The Five Islands fire station bustled Tuesday with preparations for the island community fire department’s auction as donations rolled in.

Bidding during the auction, which is the key annual fundraiser for the town’s 77- year-old call fire department, will start Saturday at 9 a.m. at the Five Island Fire station on Old Schoolhouse Road, with advance inspection of auction items beginning at 8 a.m.

This year’s top items include three boats, original paintings and prints, and a 100-board-foot lot of figured maple.

The boats for auction, now available for viewing at Bill Plummer’s boat yard, include a 26-foot O’Day sloop with a 9.9-horsepower outboard motor, a 14-foot widget class sailboat and a 20-foot Steiger Craft run-about with a 115- horsepower Mercury outboard engine and trailer.

The paintings up for auction will include an impressionist seascape from Bostonarea artist Winifred W. Compton (1900-1982), a plate signed second edition of the Salvador Dali etching, “El Cid,” and a pen-and-ink drawing of Georgetown by local artist Mary Leonard.

The maple for sale is kilndried and rough-sawn, donated by the Woodex Bearing Co. It is available in 8/4 and 10/4 thicknesses with various figured grains, including curly and birdseye maple.

The auction will include a wide variety of other items. Firefighter David Knauber said it took him about 53 separate trips to pick up donations he’s hoping all find a new home.

“We start at 9 (a.m.) and keep going until it’s all gone,” Knauber said.

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