Boats. Center Harbor, Brooklin, Maine

 

Not finding much old metal around in Maine these days, so we are posting some old wood instead--boats we've seen this week here at the Brooklyn Boatyard. Mazurka (above) is  Trumpy  yacht (that's a famous builder of boats, not an adjective) built c.1955.

Luna is Buzzards Bay 25, a classic daysailer designed by Nathaniel Herreshoff. (Below, Luna in flight)

The runabout below---we know she was restored here a couple years back. Very sleek. Must find out more and report.

                     

Isabel is a classic big wooden sloop with a raised salon.

Plainjane 1984 Ford F-150. Naskeag

Hardworking truck owned by a hardworking kid. If you see the orange in the background...Youth Deer Hunt is today Oct 24  and tomorrow,Oct 25; Mainers only day is Nov 1, Nov 3-29 for everyone else.

 

October light, weather coming.

 

c. 1940 Ford coupe

 

Henry Behrens caught it in Colorado Springs. Last coupe posted from the Springs was a 1937 Chevrolet Business Coupe.

Ford F-100. Johnston Canyon, Banff, Alberta.

 

From Ale4x Emond, in Bnaff: "Yesterday I went for a walk up Johnston Canyon as far as the Upper Falls. When I got back down to the Bungalow Camp, I saw Bill Noke's Ford truck that was there in 1968 when I started working there. Bill was married to Stella and they had 2 sons. Tim Nokes now manages the place. That's Bill, in 1970, standing by the Esso pump. He's well into his 90's now.
Back then "the Canyon" and Castle Junction had their own dump a few miles up the road near Moose Meadows. We'd use that truck to haul garbage to the dump every other evening. Sometimes we'd watch black bears or grizzlies rooting around  That dump was shut down decades ago.
I doubt that the truck will ever get restored but I wouldn't be surprised if it started right up. The amazing thing about Johnston Canyon Bungalow Camp is that everything is the same as it was in 1968, when I started there. The cabins have new beds and maybe some of the furnishings have been upgraded, but the place is, otherwise. a time capsule. "

c.1940 GMC, etc. Arundel, Maine.

The etceteras include a Chevrolet, same vintage, a couple of Internationals, and the little Dodge (Job Rated) pickup now with a flatbed. All more appealing to the Autoliterate eye than the monster Tacoma.

 

1962 Ford Thunderbird. Colorado Springs, CO

Anne Lennox photos.

 

Mega Tacoma

Oh, how they have swollen. We have posted some wonderful Toyota wheelbarrows, and earlier versions  of the Tacoma were lean and clean–but they have caught the monster-truck madness. Designed to intimidate. Presents like...an ICE agent, except I guess they only come in groups.

1991 Dodge Ram 250 Cummins Turbo Diesel

We've seen this unit before. Prefer this get of Dodge to the blusters that followed in mid-90s and sort of started the beeftruck thing. We have posted a 1992 Dodge Power Ram Prospector, also from Maine. Then one of our favo(u)rite trucks is this Dodge Power Wagon 150 that lives in, all of all places, Cambridge, Mass. 

 Speaking of Maine in October, you can see below, if you look closely, that some of the lobster boats out at Naskeag Point now have their scallop gear on.

Naskeag Point, looking NW down Eggemoggin Reach. Thta' one of the Babson Islands. 

Town recently built this float for lobstermen, who used to have launch skiffs from the beach.

Series Land Rover. Brooklin Boatyard.

 

AL caught the L-R at Brooklin Boatyard, where the Trumpy yacht (that's a famous boat builder--not an adjective) Mazurka had just been hauled out. Built 1955, formerly known as Annabelle). Meanwhile, out in the Reach, a mega-yacht (see below) had dropped an anchor. 

1927 Ford Touring Car

 

From Alex Emond:"This car was sitting in a yard in Neville, Saskatchewan, just south of         Speedy Creek. The owner and a few of his friends were on hand so I asked if I could do a  sketch and take some pictures, No problem . He said that, at 6' 3"  he can barely fit in it to drive . A hundred years ago the average height for a man was more like 5'8". I sat in the shade and did a quick rendering . Beautiful fall weather . Cheers, Alex"

AL:Not sure if it is a model T or not. 1927 was the last year of Model T production. The "t" we know and admire here in Brooklin Maine is a 1917 Model T and looks much spindlier and frailer than this unit. We posted on the naturalist John Burroughs' Model T, a gift from Henry himself. The there's Senator Eugene McCarthy's Model T poem.