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Woody On Tour – USA

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Woody On Tour – USA

A good friend , John Burland has been mooching around the eastern shores of the USA – Portland / Maine / Boston / New Hampshire etc.

In between eating his body weight in seafood he dropped into Lowells Boat Shop in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Lowells was established in 1793 (I’ll do the maths for you – that’s 230 yrs ago) and is the oldest operating boat shop in the USA. Google search the name to read / view the shops story. 

John was even press-ganged into helping turn a clinker that was being built.

Sure looks like a place I could spend sometime in – another addition to the bucket list.

(The birch bark canoe is on display at the – Portland Museum of Art)

A Day at Lowell’s Boat Shop

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A Day at Lowell’s Boat Shop

A friend of mine & ace photographer – John Burland snapped the photos below last week at the Lowell Boat Shop in Amesbury, Massachusetts, USA.

The shop was established in 1793 & Lowell’s is the oldest continuously operating boat shop in America and is cited as the birthplace of the legendary fishing dory. Located on the North bank of the Merrimack River, Lowell’s Boat Shop is now a non profit working museum dedicated to building classic wooden dories and skiffs.

They use a lot of yellow & green paint on their boats, its not that they bought a container load – yellow and green are traditional colours with the highest contrast for visibility in fog.

For more info – link the link below
http://www.lowellsboatshop.com/pages/lbshistory.html

click photos to enlarge 😉