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Blue Barren Distillery is home again at new Camden wharf location
Tue, 08/02/2022 - 1:00pm

CAMDEN—It has been a twisty, tumultuous path for Blue Barren Distillery’s owners Andrew Stewart and Jeremy Howard. When they first opened on the “quiet side” of Camden in 2019, little did they know the business’s direction would be anything but quiet. After a June 2020 fire that partially destroyed buildings in the Lyman-Morse boatyard, which forced the distillery to move its operations to a Hope blueberry barren in August 2021, Stewart and Howard had their sights set on eventually returning to...
Camden Harbor boatyard aims to be welcoming space for public
Salt Wharf, Lyman-Morse’s anchor restaurant, opens on Camden Harbor
Tue, 07/19/2022 - 11:15am

CAMDEN—In little more than a year and a half, Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding, Inc has transformed the east side of Camden Harbor into a modernized marina. On Tuesday, June 12, Lyman-Morse celebrated its re-introduction to the community with the launch of its anchor restaurant, Salt Wharf. Five hours before showtime, the finishing touches of construction in and around the restaurant were taking place as the general manager was busy making calls and the chefs prepped in the kitchen. The Appledore...
Familiar Camden restaurateur Ken Paquin hired as general manager
Lyman-Morse gears up for June opening of Camden’s newest harbor restaurant, Salt Wharf
Thu, 03/31/2022 - 9:00am

CAMDEN — The construction pace is quickening on the east side of Camden Harbor, where contractors have plowed through a harsh winter to get the new Lyman-Morse complex of boatyard buildings framed, finished and ready for the summer season. Come mid- to late June, the project is expected to be completed. That’s also when Lyman-Morse anticipates opening its new two-story restaurant – Salt Wharf – with its upstairs open-air deck that overlooks Camden’s downtown, the harbor and...
Town Manager: ‘has the potential to be a really great partnership’
Camden ventures toward $30 million public-private collaboration with Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding, Inc.
Fri, 03/12/2021 - 8:30pm

CAMDEN — Informal conversations over the past few years periodically referenced a new marina visualized for Steamboat Landing, in Camden Harbor. On March 9, the idea took public form when Lyman-Morse, the privately owned boatyard on the east side of the harbor, unveiled its plans to the Camden Select Board, proposing a $30 million public-private venture that would change the shoreline of the town’s inner, as well as outer, harbor. It is an ambitious endeavor, but could incorporate, as Town...
Needs a Knox Box, tree height limits, adhere to floodplain ordinance
Camden Planning Board gives full sail approval for Lyman-Morse rebuild
Thu, 12/03/2020 - 8:30pm

CAMDEN — Voting unanimously Dec. 3, the five-member Camden Planning Board approved a Lyman-Morse application to tear down and rebuild an extensive portion of the boatyard’s waterfront buildings. The board imposed three conditions on its approval: 1) That any new landscape plantings — trees — would not exceed the height of any new buildings; thus, preserving the harbor view for neighbors; 2) That a Knox Box (providing first responders and firefighters with immediate access into secure buildings...
Camden Harbor development plans scrutinized; questions raised over traffic, noise, rising sea level
Wed, 12/02/2020 - 6:45pm

CAMDEN — The Camden Planning Board settled Nov. 20 into a three-hour virtual public hearing on the Lyman-Morse proposal to tear down sheds and offices, rebuild the bulkhead, and construct a complex of boatyard and commercial buildings, including a new distillery and rooftop restaurant, along the east side of the inner harbor. The privately-owned business wants to get started on the project this winter or early spring, and the Camden Planning Board signaled it was willing to...
Public hearing tonight, Nov. 19, virtual
MEETING TONIGHT: Camden to dig into formal review of Lyman-Morse harbor front overhaul
Thu, 11/19/2020 - 12:00pm

CAMDEN — A Nov. 19 virtual public hearing on a substantial Camden waterfront project is being carefully crafted so that citizens have ample opportunity to make comments on the proposal. The multi-million dollar, multi-building project, introduced by Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding’s two limited liability companies – Camden Properties LLC and CL-Camden LLC — involves tearing down and rebuilding a sizable portion of the east side of Camden Harbor. The application before the Camden Planning Board is for...
Lyman-Morse seeks Camden approval for harbor front overhaul
Fri, 10/09/2020 - 2:30pm

