Past News

Dredging Underway

Stonington Sailor Readies For Atlantic Solo Race

Mr. Snyder, Concordias & Dodson Boatyard

DBY Brokerage Assists in trans-continental Purchase of 1993 Hinckley Sou’Wester 51

Robert Jenkins Snyder Sr passes away Oct. 4, 2004

Changes at Dodson Boatyard

The Boatyard undergoes a range of capital improvements

The Backward Burgee

Yard News & Photos

The Backward Burgee

R. J. Snyder Sr.

In 1980, shortly after purchasing Dodson Boat Yard, the Snyders decided that the company and yard needed a new logo. They settled on using the lines off of the aging work boat Alert. She had the sheer and the clean, crisp, time-honored lines that spoke of New England tradition and craftsmanship.
Bob Jr’s wife, Marne, an artist had recently graduated from the New York School of Design. She was shanghaied to do the work and after six weeks of deliberation and effort, Marne came up with the design which you now see on the front page of this Newsletter and just about everywhere on caps, shirts, pants, knives, key chains, buildings, boats, and so on and so on.

Ten years passed by and it was decided that the design be incorporated into a burgee for the Yard. You can see it proudly displayed at mast heads and on the main dock. One day this past summer a dockside friend commented (he thought kindly): “Why did you put the boat in the burgee going the wrong way?” Our response was “Whadda yer mean: ‘the wrong way?’” His answer was: “the boat should be heading into the wind, not away from it” We were all dumbfounded. He was completely correct of course. With embarrassment we meekly thanked him for the observation.

So we have to turn the boat around 180 degrees. Let one of us know when you notice the boat headed for the staff and the breeze, and not away from it. We’ll have a prize for the first eagle eyed person.