Anybody writing about the history of Maine’s Down East boatbuilding culture would have to include the name Jarvis Newman and at least a few of the vessels that his yard produced. Born in 1935, he spent his teenage years lobstering and fishing in Long Island Sound, then worked at a variety of jobs before moving to Southwest Harbor to work in the fiberglass department at what would go on to become Hinckley Yachts. Newman realized that sailboat owners needed a rowboat or tender, so he started building them. In 1970, Jarvis Newman Boats was formed, and its powerboats and Friendship Sloops started to dot Maine’s harbors.

Today, it’s increasingly unusual to see any of the 90 boats that Jarvis Newman built come up on the brokerage market. About half of the original builds went to commercial fishermen, with the other half going to recreational boaters—meaning there were only ever about 45 of the classics available for cruising yachtsmen at all. Some have undergone restorations or refits, and those that present in top condition are especially precious when they show up for sale in the marketplace.

Hence the $375,000 asking price on Bounder, whose hull was built by Jarvis Newman and then shipped to Lyman-Morse for custom-built interiors and systems. Ever since this boat’s finishing in 1988, it’s had just one owner, and it has been stored as well as maintained at Lyman-Morse.

Some of the more recent work includes stripping and revarnishing in 2019, the addition of a new flybridge enclosure that same year, and the addition of new house and starter 8D Lifeline AGM batteries in 2021.

Earlier, in 2008, the boat underwent a repower with an 800-horsepower Caterpillar 3406E. According to the team at Lyman-Morse, the engine gives Bounder a top speed of 20 knots and a cruising speed of 17 knots.

The boat has a classic feel in just about every respect, inside and out. Its solid fiberglass hull is painted with Awlgrip’s flag blue, along with a red and white boot stripe. The house is Awlgrip’s Matterhorn white, and inside, the Herreshoff aesthetic includes a varnished teak and holly sole. Furniture and cabinetry is white, with varnished raised mahogany trim and doors. Overheads are white with laminated mahogany beams and trim. All the thru-hulls are bronze.

What features are in the owner’s stateroom on Bounder for comfortable overnights? It has heat as well as air conditioning, and an opening portlight for fresh air.

Take the next step: contact a sales broker at lymanmorse.com

Quick Specifications

• Length Overall: 46’2″
• Maximum Beam: 15′
• Fuel Capacity: 1,400 Gal.
• Freshwater Capacity: 600 Gal.

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The brokerage team at Lyman-Morse in Maine says the owner of the 36-foot Hinckley Picnic Boat Osprey is offering the boat for sale at an asking price of $235,000.

According to Lyman-Morse, the owner is parting with Osprey because he intends to focus on sailing instead. The Picnic Boat is a 2000 build that had its 1,000-hour engine service done on the Yanmar 6LY2-STP in May 2023.

The owner also recently upgraded the chartplotter to a Garmin GPSMap XSV.

Key specs for Osprey include a shallows-friendly draft of 1 foot, 6 inches; a fuel capacity of 160 gallons; a freshwater capacity of 30 gallons; and overnight accommodations for two people. Cruising speed is reportedly 20 knots, with a top hop of 26 knots.

Where is Osprey available for viewing? The boat is being stored inside a heated bay in Camden, Maine.

Take the next step: Contact a sales broker at lymanmorse.com

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The brokerage team at Lyman-Morse in Maine says a passionate owner has breathed new life into Papagayo, a Wilbur 38 that launched in 1983.

A five-year refit at Wilbur Yachts, also in Maine, has left the Downeast classic in a condition that Lyman-Morse brokers say “many would consider to be better than new.”

All the systems were replaced with modern equipment, including wiring, electronics, the 725 hp Volvo Penta diesel engine and the Northern Lights generator.

There’s also new fuel tanks, a new barrier coat on the bottom of the fiberglass hull, new paint throughout the vessel and new detailing, such as the teak butterfly hatch on the cabin top.

What’s the asking price for Papagayo? It’s $819,000.

Take the next step: Contact a sales broker at lymanmorse.com

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Nicholson Yachts is promoting the 38-foot Lyman-Morse Skylark, which is for sale in Newport, Rhode Island. The asking price is $385,000.

Skylark is a custom build that launched in 2005. The designers are Chuck Paine and Mark Fitzgerald, who created the boat for what Nicholson Yacht s calls “a client who valued style and quality over speed” with “the finest custom details and furnishings.”

