Fax: (207) 359-8871 SERVICE & RESTORATIONS
We are a full-service boatyard fully capable of handling any job from routine annual maintenance chores to major restoration and refit projects.
Our haul-out and boat moving equipment includes both an 80-ton Travel Lift and 20-ton hydraulic trailer. Our main shop area is capable of accommodating boats up to 120 ft in length and other work sheds allow for smaller projects.
In addition to our regular carpentry, painting, rigging, mechanical and electrical departments, we offer a complete machine fabrications shop and a modern paint building. The wide variety of work done at Brooklin Boat Yard attests to our highly skilled crew.
We are especially known for our work in the restoration of classic wooden boats, both power and sail. A sampling of past projects includes the total restoration of “Enticer” an 85-ft Trumpy motor yacht originally built in 1935, a major refit of a 1931 Herreshoff Fishers Island 31, major restoration and refit of “Olympian”, a 1913 P-Class racing sloop and the refit of the 1955 Trumpy motor yacht "Osceola". Our most recently completed projects are the complete restorations of both “Seminole” a 1916 Lawley gaff-rigged yawl and “Aphrodite” a 74' Long Island Sound Commuter Yacht originally built by the Purdy Boat Company in 1937.
While well known as a “wooden boat mecca”, Brooklin Boat Yard also regularly works on boats of other construction methods both in annual service / maintenance and in major restoration work. Along those lines, the restoration of KATRINKA broadened the scope of our restoration work as KATRINKA (49’, Bill Tripp Jr. Yawl built in 1969) is a glass boat. Work began in earnest during the summer of 2007 when the entire interior accommodations, bulkheads and systems were removed from the boat and the entire deck carefully removed in one piece for eventual reinstallation once all new interior accommodations and systems had been installed. The hull and decks were completely re-cored and new structural members installed in the hull. A new interior (based mostly on her original configuration) was designed and installed. Completely new ship’s systems were installed and the deck (with new teak decking) was fastened in place. KATRINKA was originally designed as a yawl rig but at some point over the years she was converted to a sloop. The new owners of the boat wanted to make it as true a restoration as possible so the boat returned to its original yawl configuration using modern carbon fiber spars provided by GMT Composites. KATRINKA was relaunched in the summer of 2008 and has since been seasonally cruising and racing in New England waters.
Winter/Spring 2011 finds Brooklin Boat Yard a very busy place with a wide assortment of work to be done by launching season. APHRODITE is back for the winter once again with a long list of annual maintenance work and upgrades. The W76 WILD HORSES is in the main shop with a long list of projects. LUCAYO is also in the main shop having her propulsion systems changed over to a generator-supplied electric drive and once that is done she will be replaced by FREE SPIRIT (Concordia 33), which will have her galley rearranged and electronic navigation systems repositioned to the cockpit. Many other projects are in the works, most notably the varnished topside 12-meter EASTERNER, which will be getting a pretty major refit to make her suitable for use by the Newport, RI-based Sail to Prevail program, which offers sailing opportunities to handicapped sailors. Adding to all this, the annual maintenance of 80-some-odd boats stored or serviced with Brooklin Boat Yard makes for a busy off-season for sure.
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