Preview: Brooklin Boat Yard Walkabout, June 2023

31 Responses So Far to “Brooklin Boat Yard Walkabout, June 2023”

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  Chip Painter says:

  Thank you, ‘Eric you do a great job with these videos and i enjoy the sights sounds and can almost smell the various rooms you walk-through. Well done.

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  David Satter says:

  If there’s a Heaven , I hope it looks like Brooklin boat yard!

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  Peter Jackson says:

  Great work Eric. I had the privilege of meeting Havilah Hawkins and seeing inside the construction building and the various storage sheds back in 2017. A wonderful experience which I hope to repeat one day.

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  Peter Rahn says:

  Thanks for the fantastic video tour! It was so great to see everything from the highly-engineered race boat to the mooring field map, to the collection of Rozinantes and 12 1/2s.
  I’m in Harpswell sailing around on a Bristol 24. Hope to get up to Center Harbor this summer and sail around.
  Thanks for the great videos!
  Pete

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  Ron Molk says:

  Thank you very much. Very educational and entertaining. Please keep ’em coming.

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  Spencer Day says:

  Eric you’ve managed to narrate a video – with much helpful detail and seemingly without even an extraneous word – about what’s happening there this June. I learned some stuff and that’s always good!

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  Kamin Lambertson says:

  What a great tour! I haven’t made it there yet, so this helps connect the dots between reading about it and doing it. Thanks!

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  Paul Heath says:

  Thanks Eric, I’m from Australia and always look forwards to your videos.
  There’s a lot of crazy things happening in the world and it seems there’s a push to destroy our past and those who created who we are now.
  I’m glad there are communities in your country that value time honoured tradition and the simplicity of community that holds those values dear.

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  Robert Kunzig says:

  Such a great Idea to do that, show us what is there! Patiently shot as well… Bravo
  Oh I’ve got to get up there and spend a few weeks on the water in and around
  OCH – Maine, Penobscot Bay… heaven

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  George Blaisdell says:

  Annie is there!!! I still would like to get some serious footage of her sailing, and get a tour below… My 2C’s…

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  Nicholas Roosevelt says:

  Everything is so amazing. Really like that 43 footer. But also I always wonder why all the design and build work on a boat these days is done in metric, but somehow most boats want to be described in feet.

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  David Hatfield says:

  Thanks for sharing the walk about. What are buoy fees on the Maine Coast?

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    David and Margaret Tew says:

    Do you mean overnight mooring or seasonal?

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  Mike Anderson says:

  That felt good, thanks for the walkabout.

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  Doug Hermann says:

  I really enjoy the behind the scenes videos. Amazing history in those buildings. Amazing craftsmanship from this boatyard. Imagine – a whole shed-full of 12 1/2s…. Did you see the gloss finishes on those boats? I have to imagine they were done by hand versus inside a spray booth. Just remarkable. Thank you Eric. Well done. Thank you OCH.

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  Walter Curran says:

  Love your walkabouts. I’ve been an armchair sailor for many years but have never lost the love of the art of building.

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  Peter Strock says:

  For Dirk and Steve
  Serenity and tolerance are both in short supply these days

  Before speaking consider whether what you have to say will improve on silence The Buddha

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  John Bouton says:

  Honestly, Eric, you had me drooling over the pristine condition of the 10′ Dyer Dhow in the shed — even after weeks of prep, it puts my 1957 model to shame… perhaps there’s hope if I bring it to Brooklin…?

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  Francis S Capsan says:

  Great walkabout Eric. Despite some peoples opinion about how these beautiful vessels came about, I believe that 99.9% of your audience enjoys looking at them. Keep it up Mate.

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  Steve Wolfer says:

  Dirk Faegre says, “Sorry to be the wet dishrag at the party, but …” I don’t think he is really sorry. If he were, he’d have kept his anti-money, virtue-signaling, neo-Marxist take on boats and wealthy owners to himself. Boats are genuinely fascinating, often quite unique, and frequently works of art. And like art, each person can have those they love and those they don’t. I would be sorry for inserting this rant, but someone needed to point out the ugliness of bringing that leftist cultural political attack into this absolutely wonderful website. I, for one, loved the tour.

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    Jay Knight says:

    Remember, these works of art support a lot of families. The purchase of these every small piece of these wonderful boats has to be designed by naval architects, has to be made by fantastic craftsmen, shipped, purchased then assembled by the artisans at the boatyard, then lovingly maintained. Quite a long list of exceptionally talented professionals derived their families income from these works of art.

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  James Thomas says:

  With the new boats, there’s such an amazing synergy between traditional aesthetics and engineering. I guess one might be offended by it, but American yacht design and construction, including in the days of Nathanael Herreshoff, has often wedded tradition with new materials and technology, and usually at the service of the wealthy who could afford taking risks.

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  BRUCE HINMAN says:

  Just a lovely collection of marine beauty. Not a runt in the litter!
  Another great narration from Eric.

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  Bill Page says:

  Nice job Eric, very impressive as to what Brooklin Boat Yard has become. Joel would be pleased…..

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  mark bratton says:

  Thanks so much for the tour. Those are some amazing new boats being built. Wonderful to see the blending of wood, all the high tech composites, cutting edge design and some masterful boat builders. Just awesome!

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  David Satter says:

  WOW! Some of my favorite videos are the walkarounds of boatyards. I used to walk around there when I attended WoodenBoat school in the 90s . I used to get up early and ride my bike down there before class just to see what was going on at the yard. Thanks Eric.

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  Paul Cammaroto says:

  A conversation heard on the dock of BBY “Is this Heaven ? No, it’s Brooklin !”

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  Douglas Wilkin says:

  Stunning design and implementation. Thanks for the tour of the razors edge of boat building.

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  Philip Myer says:

  Wonderfully diverse tour of BBY- many thanks Philip

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  David and Margaret Tew says:

  Nice to see ANNIE there. Art Brendze who built her so long ago must be pleased.

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  Bruce Parker says:

  Thanks Eric, we armchair sailors really enjoy a behind the curtain view. Next best thing to being there and walking the boatyard.
  Keep up the great work!