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photo: Robert White Collection, frame blowup by John E, Allen, Inc.
The Doris Hamlin, Harrington, Maine, 1919.
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Tales of Wood and Water
Wooden-boat building and sailing have many devotees on the coast of Maine. In 1991 David Clark completed a onehour documentary on Maine's wooden boat culture.
The film visits boatyards large and small, as well as allied businesses such as WoodenBoat magazine and two boatbuilding schools. A student remarks, "Boatbuilding is like house building, only rounder and upside down."
Elements of wooden-boat culture — all portrayed in the film — include yacht design, sailmaking, half-model building and old and new construction techniques.
A fleet of windjammers gathers in Eggemoggin Reach, and Clark visits them by water and air, going aboard Doug and Linda Lee's Heritage. Children are brought up on the water: the Lee's 7 and 9-year-old daughters have been sailors all their lives.
A man and woman who offer day sails in their Friendship sloop chat in their cockpit; Andy Chase, captain of the schooner Bowdoin, travels to Labrador and meets Inuit elders who had come aboard half a century earlier when the Bowdoin was under the command of Donald MacMillan.
Modern cold-molding techniques for constructing a mahogany speedboat and an elegant yacht contrast with 1919 footage from Northeast Historic Film's Robert White Collection, the launching of the four-masted schooner Doris Hamlin in Harrington, Maine. After the boat hits the water, Miss Hamlin of Boston beams at the camera while grasping a huge bouquet.
NHF is very pleased to distribute Tales of Wood and Water. •