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Article: Fancy lobster boat will travel; less horsepower makes sense.(NORTHEAST)
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- National Fisherman
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- January 1, 2009
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Boatbuilding has slowed clown at some New England boatyards, but not at Wesmac in Surry, Maine. Fishermen--commercial and sport--and recreational boat owners like the Wesmac hull with its hard chine V-bottom and full-keel design.
Wesmac is busy enough that it's hard to nail down the boatyard's Steve Wessel long enough to get a good idea of what the yard is doing. "Let me think what I've got going here. I'm so busy I'm on overload," he says as he searches for a file on a boat launched in October.
"She's for David Piper Jr. He's from Massachusetts. Plymouth is where he keeps her moored," Wessel says, as he pulls out information on Piper's 46-foot lobster ...