January 2015 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 19. Schooner NATHANIEL BOWDITCH Being Rebuilt


Continued from Page 4. A stern view of the BOWDITCH.


the stuff is going to be up to the National Maritime Centre. We are making the boat stronger, better, and safer so we are defi nite- ly right in the spirit of the law. I do not want to launch a fl oating deathtrap. I want her to be comforting to our passengers I want our guests to feel like they are in good hands and that they are on a strong and safe vessel. I want to create a sailing machine. This boat was designed as an ocean racing yacht. Take a look at or hull. She is a Gloucester-styled racing yacht.


The accommodations are designed for 16 guests and 5 crew. Capt. Barnes added, “More commodious. That cabin layout was designed for sail training. This is not char- acter building through suffering. There will be a nice galley down below where people can get out of the weather. When the weather is nice there is good to be a table under an awning up on deck. It is going to be 1920s yachting. It is going to be closer to that than your standard windjammer vacation. This is going to be a little more accommodating and a little more exclusive. There are things that you can do for 16 passengers that is very diffi cult to do for 24. I feel like we are pushing the boundaries of what you can ex- pect to eat when you go camping at sea. We are going to have a wine license and we are going to serve fi ne wine with every dinner. When people wake up they are going to get an omelette made for them with a smoothie. It is going to be a little bit nicer.” For sleeping arrangements there will be four full-sized queen berths with room for


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hanging closets; three twin berths, basically an upper and lower staggered; and two sin- gles in the fore peak. There will be hot and cold running water, an electrical outlet and a USB port. The fi ve crew members will sleep in the galley and nav-station.


There are also going to be several places to relax. Up in the fore peak there is going to be a sitting area. Up on the fore deck there is going to be a raised little deck house with a cushion on it with pillows. On deck there will be steamer style chaise lounges. Capt. Barnes added, “I am kind of excited. It is a good plan.”


Capt. Barnes will remain on the STE-


PHEN TABER, which he has known most of his life. His father, Capt. Ken Barnes bought her when he was six. His father had worked in several careers before getting into the schooner business. He was a blacksmith, an engineer at a hardware manufacturing company in North Carolina and before that he was the head of the theater design depart- ment at a Washington Lee, Florida State and Chapel Hill. His mother also worked in a manufacturing company in North Carolina and had been the fi rst female faculty mem- ber at Washington Lee. Capt. Noah Barnes said, “They came sailing on the LEWIS R. FRENCH with Capt. John Foss in 1977. They came back to North Carolina and said that was the best times they had ever had. My sisters were not thrilled, but I was. More or less, everybody worked in the family busi- ness. I spent at least half of every summer sailing until I was well into my teens. Then I came back and fi lled in here and there. I don’t think my parents ever thought that I loved or was paying any attention to the schooner


business. When I got out of high school I ba- sically fl ed and didn’t come back for a while. I came back and I got my captain’s license


when I was 21 and ran the PAULINE for a couple of years and then I left again. I was living in New York and my parents called and said they were retiring next year and I had fi rst refusal and I had 45 days to make up my mind. I told my girlfriend I had to go do this and then a year later I dragged her up here. All your problems are more or less right there in front of you. There’s a little showmanship. You get to


play music and meet some cool people. This will be my 11th year and I love it.”


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