. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. practically knock a cold out of your head. Earl Rose is a senior member of the branching family of boatbuilding Roses on Harkers Island. At 72, after 50 years of boatbuilding, during which he worked on more than a thousand boats, Rose has turned his shop over to a half- brother, Paul, and is building for his daughter what he says is his last craft, a 39-foot fishing boat in the classic Harkers Island style. Photo by Neil Caudle - , - • - ;. :- mm. "It's your typical, Harkers Island commercial fishing
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. practically knock a cold out of your head. Earl Rose is a senior member of the branching family of boatbuilding Roses on Harkers Island. At 72, after 50 years of boatbuilding, during which he worked on more than a thousand boats, Rose has turned his shop over to a half- brother, Paul, and is building for his daughter what he says is his last craft, a 39-foot fishing boat in the classic Harkers Island style. Photo by Neil Caudle - , - • - ;. :- mm. "It's your typical, Harkers Island commercial fishing boat," he says. "It's got a round transom on 'er, where you can pull a gill net over it, with fish in 'er. And I've got the flared bow in 'er, and I've got the deep vee in 'er, so she'll ride easy in a sea wave. Well, it's just a model that we've built for years, and you can't beat 'em. There ain't no way you can design one any better for the kind of work we do ; Like most of the builders, Rose has spent about as much time fishing in boats as he has building them. He fished when the fishing was good, and built boats when it wasn't. What he learned about fishing found its way into refinements in his boats. The shape of a seaworthy craft became lodged as per- manently in his mind as a ship in bottle. Harkers Island boatbuilders construct work boats from their heads, not from blueprints. The only drawings you find them using are a few casual pencil-scratchings on scrap lumber. "The length, the width, the depth, all of that, it's in your mind," Rose says. "You make your keel and you cut your frame and you go to puttin' together and puttin' together and puttin' together, until you get 'er finished, and she comes out a nice-looking ; Rose, like other builders on the island, has made his share of sport boats—charter craft, yachts and sports fishing boats. Once, he says, there was all the business the builders could handle. Not so this y
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