It took just minutes for the iconic boat shack at Nick’s Cove to be consumed by flames. It’s taken two years, some fine craftsmanship, and the help of devoted customers to bring it back. 

When the reconstructed building, a local landmark for decades, reopened this week, a propane stove had taken the place of the old wood-fired hearth whose embers likely led to the original shack’s demise on the blustery evening of Jan. 7,…