CAMDEN — Lyman-Morse has submitted plans drawn by Gartley and Dorsky Engineering and Surveying to demolish and rebuild a series of buildings on the east side of Camden Harbor. The existing buildings, representing decades of add-ons to a boatyard that has seen multiple owners, partially burned June 13 following a fire in the back rooms of the Rhumb Line restaurant there. Lyman-Morse purchased the boatyard in 2015. New structures are proposed...
smoke damage throughout the boatyard buildings
Midnight fire burns through back rooms of Rhumb Line restaurant, on Camden waterfront
Sun, 06/14/2020 - 7:45am

CAMDEN — Camden firefighters, along with mutual aid from Hope, Lincolnville and Rockport, spent much of Saturday night fighting a fire that originated in the supply and utility rooms of the Rhumb Line restaurant, at Lyman-Morse boatyard. The restaurant sustained extensive damage in its back rooms, and smoke damage in the interior seating area. The deck and the rest of the Lyman-Morse building structure that lines the dock had smoke damage throughout to a varying degree. On June 15, Camden...
Public Hearing, discussions at Jan. 9 meeting
Accessory apartments, Steamboat Landing Subdivision abandonment to come before Camden Planning Board
Wed, 01/08/2020 - 12:00pm

CAMDEN — The Planning Board in Camden will hold a public hearing Jan. 9 on proposed amendments to rules governing accessory apartments and expanding site plan guidelines, as well as consider a draft amendment to move certain lots in the Transitional River Business District to the abutting Downtown Business District, and decide whether to approved a subdivision abandonment by Lyman Morse Boatbuilding Company. The latter request involves undoing the 2010 Steamboat Landing Subdivision, aka the...
Municipal vote made to help Lyman-Morse move its expansion forward
Camden debates, then votes to ask Congress to remove harbor section from Army Corps oversight
Wed, 10/23/2019 - 9:00pm

CAMDEN — Voting 5 to 0, the Camden Select Board has agreed to ask U.S. Congress to deauthorize a 5.14-acre portion of Camden Harbor near Steamboat Landing so the privately-owned Lyman-Morse boatyard can better initiate its marina expansion projects. While the vote was unanimous, it did not come without debate, with some select board members questioning the process by which Camden considered the Lyman-Morse proposal. “I remain frustrated by the process,” said Camden Select...
Lyman Morse receives $1.5 million federal grant to upgrade Camden marina
Mon, 04/08/2019 - 4:15pm

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Lyman Morse Boatbuilding, Inc., in Camden, and DiMillo’s Old Port Marina, in Portland, will be sharing $3 million through a federal grant. The 2019 Boating Infrastructure Grant (BIG) is administered through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. With $1.5 million, Lyman Morse Marina, partnering with the Maine Department of Transportation, is to construct and install a 120-foot fixed pier, a 334-foot wave-attenuating floating dock, a 579-foot floating dock, and 16 slips for other...
Lyman-Morse Opens Brokerage Office in Southwest Harbor
Tue, 08/08/2017 - 10:00pm

Lyman-Morse, the custom boatbuilder and service provider with yards in Thomaston and Camden, and a brokerage office in Newport, Rhode Island, has expanded Downeast. Eric Roos will manage the new Lyman-Morse brokerage and project management office at Dysart's Great Harbor Marina in Southwest Harbor. "We are very excited to expand Downeast and Eric's knowledge and experience will be a tremendous asset to our customers. We welcome him to our team," said Drew Lyman, president of Lyman-Morse, in a...
Oily rags cause of Camden boatyard dryer fire
Tue, 07/12/2016 - 11:45pm

CAMDEN — Fire engines from Camden and Rockport raced to Lyman Morse at Wayfarer Tuesday night, July 12, after sailors heading back to their boat reported smoke in the boatyard’s laundry room. When firefighters arrived at the Camden Harbor facility, smoke was filtering through the middle building of the large boatyard, originating in a laundry room dryer. Fire Chief Chris Farley attributed the fire to oily restaurant rags left in the dryer. Sailors Beth Miller and Holm Albrecht, of Seattle, had...
Camden Classics opens classic yacht season on Penobscot Bay
Thu, 06/23/2016 - 4:45pm

