On Friday, June 27, staff and guests celebrated the 40th anniversary of Bigelow Labs at the East Boothbay campus. According to …
Marine
Leaders of marine laboratories in the northeast and Great Lakes will be at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay this week, June 25-27, to plan a way forward to cope with federal…
Replicas sail up Penobscot Bay
CAMDEN — Columbus’s Nina and Pinta will spend the week in Camden Harbor as a fully functional floating museum. Stationed at the public landing…
AUGUSTA — Maine Department of Marine Resources is seeking individuals interested in participating in a rockweed (seaweed) working group created by the legislation.
Pursuant to the passage…
Foreclosure granted
ROCKLAND — A U.S. federal court judge has directed that an advertisement be placed in the Portland Press Herald announcing the public sale of the schooner Timberwind. Bar Harbor…
Boats
BROOKLIN — Brooklin Boat Yard launched Dreadnought, a cold-molded custom sailboat, Monday, June 9. Designed by Jim Taylor, the yacht is a lightweight, performance-oriented sloop with a…
This is an introductory article to present a series of writings and illustrations about boats and the marine industry. The series, “Thinking About Boats,” is intended to provide some interesting…
ROCKLAND — The Maine sailing community is getting the next generation of sailors onto the water via Schooner Kids, a new program that partners teen sailors with historic windjammers.
The…
From Maine to Alabama, and home to Maine again
ROCKLAND — The sloop Heritage, a once familiar sight on Penobscot Bay, has…
Council waives fees for ‘Lynx,’ talks video cameras for Harbor Walk
BELFAST - Privateer Lynx, a replica of an 1812 Baltimore Clipper ship, will be spending most of the month of July in Belfast. The City Council rolled out the welcome mat on Tuesday…
Front Street Shipyard’s travel lifts take all sizes
BELFAST - Much has been said about the capacity of the two travel lifts at Front Street Shipyard. The smaller, 160-ton hoist was heralded as the largest of its kind north of Newport, Rhode Island…
Tied up at the Public Landing through the weekend
ROCKLAND — With the distinctive rake of the masts, the replica Baltimore clipper ship Amistad is in Rockland Harbor through the weekend and open to visitors who want to climb aboard to…
Fifty of the nation’s top ocean scientists are at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay this week, May…
‘A better alternative exists’
ROCKLAND — Proposed changes to longtime parking policies at the Maine State Ferry Terminal in Rockland have islanders worried that their longtime methods for ensuring a ride back home on the ferry…
Rebuilt pier will come with major rate increase for some boaters
BELFAST - After sending the advisory Harbor Committee back to the drawing board earlier this month, the City Council on Tuesday approved a new fee schedule for slips at Thompson’s Wharf pier. The…
Do you know who first coined the phrase ‘windjammer cruises?’
ROCKLAND - Lime, granite, lumber and ice were the cargos of the schooners at the turn of the century. They plied the waters from Maine to Boston and New York to take the state’s resources to the…
Down to the sea
Beautiful inner Camden Harbor has all types of boats that fill it from the west side to the east side. It is a harbor with much history in…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Coast Guard released its 2013 Recreational Boating Statistics May 13, indicating that boating fatalities that year totaled 560 — the lowest number of…
Thompson’s Wharf pier rates remain in limbo
BELFAST – For years the city has charged a nominal rate for slips at Thompson’s Wharf pier with priority given to renters from previous years. Last week both of those practices came under scrutiny…
96-year-old schooner passes from one Maine family to another
CAMDEN — Capt. Jack Moore and his first mate, wife Barbara, are finally turning the chapter they hinted at six or seven years ago. And being the avid sailers they are, the Moores have every…
New operators are Ramiro and Nicole de Acevedo Ramos
CAMDEN — The Camden Select Board Tuesday night unanimously approved a request to transfer the daysailer license for the schooner Surprise to Ramiro and Nicole de Acevedo Ramos.
The…
Maine Wildlife
In late winter and early spring, resident gray and harbor seals give birth. As a result, chances of encountering a mother and pup or a lone pup on a local beach increase. NOAA Fisheries reminds…
Meeting tonight
LINCOLNVILLE — Selectmen in Lincolnville will hear Monday evening, April 14, from schooner Captain Ray Williamson, co-owner of …
Shared by Maine Marine Patrol and Warden Service
ROCKLAND — With ice-bound waterways breaking up and river flooding an increasing threat, the Maine Marine Patrol and the Maine Warden Service are well-equipped for search and rescue operations on…
$3.8 million project expected to benefit Shipyard, McCrum, create 110 jobs
BELFAST - The U.S. Economic Development Administration on Tuesday awarded Belfast $1.9 million for a major overhaul of Front Street.
