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Courtesy / Clark & Eisele, Bayshore Center at Bivalve Lincolnville boatbuilding firm Clark & Eisele plans to restore the 1928 Delaware Bay oyster schooner on Belfast’s waterfront starting in September. A Lincolnville boatbuilding company plans to restore a near-century-old oyster schooner on grounds the company will lease from the city of Belfast this fall. The Belfast City Council recently agreed to lease a portion of city-owned waterfront land to Clark & Eisele Traditional Boatbuilding, which plans to restore the AJ Meerwald, an 85-foot schooner built in 1928 on the Maurice River in southern New Jersey. Today the Meerwald, New Jersey s official tall ship and a classic example of a Delaware Bay oyster schooner, remains on the Maurice River (which locally is pronounced Morris ). The ship works as an educational platform, hosting school groups and visitors at the Bayshore Center at Bivalve, an environmental history museum in Point Norris, N.J. ....
by Tim Clark ALISON LANGLEY BLACKJACK, a 33′ Friendship sloop built in 1900 by Wilbur Morse, sails in her home waters of Rockland, Maine. She was extensively restored by professionals and volunteers at the Sail, Power & Steam Museum, which is her new home. The Maine sloop-boat, the sailing predecessor to the modern lobsterboat, is an icon of Maine’s maritime heritage. As a professional boatbuilder living and working in Maine who has a particular interest in historic workboats, I had always hoped that I might one day have an opportunity to build or restore one of these so-called Friendship sloops. In the summer of 2016, such an opportunity came my way in the most satisfying way I could imagine: I was asked to restore an original working sloop built by the most notable builder of the type, Wilbur Morse of Friendship, Maine. ....