Old boats need love, too
THE GLENN GEARY came ashore Wednesday for systems work. The 73-foot boat was built in the late 1940s as a sardine cannery. BEN BULKELEY/Boothbay Register
THE GLENN GEARY was built in the 1940s by Newbert & Wallace in Thomaston. It is owned by the Boothbay Harbor Shipyard but is for sale. BEN BULKELEY/Boothbay Register
THE GLENN GEARY came ashore Wednesday for systems work. The 73-foot boat was built in the late 1940s as a sardine cannery. BEN BULKELEY/Boothbay Register
THE GLENN GEARY was built in the 1940s by Newbert & Wallace in Thomaston. It is owned by the Boothbay Harbor Shipyard but is for sale. BEN BULKELEY/Boothbay Register
With temperatures near 50 F and a bluebird sky, it was hard to believe Glenn Geary was pulled Wednesday, Jan. 15 because of ice.
But, the 73-foot fishing boat had been boxed around and came up Wednesday at the Boothbay Harbor Shipyard.
“(Glenn Geary) was ice-bound a couple of days ago,” Shipyard Manager Eric Graves said. “She’s one of those old fishing boats that needs some love.”
The boat, which was built by Thomaston’s Newbert and Wallace in the late 1940s, is owned currently by the shipyard. It had been used as a sardine carrier by Stimson Cannery.
Now, the boat is technically for sale and Graves said the shipyard had a few ideas “kicking around” for the wooden-hulled ship.
“Every few years we pull her up to do work,” he said. “Her hull is in really good shape, but she needs some systems work.”
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