Cape Cod Boatyard Fire

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A fire that tore through a storage shed in an iconic boatyard in the Cape Cod village of Woods Hole today spared some antique vessels but destroyed two boats that were stored at the facility, a representative of the family-owned business said.

“It engulfed the building very quickly” at about 2 p.m., said Weatherly Dorris, 49, who runs the Quissett Harbor Boatyard with her husband Richard, in a telephone interview.

Dorris said that no one was injured in the fire, but that two family-owned boats stored at the wrecked shed were completely destroyed. She declined to say what kind of boats they were or when they were built.

She said that about a dozen other vessels appeared to be okay, though some of their parts -- such as booms and masts -- were irreparably damaged.

Those boats are wooden Herreshoff vessels dating as far back as the 1930s, and fiberglass Doughdish reproductions that were built decades later, according to Dorris.

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