Page 10. MAINE COASTAL NEWS May 2016 Waterfront News News from the Apprenticeshop


Community Sailing Off To A Great (and Early!) Start


Spring High School Sailing at The Apprenticeshop is off to a great start. Three teams are sailing with the High School Sailing club this season: Camden Hills Regional High School, Islesboro Central School’s team and the conglomerate ‘RCS’ team which includes students from the Wa- tershed School, Oceanside and students in the home school network. On March 29th


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the fi rst practice of the season, water temps in Rockland Harbor were 30F degrees and winds were gusting out of the Northwest at 25 knots. Each sailing season begins with a review of cold-water safety, hypothermia awareness and prevention, and how these extreme elements relate to spring sailing in Maine. All early season sailors are required to wear dry suits and to have some sailing experience. At the Apprenticeshop docks in late


March, this group of High School Sailors rigged and launched boats, practiced capsize recovery, and had swim checks. A highlight of sailing in the spring is seeing the boats, wind and water give sailors direct feedback. These experiences go well beyond sailing and racing tactics to tap into perseverance, responsibility and seamanship, all under the tutelage of experienced coaches and long- time sailors Patrick DiLalla, Deb Schreiber, and Mike Horn. During the 2016 spring sailing season,


Community Sailing at The Apprenticeshop will host two home regattas: the Breakwater Blast on May 1st and a Hospice of Maine fundraiser on May 7th. The public is invit- ed down to the 655 Main Street waterfront campus to watch the races. The Apprenticeshop off ers sailing from


March through October for all area youth and adults. The Community Sailing scholar- ship program insures that students are never left on the dock because of cost. Located at 655 Main Street in Rockland’s North End, The Apprenticeshop is a school for boat- building, sailing and seamanship a small boat livery, and various waterfront services. Community Sailing is now enrolling for spring afterschool sailing and the summer season. The 2016 youth and adult summer sailing season begins June 22nd. For more information, visit www.apprenticeshop.org.


Midcoast Sailors Shine at the Start Your Engines Regatta in Portland


High School Sailors from the midcoast had a good showing this past Sunday at the Start Your Engines Regatta in Portland. The Rockland Community High School team took fi rst place, and the Islesboro Central School team fi nished second. The weather showed signs of spring


emerging, with sunny skies and an afternoon sea breeze fi lling in over Portland Harbor. The SailMaine 420 fl eet took to the water late in the morning and completed 8 races


over 4 hours in a pleasant 10 knot breeze. The Rockland Community “A” boat of


Peter Galloway and Elliot Spear fi nished first overall after a consistently strong performance, and the “B” team of Hannah Chase, Warren Galloway, and Jillian Gallo- way fi nished second in their division. The Girls State Champions from last fall, Jillian Galloway and Hannah Chase, paired up for the last two races and seemed to be in good form, posting fi rst and third place fi nishes in the fl eet of 13 boats. The young team from Islesboro fi nished


a close second overall, but were frequently ahead of their older practice mates on the Rockland team. Junior High Sailors Rylee Sienkiewicz and Sophie Lau were especially fast, and fi nished second overall in a fl eet of co-ed high schoolers. Islesboro 9th graders Emily Lau and Ava Schlottman sailed well, but could not seem to get their bow out in front of the competition like they often do. They fi nished 3rd in the A division, and tied for 4th overrall.


The Apprenticeshop Welcomes Seamanship Director, Capt. Terry Moore


The Apprenticeshop has welcomed


Capt. Terry Moore as their new Seamanship Director this spring. Terry will bring his lifelong career and expertise in boat-based experiential teaching to further enhance The Apprenticeshop’s mission to off er meaning- ful experiential programs through tradition- al boatbuilding, sailing, and seamanship. Terry grew up at the mouth of the


Chesapeake, spending his formative years exploring the tidewaters of Virginia in small craft. He became an avid sailor during his junior year in college when he participated in a semester at sea. With a childhood interest and passion for being in and on the water, it was that opportunity to study seamanship with Long Island University’s SEAme- ster that galvanized his career path. After graduating from William and Mary with a degree in Chemistry, Terry spent a summer working aboard a day-sailing schooner out of Montauk, Long Island, before serving for 2 years in the Peace Corps as a marine fi sheries volunteer stationed on a coral atoll in Micronesia. After the Peace Corps he returned to the states, obtained his USCG 100-ton near coastal captain’s license, and began managing an on-the-water marine science education program with the Chesa- peake Bay Foundation. It was the Hurricane Island Outward


Bound School that brought Terry to Maine in 1990. He served as a watch officer aboard pulling boats for many years, then as an instructor at the WoodenBoat School, teaching their coastal cruising class. Terry’s affi liation with The Apprenticeshop goes back to long before he joined their team: in the 1990s he served as captain for the histor- ic Snorri expedition, a Viking boat project


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envisioned by writer Hodding Carter, built by former apprentice Rob Stevens with John Gardner, and led by Terry in an expedition retracing Leif Erikson’s voyage as outlined in the Norse Sagas. For nine years he and his wife ran the Eagle Island mail boat where they raised their two boys. Today they live in Camden. As The Apprenticeshop’s Seamanship


Director he will serve as Head Instructor of the Community Sailing program, will lead seamanship training and Penobscot Bay expeditions for apprentices and groups, is instructing the Oceanside East Fisherman’s Academy, and will spearhead The Ap- prenticeshop’s new Boat Livery Program, making traditional wooden row and sail boats available to the local and visiting com- munity for rent by the hour. If there is one thread that runs throughout Terry’s career, it is his love of boats, the ocean, adventure, and boat-based education for youth and adults--passions and skills he will bring to The Apprenticeshop’s programs and active waterfront.


