Coastal communities such as Newbury, Newburyport, Amesbury and Salisbury were once major producers of wooden boats, but that industry has gone the way of the buffalo — and the clipper ship. Still, ...
Ten-year Southern Spars employee Lee Bender watched as the last 173-foot sailboat mast made at the business off Johnson Lane was lifted by crane onto a trailer for shipment early Sunday morning. The ...