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Carbon Ocean Yachts Joins Front Street Shipyard in Belfast
Front Street Shipyard welcomes Carbon Ocean Yachts to its Belfast, Maine, facility. Carbon Ocean Yachts of Bristol, Rhode Island, is relocating its operations to Front Street Shipyard's extensive new facility on the waterfront of Penobscot Bay. The two builders will work together on the construction of lightweight, performance-driven yachts combining… SEE MORE
Come Celebrate a Year of Protecting Narragansett Bay
On Sunday, March 4, at noon Save the Bay is hosting its Annual Meeting at the Bay Center in Providence. We'll take a look back at the organization's achievements over the years while honoring the people and organizations that made them possible. A brief business meeting will be followed by… SEE MORE
Saving an Art Form Through Wooden Boats
[embed]https://www.vimeo.com/31677257[/embed] The time is the early 1970s. Fiberglass has been the new wonder material for building boats for over a decade and now it is taking over the market. Many wooden sailboats, some of them quite famous, are hauled out and waiting the chainsaw or left to linger in disrepair.… SEE MORE
Dangerous But Lucrative Business: Maine Scallop Diving
Scallop diving is dangerous business, make no mistake about it. Divers plunge into the icy waters of downeast Maine, sometimes sixty to seventy feet down, all while the water temperature sits in the mid 30s and the winter winds howl above its choppy surface. It’s dangerous all right, but it’s… SEE MORE
Working Ships from Maine to New Bedford and New York
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
Perry Creek: Finding Comfort Just Beyond the Uncomfortable
“Hey Tom, where are the trail markers?”, Mary Ann asked, unconcerned. “They're over here,” I said to my wife and hiking partner. I didn’t really know where they were, the little hatchet blazes with a fading dab of paint, or the rock cairns that mark the trails around Perry Creek,… SEE MORE
Building Boats, Building a Community in Brooklin
[embed]https://www.vimeo.com/31677696[/embed] Brooklin, Maine, population about 750. There is a small sign as you drive into town calling this place the Boatbuilding Capital of the World. In junior high school kids are part of a project where they go into the woods and pick out a tree to be cut down,… SEE MORE
Heading Down the Road to Delicious Coastal Adventures
Fresh Crabmeat. Live Lobster. Cherrystones, Mussels, Clams. The handmade signs that decorate the roadsides of downeast Maine are clues to the region’s seafood industry, an independent and enterpreneurial collage of individuals and families who dig for clams and worms, collect periwinkles, dredge for scallops, rake seaweed, trap lobsters and crabs,… SEE MORE
An Essay in Color and Light: Penobscot Bay Skies
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
Sail Power: The Views of Onne van der Wal
[embed]https://www.vimeo.com/31663390[/embed] "There is a balance between the science and the art. You have to be able to row away from your boat at the end of the day and enjoy looking back at it, or you're not getting anywhere." — Nat Benjamin, wooden boat designer and builder Wooden sailboats are… SEE MORE
The Boat School Charts a New Course of Its Own
Last spring, Husson University decided to halt classes at The Boat School in Eastport, Maine, as of graduation day 2012. As a result of this decision, the school did not take on a freshman class for the upcoming fall semester. This was disheartening to all in the industry, to say… SEE MORE
Understanding the Science, Industry Behind Scallop Fishing
The nearshore sea scallop fishery in Maine state waters has fluctuated over the years and declined recently. Scallops still thrive in Cobscook Bay, where harvesters collected them by hand (SCUBA diving, hence the descriptor "diver-caught" or just "diver scallop”) and by dredge. Dredge and trawl are the primary methods of… SEE MORE
