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The Path News Striper Time video shows "Coot" Hall in his "Sea Coot" which was designed by Eldridge- Maginness in Boston and built in Thomaston, Maine.
She was the last Sea Coot that he had. Had a chevrolet block marine engine, 6 cylinder. Crusader was the name of the engines. Sold by Art Gell over to Somerset.
The plugs hanging on the bulkheads are mostly Capt Bills swimmers and poppers.
The early film shows Coot casting over to Gay Head and the photos of him pulling in the fish were shot just outside Canapitsit. The fish he gaffed was dead. See the deck stain on one side of the fish!
Those were the Glory Years.
Someone asked about the underwater hardware. The MacKenzies had a full keel, back to the Rudder Spindle, a cutless bearing in the strut that held the keel in place. Very stiff and strong but if you struck a rock straight on you could drive the strut up through the bottom.
The MacKenzies were wet boats but would go through any kind of weather. The Sea Coot built in Maine was a dry boat and had such a large flair to the bow that when a large wave would drive hard into the bow, the bow could lift with such force that if you were running from up forward the force would drive you to your knees.
There were two boats of that design built in Maine, The Night Owler eventually re-named Nor-Easter and The Sea Coot.
After Coot passed his orders were to destroy the boat, which was done. She was burned to ashes.
The Radio that Salty said "was in the stern" was actually mounted under the forward deck and accessed through a hatch in the forward bulkhead. The radio was a Raytheon and was very high wattage. Coot would talk to the Montauk Boats with ease from out on The Pigs and would regularly talk with the swordfish boats offshore of the Vineyard and Nantucket.
Capt. Chet
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