Two boats, seventy-eight years apart, in the same shed.

One was built in 1947 at a yard in Fairhaven, Massachusetts and is being taken back to the keel. The other was launched in 2025 and is ninety-five feet long. Both are wood.

1962

Founded by Luke Allen

85 t

Boat hoist on site

Own

Metal fabrication shop

Penobscot

Bay, mid-coast Maine

01To the same scalePublished dimensions only

Everything the yard has published about these two hulls, drawn at one scale.

Ouzel · new construction, launched 2025 Glide · built 1947, in restoration

Only the four figures the yard publishes for each vessel — length overall, length on the waterline and draft — set out at one scale against a common waterline. A real lines plan carries fifty more curves than this; those belong to the naval architect and to the loft floor.

02New constructionOuzel · 2025

Ninety-five feet of cold-moulded wood.

Douglas fir and western red cedar, laminated with carbon fibre, E-glass and foam cores. Concept and naval architecture by Langan Design Partners of Newport; interior by Mark Whiteley Design; project management by MCM Newport. Technical launch, 9 November 2025.

The inverted hull of the 95-foot Ouzel outdoors in snow beneath a gantry, before being turned upright. — Ouzel, mid-flip. The hull is turned outdoors, in a Maine winter.Photograph: Billy Black

Ouzel's black hull carried in the yard's travel hoist. — In the hoist.Photograph: Billy Black

The hull seen bow-on inside the building shed after being turned upright. — Bow on, in the shed.

The deck and deckhouse under construction, masked and primed. — Deck and deckhouse.

The designer’s profile.Langan Design Partners

Length overall: 95′ 0″ / 28.96 m
Waterline: 71′ 6″ / 21.79 m
Beam, maximum: 20′ 6″ / 6.25 m
Draft: 12′ 0″ / 3.66 m
Construction: Cold-moulded wood composite — Douglas fir, western red cedar, carbon fibre, E-glass, foam cores
Rig: Park Avenue boom; mainsail, Yankee, staysail, Code Zero
Naval architecture: Langan Design Partners, Newport, Rhode Island
Interior: Mark Whiteley Design
Launched: 9 November 2025 — technical launch

03RestorationGlide · built 1947

Preserving the sheer, replacing what lies beneath.

Built in 1947 at Major J. Casey’s yard in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. The yard describes the work as “a clean, carefully sequenced renewal of the hull structure — preserving GLIDE’s sheer, deck, shape, and character while replacing much of what lies beneath.” New keel, backbone, floor timbers, frames, frame-end repairs, replanking. Finishing in the first half of 2027.

Glide's hull opened up in the shop, ribs and frames exposed the full length of the boat. — Frames and floors, opened up.

New timber let into the backbone of the hull, clamped and fastened. — New timber into the backbone.

Detail of the repaired stem and frame ends with fresh wood against the old planking. — Frame ends.

The hull from astern in the shop, shored on stands with new framing visible inside. — From astern, on the stands.

Glide afloat, a black-hulled ketch lying off a snow-covered Maine shore. — Glide, afloat.Photograph: Benjamin Mendlowitz

Built: 1947, Major J. Casey’s yard, Fairhaven, Massachusetts
Length overall: 50′ 4″ / 15.34 m
Waterline: 40′ 9″ / 12.42 m
Beam: 12′ 8″ / 3.86 m
Draft: 7′ 8″ / 2.34 m
Renewed: Keel · backbone · floor timbers · frames · frame ends · planking
Completion: First half of 2027

04The yardSince 1962

Luke Allen started it in 1962. It is still on Main Street.

In the yard’s own words, it “has grown in scope to become one of the industry’s premier wooden boat yards. Specializing in new construction, restoration, and design work.” Eighty-five-ton hoist. Metal fabrication on site. Penobscot Bay outside the door.

A white powerboat under way past a lighthouse at the entrance to a Maine harbour. — Out past the light.

Yard

Rockport Marine, Inc.
1 Main Street
Rockport, Maine 04856

Telephone

207 236 9651

Work

New construction
Restoration · design
Service and storage

On site

85-ton boat hoist
Metal fabrication shop