| At JS Boatworks in
Brunswick, Maine, Joe Sharpe and his 10 employees are involved
in finishing off a variety of boats, plus making forms for
deckhouses of others.
Without a doubt, the most unusual project
involves taking a hull from the Sabre 452 mold (but with a
different laminate schedule) and customizing it to meet the
wishes of the customer– a sailor who lives right in Brunswick
and wants a pilothouse model based on the Sabre design. North
End Composites. Which makes the Sabre hulls and decks, is
redesigning the deckhouse to meet the customer’s requirements,
and JS Boatworks is finishing the project from that point.
Other projects in the shop include finishing a
42-foot Webber Cove hull from Blue Hill Boats for a customer in
FT Lauderdale, Fla. (This is the third boat that JS has built
for this customer, a broker who sells each after using it for a
few years. The shop is also building a female mold for a new
cabin structure for the 42.
Also being finished off at the present time is
a 36-foot Northern Bay (from Downeast Boats & Composites).
This cruiser will be going to a customer Sandwich, Mass. Also
going to Massachusetts (Boston) is a 26-foot Webber Cove hull
that JS is finishing off.
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The crew is also working on a 38-foot Wesmac
for a lobsterman in Warwick, R.I. and is doing shop tooling for
similar Wesmacs.
Taking up a lot of space on the shop floor is
the superstructure for a 100-footer, a Ray Hunt design, that
will be finished by the Derektor yard in New York.
JS Boatworks began business on Bailey Island
and moved to Brunswick a year and a half ago. Owner Sharpe is
now looking to move again to larger quarters in Topsham. In
addition to boat building work, Sharpe also takes on projects
for the travel trailer industry and is looking to get some
contracts from the aerospace industry. |
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