Joel designed and built High Time for Brooklin summer residents Peg and Al Hunt who had decided to get a smaller boat than their 42-foot power cruiser, Harbinger. Eldredge-McInnis had designed Harbinger and Newbert & Wallace had built her in Thomaston, so the Hunts considered it was indeed “high time” they commissioned a boat from Joel.

High Time is a picnic boat designed along the lines of a Maine lobster-boat with only minimal cruising accommodations. Knowing that his own yard would do the building, Joel drew only a lines plan to establish the hull shape and an abbreviated construction drawing just for yard use.

Joel learned boatbuilding from Arno Day, first as an employee and later as Arno's business partner. Together they turned out several lobsterboats of Arno's design, so when Joel designed High Time, well after Arno had departed, he was intimately familiar with lobsterboat hull shape and construction. Both High Time and Lady Jeanne benefitted from this kind of knowledge and experience.

The Hunts seldom used High Time, although they hired a captain who tended the boat daily as she lay on her mooring at the mouth of Brooklin's Center Harbor. High Time remained in the Hunt family for a couple of decades, even after Peg Hunt and Capt. Tyler died.

The boat is back under new ownership and once more under the care of Brooklin Boat Yard, now named Lola Rose.