by tomdenn | Dec 29, 2016
Lobstering Under Sail The Timeless Virtues of the Friendship Sloop By: H.A. Burnham Wooden Boat Magazine Issue #161 July/August 2001 Page One Let’s assume we’re going lobstering. Let’s assume you are meeting me at Gloucester’s Saint Peter’s Square public landing at...
by tomdenn | Dec 29, 2016
Side Launching The Old Essex Way Wooden Boat Magazine Issue #160 May/June 2000 Page One In the 19th century, when the Essex, Massachusetts’s yards were at the height of their production, there were only three basic ingredients to a launching: grease, gravity, and...
by tomdenn | Dec 29, 2016
Go See Harold… He Can Do It The building of the THOMAS E. LANNON Wooden Boat Magazine Issue #143 July/August 1998 Page One In the late winter of 1997, I was traveling through Essex, Massachusetts, for some reason or other, when I remembered that the marine...
by tomdenn | Dec 29, 2016
Schooner Ernestina...
by tomdenn | Dec 29, 2016
Isabella Most pictures in the gallery (below) were taken at Burnham Boat Yard, Essex, MA on Isabella’s launch day. Read the press article: “Burnham Launches Isabella” written by Tim...
