Aging Commuter Boat Gets a Total Refit and a New Life at Lyman-Morse
Here’s a wonderful blow-by-blow account, with pictures, showing how Lyman-Morse restored a beautiful, but suffering, 73-foot, 1930 commuter boat named Scout to all its former glory – plus some. In fact, over a six-month period. Lyman-Morse worked a total refit on Scout, replacing everything from her timbers to her engines. Now, once the weather improves Scout, based in Newport, Rhode Island, will be cruising the Northeast from Long Island Sound to Downeast Maine. The boat that now is Scout was originally christened Cormar when she was launched on April 4, 1930, at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan. Designed by Eldredge-McInnis of…