Nothing says, “Welcome” to a port for me like meeting a boat I designed.
Snowflower of Gloucester, a gentleman’s lobsterboat and the second boat I designed after I went to work for John Gilbert in Boston. She was only the third boat I designed that actually got built. Construction was by Gladding Hearn which built all but two of my research vessel designs and started my long association with that yard. The owner was (and may still be) the fellow who invented the wire lobster trap and built the factory that made most of the wire mesh that lies all over the bottoms of New England. I couldn’t raise the fellow fishing on either the radio or by hailing to find out if it was him. I realized why when I spotted the hearing aids in his ears.
I’m now anchored in Gloucester, one week after docking at New Hamburg on the Hudson. Seldom in my cruising have weather and tide aligned to let me cover so much ground so quickly. I should be back in Maine tomorrow.
Snowflower of Gloucester, a gentleman’s lobsterboat and the second boat I designed after I went to work for John Gilbert in Boston. She was only the third boat I designed that actually got built. Construction was by Gladding Hearn which built all but two of my research vessel designs and started my long association with that yard. The owner was (and may still be) the fellow who invented the wire lobster trap and built the factory that made most of the wire mesh that lies all over the bottoms of New England. I couldn’t raise the fellow fishing on either the radio or by hailing to find out if it was him. I realized why when I spotted the hearing aids in his ears.
I’m now anchored in Gloucester, one week after docking at New Hamburg on the Hudson. Seldom in my cruising have weather and tide aligned to let me cover so much ground so quickly. I should be back in Maine tomorrow.
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