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Peter Achorn
peter@firegold.com
PO Box 276, Tenants Harbor, ME 04860 USA
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LETTERING on BOATS

I live in a small village on the coast of Maine. In the spring and summer I paint names on fishing boats and yachts. The local boat yards have skilled craftspeople that I enjoy working with. Quite a few yachts have gold leaf lettering and stripes. Boats up here are mostly traditional in design and their owners are conservative. This suits me fine. My taste leans toward antique letter styles and decoration with a sense of history.

This is one of the boat yards I work at.




My time is divided between working on fire apparatus and boats. In 2004 I finally had an opportunity to combine these two interests. Pictured below is the FDNY Marine Co. No. 1 fireboat John D. McKean. It was celebrating 50 years of service on the Hudson River in Manhattan. The crew from Firefly Restoration donated three days to dressing up the boat. I repainted the Maltese cross on the smoke stack. It was a pleasure to work on such a historic craft... and for the Fire Department of New York.

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