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"I think we'll all just be so happy when we have the
fire, and the evidence of the fire, behind us," said Katie Doughty Maddox,
marketing manager for the yard. "We're ready for a clean slate."
Portland Press Herald
Washburn and Doughty, East Boothbay, Maine have been
designing and building custom tugs, as well as fishing boats, barges, ferries
and commercial passenger vessels at their East Boothbay Yard since 1977.
Sheridan had been working with the company to design a new building addition
and were on the verge of starting construction when a devastating fire
destroyed the entire shipyard on July 11th. Without hesitation, and in fact,
before the fire was out, Washburn and Doughty were making plans on how to
finish two tugs that were under construction and rebuild their facility. The
company built tugs in the "out of doors" that winter while their new building
was being constructed.
The new building has two large construction bays with three
stories of fabrication support mezzanines running down the center of the
building. Each bay has two 20 ton bridge cranes. The fire gave them a clean
slate and this new facility will offer many improvements that will allow the
company to grow.
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