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Page 4. MAINE COASTAL NEWS April 2015


Maine Coastal News Winterport, Maine 04496-0710 U.S.A.


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What a winter! It is almost the end of March and the temperature was hovering near zero this morning and there is still about two feet of snow covering the lawn. A look out on the Penobscot River and it is fi lled with huge chunks of ice and further up it is frozen solid and will be for another couple of weeks at least. The Coast Guard has brought up their three 65-footers (BRI- DLE, SHACKLE and TACKLE), but they cannot get up past Hampden. They will need to get a little more serious and bring up the 140-footer THUNDERBAY if they want to break out the upper part of the river all the way to Bangor-Brewer. I would bet behind the tug SATURN, which is sitting in the ice at Brewer, there is at least 2½ feet of ice off her stern.


The weather reports I listen to is Jim Publisher Editor-in-Chief


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Witte on WKIT in Bangor (Stephen King’s radio station) and he said back mid-fall that we would enjoy December, but were going to pay for it in January, February and March. Well we did and sorry I do not mind it. If it is nice out I feel guilty not getting things done outside. Fortunately the snow is covering about three weekends of chain-sawing and chipping. There is a whole apple orchard lying down that I am not sure I can save. When the snow fl ies what is better than to sit and read a good book? Yes book, not one of those electronic things. They also do not release the books I read in a digital format. I read only marine books, mostly historic, and most of them are old. Let me see if I can bore you right to death. First book this winter was Clifford Ashley’s “The Yankee Whaler,” which was an interesting overview of whaling. I followed that with


On-Going Exhibits: -25 May


Robert Forbes’ “Personal Reminiscences,” a book I found extremely interesting. Forbes had a very interesting life beginning in the early 1800s. He tells of his times at sea, working his way up to becoming a master, and then going on to become a ship owner and merchant. Another very interesting book was George Brooke Jr.’s “John M. Brooke, Naval Scientist and Educator.” Having read about Matthew F. Maury and others of the mid-1800s and their quest to break new scientifi c grounds this book showed the contribution made by Brooke, which was substantial. Naval Institute Press has been assaulted for some of their recent releases as not up to their standards of the past. Unfortunately a number of publishers have hired professional writers who lack the knowledge to do the subject they are editing justice. Chipp Reid wrote, “Intrepid Sailors, The Legacy of Preble’s Boys and the Tripoli Campaign.” Those from Maine will know, or should know, that Commodore Edward Preble was from Portland and contributed immensely to the early history of our Navy. One book that caught me by surprise was Steven Ujifusa’s “A Man and His Ship, America’s Greatest Naval Architect and his Quest to Build the S.S. UNITED STATES. The book is on William Francis Gibbs, who had a very interesting childhood, went to the best schools, despite his family falling from a high social status in Philadelphia. His obsession with the ocean liners of the early 1900s he pushed relentlessly to be the best designer, but his contribution goes much further than just the liners. I say this is a


Continued on Page 24. MCN's Calendar of Waterfront Events


Ocean Bound: Three Centuries of Library Treasures


Maine Maritime Museum Bath


Info: (207) 443-1316 -6 July


Ingrained: The Art of the Ship carver


Maine Maritime Museum Bath


Info: (207) 443-1316


6 June – 1 November 2015 Making the Best of It: The Spirit and Work Ethic of Marine People Maine Maritime Museum Bath


Info: (207) 443-1316


7 August – 28 September 2015 Staying the Course: Working Women of Portland’s Waterfront Maine Maritime Museum Bath


Info: (207) 443-1316


14 November 2015 – 15 May 2016 Wavelength: The Story of Signals at Sea


Maine Maritime Museum Bath


Info: (207) 443-1316


17 July – 18 October Out of the Fire: A Tool-smith’s Art


Maine Maritime Museum Bath


Info: (207) 443-1316


APRIL 11 Maritime History Symposium 0800 – Registration 0845 – Welcome 0855 – Introduction 0900 – “Life in the Research Trench-


es: The Joys, Perils and Pitfalls of Historio- graphical Research,” James L. Nelson 0950 – “Sailing Tombstones: Granite


Trade Shipwrecks in Stellwagen Bank Sanc- tuary,” Matthew Lawrence 1110 – “A Manley Prize: The For- gotten Ballard of a Forgotten Naval Hero,” Stephen Sanfi lippo 1200 – Lunch “A Voyage of the GENERAL WOLFE: How the Discovery of a Colonial Cabinetmaker’s Account Books at the Mas- sachusetts Historical Society Clarifi ed the Mystery of an Unusual North Shore Desk, Bringing to Light the Amazing Caribbean Voyage of a 17-year old Shipmaster,” Daniel Finamore


1420 – “The Ship that Held up Wall


Street,” Warren Riess 1540 – “A Community of Ship- wrights: Pennellville (1803-1865),” Sarah McMahon


1630 – Fish House Punch reception


16 Lecture: The Last Wooden Ship: The Records & Photographs of Phippsburg’s Minott Shipyard


By Nathan Lipfert 6:30 – 8:00 PM


Maine Maritime Museum Bath


Info: (207) 443-1316


21-23 NEFMC Meeting Hilton Hotel Mystic, CT


MAY 7 Lecture: Charting the World: Look- ing Beyond the Lines By Ian Fowler 6:30 to 8:00 PM


Maine Maritime Museum Bath


Info: (207) 443-1316


10 - SailMaine Regatta - Spring Series 58 Fore Street Portland


Info: (207) 772-7245


14 Lecture: History Documented in Film


6:30 to 8:00 PM


Maine Maritime Museum Bath


Info: (207) 443-1316


16 - Steve Williams Memorial Alumni Regatta


58 Fore Street Portland


Info: (207) 772-7245


17 - SailMaine Regatta - Spring Series 58 Fore Street Portland


Info: (207) 772-7245


24 - SailMaine Regatta - Spring Series 58 Fore Street Portland


Info: (207) 772-7245


26 Boat Workshop: Nautical Carving 5:00 to 7:00 PM, three sessions Maine Maritime Museum Bath


Info: (207) 443-1316


30 - Corporate Challenge Regatta 58 Fore Street Portland


Info: (207) 772-7245 JUNE


6 - Shakedown Regatta 58 Fore Street Portland


Info: (207) 772-7245


7 - Skipper Auction Race/Run 58 Fore Street Portland


Info: (207) 772-7245


13 Centerboard Regatta Centerboard Yacht Club South Portland


16-18 NEFMC Meeting Viking Hotel Newport, RI


20 Boothbay Lobster Boat Races Boothbay Harbor


Info: Marshall Farnham (207) 380-5892


20 Pilot Regatta Portland Yacht Club Falmouth


20 Solstice Race Rockland Yacht Club Rockland


21 Rockland Lobster Boat Races Rockland Harbor @ Breakwater Rockland


Info: Dot Black


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