A refit in 2022-23 included stabilization fins, a new Garmin multifunction display, replacement of the fuel lines, new bottom paint and exterior varnish, and new window shades.

Cruising speed on the jet-powered boat is 15 knots with a top speed of 18.5 knots, according to Nicholson Yachts, which adds: “She is not a fast boat but is always the prettiest boat in any harbor she visits.”

Is a recent survey available for review by prospective buyers? Yes, it is.

Take the next step: contact Karen Kelly Shea at nicholsonyachts.com

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Lyman-Morse says the 94-foot, fully custom Electra is for sale at an asking price of $6 million.

The flybridge motoryacht, which launched in 2007, is being marketed as “turnkey availability.” It has been professionally maintained and managed by a captain since it splashed and, according to Lyman-Morse, has a replacement cost of more than $18 million.

Electra’s design is by C. Raymond Hunt and Peter Boyce. The boat was built by Lyman-Morse in Thomaston, Maine.

Key specs include a reported cruising speed of 25 knots and a top speed of 31 knots. Its beam is 21 feet, 5 inches, and it has a draft of 6 feet, 5 inches. Range is 3,500 nautical miles at 10 knots.

Where is Electra lying? The yacht is located in Florida.

Take the next step: contact sales broker Eric Roos at lymanmorse.com

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“My kids have a saying: Incoming wind, outgoing tide makes for a bumpy Kennebec ride,” Rich Miner says about cruising aboard his Nantucket skiff on Maine’s Kennebec River. The Down East skiff’s flagship standing in the family was usurped when Miner, the co-founder of Android, added other rides, including a C.W. Hood-drawn Katama 30. Miner’s newest whip, the first Hood 35 LM, Shadow, represents all that he’s learned about Maine boating, technology and bespoke design.

While his success with Android means that Miner has his choice of yachts, his love of hands-on design and Maine’s working waterfronts, as well as his desire to commute between his Maine island properties, led him to commission the first Hood 35 LM. It’s also a C.W. Hood design, built by Lyman-Morse. And while it may look like a traditional, cold-molded Down East dayboat, it actually has everything, from Hamilton HJX Series water-jet drives to a planned Sea Machines autonomous command-and-control system.

Miner, who is 58, grew up in Natick, Massachusetts, roughly 20 miles from Massachusetts Bay. He was a suburban kid whose parents bought a small Bayliner that they kept in Gloucester. This served as his introduction to boating, but the sport’s gravitational pull didn’t resume until after he completed his undergraduate work, master’s degree and Ph.D. in the 1980s and ’90s, and then started the companies Wildfire and Android.

“Maybe 20 years ago, I picked it up again, when we bought our first place in Maine,” Miner says. The Nantucket skiff was the first of many small boats that would join his fleet there (see sidebar).

Years later, the Miners acquired a camp farther Down East. These properties border brine, allowing him to sometimes commute between them by water.

“At max throttle, it’s effectively a three-hour boat ride, door to door,” he says about traveling from his property on Atkins Bay in Phippsburg to his camp on Eggemoggin Reach aboard his previously owned C.W. Hood-designed Katama 30, which he acquired in late 2015. Part of his reason for building his Hood 35 LM was time. “I’d like to be able to be able to cruise back and forth in less than three hours,” he says.

So, that was one reason for the Hood 35 LM, whose reported top speed is more than 40 knots. Another reason was design.

“I have strong views on form, and I have strong views on function,” he says, adding that in his next life, “I’ll be an architect.” For him, owning the Katama 30 was a chance to “see what I like and don’t like in a boat this size.”

The Katama was originally a coupe, so Miner asked Hood to design a hardtop with removable windows. Hood delivered, and a working relationship developed. Four years later, Hood was in the endgame of building a 57-footer for a client with Lyman-Morse in Camden, Maine. “I really like Drew Lyman,” Miner says, adding that Lyman brings a generational shift to the company that his father, Cabot Lyman, founded in 1978. “He’s big into leveraging tech in really smart ways…but with really beautiful wooden boats.”

The Hood 35 LM is thus an exercise in form meeting its function, with a nod to other popular Maine designs such as the Hinckley Picnic Boat.

“I like the idea of a Picnic Boat, but more minimalist,” Miner says, adding that he appreciates cold-molded wooden hulls for their strength-to-weight ratio, overall resilience, and sound- and vibration-dampening properties. The Hood 35 LM also had to be small enough to frequent Five Islands Lobster Co. in Georgetown (near one of his homes) while accommodating overnights with his family of four. He needed the perfect mid-range cruiser.

