CODFISH

Brad Glazer's Motor Vessel (mv) Codfish, a 1998 36' Northern Bay 36 FB (Flybridge) Downeast Lobster Yacht. The Northern Bay 36 is not one boat made by one builder. Yves-Marie Tanton is the yacht designer who designed the boat from the bare hull up. The NB 36 is a 36' lobster boat hull designed by Spencer Lincoln, the "King" of Lobster Boat Designers... Most of the hulls were built by John Hutchins of Downeast Boats and Composites. The bare hulls then go to a "finisher", which is the company that builds the rest of the boat for the customer, mainly for lobster fishermen in Maine. Therefore, they are all different, with different purposes, finishes, and equipment. That is why prices on the used market are all over the board... Now, what we call a Lobster Boat, or a Maine Lobster Boat, these days, is actually a model that originated in Nova Scotia. In fact, many old-timers still call these boats Novi-boats. The key words here, however, are Nova Scotia and Maine.