Last year, this 1949 40-foot Consolidated was put up for sale in Duxbury, Massachusetts for $59,000. Her 318 gasoline engines, transmissions, shafts and props had been redone a few years previously. The boat also had new electronics, including a radar and a chart plotter and came with a hard-shell life raft and a Sturdee Harbormaster dinghy.
Named Fairway, the Consolidated needed some TLC, which she got this winter at Shop to Shore Carpentry, a South Bristol, Maine-based shop run by Rene J. Goulette, who spent nearly 20 years working side-by-side with Peter Kass at the nearby John’s Bay Boat Company.
Shop to Shore is a family-operated business, with Goulette’s wife acting as secretary and part-time accountant and his daughter and niece mastering the painting and varnishing of predominantly classic wooden boats that will make most boaters drool.
Looking sharp again, Fairway is sitting by the side of Route 129 right outside Goulette’s shop. She will be relaunched down the road at Gamage Shipyard in the coming weeks.
