Young Apprentice William @wsail343 driving trunnels into the shallop with a wooden beetle he and the Saffos boys made from a broken oar and some live oak offcuts from the shallop framing. Trunnels are “tree nails”....wooden pegs that hold the boat together
Building a boat the Lowell’s way
Harold Burnham’s Saul loft
Tour of the wreck of the ada k Damon
Tour of john noon boat shop
Lowell’s Boat Shop history tour
Tour of projects at Lowell's Boat Shop
All of our boats gets HIN Hull Identification Number
Here we are burning a number into a dory, LMR Is our builder code, 00717 is the sequential number since we started numbering boats this way in 1977, E is the month (this boat will deliver in May 🤞) 0 is the last digit of the year and 20 are the last two digits of the year. This boat, LMR00717E020 is headed to Florida
locust logs getting milled up today, these will be stems and frames for next years boats! It’s said to be as hard as woodpecker lips and will last one day longer than granite
Come see Santa at Lowell’s Boat shop 12-1 Saturday and Sunday during our annual Holiday Open House!
Beautiful night for a roast and toast! Happy 225 Lowells Boat Shop! Thanks @jbruggah @notchbrewing @islandcreekoysters @90pluscellars
Our competition making mast hoops at Pert Lowell & Co.
Spent Wednesday at Mystic Seaport...they are currently planking the topsides of the Charles Morgan...here is a video of them driving trunnels