Dave Mention, left, Brian Smith and Oscar head across Lower Range Pond in Poland on Tuesday. “On a day like today, you have to get out there as there probably is not going to be many more like it,” said Smith of Bowdoinham. Smith built the cedar strip Rangeley Lakes guide boat 14 years ago after his granddaughter, Sadie Cobb, was born. The first boat he ever built, he named “Sadie-Belle” after Cobb, and he and Mention, his neighbor, have built nine more wood boats together since then. “Nothing like a nice wooden boat,” said Mention. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

The Sadie-Belle is named after the boat builder’s granddaughter, Sadie Anabelle Cobb. “I built it so her and I could go out fishing together,” said Brian Smith of Bowdoinham. “She has other interests now that she is a teenager.”  Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Dave Mention of Bowdoinham directs Brian Smith, not pictured, as the two neighbors launch the “Sadie-Belle” Tuesday on Lower Range Pond in Poland. Smith built the Rangeley Lakes guide boat 14 years ago after his granddaughter, Sadie Cobb, was born. The boat is made with cedar wood from Harpswell and cherry wood from Brunswick. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal