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Maine Coastal News Winterport, Maine 04496-0710 U.S.A.
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www.mainescoast.com Publisher's Note
Summer is over and as usual it went by way too fast. It does not take long for me to fi gure out why and for the most part I would not change what I do, it is way too enjoyable. The majority of my summer is doing what needs to be done for this paper. So it is com- piling and interviewing, writing, typesetting and distribution. Couple this with twelve lobster boat races on the weekends and there goes your summer.
Maine Coastal News is published 12 times a year and is dedicated to covering the news along the entire coast of Maine, Kittery to Eastport. We cover general marine news, commercial fi shing, yachting (power and sail), boat yard and waterfront news and maritime history. Distribution of Maine Coastal News is from Eastport to Marblehead, MA and is free on the newsstand. It also can be by subscription. A year subscription, 12 issues, is $20.00. A single copy is $2.00, which covers the postage. Foreign rates for subscriptions are $40.00 per year. The Maine Coastal News offi ce is located at 966 North Main Street, Winterport, Maine. Comments or additional information write: Maine Coastal News, P.O. Box 710, Winterport,
Maine 04496. Publisher Editor-in-Chief Writer/photographer
Jon B. Johansen Rachel Elward Molly Dugas
Advertising Deadlines: The deadline for the November issue is October 11. The deadline for the December issue is November 8.
MCN's Calendar
On-Going Exhibits: - 15 October 2013 Beyond the Breakers: Lighthouses, Life-Saving and the U.S. Coast Guard Maine Maritime Museum, Bath General Admission
Beyond the Breakers presents the story of the heroic service of the United States Coast Guard in Maine and how it evolved from the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, the U.S. Lighthouse Service and U.S. Life-Saving Service. Rarely seen artifacts, from iconic to humble, tell this exciting narrative. FMI visit
www.Maine-
MaritimeMuseum.org.
- 1 December 2013 That Flaunting Rag! Maine’s Mar-
itime War Against the Confederacy Maine Maritime Museum, Bath General Admission
This exhibit sheds light on the more obscure war against the Confederate sea raiders that played out in an ear of click- ing telegraphs – a maritime chess game of espionage, long distance sleuthing and diplomatic double-entendre. FMI visit
www.MaineMaritimeMuseum.org.
SEPTEMBER 28 Casco Bay Open SailMaine 58 Fore Street Portland
Info: (207) 772-7245
28 Fall Series Portland Yacht Club Falmouth
OCTOBER 5 Fall Series Portland Yacht Club Falmouth
12 Maine Lobster Boat Racing Awards Banquet Fishermen’s Friend Stonington
12 Yachtmen’s Regatta SailMaine 58 Fore Street Portland
Info: (207) 772-7245
13 SailMaine Sail Fest SailMaine 58 Fore Street Portland
Info: (207) 772-7245
19 SailMaine Rocks Regatta SailMaine 58 Fore Street Portland
Info: (207) 772-7245
22 Ghosts & Goblins Regatta SailMaine 58 Fore Street Portland
Info: (207) 772-7245
27 Wellehan Trophy – College SailMaine 58 Fore Street Portland
Info: (207) 772-7245
This summer was a little different in that a friend, Martin Sujatta, from my high school days at North Yarmouth Academy in Yarmouth, called me the beginning of August and said that he would like to send his daughter over to experience the coast of Maine. I did not have a problem with that except that most people who have been on my runs do them once or twice and then politely fi nd excuses never to go again. I understand, it is a long time being on the road and in a course of week pleasure becomes torture for most. Ask my poor daughter. It is also diffi cult for me to do my job properly because I can spend a lot of time in one place discussing all sorts of boat topics. Not fun for those riding along especially if they are not interested in boats. Thus, bring a book, “War and Peace” will cover it. However, what was more interesting is that Martin is from Germany and I wondered just how his daughter was going to adapt and tolerate a month long visit to a foreign country with people she had never met. Martin, after his year as an exchange student, returned numerous times to visit the United States and study here. He became a doctor, but now runs a medical company with his wife in Germany. Theresa was born in the New Jersey (I told her I was sorry about that), so she has duel citizenship and that made her trip a lot easier. She arrived late one evening in Bangor early in August and I quickly learned she had a great grasp of the English language. That was good because I cannot speak a foreign language and the only words I know her father taught me and they are not the ones they teach you in school. The following day she and I made a run to Eastport and back. We take for granted so much, so seeing what I do through the eyes of someone else was interesting. Her fi rst comment was that we have a lot of churches. She said that there was not nearly as many in Germany. I never really noticed or thought much about it, but we do have a lot. Would be interesting to know why. Her other comment, but not a surprise was that there was a lot of trees, much more than they
have in Germany. She asked about the size of our towns and said that most small towns over there are about 15,000 people and up. When I am on the road it is peanut but- ter and jelly for lunch, which she had never had. With the homemade jelly she thought it was too sweet. What did impress me she was willing to try anything so long as it did not have cucumbers in it. One afternoon we stopped at Robinson’s Wharf on Southport Island and she had a lobster roll. She now had found her true love, seafood. We also took her to Angler’s a number of nights. She tried steamed mussels, steamed clams and fried clams, shrimp and scallops. If there was one thing that could have kept her here in the States it was the seafood. Her only negative comment about the food was the size of our portions. She said that it was more than double the average portion in Germany. I told her that is why there are a lot of round Americans. At the Eggemoggin Reach Store I got her a molasses cookie. They are almost six inches in diameter and she said that back home it would take a dozen cookies to equal this one. Her fi rst lobster boat race was at Winter
Harbor. There was a nice swell running in and that made for some great races with spray fl ying everywhere. Fortunately she was on Travis Otis’ FIRST TEAM and got to race a couple of times. When she came ashore her fi rst words is that she wanted a lobster boat to race. The next day we headed to Pemaquid and she was on board FIRST TEAM again, but later I saw her running around in a skiff having a great time. The next weekend it was down to the Maine Retired Skipper’s Race at Maine Maritime Academy in Castine and I got her to crew on one of the sailboats racing. For the fi rst two hours there was no wind so they drifted around the starting area hoping we could get the race in. Fortunately we did, and she loved that too. With the last issue of the paper done we decided to go up and show her the interior of the state. I had always wanted to ride on KATAHDIN and this was the chance. Theresa, Rachel and I headed up, but poor Theresa slept most of the way, but we did wake her just outside of Monson. The ride out on the lake was great and I found a few interesting items to research. After a month Theresa had seen and ex- perienced more of the coast than many have, even the people who live here. I asked her before she got on the plane what she would miss the most and it was the SEAFOOD!
This is one of the most beautifully carved stone in the State of Maine. It is at the Acorn Cemetery in Rockland and was created for Captain Peter Kennedy, 1845 to 1911.
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