Adelina, a 1973 Bud McIntosh wooden ketch was recently relaunched after 8 years on the dry.
The 40-footer spent six months at Hoagland Marine in Walpole, Maine, where the boat’s new owner, Rick Morse, worked alongside carpenter Ben Hoagland for six months to ready her for the water. Among other improvements, most of the planks on her transom were replaced, as were some of her sheer strake planks and a few sections of the deck. The boat also received new pumps, new paint and new varnish.
She was returned to the water at Bittersweet Landing Boatyard in South Bristol, Maine, by Morse and Bittersweet yard owner Mike Nyboe and his crew.
The relaunching caused some anxious moments for Morse. Over 8 years on land, the boat’s planks had dried out and the ketch took on copious amounts of water that required multiple pumps to keep her boot stripe from disappearing. Despite that, Nyboe reported a couple of days after launch that the boat was down to one pump and would be fine.
Morse will homeport her out of Newcastle, Maine, but like the boat’s original owners, Dick and Bea Hull, who took her down the ICW to the Bahamas after she was first launched, the new owner also intends to take her south.
