Doug Hylan

摘要

In September 2003, the former sardine carrier GRAYLING made her annual autumn delivery trip from Brooklin, Maine, to Mystic, Connecticut. Aboard her were Maynard Bray, this magazine's longtime technical editor and historian of wooden boats; Matt Murphy, editor of WoodenBoat; and Doug Hylan, who had recently led the rebuilding of the vessel and her conversion into a yacht. GRAYLING had been built as a mackerel seiner in 1915 by Frank Rice of East Boothbay, Maine, for his brother, George. The tired vessel was still in workboat trim when her new owner, Ted Okie, hired Benjamin River Marine, where at the time Hylan was a partner, to do the upgrade and conversion.