Here you’re looking down the Center Harbor Road. It’s lined with the cars and trucks of the boatbuilding artisans, designers and business people of the renowned Brooklin Boat Yard at the bottom, on the Harbor waterfront:
On the left of the image is the seaside end of BBY’s old three-level workshop and offices; on the right is its relatively new pier and pier shed. Behind that workshop, there’s a walkway to the pier, which has had its floating docks removed for the winter:
The workshop originally was a fish processing factory in the 19th Century. It went through several ownerships that eventually specialized in canning sardines. In about 1938, the site was bought and transformed into a boatyard. In 1960, the site was bought by the famed naval architect (and son of E.B. White) Joel White, who started BBY there. And the rest is a history of success.
In January of 2024 the wooden BBY pier and pier shed were significantly damaged and partially destroyed. The replacement has composite and light metal gangways but continues to sit on the original granite pier pilings. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on January 8, 2026.)
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