Pleasure Boat - Built for Lloyd Deming Yates

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Pleasure Boat - Built for Lloyd Deming Yates

Ralph Warren Stanley built one of his first boats for Dick Yates, a 26 foot pleasure boat. He built this boat at his 1st shop at 376 Main Street, Southwest Harbor.

“During the early years, I worked pretty much by myself, but sometimes I’d get someone to help me. When I built my own boat – that first twenty-eight footer – I was all alone, and it took me two winters. Then when I got the boat for Dick Yates, I designed it and lofted it out and made the molds. I asked Millard Spurling to come up and help me build it…” - “Ralph Stanley : Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder” by Craig S. Milner and Ralph W. Stanley, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine 2004, p. 71.