Article: 38-foot kits fill order book; Canadians warm to PEI hull.(North)(Prince Edward Island, Downeast Boats and Composites, Central Marine Fiberglass)

The new Northern Bay 38 from Downeast Boats & Composites in Penobscot, Maine, has pretty well taken over the boatshop's order book. Several kit boats are heading to commercial fishermen in Maine, Massachusetts and New York.

Downeast Boats g Composites is also completing 38-foot hulls for Maine lobstermen. This past fall, a completed boat, the Miss Maddison, went to Leroy Bridges, a fisherman from nearby Deer Isle. She has a 410-hp Sisu diesel that gives her speeds over 35 mph.

The same engine is in another 38-footer that the boatyard is building for Bruce Fernald, a lobsterman from Islesford. Fernald's boat is expected to go in the water in March, which ...

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