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Philippians 3:10

MATURE • MENTOR • MINISTER • MAINTAIN • INVESTING IN BLACK FUTURES THRU STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Maine Coast Vacation - Little Deer & Deer Isles and Mount Desert Island - August 2009

To read the annual Maine blog that goes along along with these photographs, click here

Pied Beauty
1877
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

Glory be to God for dappled things —      For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;           For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;      Landscape plotted & pieced — fold, fallow, & plough;           And all trades, their gear & tackle & trim.                All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled, (who knows how?)      With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;           He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:                Praise him.

"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea."
Tagore - Bengali poet and novelist

Ralph W. Stanley's Wooden Boats Shop
102 Clark Point Road, Southwest Harbor, Maine
(relocating to Manset on the other side of the harbor)

Ralph was deemed a "National Treasure" by the National Endowment for the Arts in 1999
for his outstanding craftsmanship & devotion to traditional wooden boat building.
Ralph is also known locally as the foremost authority of maritime history.

Videos of the shop interior and of the 1902 Freedom Sloop, West Wind are found here.

Ralph W. Stanley's front office with the shop out back

Ralph W. Stanley's house (built in 1928) and boat shop on Clark Point Road near the Upper Town Dock entrance

Planks of wood in the front yard of the house

Boat ramp in back of the shop on the western end of Southwest Harbor

Wooden half-hull models hang on the shop's wall

Wooden hull model rests on the work bench

Spar, transom, clamps and a boat-shaped plywood by the door and back window

Workbench

Drill bits

Hull frames

Tim Goodwin, boat builder

Richard Stanley, Ralph's oldest son and shop owner / operator

Truck-load of wood for building boats — curved limbs are excellent for making bow stems

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