{"id":4224,"date":"2023-07-25T13:11:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T13:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/?p=4224"},"modified":"2023-07-25T13:11:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T13:11:17","slug":"coastal-boatworks-storage-in-newcastle-under-new-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/coastal-boatworks-storage-in-newcastle-under-new-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"Coastal Boatworks &#038; Storage in Newcastle Under New Ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<figure style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wiscassetnewspaper.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/07\/field\/image\/boatworks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"386\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manager Linda Flagg, left, and Wiscasset Self-Storage Property Manager Dylan Huggins are welcoming new and old customers to Coastal Boatworks &amp; Storage in Newcastle, now under new ownership<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Business has been good. We have a great relationship with the previous owners, Bucky and Pauline Holloway, and many of their customers have continued doing business with us.\u201d &#8211; Linda Flagg, Manager<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Last July, Coastal Boatworks &amp; Storage in Newcastle was sold to Mid-Coast Properties. Jim and Liz Duffy of Boothbay Harbor own Mid-Coast Properties which includes Boothbay Self-Storage, Wiscasset Self-Storage and Sabattus Street Self-Storage in Lewiston.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Manager Linda Flagg is in charge of all four properties. She said nothing has changed about Coastal Boatworks and Storage, which at 1155 U.S. Route 1. The business provides many services such as renting portable storage units and providing camper, vehicle and boat storage, boat and vehicle winterization and boat repairs.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We kept the name and the business was in line with what we were already doing with our three other storage businesses,\u201d Flagg said. \u201cBusiness has been good. We have a great relationship with the previous owners, Bucky and Pauline Holloway, and many of their customers have continued doing business with us.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is Flagg\u2019s eighth year working for Mid-Coast Properties. She has one full- and one part-time employee. She enjoys working for a family-owned organization. \u201cIt\u2019s a definite plus. The Duffys are great people to work for. It\u2019s probably why I\u2019ve stayed for so long,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The past 12 months have been a time for engaging with new and old customers, and learning a new aspect of the boat business. \u201cWe have been quite busy. The biggest challenge has been learning the boating business, but everything has gone quite well,\u201d she said. Flagg described the Newcastle location as a prime location for boat storage with their heated 40-foot by 8-foot unit. \u201cStoarge is hard to find on the Midcoast, and even harder to find a heated one,\u201d she said. \u2018We want to let the public know about the new ownership and that we still offer the same great services.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Coastal Boatworks has sold three boats this year and has two for sale \u2013 a 1988 Mako with a new Suzuki motor, and a 2005 Pompano which had one previous owner.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><i>Contact:<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Coastal Boatworks<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">207-350-6987<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiscassetnewspaper.com\/article\/coastal-boatworks-storage-newcastle-under-new-ownership\/176361\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Source<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business has been good. We have a great relationship with the previous owners, Bucky and Pauline Holloway, and many of their customers have continued doing business with us.\u201d &#8211; Linda Flagg, Manager Last July, Coastal Boatworks &amp; Storage in Newcastle was sold to Mid-Coast Properties. Jim and Liz Duffy of Boothbay Harbor own Mid-Coast Properties which includes Boothbay Self-Storage, Wiscasset Self-Storage and Sabattus Street Self-Storage in Lewiston. Manager Linda Flagg is in charge of all four properties. She said nothing has changed about Coastal Boatworks and Storage, which at 1155&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50],"tags":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4228,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions\/4228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}