My background...
My career started as a scientist at the summit of Mount Washington in NH. I spent one year tracking weather and taking care of instrumentation in "the world's worst weather" for which the summit is often known. After realizing that I did not want to spend my days in front of a computer looking at weather maps, I decided to pursue my teaching interests and went from substitute teaching to Boston College for an M.Ed. and then to Maine to start a teaching career in a science classroom.
"Realizing that the classroom wasn't my niche and with an increasing desire to work with my hands I started to think about the boat industry"
I was in the middle of fixing up old "classic plastic" (fiberglass) boats and making them functioning and workable when I realized I needed to go back to school for boatbuilding. After applying twice and hesitating, I finally sent the paperwork and was accepted to The Landing School of Boatbuilding and Design in Arundel, Maine. The old boats were sold to pay for school and a home-based shop to professionally build boats on my own. We knocked down the old attached garage and built a shop that was slightly bigger. We can now build up to 20', comfortably, bigger boats with modifications."I've built dozens of boats in the few short years I've worked as a boatbuilder and am now designing boats more than ever"To see a mental image become a sketch, a sketch become a scale drawing, a drawing be lofted and a backbone created, planked and a hull formed...to then finish out the boat, paint, fit out, and launch is a highly rewarding (and laborious) project.
I came to boats through using them on the water and that is where I always return after a long project, to get to know the boat and get to know myself again. My passion is for sail-and-oar boats, but love pure sailboats and pure rowboats as well as well-designed motorboats. We can also build canoes, kayaks, or any wooden boat that can be imagined. However, my specialty is glued-lapstrake and wood-epoxy construction."My boats tread the line between traditional and modern and that is where I like it.
A nod to the old, a nod to the new" I live in Portland, Maine with my wife, Ellie, and son, Oliver. Ellie is a teacher and a musician. Oliver is a 4-year old who loves to play with small cars, animals, and trains. He and his Mom go to work everyday at the Friends School of Portland, a Quaker day-school on Mackworth Island. Clint rows and sails extensively on Casco Bay.
If you've read all this, thank you and feel free to contact me with questions, comments, or bad jokes.
