"...a few yards from where Bounty was built..." Is that a distance measurement or are you referring to a few establishments engaged in shipbuilding?

On the rivers and coasts of Maine there were shipyards wherever the conditions favored the endeavor. In the spring the crews would go into the woods to cut and by winter would have a handy little schooner in the water for cargo hauling. Because they were generally built of green wood they didn't last long and must have been leaky as sin. But once the owner had run a few trips he could afford to have a better ship built and his fortune was made.

Sorry about the "drift" of the thread.