Category: Coastal News

The steamship Katahdin, built in 1914 at Bath Iron Works, needs significant restoration to keep operating.

Help Save Maine’s Inland Steamship

3/13/2012 - Our radar doesn't usually reach all the way to Maine's northern lakes, but a report about the steamship Katahdin way up on Moosehead Lake caught our attention. Anyone who has ever passed through Greenville couldn't help but be startled by the sight of the 220-ton wooden ship tied up at… SEE MORE

Culture

Winter's light on the morning run to Isle Au Haut.

Every Day, Any Weather: The Isle Au Haut Mail Boat

3/9/2012 - Getting to Isle Au Haut is a true Maine coast experience. You have to cross the Eggemoggin Reach, drive over two bridges and two causeways, and hop two islands. All this before you even get to the mail boat, a 46-foot Jarvis Newman design that was made for harsh weather… SEE MORE

Monhegan Island, Maine — Fishermen cleaning catch out of a dory on the beach. From a postcard

People and Vessels: Early Portraits of Monhegan Island

3/6/2012 - The people of Monhegan Island are and always have been rugged individualists who, for better or for worse, have needed to cooperate with one another. The island's name means "grand island." It sits isolated at the outside of Muscongus Bay, about 12 miles offshore. There's only one good harbor. By… SEE MORE

Culture

The ACT I gliding down the ways, February 1974.

Working Ships from Maine to New Bedford and New York

2/24/2012 - Midcoast Maine is (or was) home to all three yards responsible for the vessels in this collection of historic images, all part of the Penobscot Marine Museum's collections. ACT I was built at Harvey F. Gamage in South Bristol; that yard closed in 1981. Washburn & Doughty moved its operation… SEE MORE

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Early morning clouds seem to dance over the islands of Penobscot Bay. From left, Job, Lime, Lasalle, Saddle, and Mark Islands.

An Essay in Color and Light: Penobscot Bay Skies

2/20/2012 - The sky over Penobscot Bay, the jewel of Maine's famous rockbound coast, provides boaters with an astounding array of colors and a light that is continually changing with each passing season. An early morning sunrise in Camden can bring a pleasing pallet of blues, pinks, and reds. Sunsets over the… SEE MORE

A beautiful new launch by Pease Boatworks and Railway.

The Sights and Smells of the Boatbuilders Show on Cape Cod

2/10/2012 - It's a fact: You can tell how good something is by how it smells. And the Boatbuilders Show at Cape Cod smelled like boatbuilding at its best when it opened its doors on February 10, with the essence of fresh varnish, paint, and clean fiberglass greeting people as they walked… SEE MORE

The passenger schooner Victory Chimes crosses our bow in the Fox Island Thorofare. Photo by Tom Young/USHarbors.com.

A Sail Through History Along the Fox Island Thorofare

2/5/2012 - Someone planning to move their boat southward through Maine once asked me, “I won’t have much time to spend in Penobscot Bay, what is the one thing I shouldn’t miss?” That’s such a dismal thought, but my answer came quickly: “Sail through the Fox Island Thorofare”. The Fox Island Thoroughfare… SEE MORE

Culture

A plate of oysters at the Baird Symposium on Sustainable Seafood.

Oyster Farm, Oyster Bar: A Delectable RI Destination

Coastal News

2/3/2012 - At Matunuck Oyster Farm & Bar near Point Judith Harbor, veteran oysterman Perry Raso grows Eastern oysters in a saltwater lagoon behind the barrier of East Matunuck State Beach and the waves of Block Island Sound. A relentless educator who likes to share his story, Raso is also a determined,… SEE MORE

Food

Sub Sea Research, LLC, says it's located a valuable shipwreck off Cape Cod.

Modern-day Treasure Hunters Strike Platinum off Cape Cod

2/2/2012 - Love them or hate them, we're all intrigued by the modern-day treasure hunters who are using tiny submarines and remote vehicles to look for shipwrecks that might have been carrying precious cargo when they went down. And a team based in Portland, Maine, says that it's located one of the… SEE MORE

Culture

Weatherly: Preserving a Piece of Maritime History

Coastal News

1/31/2012 - https://www.vimeo.com/31676990 We met George Hill at the party following the 2009 Opera House Cup, on Nantucket. He told us the story of how he found Weatherly in disrepair in Seattle. What it took to sail her back to Newport and restore the America’s Cup winner to her former glory was… SEE MORE