Bonaventure - Production

Identifier:
15455  
Title:
Bonaventure - Production
Description:
Photos taken in 1941 and 1942.

The following comes from interviews with Ralph Warren Stanley between 2009 and 2013.

The stern post was from an old elm tree on Carrie Joyce’s lawn. She sold the tree to Bink Sargent for $100. Carrie thought she was rich, as, at that time, she was getting an old age pension of $30 a month. She hired a car and got Ralph Stanley’s grandmother, Celestia “Lessie” Gertrude (Dix) Robinson, Mrs. Ralph Judson Robinson (1875-1961), to go shopping in Bangor with her. Carrie got a blister on her heel from walking around Bangor.

Bink paid Harvard Gilley and Jack Ramsdell $15 and a pint of rum to cut the tree down. Henry Dunbar was running the mill at Southwest Boat at the time and he said that they sawed that tree into logs and lumber and used every bit of it.

Carrie E. (Bunker) Joyce (1863-1962), Mrs. Joseph Joyce
Lennox Ledyard "Bink" Sargent (1916-1989)
Jack Ramsdell
Harvard N. Gilley (1915-2006)
Henry E. Dunbar (1914-1982)

02-12 – this story of the stern post for Bonaventure also goes with SWHPL 9565.
02-15 – putting in the "sealing"
02-16 & 17 – working on the deck frame
02-22 & 23 – pounding in the trunnels (locust)
02-25 – clamping in the oak plank
02-32 – Raymond Bunker on the left and Bink Sargent on the right
02-36 – "faring" (fitting) a timber with an adze the trunels here have been split and wedged in
02-37 & 38 – Stan Mitchell and Raymond Bunker L to R – caulking – Stan always wore felts inside his rubbers
02-39 – building the wooden hatch
02-46 & 47 – mallet and chisel to shape hole for the mast

02-50:
Rosemary on the left
Open motor boat behind sailboat – no info
Watermelon hood boat on left of dock with riding sail was a Raymond Bunker Boat - was sold to a Beal at Islesford
Double ender with watermelon hood at end of dock was the Pansy R owned by Cliff Robbins
Boat at right of dock with a peaked hood and funny cabin was a Cranberry Island boat
House with Mansard roof at back left of Black Ledge was the Henry Hinckley house – later site of Western Way Condos
Next house on right was the Charles Bartlett house now torn down

02-55 – back of steering shelter
02-56 – foc’sle
02-68 – Bink’s Lincoln Zephyr style boat and Lyle Newman’s scow
Lyle Dennis Newman (1876-1974)
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Citation

Ballard - Willis Humphreys Ballard (1906-1980), “Bonaventure - Production,” Southwest Harbor Public Library, accessed November 24, 2024, https://demo.digitalarchive.us/items/show/11526.Item 15455

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