Page 4. MAINE COASTAL NEWS November 2013
Maine Coastal News Winterport, Maine 04496-0710 U.S.A.
P.O. Box 710 (207) 223-8846 Fax (207) 223-9004 E-mail -
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www.mainescoast.com Publisher's Note
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
Jon B. Johansen Rachel Elward
Advertising Deadlines: The deadline for the December issue is November 8. The deadline for the January issue is December 13.
The rat race of the summer is thank- fully over and the catch up mode begins. However, every year I seem to lose ground no matter how good my intentions are since something always comes up. The end of September I happened to be in New Bedford for the family Thanksgiving and visited the Working Waterfront Festival. There were a number of interesting booths on the docks and a number of boats open to the public. There was quite a crowd everyday and the biggest draw seemed to be the food tent where the line looked like a 15 to 30 minute wait. I grew up two towns to the east, but my grandparents had a home on the Fairhaven shore when I was a kid and it brings back great memories. I will always remember the Maine-built eastern rigged draggers as they went in and out of port and today they are gone. I am worried that little is being done to document this aspect of the fi shing industry from say the 1930s to today. Hope- fully someone is documenting this so future generations will know how it all evolved. Three days later it was back to Boston for a stay at the Prudential Centre. Ann had a cardiac conference at the Sheraton so during the day I worked on the racing histories for lobster boats from 1999 to present. Wander- ing around the Prudential Centre shops was good for an hour and that was mostly in a bookstore, however one day I wandered over the Boston Public Library. I headed right up to the microfi lm room to read the “Alta California” from 1849. Do not fall asleep from the excitement, because what a treasure trove of maritime history. I no longer copy out the pages with the wanted information, instead I use my cell-phone and take a pho-
tograph. Save those trees and the space in my fi le cabinets. With the two screens set up in my offi ce it works perfectly, I put the photograph on one and type, really read it into Dragon, into the other screen. It takes a lot of time to transcribe, but in the end it is invaluable.
I also should add that all three nights I ate at Legal Seafoods and all three nights I had oysters (none available from Maine so settled for the ones from PEI), swordfi sh and squash and sorbet for dessert. I would go back just for this and reading the old newspapers.
The next few weekends, and until it gets too cold to work outside, I need to work on the house and yard, which has been neglected way too long. I enjoy doing this but am easily side tracked, like a good book or transcribing marine articles into the computer.
Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on creating an index of the articles published in Maine Coastal News for the last 26 years. I am not sure how many there are, several hundred, or how many pages, between 5,000 and 10,000, but reading through them has been eye opening. Some bring back fond memories and others the harsh reality of life. What surprised me were the ones that I had no recollection of at all. My goal is to index every article and then transcribe the ones that are not computerized with the ultimate goal of putting them on the website. I am hoping to make a lot of changes to the website over the winter, but it is going to take a vast amount of time to do and that means there goes my intentions of catching up on the oth er neglected projects.
MCN's Calendar of Waterfront Events
On-Going Exhibits: - 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 clicking telegraphs – a maritime chess game of espionage, long distance sleuthing and diplomatic double-entendre. FMI visit
www.MaineMaritimeMuseum.org.
- 1 June 2014 Exhibit: Going Coastal: Humor, Parody and Amusement of a Maritime Nature Maine Maritime Museum, Bath General Admission Going Coastal celebrates how we have enjoyed ourselves on, alongside, and at the expense of the maritime world. It traces the transformation of maritime amusements from shipboard traditions to sailor stereotypes and nautical nonsense ashore. FMI visit
www.MaineMariti-
meMuseum.org.
OCTOBER 27 Wellehan Trophy – College SailMaine 58 Fore Street Portland
Info: (207) 772-7245
NOVEMBER 13 Scallop Advisory Panel Meeting Omni Providence Hotel 1 West Exchange Street Providence, RI Agenda: The Advisory Panel will continue development of potential alternatives for FY2014 and FY2015
(default) specifi cations being considered in Framework 25. Specifi cations include days- at-sea allocations, access area allocations, individual fi shing quota (IFQ) allocations for the general category fi shery, a hard total allowable catch (TAC) for the Northern Gulf of Maine (NGOM) area and target TAC for vessels with a general category incidental catch permit. The Advisory Panel will also fi nalize other measures being considered: 1) measures for unused 2012 and 2013 Closed Area I access area trips; and 2) accountabili- ty measures for Southern New England/Mid Atlantic (SNE/MA) windowpane fl ounder. The Advisors will make fi nal recommenda- tions for the Scallop Committee to consider for 2014 Council work priorities. Finally, there will be a presentation from the North- east Regional Ocean Council (NROC) about regional ocean planning efforts, specifi cally fi shing characterization maps that have been developed. Other issues may be discussed.
14 Lecture: Aspects of a Global Mari- time History Reconsidered 6:30 PM
Maine Maritime Museum, Bath Nonmembers - $7; Members - $5 Historian and author Lincoln Paine will speak about the experience of writing a maritime history of the world from a perch on Casco Bay. One reviewer has already predicted this work, will be “a standard source for decades to come.” FMI and tick- ets visit
www.MaineMaritimeMuseum.org.
14 Scallop Committee Meeting Omni Providence Hotel 1 West Exchange Street Providence, RI Agenda: The Committee will discuss
the same issues identifi ed above, excluding the NROC agenda item. Others issues may be discussed as well.
16 Book & Art Sale 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Free Maine Maritime Museum, Bath Shoppers will save up to 50% off regular prices on vintage and new books, photographs, paintings, limited-edition prints, artistic note cards, charts and more. Many of the books are single title copies no longer in print. FMI visit
www.MaineMar-
itimeMuseum.org or call (207) 443-1316, ext. 340.
2014
JANUARY 28-30 New England Fishery Management Council Meeting Sheraton Harborside Portsmouth, NH
FEBRUARY 3-6 ASMFC Winter Meeting Crowne Plaza Old Town Alexandria, VA
27-1 Mar. Maine Fishermen’s Forum Samoset Resort Rockport
MARCH 9-11 Boston Seafood Show Boston Convention Centre Boston, MA
14-16 Maine Boatbuilder’s Show 58 Fore Street Portland
Info: (207) 774-1067
APRIL 22-24 New England Fishery Management Council Meeting
Hilton Hotel Mystic, CT
MAY 12-15 ASMFC Spring Meeting Crowne Plaza Old Town Alexandria, VA
JUNE 11-12 Commercial Marine Expo State Pier
New Bedford, MA Info: (207) 799-1356
14 Boothbay Harbor Lobster Boat Races
Boothbay Harbor Info: Marshall Farnham (207) 380-5892
15 Rockland Lobster Boat Races Rockland Harbor @ Breakwater Rockland
17-19 New England Fishery Manage- ment Council Meeting Holiday Inn by the Bay Portland
23-26 Newport Charter Yacht Show Newport Yachting Centre Newport, RI Info: (401) 846-1115
29 Bass Harbor Lobster Boat Races Bass Harbor Info: Wayne/Colyn Rich (207) 244-9623
JULY 5 Moosebec Reach Lobster Boat Races
U. S. Coast Guard Station Jonesport
Info: E. Blackwood (207) 598- 6681
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