lynn? Power: Built with 8 cyl. Buick engine – later – 1980s – Caterpillar Diesel Length: 35’ [show more]
This no-name spray hood lobster boat was originally owned by Joseph Elwood Spurling. The vessel had been brought up to Maine by summer people and so started out life as being slightly more elegant than the common fishing boat. She was planked with southern cedar and copper fastened. Elwood used her for weir fishing. He later sold it to Henry Lewis Linscott. When Ralph Ober Phippen owned the vessel he used it for lobster fishing. – Ralph Warren Stanley, 2009.
Description: This no-name spray hood lobster boat was originally owned by Joseph Elwood Spurling. The vessel had been brought up to Maine by summer people and so started out life as being slightly more elegant than the common fishing boat. She was planked with southern cedar and copper fastened. Elwood used her for weir fishing. He later sold it to Henry Lewis Linscott. When Ralph Ober Phippen owned the vessel he used it for lobster fishing. – Ralph Warren Stanley, 2009. [show more]
Built by Ralph Stanley Inc. for Shirley Moore Phippen. There is a photograph of "Wandabob" on the cover of “Maine Lobsterboats: Builders and Lobstermen Speak of Their Craft” by Virginia L. Thorndike, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine, 1998, “Ralph Stanley: Continuing a Southwest Harbor Tradition,” p. 37-40.
Description: Built by Ralph Stanley Inc. for Shirley Moore Phippen. There is a photograph of "Wandabob" on the cover of “Maine Lobsterboats: Builders and Lobstermen Speak of Their Craft” by Virginia L. Thorndike, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine, 1998, “Ralph Stanley: Continuing a Southwest Harbor Tradition,” p. 37-40.
Vessel Name: Rebel Class: Lobster Boat Hull: Wood Designed by: Chester Eben Clement (1881-1937) Build date: 1928 Built by: Chester Eben Clement (1881-1937) Built at:: Great Cranberry Island, Maine Built for: Lewis Gilley Stanley (1869-1957) Power: Gross tons: Net tons: Length: 32’ Beam: Draught: Number: ME 2265 A Disposition: Beached at Swans Island “Uncle Lew” sailed summer people in her - originally a round hood open boat - later sold to Clyde M. Torrey of Swans Island who owned her when this photograph was taken – a small cabin had been added to her.
Description: Vessel Name: Rebel Class: Lobster Boat Hull: Wood Designed by: Chester Eben Clement (1881-1937) Build date: 1928 Built by: Chester Eben Clement (1881-1937) Built at:: Great Cranberry Island, Maine Built for: Lewis Gilley Stanley (1869-1957) Power: Gross tons: Net tons: Length: 32’ Beam: Draught: Number: ME 2265 A Disposition: Beached at Swans Island “Uncle Lew” sailed summer people in her - originally a round hood open boat - later sold to Clyde M. Torrey of Swans Island who owned her when this photograph was taken – a small cabin had been added to her. [show more]
Pleasure boat "Nathaniel" is a 28' power boat in the Bass Boat style with a canvas top on the shelter. Mahogany on the top. "Quite fancy" according to Ralph Warren Stanley who built the boat with his son Richard Lewis Stanly in 1988 for Morris E. Zukerman. "Nathaniel" is powered by a 6-cylinder 175 HP Volvo diesel engine.
Description: Pleasure boat "Nathaniel" is a 28' power boat in the Bass Boat style with a canvas top on the shelter. Mahogany on the top. "Quite fancy" according to Ralph Warren Stanley who built the boat with his son Richard Lewis Stanly in 1988 for Morris E. Zukerman. "Nathaniel" is powered by a 6-cylinder 175 HP Volvo diesel engine.
Ralph built his first boats at his father’s house, originally his grandfather, Adoniram Judson Robinson's house at 376 Main Street in Southwest Harbor. He built this 33' lobster boat for Daniel "Danny" J. Graham (1943-2011) of Cohasset, Massachusetts, in this shop. "Linda G." was the same model as Ralph's other 33 footers. She carried a Palmer V-8 gas engine. In 2011 the boat belonged to Henry L. Grandjent of Islesford, Maine.
Description: Ralph built his first boats at his father’s house, originally his grandfather, Adoniram Judson Robinson's house at 376 Main Street in Southwest Harbor. He built this 33' lobster boat for Daniel "Danny" J. Graham (1943-2011) of Cohasset, Massachusetts, in this shop. "Linda G." was the same model as Ralph's other 33 footers. She carried a Palmer V-8 gas engine. In 2011 the boat belonged to Henry L. Grandjent of Islesford, Maine. [show more]
Ralph built this 34' lobster boat, “Wolfhound”, later renamed “Gramps”, for Wendell Sherbon Seavey in his first boat shop at his father's house on Main Street.
Description: Ralph built this 34' lobster boat, “Wolfhound”, later renamed “Gramps”, for Wendell Sherbon Seavey in his first boat shop at his father's house on Main Street.
The boat Rich & Grindle built in 1949 for John Wolf (1903-1962), of Freeport, New York, owner of John Wolf Textiles, was built like a lobster boat, but with a longer cabin.
Description: The boat Rich & Grindle built in 1949 for John Wolf (1903-1962), of Freeport, New York, owner of John Wolf Textiles, was built like a lobster boat, but with a longer cabin.
“Driftwood” was a 34’ lobster style pleasure boat built by Rich & Grindle Boatbuilders for Henry Bucknam Wass (1906-1986) in 1950. She was later owned by the Dwight Blaney family of Ironbound Island. Jarvis W. Newman rebuilt her in 1988 and sold her to Gerrit Livingston Lansing (1942-2010), an art historian and expert on American Surrealism, of Northeast Harbor and Greenwich, Connecticut who renamed her “Chicken of the Sea.”
Description: “Driftwood” was a 34’ lobster style pleasure boat built by Rich & Grindle Boatbuilders for Henry Bucknam Wass (1906-1986) in 1950. She was later owned by the Dwight Blaney family of Ironbound Island. Jarvis W. Newman rebuilt her in 1988 and sold her to Gerrit Livingston Lansing (1942-2010), an art historian and expert on American Surrealism, of Northeast Harbor and Greenwich, Connecticut who renamed her “Chicken of the Sea.”