Shellback dinghy regatta 'homage to Joel White'
On Oct. 6, a fleet of dinghies raced off the Atlantic Boat Co. dock seeking honor and glory — but mostly fun —as the fastest skiff in the Shellback Dinghy
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On Oct. 6, a fleet of dinghies raced off the Atlantic Boat Co. dock seeking honor and glory — but mostly fun —as the fastest skiff in the Shellback Dinghy
BROOKLIN — Not one but four Duffy 26-foot launches were built at Atlantic Boat Co. this year in a breakout year for the Brooklin-based boatbuilders. Two
As eye candy, the tumblehome design means the hull tips in instead of flaring out, giving the boat a more rounded look from the back, a design more common to yachts than work boats.
SHARE The Millie, a Duffy 35 designed by Spencer Lincoln, is the first boat for Richard Duffy’s recently launched R&R Duffy Boats. R&R Duffy Boats. "It was boredom,” says Richard Duffy, that brought him back to boatbuilding. He had been half of the Duffy & Duffy boatbuilding team (the other half was his father, Ralph) in Brooklin, Maine, from 1975 to 1995, when he sold Duffy & Duffy to Atlantic Boat Co. in Brooklin, after building about 578 boats. Then about three years ago, the boredom took hold. It wasn’t long before he asked Spencer Lincoln, who had designed many of the Duffy & Duff...