Miner worked with Hood to create custom cockpit bench seating that converts into two twin berths, an innovative V-berth that converts to a “queen-ish”-size master, and hinged windows and access panels that disappear into bulkheads. “It’s a really clean design,” says Miner, adding that the extra 5 feet of waterline between his single-jet Katama and his dual-jet Hood 35 LM accommodates the yacht’s advanced systems.

Advanced systems include twin HamiltonJet HJX Series water-jet drives and AVX controls, which should be ideal in the land of lobster pots. There are also dual 19-inch Raymarine Axiom multifunction displays, a Cyclone radar, a YachtSense digital switching and control system, a ClearCruise AR-enhanced navigation system, and a FLIR thermal-imaging camera. “It’s Android at its core,” Miner says of the Raymarine operating system.

Cooler still, Miner also spec’d HamiltonJet’s JetSense, an autonomous command-and-control system that Sea Machines builds. “It can be used a lot like Tesla Autopilot,” Miner says, adding that the system has several levels of autonomy. “One is better situational awareness while you’re at the helm,” while another is “a full autonomous version that can do a lot of the driving.”

In more traditional fashion, Miner’s Hood 35 LM carries 40 gallons of fresh water, 20 gallons of blackwater and 240 gallons of fuel, giving it a range of 240 nautical miles (with a 10 percent reserve) at its reported cruising speed of 32 knots at 30 gph. Hammers down, the boat will do 40 knots at 42 gph.

While Miner hadn’t yet taken delivery at the time of this writing, odds are excellent that the new boat will make negotiating the Kennebec a far more comfortable and technologically advanced affair, irrespective of wind and tide.

Full-Scale Charrette

Lyman-Morse built a cardboard mock-up of the Hood 35 LM prior to construction. The helm looked boxy, so Miner worked with the Lyman-Morse team to create a curved carbon-fiber helm with a wood-veneer face and exposed carbon ends. Miner says the result is “beautiful and contemporary.” 

Unblinking Eyes

Everything about Miner’s Hood 35 LM is aimed at meeting the aesthetics and practicalities of the Maine coastline. This includes lobster pots. To help evade these navigational challenges, the boat carries a FLIR M364C thermal-imaging camera, which can deliver high-definition color and thermal imagery, as well as blends of the two.

Mosquito Fleet

The Hood 35 LM is Miner’s flagship, but he owns several hundred feet of waterline. His armada includes a Katama 30, a Nantucket skiff, a Banks Cove 22 Center Console, 10 kayaks, a rowing shell, two Puffin tenders, a Portland Pudgy, a home-built wooden rowing tender, a Little River Marine Heritage 15 Carbon rowboat, two stand-up paddleboards and a canoe. 

Take the next step: cwhoodyachts.com; lymanmorse.com

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Lyman-Morse in Maine has launched Shadow, the first Hood 35 LM and one of our recommended pocket cruisers.

The new model is a collaboration between Lyman-Morse and C.W. Hood Design, which also worked together on the Hood 57 LM. Like the bigger model, the Hood 35 LM is a cold-molded yacht. Hull No. 1 is a hardtop express version.

Shadow’s owner chose high-end electronics for the boat, including Raymarine’s digital switching system, YachtSense, which replaces traditional mechanical switches and circuit breakers.

Also installed are twin 440-hp Yanmar 6LY440 engines coupled to a pair of Hamilton Waterjet HJX29s. According to Lyman-Morse, Shadow is the first pleasure vessel in the United States to be equipped with these new jets, helping the boat to achieve speeds of 40-plus knots.

Shadow is also the first pleasure vessel to be equipped for autonomous running with the Sea Machines system, the builder says.

All of that tech is wrapped in a package with classic Downeast lines. The interior has exposed Douglas fir planking and walnut carpentry. Customized helm seats are made with carbon fiber and walnut details.

“Between C.W. Hood and Lyman-Morse, this really was the dream team,” Shadow’s owner stated in a press release. “I have worked with Chris Hood in the past on my last boat, so when I found out they were working with Lyman-Morse, I couldn’t have been happier. Lyman-Morse’s reputation precedes itself in building custom yachts and so does their ability to incorporate state-of-the-art technology, so this really was the perfect boatbuilder to take on this project.”

