Knot a Care

Owner: Rick Pozzo, Orleans, Ma.

Builders: Downeast Boats and Composites, Penobscot, ME

Fishery: Offshore Charter Fishing

Top Speed: 37 MPH at full load

Name: Knot a Care, Yarmouth, Ma.

Paint and Gold Leaf: David Gross

Power: Iveco/FTP 750 hp from Motor Services Hugo Stamp

Gear: ZF 325 ratio 1.459/1

Propeller: Michigan wheel 28"X26"X4B DQX from H&H Propellers

Fuel Tanks: 1 center tank - 475 gal.

Generator: Westerbeke 8KW from Hansen Marine

Electronics: Package by Sawyer and Whitten

Start up/Sea Trials: Kennedy Marine Engineering

Hydraulics: Billings and Cole, Light Weight Baltec core for hull and top. Nida core stringers, bulkheads and floors.

Boat has 2 insulated under deck brine tanks, a tuna door and ramp.

Full head and shower, sleeps 4 people down and 2 people in pilothouse. Full galley and a setee that converts into sleeping accomodations in the pilothouse.

 


 

3 Blondes



Owner: Robby Hudson Goose Cove, Tremont, Maine

Designer: Calvin Beal, Beals, Maine

Name: 3 Blondes

Builder: SW Boatworks, Lamoine, Maine

Finisher: Jamie Thurlow Bass Harbor, Maine

Dimensions: 34’ L x 13’ W 12’4” Transom D 3’10”

Fishery: Lobster Fishing

Hull: Solid Fiberglass

Top: Molded

Power: 420 Iveco 2.5:1 Reduction, Twin Disc Wet Exhaust

Shaft: 2” S/S Aquamet 22 Rudder S/S 2” James Rich Boat Yard
Cutlass, PYI, Rudder Ports RE Thomas. Hancock, Maine

Propeller: 28x 32 3 Blade

Steering/Hydraulics: Marine Hydraulics Class 2 Dual Ram

Wiring: Jamie Thurlow

Electronics: Kramp

Hatches: Anchor

Controls: Kobelt

Metal Fabrication: Jamie Thurlow, Bass Harbor, Maine

Fuel Tanks: Single, Fiberglass 200 gallons Jamie Thurlow, Brennon Spofford

Windows: Rubber Insert Daves Glass

Trucking/Hauling: Pettigrows

Lettering: U Name It

Speed: 29 MPH

Owner’s Comments:
I am very pleased with the performance of the boat. The 420 Iveco sailed this boat with ease.

This boat is built with 2x6 deck framing and plywood, glassed over.

The boat is built rugged for fishing and goes good.

Special thanks to the crew that worked on the project, Jamie, Brennon, Eric Eaton and Ray ray.

Thanks to SW Boatworks for supplying a wonderful and good looking 34 Calvin Beal.

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Alewives Attract Gulls And Gawkers

Eastern Puma — The Mystery Continues

Editorial

Reviving Alewife Runs

Eagle Whisperer

Helping Fishermen...Helping Communities

Days Out Set for 2011 Atlantic Herring Season

Op/Ed

Feds Announce National Aquaculture Policy: Paves Way For Factory Fish Farming Industry In U.S. Waters

2011 Maine Lobster Boat Racing Schedule

Mazzetta Buys Atwood Lobster

Rapid Consolidation of U.S. Fishing Industry Prompts MA Suits and Report

Transportation of Lobsters to California-1874

A Case for Salmon Feedlots on Land

Race Buzz 2011

Launchings

Back Then

Asphalt to Asparagus

July 2011 Meetings

Chester Pike

Down East Thicker Fog

Classified Advertisement

Mexican Million

Capt. Mark East’s Advice Column

Lecture-Book Review at the Sail, Power and Steam Museum