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Description
The Rice Brothers boat builders in East Boothbay built the "Patrikos", a 27-foot vee-stern cruiser powered by a two-cylinder Knox engine, in 1908.
On this day in 1911 it had emerged from under the bridge and was passing the Thompson boat shop, with laundry drying, the Thompson Inn on the skyline, and the Jennings dance hall and store on the right. The man at the helm was almost certainly Edgar O. Achorns. "Patrikos" means “gift of the father” in Greek, and the boat was a gift from the father of one of the Achorns.
Dr. Harold Mott-Smith, Jr., a physicist and naval officer in World War II, purchased the boat in 1934 when he bought his summer cottage on Cliffords Cove on Rutherford Island. He removed the boat’s awning and name immediately. as they were not suitably nautical, but never renamed the boat. His family enjoyed frequent outings to Boothbay Harbor, Pemaquid, Outer Heron Island, and up river to Pleasant Cove to swim. Harold took the boat as far as the St. Johns River in Canada and to southern New England as well.
In 2020 local boat builder Bruce Ferrin, a friend of Dr. Mott-Smith, owns the boat. He restored her and renamed her "Doc’s Pride."
About This Item
- Title: "Patrikos" at the North Side bridge, South Bristol, 1911
- Creator: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Creation Date: 1911
- Subject Date: 1911
- Location: South Bristol, Lincoln County, ME
- Media: Glass Plate Negative
- Dimensions: 12.7 cm x 17.8 cm
- Local Code: LB2007.1.102321
- Collection: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Object Type: Image
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