PEI before his death in the late 19705. Art’ 8 daughter Gertie Yorston, recalled that her father made lap boats for much of his adult life, and estimates that he made approximately one hundred boats in his lifetime

My father was a first class carpenter, could read blueprints, and di< all his work by hand. The boats were built in the latter part of March and he built about two boats every spring. He built the boats in a workshop on our property in Greenwich. I used to help my father by clinching nails on the inside of the boat. If any of my brothers wanted to fish, he built a boat for him There was no job to

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In addition to making boats, Art also farmed, built homes, fished salmm and smelts in the Bay, repaired various kinds of equipment, and healsc had a forge on his property in Greenwich.

One of Art Sanderson's boats ready to be delivered from his home in Greenwich to the North Shore. Photo courtesy of Roger Sanderson

ANTHONY MACINNIS AND HIS “LILLY MAY”

The longest journey ever made by a lap boat occurred in 1916 when Captain Anthony MacInnis of St. Peters made a journey from Naufrage to Boston Harbor, when he was seventy-three years old. His eighteen-foot open boat, the Lilly May, was a four—horse power lobster boat with a Bruce Stewart Imperial Engine. When Anthony arrived in