SOUTH PORTLAND — A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew in…
Marine
Maine Lighthouse Museum and Friends of Flying Santa...
ROCKLAND — It’s a tradition that began on Dec. 25, 1929, when Capt. William Wincapaw of Friendship loaded his plane with a dozen packages containing newspapers, magazines, coffee, candy and other…
Soon, a decision will be formed as to whether or not to open the Gulf of Maine’s shrimp fishery.
The decision to open or…
University of Maine at Orono
ORONO, Maine — When Samuel Belknap, Ph.D. anthropology and environmental policy student at the University of Maine, heard an increasing…
Winner gets passage for two on any 2016 season trip
ROCKLAND — What does a captain do, when the schooner he’s been restoring for more than a year needs an anchor windlass, standing rigging and deck hardware to finally return to active to service as…
Department of Marine Resources
AUGUSTA – Rep. Pinny Beebe-Center, D-Rockland, is appealing the Legislative Council’s rejection of her bill to give the commissioner of the…
Vessel upright, stern buried in approximately 30 feet of sediment
WASHINGTON, D.C. — (Updated Nov. 3) The National Transportation Safety Board Tuesday afternoon said that searches by a U.S. Navy remote…
Rockland Community Sailors
Rockland Community Sailors take first place at the Becton Cup women's State Championship regatta in Castine last week. …
Near Jameson Point
The Coast Guard is responding to the grounding of a vessel in…
Clamming has been good in Wiscasset this year, very good.
A few years ago, one or one and a half bushels would have been a digger’s likely take from a tide, Wiscasset Shellfish Committee…
Imagine having a job in Maine, where your office is a boat and you are your own boss. And you don’t have to haul lobsters. …
The breezes continue Thursday afternoon, albeit much milder than the winds that blew through the Midcoast overnight Wednesday and into Thursday morning, and only pockets of customers in Waldo and…
Bring in your bird feeders, trash cans, kids’ toys
GRAY — The National Weather Service in Gray has issued a gale warning for the coast, from Stonington to Port Clyde, out 25 nautical miles into Penobscot Bay. The gale warning is in effect from 8 p…
GULF OF MEXICO — A Hope family, and the community they are a big part of, are all in mourning with news that the man killed Tuesday on a drilling ship in the Gulf of Mexico was 34-year-old Sam…
National Transportation Safety Board...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Transportation Safety Board issued an update Tuesday into its continuing investigation of the sinking of the cargo ship El Faro in the Atlantic Ocean near…
ROCKLAND — If you have a lobster buoy hanging around your dooryard, the organizers of the annual lobster trap tree that is set up ahead of the Rockland’s Festival of Lights celebration could use a…
Boat was found runing in circles at high rate of speed
UPDATE: The Maine Marine Patrol Friday night said that the lobsterman found unresponsive on the deck of his boat discovered circling in Penobscot Bay off Owls Head Lighthouse died of natural…
Route 1 south of Belfast closed.... Much neighborly pumping at the harbors today — 5 to 8 inches of rain reported
The same rainstorm that is submerging cars along Marginal Way in Portland is also swamping boats in Penobscot Bay harbors and has closed a section of Route 1 south of Belfast where water washed…
CREATE SMALL CUSTOM METAL MARINE HARDWARE IN BRONZE
ROCKLAND — The Apprenticeshop, center for traditional wooden boatbuilding and seamanship, will offer two metalworking workshops this fall:
Brazing Workshop: Custom Pintles and…
Holland America's Eurodam Returns to Rockland Harbor, Sept 27
The Holland America vessel, the Eurodam (2,104 passengers, 929 crew members) will make a day stop in Rockland…
Six-foot-long leatherback entangled in fishing gear
Coast Guard crew members rescued a Leatherback sea turtle entangled in fishing gear Sept. 20, approximately 15 miles south of Cape Elizabeth. …
TERESA AND BEN CAREY DOCUMENT OCEAN ACIDIFICATION AND NOISE POLLUTION. .
PENOBSCOT BAY — Sailors/filmmakers Teresa and Ben Carey are are partnering with the Ocean Foundation Bio-acoustician Michael…
Resisting Entropy tackles Maine Coastal Cleanup Day with art made from debris
ROCKLAND — It can be a thankless job, committing your entire weekend to an art project, working for more than 12 hours straight to form an art piece out of found materials into an outdoor…
ROCKLAND — Passengers disembarked from the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines vessel, Brilliance of the Seas,…
Industrial Arts
Blair Clement, of Matinicus Island and Thomaston, loves to walk the shoreline. Everybody loves a sandy beach in the warm summer sun, but Blair also gets a lot out of exploring the more rugged…
ROCKLAND — The Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines vessel, …
Two pier ordinances remain unchanged...