Is Hull No. 2 of the Hood 35 LM on the way? Yes. It will be a flybridge version. It’s expected to be ready in 2023. A soft-top model is also available.

Take the next step: click over to lymanmorse.com

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Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding and CW Hood Yacht Design have collaborated on another powerboat: the Hood 35 LM. The duo’s previous project was the Hood 57 LM.

The Hood 35 LM is a semicustom build that’s available with hardtop, flybridge and soft-top options. Hull No. 1 of the 35 has a hardtop and is expected to launch early this summer; Hull No. 2 is the flybridge version, with completion expected by 2023.

Other options include adding a companion seat at the helm and a U-shaped settee to port. Belowdecks, owners can choose a traditional V-berth setup, a queen berth or an offset berth with a settee (only available with the galley-up layout).

The helm station is to starboard at amidships. Abaft it is a settee that accommodates at least two people. Abaft the settee are single aft-facing seats.

The transom door on centerline separates two additional forward-facing seats in the port and starboard corners. The Hood 35 LM also has a swim platform, providing easy access to the water for a morning swim.

Belowdecks, the galley is to port with a dual-voltage refrigerator, a sink and a cooktop. A closet and the head (which has a shower and sink) are to starboard. Hull No. 2 has a separate shower with a galley-up layout. Either hull type is perfect for someone looking for a small cruising boat with overnight capacity.

The Maine-based builder used cold-molded construction for the Hood 35 LM’s hull, just as it did on the 65-foot sailing yacht Anna by Stephens Waring Yacht Design. The 35’s deck is built with E-glass. The vessel’s interiors are finished with Douglas fir, and veneers of western red cedar cover the exterior spaces.

Power for Hull No. 1 is twin 440 hp Yanmar 6LY440 diesels coupled to a pair of HJX29 water jets from HamiltonJet. The HJX29 has enhanced steering and Hamilton’s new AVX control system. Reported top speed is 38 knots; reported cruising speed is 30 knots. Optional power is twin Volvo Penta D6-440 DPI stern drives that produce reported cruising and top speeds of 30-plus and 40-plus knots, respectively.  

Take the next step: lymanmorse.com

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Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding in Maine has launched Hull No. 2 of its wooden-hull LM46.

The yacht, christened Arcadia, is a high-performance, cold-molded sailing yacht with a reported 10 knots of speed under power or sail. The design is a collaboration among Lyman-Morse founder Cabot Lyman, his son and company President Drew Lyman, and Kiwi designer Kevin Dibley.

Arcadia differs slightly from Hull No. 1 of the LM46, with a deeper, 7-foot-7-inch draft keel for better racing performance. Arcadia also has a second head. The owner is a regular in the Newport Bermuda Race. He previously owned a J/42 and has been a service customer at Lyman-Morse for decades.

“Having raced in 10 Newport Bermuda races, I saw the LM46 as the perfect competitor for the race,” the owner stated in a press release. “While speed is definitely a top priority, comfort makes the race that much more enjoyable, and I saw the LM46 as being the best of both worlds. Having been a longtime service customer of Lyman-Morse, I knew the build technology and quality would be the best of the best.”

Lyman-Morse’s vision for the LM46 is to build a series of the yachts, with the goal of starting a one-design class. The yacht is offered in three stateroom configurations and three keel configurations, with drafts of 6 feet; 7 feet, 7 inches; and 10 feet. Options include a more powerful engine, retractable bow thruster, electric winches and robust sail package.

What else is new at Lyman-Morse? The Hood 35 LM express cruiser is expected to launch in mid-May, and a Navier 27 all-electric, hydrofoiling powerboat is in build with a debut planned at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show in October.

Take the next step: click over to lymanmorse.com

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The Lyman-Morse shipyard in Maine hosted the debut of the LM46 Hopgrasser at the Newport International Boat Show in Rhode Island.

Hopgrasser is a cold-molded performance cruiser designed in collaboration with Kevin Dibley.

“Our first day of sail trials saw both 10 knots under power and 10 knots under sail,” Drew Lyman, president of Lyman-Morse, stated in a press release. “We are excited to get the boat fine-tuned to really see what she can do.”

Hull No. 2 of the LM46 is scheduled to launch later this fall, with Hull No. 3 already on the drawing table.

What else is new at Lyman-Morse? The yard’s partnership with C.W. Hood Yachts has led to the development of three powerboat designs from 35 to 57 feet length overall.

Take the next step: go to lymanmorse.com

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