What We Are Building Next

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Excerpt from our original 1995 catalog:

"Coming up with new ideas for our company is sometimes as easy as looking out our window at 89 Front Street. Right there below, on any given day, parade enough ideas to fill a dozen lifetimes at sea…we call ‘em the Boat Yard Boys. They're not the most gregarious bunch…to most, they wouldn’t say bull if they had a mouth full of it. But if you listen hard, sooner or later you learn something. And often, it’s the most obvious ideas that are the hardest pick up on, ideas that are valued because they work. Ideas from a lifetime at sea."

Hail to the BoatYard Boys, this is their idea. Nothing fancy…a functional, practical jacket they can work in is all they’re after. The Atlantic Rancher Boat Yard Jacket, 25th Anniversary Edition is made with our exclusive and proprietary 6 oz. DryHandle, 100% cotton, water-resistant fabric. Throughout, the cut is broad, especially in the shoulders and sleeves where freedom of movement is essential. Plain back with center seam…waist-length with adjustable VelcroÒ tabs at the hip. Plaid, 100% cotton shirting fabric lining over polyester insulation. Sleeves are also insulated and lined with nylon acetate. Roomy forearms with storm gussets and adjustable, button closure cuffs. All of the pockets are volume constructed and the two front pockets have side-entry hand-warmers behind. Full-length button-over storm flap. Broad, stand-up collar. Spot clean by hand using mild soap if necessary. However, DryHandle fabric is stubbornly stain-resistant, so a once-over with a damp sponge is usually all you'll need.

Details

• 25th Anniversary Edition, each jacket marked with unique serial number identifier

• 6oz. DryHandle, 100% cotton weatherproof fabric

• 100% cotton shirting fabric lining

• Corozo nut buttons

• YKK brass zipper front

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Outlaw Gunner.

For generations, wildfowling was a way of life along the Eastern Seaboard and market gunning had been a necessary and respected profession. With the enactment of the Migratory Bird Act of 1918, the variant interests of the market gunner and the Federal Game Warden unfolded as a real-life cat-and-mouse game. The struggle became legendary and nowhere was it more vividly played out than along the tidewaters and estuaries of the Chesapeake Bay. Part-time friends and part-time foes, one thing the gunner and the warden shared equally was the bitter gnaw of winter’s salty northwest blows.

When it comes to staying warm, modern-day outfitters have nothing on these men. Dressing in layers was just common sense and the Outlaw Gunner quilted shell was a key component of every bayman’s garb. Worn as an intermediate layer under oiled cotton smocks and bib pants, early versions were often fashioned from discarded quilts or horse blankets.

Our 25th Anniversary Outlaw Gunner Jacket is a limited production run, each jacket is marked with a unique serial number identifier. Made with our exclusive, 6oz. DryHandle, 100% cotton weatherproof fabric. This garment is an updated rendition of this time-honored, essential component of warmth on the bay. A tight 2x2 quilt pattern over the DryHandle helps to build air pockets in the poly-fill insulation and keeps them in place. Two large pockets in front, zippered arm pocket on sleeve, tow utility pockets inside. The body is full, broad and fully lined with 100% cotton shirting fabric; sleeves lined with nylon. Cotton-nylon rib knit cuffs, neck, waist, and underarm gussets.

Spot clean by hand using mild soap if necessary. However, DryHandle fabric is stubbornly stain-resistant, so a once-over with a damp sponge is usually all you will need.

Details:

• 25th Anniversary Edition, each jacket marked with unique serial number identifier
• 6oz. DryHandle, 100% cotton weatherproof fabric
• 100% cotton shirting fabric lining
• two way, YKK brass zipper front

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Salt Farm Coat - 25th Anniversary Edition

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Excerpt from our original 1995 catalog:

"The Ram Island Salt Farm, just south of Portland, Maine on Cape Elizabeth, sits on the east side of the tiny inlet at the top end of Higgin's Beach. Among other things, they make hay here, May through October. From the brow of the hill, the fields drop in a deliberate free-fall right down to the Atlantic. No beach there. Just rock and salt spray make the transition. In the barns above, Phineas Sprague, Jr. still restores wooden lobster boats. Every winter, for as long as anyone can recall, his father Phineas Sr., has rowed out past the point in his Barnegat Bay Sneak Box to gun for eiders. God willing, this year won't be any different."

From Maine to Alaska, 12oz. cotton duck is perhaps one of the most commonly found tools on working farms and ranches. There's a reason. From covering grain and equipment to hoisting cattle from a mud hole, it's durability and versatility are irreplaceable and legendary.

We think of our Salt Farm Coat in similar terms. We're bringing back this workhorse of a coat, made identical to the original save sizing adjustments and a 100% cotton shirting fabric lining. Full, boxy, sturdy...practical. Pockets that mean something and a collar that feels right, up, because it serves its purpose. 12oz. 100% cotton SuperDux fabric. Water-resistant treatment keeps it dry and clean. Spot clean by hand using mild soap if necessary.

The 25th Anniversary Salt Farm Coat is a limited production run and each garment is marked with a unique serial number identifier.

Details:

• 100% cotton, water-repellent SuperDux fabric
• Corozo nut buttons
• Roomy, gusseted pockets
• 100% cotton shirting lining

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On good days and bad, on starry nights and on ones that ain’t so much, the tide comes on. When a full moon conspires with a nor’ east blow…now that’s a Prince of a tide…comes so high it’ll float your garvey right down Bay Avenue and anything else that’s not strapped down. No matter what, it’s only got about six hours to do it’s thing, start to finish. Then, sure as the tide itself, it starts back out again. Few things I know of that you can trust like the tide.”

Uncle Jack Sheimreif, Beach Haven, New Jersey.

We’re with Uncle Jack…things in life that you can count on with as much conviction as the tide are few and far between. And when you run across something that gains your trust and confidence that’s what you want to hold onto.

The Atlantic Rancher chamois shirt, we think, qualifies. It’s tightly woven, 100% cotton fabric is the key. Baby-soft to the touch and a smooth “nap” surface that tracks like suede when brushed. So tightly woven and so hardy that the commodity store standby chamois verges on cheesecloth by comparison. Wide-cut, with double box pleats in back to gather the fit and provide extra comfort and range of movement. The collar lays flat and civilized or stands tall and protects the back of your neck when the wind guns down the channel. Two generous bellows chest pockets, with button flaps. Plenty-long shirttail.

This is the shirt Pop-Pop loved

“Most knew him as ‘Piney’. We called him that ‘cause he grew up in Lumberton, right there on the edge of the Pine Barrens. His first real job was driving a school bus. He got awful smart driving that bus, he did, ‘cause by the time he went on, he’d built the largest law firm in southern Jersey. Wintertime, he’d spend at Diz’s shack on them broadbills or over at Forty-acre Pond sittin’ for black ducks. Summertime, he’d leave Mt. Holly by four o’clock. By quart past five, he’d be in his boat headin’ down the bay… half-dressed and shirttail a flyin’… loved fishing that whitewater, he did. No matter what, he usually had his twin grandsons ‘long side… they called him Pop-Pop”

- Harold T. “Piney” Parker as recalled by Jack Scheimreif, Beach Haven, NJ.

DETAILS. This is the shirt Pop-Pop loved. Two large chest pockets with button-through flaps. Modified point collar. Lots of room all around. Super soft 100% cotton two-ply thread. Machine wash. Imported.