Acushnet Marine Electric EST. 2008 · MA #ME-12740
Plates H · HullsBoat log217 on the books · 4 written up

Two hundred and seventeen boats. Four written up.

Eighteen years of service has put 217 active hulls on the books. Most of them have a one-line entry in the notebook on the workbench. Four of the most-recent get a longer write-up here, named, with their captains' permission, because the work was instructive enough to teach with. The longer log is in the binder; ask if you'd like to see the entry for a particular boat.

A hand-bound book of vessel records open to a page reading 'Hull 4221 — F/V Providential' with hand-drawn schematics and inked annotations.
Plate H.a · The hull binder, opened to F/V Providential
217
Hulls on the books
38
Hulls worked in 2025
112
Rewires since 2008
38–95
Length range, ft
26 yr
Avg boat age
F/V Providential, 78-foot steel scallop dredge boat at Pier 3 with new shore-power cordage.
Hull #4221Scalloper · 78 ft · steel2026-03

F/V Providential

Eaton DS replacement, full coordination study, arc-flash analysis at 4.7 cal/cm². 26 working days at Pier 3.
F/V St. Antônia, 64-foot Eastern-rig wooden dragger in the Fairhaven Shipyard travel-lift.
Hull #4187Eastern-rig · 64 ft · wood2025-11

F/V St. Antônia

Full P-01 rewire of a 1981 Goudy & Stevens dragger. 2,140 ft of new tinned copper. 26 working days at Fairhaven Shipyard.
F/V Northern Runner, 42-foot lobster boat with red hull at the State Pier with NMEA 2000 backbone visible at the helm.
Hull #3994Lobster · 42 ft · fiberglass2025-09

F/V Northern Runner

Full NMEA 2000 backbone retrofit. Three previous shops left a tangle. One day to clean, then six weeks of silence.
F/V Cape Cod Tradition, 71-foot blue-hulled groundfish dragger with Northern Lights generator visible in engine-room hatch.
Hull #3812Groundfish · 71 ft · steel2025-06

F/V Cape Cod Tradition

Northern Lights M99C13 alternator-end rebuild plus AVR replacement. Witnessed load-bank to 80 kW.

The longer log

The four entries above are the four most-recent and most-instructive. The full log of 217 boats lives in the binder on the workbench. If you have worked with us before and want to see your boat's entry, ask any of the crew — we'll dig it up.

The boats range from a 1971 Crosby skiff (Hull #2114) up through a brand-new 2024 steel scalloper (Hull #4421). The average age is 26 years — older than most fleets in the country, and a function of how the New Bedford fishery has aged into its current shape.[1]

Captain consent

Every named boat below appears with the captain's written permission. We do not name boats whose owners have not consented; the binder names them, but the website does not. The dates and the plates of work are accurate; the photographs are placeholders that would be replaced with photographs by a working New Bedford waterfront photographer in a production deployment.

If you are a captain we have worked for and would like your boat removed from this page, write to yard@acushnet-marine-electric.example and it goes the same day.

Sources

  1. NOAA Fisheries. Fisheries of the United States annual report — New Bedford fleet age statistics. ↩
  2. New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center. Vessel and crew history.
  3. Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries. DMF vessel registry.
  4. Port of New Bedford. Commercial fishing fleet.