 Hi, I'm Rob Day from Jack's Abbey here with my friend Graham at Lowell Boat Shop and this is another episode of Shipping Out. So, Graham, why don't you tell me what you do here at Lowell and what it's like to work here? I'll start with what it's like to work here, which is fantastic because I mean, I have the best office you can imagine looking at the river all day. That's for sure. In an historic building, I started here as a boat builder and I still am a boat builder, but primarily I'm the executive director, which means on any given day I'll be talking to funders writing grants. It's a nice mix and that I also get to work with kids and I get to teach classes and I get to build boats for customers. That's great. It's a perfect lead-in. Why don't you tell us about this place? It's steeped in history. There's a lot of unique stuff happening here. What makes Lowell Boat Shop special from the history? Well, first I have to say that Lowell's Boat Shop is in Amesbury. It's from the Lowell family, so Simeon Lowell is our founder. It's special because it was one of those unique businesses that was passed down through seven generations of their family. So from 1793 up until 1976, this was a Lowell-owned building and business. And then after that, it was purchased by the Odell family and they ran it for about 20 years until it became a national historic landmark, which it is now, and a working museum. This is a unique space because it has that long history, but you're still manufacturing boats today. So what's it like manufacturing? It's interesting. Every boat that we build gets a hull number as you would expect from a manufacturer, but really what we're doing now is is custom work. So we talked about the history of this place, which is that it was a essentially a Dory factory which made Dories from the fishing industry and has survived through the 20th century and until the 21st by converting and starting to build boats for recreation. So that's what we do now. And we don't build them from plans, we don't have any. When they design a boat, they take notes, some measurements. They usually scribble the measurements on a stick and that's how the boats got replicated was using patterns. And so any of these boats were still using the same age old patterns to build. That covers a lot of the history of this place and what makes it special. What are you most excited about in the future for Boat Shop? I'm excited about the youth that is involved here now. It's typical for a historic industry and a historic building to have a clientele and a constituency that is on the older side. We now, with our apprentice programs and our youth programs, there are a number of young kids around high school, even younger, who get involved here, stay involved here. That's what makes me happy. There is a feeling, even just driving by your home in Amesbury when you see the Boat Shop. So, Graham, thank you for the time today. Really appreciate it. Thanks.