About Rockport Marine, Inc.
Located about one third of the way up the western shore of Penobscot Bay in midcoast Maine, Rockport Marine was incorporated in 1962 by Luke Allen, and is now owned and operated by his son Taylor.
Since the beginning we have focused our efforts exclusively on wooden boats, and mostly on yachts, as opposed to commercial boats. We employ a year round crew of fifty skilled craftsmen, versatile in all aspects of wooden boat construction and repair. We are carpenters, painters, mechanics, electricians and fabricators. Sail-making, electronics, and other trades important to the wooden boat profession are available, all within a two-mile radius of our shop.
We have a Travelift hauling capacity of 55 tons, but we can also work with vessels of much greater weight. Our indoor storage capacity runs to roughly thirty-five boats, depending on size. We have indoor heated and humidified working spaces, as well as unheated, dirt floor storage sheds.
Our focus is on both restoration and new construction of wooden boats. Over the years, dozens of fine yachts, mostly sailboats, have been restored in our shop, most recently BRILLIANT, a Sparkman and Stephens schooner and BERNICE, a George Owens P-class yawl.
We also build new boats. Depending upon the intended use of the boat, we employ a variety of building techniques, such as cold-molding, strip planking, and traditional plank-on-frame methods. We recently completed SPIRIT OF BERMUDA, a 112-foot, three masted schooner, built for the country of Bermuda as a sail training vessel; and GODSPEED, a replica of a 17th century ship for the Jamestown-Yorktown settlement.
We are fortunate to have a terrific group of winter storage customers, most of whom return year after year. Many of them choose to moor their boats in Rockport Harbor for the summer to take advantage of the spectacular sailing available to them from the moment they slip their moorings. We have thirty-nine moorings available for seasonal and transient use, as well as dock space for seven boats.
We like this work. Each boat, whether new construction or restoration, poses unique challenges to us, the part of the business to which we are most strongly attracted, and which helps to keep the work interesting for our crew.
