Lowell's Boat Shop - Dedicated to Craft
Dedicated to preserving and perpetuating the art and craft of wooden boat building, Lowell's Boat Shop,established in 1793, is the oldest continuously operating boat shop in the United States and is cited as the birthplace of the legendary fishing dory. This video reviews the history of Lowell's through current operations.
BOAT BUILDING - EDUCATION - EXHIBITS - ROWING
Boat Launch at Lowell's Boat Shop - December 7, 2013
The latest wooden hand-crafted vessel built at Lowell's Boat Shop in Amesbury, Massachusetts. She goes for her maiden voyage carrying her builders.
Graham McKay, Marine Archaeologist & Boatbuilder
Born and raised along the Merrimack River in Amesbury, Massachusetts, I’ve always been fascinated with boats and the water. (I built my first boat in high school, and at the same time, began sailing tall ships…What I call, traditionally rigged vessels. ) After four years of studying economics and playing baseball at Harvard I found myself not wanting to head to Wall St. along with the rest of my class.Thus, my incurable interest in all things maritime led me to become both a commercial fisherman, and professional sailor.
By age 29 I was: A Sea Captain, A Commercial Diver, and a Fisheries Scientist. Ethically, the killing of marine life involved in commercial fishing became too much for me, and it was at this time that I chose to further my education in Maritime History and Archaeology, and moved to the U.K. to attend the University of Bristol where I obtained my Master's Degree in Maritime Archaeology.
Upon returning home from England, and as I was writing my master's thesis, I went back to my earlier roots in boatbuilding. I am now the Executive Director and Master Boatbuilder at Lowell’s Boat Shop in Amesbury, MA. Historically speaking, Lowell’s is the oldest operating wooden boat building business in the United States, as well as a working museum, whose mission is dedicated to continuing both the education and preservation of the craft of wooden boat building. (
For the past 8 years I have continued to build boats, captain tall ships, and have launched several youth programs in boat-building and related maritime experiences. I am also currently an Archaeologist sitting on the State Board of Underwater Archaeology. (
Over the years my professions and passion for maritime history have granted me numerous press and publicity opportunities, both in print and on television. I have travelled throughout New England teaching and lecturing on the art and craft of wooden boat building, and have consulted on marine archaeological projects and findings. I have also been featured in, or have written for publications including Woodenboat Magazine which has a current circulation of 70,000 paid subscribers.
Ice Flow on the Merrimack River, Historic Newburyport, MA 1/18/2019
Deer Island on the line of Amesbury ,MA and Newburyport, MA is a great little park to set up shop for this. With the Chain Bridge and the John Greenleaf Whittier Bridge linking Boston to Coastal New Hampshire as a backdrop, we can see the power of the Merrimack River. Newburyport is the birthplace of the United States Coast Guard, and due to the currents of the river and at the treacherous transition to Atlantic Ocean between Plum Island, MA and Salisbury, MA, it is a good thing they are still here!
This is a New England historic area, and I would urge anyone visiting or living in Boston to make the trip up north. More to come when boating season begins!
Regan Charie's Essex County Project
Lowell's Boat Shop, Amesbury Massachusetts
Lowell's Boat Shop - Essex County Project
Essex County Project
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Lowell's boathouse on display at xmas '09, Amesbury Mass
Craft in America: INDUSTRY episode
craftinamerica.org. INDUSTRY: Handmade in the Creative Economy. Featuring Gee’s Bend quilters Lucy Mingo & Mary Ann Pettway, quilter Joe Cunningham, boat builder Graham McKay & Lowell’s Boat Shop, artist Bethanne Knudson & Libby O'Bryan & The Oriole Mill, jewelry artist Shane Yamane, Etsy. PBS premiere: May 2, 2014.
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Roger Brunelle & the cresting Merrimack: Lowell, MA
Jack Kerouac historian and Lowellian Roger Brunelle talks with Suzzanne Cromwell on the banks of the Merrimack River which dramatically overflowed in March 2010. In a spontaneous moment, Brunelle expounds about the 1936 floods in Lowell, relaying how Kerouac integrated the experience he himself had in those floods in his novel Dr. Sax. Kerouac was 14 when the waters rose in 1936.
Market Will Offer Fresh Fish To Public
New Hampshire's commercial fishing fleet will soon begin selling seafood directly to the public through a new retail market.
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Boston Manufacturing Company | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:27 1 Origins
00:03:05 2 Revolution
00:04:58 3 The Waltham System
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The Boston Manufacturing Company was a business that operated the first factory in America. It was organized in 1813 by Francis Cabot Lowell, a wealthy Boston merchant, in partnership a group of investors known as The Boston Associates, for the manufacture of cotton textiles. It built the first integrated spinning and weaving factory in the world at Waltham, Massachusetts, using water power. They used plans for a power loom that he smuggled out of England as well as trade secrets from the earlier horse-powered Beverly Cotton Manufactory, of Beverly, Massachusetts, of 1788. This was the largest factory in the U.S., with a workforce of about 300. It was a very efficient, highly profitable mill that, with the aid of the Tariff of 1816, competed effectively with British textiles at a time when many smaller operations were being forced out of business. While the Rhode Island System that followed was famously employed by Samuel Slater, the Boston Associates improved upon it with the Waltham System. The idea was successfully copied at Lowell, Massachusetts and elsewhere in New England. Many rural towns now had their own textile mills.