Can you help me find my designer?

[Harrible]

I have a rediscovered a long lost set of plans that I purchased 30+ years ago from designer Frederick W. Bates of Damariscotta, Maine. The plans are for "Pogo", a simple and elegant Down-East designed 23' utility/fisherman version of Maine's famed lobster boats. The plans are all intact and detailed from lines/offsets to mechanical details, but somewhat faded, etc.

I would like to contact Mr. Bates or progeny to see if plans/help are still available, and to communicate with others with an interest in Pogo; at least several hundred sets were sold worldwide. I have exhausted the usual Web search sites, Google, Switchboard, et. al. and have emailed Damariscotta's Chamber of Commerce. No luck thus far.

Can anyone offer ideas or suggestions? Much thanks in advance,

Harry H.

[Craig_Hastie]

Hi, you could try http://www.accessgenealogy.com/maine/ I searched it and found a match for this particular gentleman. Perhaps you may be able to contact surviving relatives once you have established who they are.

Regards
Craig Hastie

[Harrible]

Thanks Craig..

H