Bonaventure was a 90’ dragger designed by Cyrus Hamlin and built for the Novello family of Gloucester by Southwest Boat Corporation in Southwest Harbor. She was the first big dragger built there.
See: Prybot, Peter K.. White-Tipped Orange Masts: Gloucester’s Fishing Draggers, 1970-1972, A Time of Change (The Curious Traveller Press, Gloucester, 1998), p. 63.
