Bluenose and Dauphinee: Maynard’s and Bill’s Nova Scotia Adventure

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May 21, 2012

Bill Mayher

VISITING BLUENOSE II Bluenose II A couple of years ago Taylor Allen, the owner of Rockport Marine, one of Maine’s signature boatbuilding yards, was asked to advise on the total reconstruction of the Nova Scotia Grand Banks schooner, Bluenose II.  When he invited Maynard and me to join him on one of his monthly visits to the shipyard in Lunenburg, we jumped at the chance. Taylor Allen (center) conferring with Michael Higgins (left) of Covey Island Boatworks and Phil Snyder (Snyder Shipyard) The Bluenose II was built in 1963.  In recent years her sheerline had hogged badly and she was…

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