Traditional fishing boat?

[Doug Carlson]

A couple of summers back I was in Lubeck, Maine and saw this boat. Is it a specific design? Does it represent a type? I assumed it was used for lobstering on a very small scale.

[Doug Carlson]

Lots of room to work.

[gonzo]

It is a typical outboard lobster boat.

[Doug Carlson]

Thanks Gonzo,

I went back and looked up Bolger's Seguin in his book SMALL BOATS. I admired the design when I first saw the book in the 70's but being from the Midwest its purpose didn't register with me.

This boat bares a resemblence to Seguin but with less freeboard, a more plumb stem and a little squarer bilge at least at the transom.

Do you consider these to be examples of seaworthy, light, semi-displacement hulls?

Are you aware of any of these designed for, or built in, aluminum?

Doug

[gonzo]

They are seaworhty. Years of offshore fishing in the North Atlantic attest to that. I think building in aluminum would be possible using dies. The hull has a lot of curves.

I have a mold to make this type of small workboat if you would like one built.
If you would like more info e-mail me at dturple@ns.sympatico.ca
I'm in Nova Scotia, Canada

[mmd]

dturple - what size is your mould and where in NS are you? I often get requests for a boat hull of this type for use as a pleasureboat, but at less cost than a Rosborough or as a bare hull for owner-finishing.

[Doug Carlson]

dturple,

Thanks for the offer but I'm toying with the idea of building one in aluminum.

OTOH I'm glad I could bring you and mmd together.

[mmd]

Doug, I have plans for a beefy, seaworthy, hard-chine aluminum workboat that was designed to replace a boat such as the one illustrated. The original client ran an aquaculture farm (Atlantic salmon) and his 'glass Cape Island workboat hull got too beat up hauling 2000-lb fishboxes of feed out to the pens in an open bay on the Atlantic coast. He wanted a boat that would handle the abuse and open waters. He got it - the boat is built like the proverbial brick outhouse, and motors along quite nicely at about 22 knots with a 75- hp outboard. Construction is mostly 3/16" plate, all developable panels. The original had the plates CNC-plasma cut by the metal supplier and was assembled in two weeks by a boatbuilder/welder and his assistant. Drop an e-mail to me if you are interested.

MMD
The boat is 18'long and 6'wide. I will sell bare hull for owner finishing.
I am located in Pictou, NS.

[mmd]

Thanks - I'll keep the info on file.

[sean stinson]

What's your input on this type of fishing boat?

[sean stinson]

another

[sean stinson]

the previous was a picture taken of the side of the boat....finish came out pretty good I think.

here's another

[sean stinson]

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