Came across this sunken boat and quintessential Maine fish shack covered in lobster buoys on our drive to the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens!
About the Boat: The ‘Sarah C.’, a 62-foot boat was built in 1959. Myron McLellan purchased the boat as a southern style shrimper in the early 1980s. At Goudy and Stevens in East Boothbay, shipbuilders moved the wheel house from the stern to the bow, converting it into a commercial ground fishing vessel. It saw its best years during the fishing boom in the 1980s, according to McLellan's wife Barbara. The boat sunk when it’s wooden hull started to leak. Today, the Sarah C. quietly rests as a relic of the past off Barter's Island Road in Back River, near Hodgdon Island bridge.