All – Wow! What a Show! The First annual Maryland Maritime Heritage Festival is in the books and was, by all accounts, a tremendous success! Everyone had a good time, which is what it is all about! The participants who brought their cars and boats, the hundreds of visitors to …
February 13, 2022 Members of the Maryland Maritime Heritage Foundation were the guests of Ronnie Cutts of the Cutts and Case Shipyard in Oxford, Maryland, on February 12, 2022. There’s just something about old boats, and when you put them together with both new and old friends on a beautiful …
What better way to spend Valentines weekend than messing about old boats, enjoying fine dining and a B&B in Oxford! Join us Valentines Saturday at 1:30 for a tour of the Cutts & Case Shipyard in Oxford, MD led by Ronnie Cutts. If you like wood boats, you won’t want …
December 24, 2021 A letter from the President of MMHF, I’m so looking forward to returning back to normal. As you know I’ve been sick for the past eight months, and thanks to the outstanding care I received at UMMC, I’m pleased to announce I’m ready to get back to …
Here is Ralph Cattaneo’s article on his John D. published in the January 2022 issue of PropTalk. https://secureservercdn.net/192.169.220.245/j4d.f8d.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/PropTalk_January_2022_p40-41_RalphCattaneo.pdf
The cover is off and we are ready to begin work on the “John D” at the Firehouse. She is a classic launch with a very storied history. Year of construction: 1981 LOA: 21′ Beam: 7′ 6″ Draft: 2′ Design: Launch Propulsion: 30hp Atomic 4 Original owners: Sir Bernard Ashley …
This 1974 Cape Dory Handy Cat was moved into the MMHC facility in Galesville, MD with some member assistance over the weekend for some TLC. She’ll get a complete freshening up with refinished teak rub rails, fresh paint on her hull, boot stripe and deck as well as a new …
Talented restorationists like Ebby DuPont nurture tired old wooden boats back to their head-turning original glory. Wooden boats have an organic appeal. But beneath the gleam resides all the toil, effort that can be counted in sheets of sandpaper, brush strokes toward perfection, and time spent rounding up dust. The …
A wooden Lyman is known for its ride. They feature a “clinker-built” hull planking that in a wooden boat model works with any chop in such a way that it cuts through the chop, delivering a ride that is sublimely softer than a hard-chine fiberglass boat. The same hull shape done in fiberglass …