The grant would cover half the cost of the estimated $3.8…
At 6 a.m., Wednesday, April 9, Brownell Systems will trailer the 125-foot schooner Spirit of…
NORTH HAVEN — If today’s rain has you feeling blue and soggy, take a moment to consider those who make their living on Penobscot Bay, as well as those who live on one of the islands in the bay or…
Army Corps to repeat pre-application requirement closer to site
BELFAST - A proposal by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Maine Department of Transportation to deepen and extend the shipping channel at Mack Point cargo terminal in Searsport will be subject…
Coast Guard investigates; ‘Everett Libby’ fills in
ROCKLAND — The Capt. Frank E. Thompson is currently out of commission, waiting for a spot at the shipyard, where it will get repairs made to its rudder, and a new propeller installed —…
‘There's nothing nicer than consecutive days spent offshore with the elements’
EAST ORLAND — It's not surprising that a Beatle would figure in a radio show. But on this day at WERU-FM, coastal Maine's community radio station, the Beatle makes an appearance not in song but in…
Public meeting in Belfast postponed until April 8
BELFAST - In a presentation to the The Propeller Club of Searsport and Bucksport last week, Captain David Gelinas made a lengthy case for the importance of…
Across the street from a stream of traffic on busy Route 1 in Damariscotta sits a giant blue warehouse. Taped on the windows are two big signs that read: “Boatbuilders Wanted”
On March 19…
Requires ordinance change first
LINCOLNVILLE BEACH — Capt. Ray Williamson is asking the town of Lincolnville for permission to operate a day-sailing schooner, the 52-foot Summertime, out of Lincolnville Beach during the…
Port ‘improvement’ plan elicits many questions, some answers at public meeting
BANGOR - A contentious proposal to expand and deepen the cargo ship channel in Searsport harbor drew around 150 people to the Cross Insurance Center for a public information meeting with federal…
KENNEBUNK - Following a Maine Department of Marine Resources notice Tuesday that it is closing the northern portion of the Penobscot River to lobster and crab fishing due to mercury contamination…
Maine Department of Marine Resources
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Marine Resources Tuesday announced a limited closure for crab and lobster harvesters beginning at the mouth of the Penobscot River effective Feb. 22.
The…
CAMDEN — A crowd of more than 20 people huddled under the plastic shrinkwrap enshrouding the deck of the schooner Nathaniel Bowditch, a number holding promise that someone would cast a…
Down to the Sea
Captain Phil Raynes is no longer seen in his boat, the Bog Onion. An important part of Camden Harbor is missing. He was a lobsterman for…
A captain's ‘reckless decision to sail into well-forecasted path of Hurricane Sandy’ probable cause of sinking
On Oct. 29, 2012, the tall ship Bounty sank off Cape Hatteras, N.C., while attempting transit through the forecasted path of Hurricane Sandy and in…
Shipyard overhaul brings tenants for traveling homeowners
BELFAST - The Queen Ann Victorian house built by Orlando Frost is large enough that in any of the downstairs rooms you can sit on the floor with legs extended in either direction…
Change of ownership for old schooner
ROCKPORT — The schooner Timberwind, a longtime fixture at Rockport’s Marine Park wharf, was relocated Jan. 30 to Rockland, much to the surprise of many. Owner Bob Tassi said Jan. 31 a…
Aqua Ventus
Early results of a Bristol survey show little support for Maine Aqua Ventus' proposed wind project.
There are some caveats: No cutoff date has been set for the…
Residents concerned about the effects of changing ocean chemistry testified before the Marine Resource Committee January 13 in favor of an effort to protect Maine’s…
Mystic Seaport is seeking applicants now through February 18 to become a stowaway aboard the Charles W. Morgan during its 38th voyage in the summer of 2014. To apply and submit your video…
Proposed zoning change would likely allow restaurants as ‘accessory use.’
BELFAST - Maine Maritime Products processes and distributes seafood from a facility in the Belfast Business Park. The company also sells steamed lobsters and other fresh and frozen…
A day down by the commercial docks
ROCKPORT — Following days of gale force winds in late November, the skies cleared and the seas calmed, lending a perfect morning for Rockport lobstermen to tend to their traps. Some left the dock…
Say the word “shrimp” and several images surface. To anyone who looks forward to the season when fishermen start hauling them in droves, that one word connotes a sweet…
Aqua Ventus
The Monhegan Energy Task Force, a volunteer group of Monhegan residents consisting of representatives from the Monhegan Plantation Power District (MPPD) and the island’s assessors’ office, as well…
“Yes, we have no shrimp.” This will be the woeful refrain coming from shrimp lovers, seafood retailers and restaurants this winter.
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