Your search - Tom Abbott was born in Summerville in 1928. He learned how to build boats watching and helping his neighbour Abe Fry in Princeton, and built his own at the age of twelve. Tom spent fifteen years fishing with his father for cod, mackerel, herring, squid, salmon and whatever else was in season. He moved to the Glovertown area with his wife in the early 1960s. There he worked building longliners at Max Burry’s shipyard and then spent forty-one years in the carpentry shop at Terra Nova National Park. He estimates he’s built close to 60 boats, from rodneys to longliners. - did not match any resources.