CAMDEN — Voters in November will be asked to approve a handful of amendments to the Harbor Ordinance after the Camden Select Board Tuesday night voted 3 to 2 to move the proposed changes to the…
license or tag? student commitment age – 15 or 18? offer limited trap licenses for those nearing retirement?
ROCKLAND — Lobster resources in the ocean are currently healthy and there are no immediate signs of decline. Significant latent effort exists in licenses and tags, and a lot more small lobster…
Searsport project halted
ROCKLAND — Fishermen of Zone D applauded the Tuesday evening announcement that the Maine Department of Transportation, along with the Army Corps of Engineers, has withdrawn its application …
Labor Day on the water
CAMDEN– The Labor Day was picture perfect in every sense of the word. What better way to spend part of the day then on one of the many windjammers out of Camden Harbor. Despite the heat of the day…
Originally published in the Summer 2015 edition of The Wave...
Will the fall of 2015 be your first trip on a schooner and is the impending beach lobster bake scarier than the thought of Jaws chasing you down? Or have you always been so intimidated about…
COMPUTER MODELING OF IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON MAINE FISHERIES
WALPOLE — The National Science Foundation recently awarded Brady and colleagues a $266,309 grant to advance UMaine high-performance computer modeling tools for fisheries. Timely forecasts of…
PORTLAND – The owners of a Thomaston contracting business filed a civil suit against a private Rockland ferry service, claiming negligence…
Three Select Board members ignore call to let the citizens decide
CAMDEN — At the conclusion of Tuesday night's public hearing regarding proposed amendments to the Harbor and Waterways Ordinance, during which the Camden Select Board took public comment, and…
Meeting tonight, Tuesday, Aug. 18
CAMDEN — The Camden Select Board tonight, Aug. 18, will hold a public hearing to discuss a slew of proposed Harbor Ordinance amendments, and while some might think they…
Gardeners, get it while you can • clumps together ‘like Cheerios and milk’
ROCKPORT — For the past several days, seaweed has been moving in on the tide through Rockport’s outer and inner harbor. With barely any stirring breezes, it has quietly been rafting into a carpet…
PENOBSCOT BAY — A stretch of hot, humid weather has driven locals and tourists alike to hit the water, and if one has the chance to glide out a few miles across Penobscot Bay, set a course for…
Sheltered overnight on an island
Jackson Day, the missing kayaker that prompted a Coast Guard search, has been located, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
He was paddling back to Swans Island this morning from a night on a…
The Maine Boats, Homes and Harbors Show has assembled a varied flotilla of events and displays for the 13th annual…
July 21 was a day that started off like any other for lobsterman captain Jonathan Achorn and sternman Brandon McClure, both of Friendship.
There was thick fog all around while they were…
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has released a preliminary assessment of the U.S.…
Motto: Tough, Tall, Tenacious!
ROCKLAND — The naval ship USS Tortuga anchored in Rockland Harbor during this week’s 68th annual Lobster Festival. On Thursday, Festival attendees interested in touring the vessel were…
A labor of love, Former Nathaniel Bowditch relaunched under original name
THOMASTON — With a tumultuous thunderstorm looming down from the northeast, it was quick, yet celebratory, business easing Ladona into the …
Right place at the Right Time...
YORK — Maine Marine Patrol Officer Benjamin Burnes, who graduated from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in May, has already put his training to good use, saving the life of a man whose canoe…
A fishing heritage unique to Maine
ROCKLAND — U.S. Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, House Chair Chuck Kruger, D-Thomaston, Dave Miramant, D-Camden, and Thomaston’s Chris Rector, regional representative for U.S. Congressman Angus King…
Herring — the lobster bait of choice
ROCKLAND — Random firecracker-like sounds whipped the air around the Rockland Municipal Fish Pier on a July midmorning. The source of those cracks came from Neil Harrick, sitting on the back rim…
Viva la France!
PENOBSCOT BAY — She loomed up from the pea-soup fog, first her bright golden forepeak and royal blue trim slipping into view, then her gunports. Towering above her decks, still partially ghosted…
Music, dancing, cultural events July 14-15, public tours July 15
CASTINE — In April, the 18th century replica French frigate Hermione set sail from the River Charente in France for the United States. The transatlantic crossing, following the same route…
One of the best places to be in summer is Midcoast Maine at Maine Windjammer Association events. For the past 12 years, people from everywhere have thrilled to these events, which include the "…
A parade of sail on a gorgeous July afternoon
ROCKLAND HARBOR, and beyond — The breeze was out of the north, Friday afternoon, July 10, perfect for tacking back and forth by the Rockland Breakwater for the annual Windjammer Parade. There was…
