Peapod From North Haven
Whitmore, Alton
Description
Alton Whitmore built this boat at North Haven, Maine, about 1929 for a local fisherman. John Gardner bought her in 1966 and in 1985, after he and Bill Mills built a copy; John gave her to Mystic Seaport. His chapter in Classic Small Craft You Can Build describes the Whitmore building process, commonly used for both peapods and small transom-stern tenders on the Maine coast. It is like the old Whitehall method, where the sheer strake, the binder, and the interior structure go in the boat before she is planked. Like most lobstering peapods, she has a heavy oak plank keel that needs to be steam-bent to take the required amount of rocker. Her layout is set up for fishing: she’d be bow-down without a load, stern-down when you reversed direction for standing up and push-rowing to work lightly among the rocks. She has an inch or so less sheer and a bit flatter deadrise than the peapod John Gardner modeled. From 87 Boat Designs by Ben Fuller.
WSP.7.124
Additional Information
Type |
Peapod |
Designer |
Whitmore, Alton |
Date |
1929 |
Builder |
Whitmore, Alton |
Lines taken by |
Gardner, John |
LOA |
14’ 3” |
Beam |
4’ 4” |
Plans include |
3 sheets: lines, construction, offsets |
Source |
Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library, Mystic Seaport Vessels & Small Craft Collection |
Previous order number |
85.135 |
Catalog number WSP.7.124