Local Sailors Host the First Spring Dinghy Regatta


While many of us are putting away


the skis and pondering bottom paint, local dinghy sailors were out racing on Rockland Harbor this past Saturday. The informal invi- tational Regatta was hosted by The Appren- ticeshop and involved 4 teams with 20 high school sailors from Oceanside, Camden Hills, Islesboro and Southern Maine High School. While competition was tight, with teams exchanged fi rst place fi nishes in indi- vidual races, a team from Southern Maine, with Ava Haag and Greta Morrissette on


board, came out with the overall fi rst place. Conditions on Rockland harbor were


challenging with blustery winds and tem- peratures in the high 30s. The on and off west wind, from 10 to 15 knots, had the boats planing in strong gusts, then abruptly stopping in brief calm spells. Sailors had to work hard to keep the boats right side up at times. Two boats capsized dunking sailors in the 40 degree water. Drysuits help protect High School sailors, but wind and spray made for some invigorating dinghy sailing conditions. Hungry sailors with cold hands enjoyed lunch on the sunny and warm shore by the Apprenticeshop after the boats were hauled up.


Rockland’s fl eet of 420’s was dressed


out in colorful new sails sewn this past winter by Pope Sails of Rockland, with support from a local grant. Lyman Morse of Thomaston provided hull and rig repairs and new lines came from Nova Braid of Nova Scotia.


Area teams will be back out on Rock-


land Harbor in the weeks to come, prac- ticing for a series of upcoming regattas in Portland, Castine and Rockland. For more information on the sailing program visit www.apprenticeshop.org. Results


1st Place Southern Maine High School,


Skipper: Ava Haag; Crew: Greta Morris- sette, with coach Jack O’Rorke. 2nd Place CRHS: Skipper: Hugh Levitt,


Crew: Courtney Chamberlin, Kate Hodg- son; with coach Debbie Schreiber 3rd Place Islesboro Central School;


Skipper:Emily Lau, Crew: Ava Schlottman, with coach Mike Horn.


2016 International Boatbuilder's Exhibition & Conference Sells Out - Waiting List Now


Leading Event for Marine Innovation to be held October 4-6 in Tampa, FL


BROOKLIN - The International BoatBuild- ers’ Exhibition and Conference (IBEX), taking place October 4-6 at the Tampa Con- vention Center, has announced that the show fl oor is sold out. The event will host over 550 exhibiting companies, of which 100 are new for 2016, on two show fl oors that will be 106,300 square feet of exhibit space, plus an additional 35+ slips on 1,000 feet of dock, and 6,000 square feet of waterfront outdoor exhibit space. The event will off er on-the-water demonstrations, waterfront demonstration areas, and feature Specialty Pavilions including the Composites Pavil- ion, Electronics Pavilion, and Compliance and Standards Pavilion, Connected Boat, Future Materials Display, and much more. “We are thrilled that we have had such


an overwhelming response from companies to participate. Marine industry manufactur- ers know that IBEX is the premier show to showcase and launch new products and technology,” said Anne Dunbar, IBEX Show Director. “With the addition and expansion of the docks, current exhibitors have an in- credible opportunity to exhibit technology live and on-the-water.” For those companies who do not yet have exhibit space, a wait list has been started. Exhibit space will be as- signed on a fi rst come, fi rst served basis, and any company interested in exhibiting should fi ll out the online exhibit space application to be added to the wait list.


Maine Coastal News is now entirely online:


Rockland, Maine • 207-596-7060 info@jboatworks.com • jboatworks.com


www.mainescoast.com The IBEX Show will occupy two fl oors


with exhibit space. The new fi rst fl oor exhib- it hall will open at 9:00 am, an hour earlier than the third fl oor exhibit hall, and will be comprised of a majority of new companies to IBEX and the marine industry, and also home to the IBEX Café. For more informa- tion about the wait list or for an exhibitor to expand their current presence to the docks or the outdoor demo area contact Tina Sander- son at tina@ibexshow.com or Kate Holden at kate@ibexshow.com. According to event research, the 5,000+


boatbuilders, boatyard/marina operators, designers, surveyors, retailers and dealers who attend IBEX have buying power. The study shows that 30% of attendees are own- ers/president and CEO’s; 66% have the fi nal say or make recommendations for purchase and 75% of attendees will make a buying decision at IBEX. In addition to fi nding new products and services, attendees will also be able to participate in the IBEX Seminar Se- ries which off ers world-renowned technical education and attend special events includ- ing the IBEX Innovation Awards, Industry Breakfast, Opening Night Reception, and more. For the most up-to-date information about IBEX, visit www.ibexshow.com. IBEX, Where Better Boats Begin


(www.ibexshow.com), is the marine indus- try’s largest technical trade event, owned and produced by Professional BoatBuilder magazine and the National Marine Man- ufacturers Association (NMMA), and annually gathers thousands of industry pro- fessionals. Professional BoatBuilder (www. proboat.com), a boatbuilding-industry trade magazine, was fi rst published in 1989 in response to a growing need for a dedicated forum for those working in design, con- struction, and repair and has a worldwide readership exceeding 24,000.


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