The Camden Classics Cup, scheduled for July 28-30, will open the classic yacht racing season in Maine and serve as the opening event for Camden Classics Week. The race weekend is positioned the weekend before the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta, Maine's largest classic yacht race, and presented by Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding in conjunction with the Camden Yacht Club. CCC promises to draw the classic fleet to the waters of Penobscot Bay, and into Camden Harbor. The following week the CCC committee and the...
Following yard work, Maine’s historic schooner ‘Bowdoin’ relaunches in Camden June 6
Thu, 06/02/2016 - 10:00am

Lyman-Morse at Wayfarer Marine, in Camden, is inviting the public to attend the relaunching of the Maine Maritime Academy training vessel, the schooner Bowdoin , June 6, at the boatyard. Cannons are to be fired, horns sounding, and the Bowdoin will be fitted out to her finest. The 95-year-old schooner has been in the boatyard’s shed since last October, undergoing a restoration. Lyman-Morse teamed with Andros Kypragoras, of Whitefield, for this project, which including...
Rhumb Line, Camden’s newest industrial clam shack, opens May 18
Fri, 05/13/2016 - 9:45am

CAMDEN — Over the last few months, a space on the working waterfront side of Camden’s harbor, at Lyman-Morse at Wayfarer Marine, has been quietly undergoing major renovations for Chef Scott Yakovenko’s latest restaurant, Rhumb Line, set to open May 18. A whole new kitchen had to be built and the interior of the snug space was completely retrofitted by Chris Biggart and Fred Boursier, who fashioned the walls with reclaimed barn boards from Youngtown Inn. In addition, they hand-crafted all of the...
‘The buzz around here is awesome’
Cutting the ribbon on a new era at Lyman-Morse at Wayfarer
Sun, 07/12/2015 - 10:00pm

CAMDEN — The docks at Lyman-Morse at Wayfarer were filled with celebratory well-wishers Thursday evening, July 9, when Drew Lyman officially cut the ribbon on a new venture that combines two longtime Midcoast boatyards under one business. “As a family, we are extremely excited about what is happening here,” said Drew Lyman, president of the Thomaston-based Lyman-Morse, which acquired the Camden boatyard, Wayfarer Marine. (Read With Wayfarer acquisition, Lyman Morse adjusts course for...
A conversation with the Lymans
With Wayfarer acquisition, Lyman Morse adjusts course for Camden boatyard
Sun, 07/05/2015 - 5:30pm

CAMDEN — The day after Lyman Morse Boatbuilding Company bought Wayfarer Marine, Cabot Lyman and Bob Flight, the man who will help run operations at the Camden boatyard, inched their way through Camden’s pre-July 4 traffic to find a burger. They had spent the morning at the boatyard, talking with workers and boat owners — as well as plenty more people, both on the street and on the phone, who congratulated Lyman on his company’s newest venture. Now it was time for something to eat, and the two...
Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding acquires Wayfarer Marine in Camden
Wed, 07/01/2015 - 9:45am

CAMDEN — Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding Company, of Thomaston, has purchased Wayfarer Marine, in Camden. “With this purchase, Lyman-Morse at Wayfarer Marine will now have the advantage of the infrastructure, expertise, reputation and culture of Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding,” according to a news release issued by Lyman Morse on Wednesday morning, July 1. Wayfarer Marine employees were informed of the pending purchase on June 26. The closing took place in Portland on June 30. “We are very excited about...
Five-story hotel sited on Main Street
Proposed Rockland hotel plans back before the city; public hearing May 20
Wed, 04/30/2014 - 2:00pm

ROCKLAND — Since September 2010, 250 Main Street has had an unsure history. ADZ Properties LLC, whose principals include Cabot Lyman, owner of the Thomaston-based Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding, has proposed a five-story, $2.9 million hotel to overlook Harbor Park. Issues with parking and expired applications had slowed the company’s efforts to move the project forward, but as of this month,Rockland’s Planning Office determined plans for the 26-room hotel are now complete. ADZ Properties has one more...
Kiwi Spirit to vie for Dodge Morgan's circumnavigation record
Thomaston: Lyman Morse launches yacht for maritime fast lane
Thu, 11/01/2012 - 8:00pm

THOMASTON —Stanley Paris is 76, a physical therapist by trade but racing yachtsman at heart, and he has all intentions of beating the single-handed circumnavigation record set in 1986 by Dodge Morgan. Those are big boots to fill, but Paris has innovative design and technology on his side. His 63-foot yacht, Kiwi Spirit, was set effortlessly into the St. George River at Lyman Morse Boatbuilding Company in Thomaston Nov. 1, following a christening that bathed the afternoon with...