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Meet 17-Year-Old Shipwright Charting His Own Course In Islip: 'A Dying Tradition'
Liam McEvoy is sailing into uncharted waters. After a childhood spent on the sea, the 17-year-old senior from Islip is making the leap from boat enthusiast to boat builder. Or shipwright, for the more sophisticated. This fall, McEvoy launched a website advertising his custom boat building business, Clam Island Shipwrights. Its masthead proudly proclaims: “A young shipwright building in the old tradition.” And he does mean old; his “sharpies” (a flat-bottomed boat with a sharp bow) are all assembled by hand using wood. No fiberglass or aluminum here. “The biggest boat on the website is my …