When we were on Spring vacation in Anacortes, Washington, we had a chance to walk through Lovrić’s Sea Craft, a large boatyard on Oakes Avenue. Follow the link to the website for the facility, it has some great before and after pictures of their work on boats of all kinds.

Lovric’s Sea Craft — A large boatyard in Anacortes, Washington

Lovrić (the correct name, according to the website, is without the “‘s” but with the acute accent on the “c”) is on the north west side of Fidalgo Island, along Guemes Channel. This is a view from the boat yard toward the island.

Looking south toward Anacortes. Cranberry Lake is over the hill to the right.

Lovrić has been around since 1965. There are many old buildings, old equipment, old vehicles, and old boats. This is the back of one building. The sand hopper on the right is for sale. I really like this image.

One of many old buildings at Lovric’s

Before we walked down the hill to Lovrić, I had noted that there was a large green barge being moved about at the end of the pier. When we went down, we met the crew working on it and learned that it was a 440′ barge being refinished. They were cleaning the sides with acetone as the original paint job had gone bad due to being applied when the humidity was too high. In a town where in the winter the humidity is normally 100%, I did not understand the problem. The fist picture is a high dynamic range (HDR) image that combines two images.

A large barge in the process of getting a fresh coat of paint.

Nonetheless, one could see the difference between the old and the new finish. One needs a nice shiny finish on one’s barge.

The shiny part on the right is the finished product.

The tail fins on the stern of the barge were colorful, and the ebbing tide made the water swirl.

These fins are at the stern of the barge. The current is from the tide beginning to ebb.

By the barge was an old generator.

Old equipment is everywhere at Lovric’s.

The floating dry dock was pretty cool. It sinks underneath a boat, and raises it up so that it can be worked on.

A floating dry dock.

Lovrić is full of boats. Working boats.

Many boats refit at Lovric’s.

Old boats

Perhaps a ferry under repair?

This tow boat needs some repair.

Newer boats.

St. Peter and the Sea Wolf. The weather station on the brown house is “Above Lorvic’s” on the Weather Underground.

There is abandoned equipment and material everywhere. They could make a fortune in scrap; I’d hate to see the bill for a toxic waste cleanup.

An old oil truck

A colorful old oil delivery truck.

Up on blocks, this wooden hull was clearly a rebuild from scratch operation. It is not clear if work is under way.

An old wooden hull getting a full refitting.

There are interesting patterns on this old wooden boat.