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


P.O. Box 710 (207) 223-8846 Fax (207) 223-9004 E-mail - igmatats@aol.com Web site: www.mainescoast.com Publisher's Note


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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


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T e 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,


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UPDATED - MAINE LOBSTER BOAT RACING SCHEDULE Boothbay Harbor Rockland


Bass Harbor Moosabec Stonington Friendship


Winter Harbor Pemaquid


Long Island Portland


Awards Banquet, Robinson’s Wharf, Southport Island Just after we went to press with the last Publisher


Editor-in-Chief Advertising


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Advertising Deadlines: T e deadline for the June issue is May 13. T e deadline for the July issue is June 8.


issue, with I thought was the fi nal dates for this year’s lobster boat races, I get a call from Bass Harbor saying they had an issue. The person that was going to run the races this year had to bow out for medical reasons and Wayne Rich said he would be doing them again this year. He also was not comfortable running the day before 4 July and wanted to move the races back to 26 June. I understood his concern and thus we agreed to make the change. Also in last issue, the dates in August were incorrect, not sure how this happened, but as CO we know where the blames goes. The above dates have been triple checked and all should be good. Over the last couple of years I have


been working with an author on publishing a book on the warships that visited French- man’s Bay. What I thought was going to be a couple of months project turned into a year and a half. I did the typesetting and got the book ready for the printer. We worked with hundreds of photographs, many of them beautiful images from glass-plates and a brief description of each vessel. In


the end it comprised more than 700 pages, elephant size, and weighing in at more than 15 pounds. The fi nal product came out in- credible and was very glad to have been part of the process. Finally I fi nished entering all the docu-


mented merchant sailing vessels for 1885. A project I did not think would take all winter to complete, but in the end I have 17,227 vessels entered. Just to see how long it is going to take me to do the next year, 1886, I did three pages, comprising about 200 vessels and after two hours I was done. That was considerably faster and made my idea of entering all the years up to 1940 feasible. One mistake I have made over the last


30 years is not doing as many interviews as possible. I captured a lot of history, but there was so much more that slipped by and is gone forever. The old microcassette recorders were okay, but nothing like a dig- ital one. It is so much easier to hear what someone is saying. Writing from recorded conversations is so much more accurate. There are still a lot of people who’s history needs to be captured so my job is not done.


MCN's Calendar of Waterfront Events


On-Going Exhibits: – 15 May 2016 Wavelength: The Story of Signals at Sea


Maine Maritime Museum Bath


Info: (207) 443-1316


JUNE 4 SailMaine Shakedown


11 Centreboard Regatta Centreboard Yacht Club South Portland


18 Boothbay Lobster Boat Races Boothbay Harbor Info: Ashley Lowrey (207) 633- 3915


18 Pilot Regatta Portland Yacht Club Falmouth


18 RYC Solstice Race Rockland Yacht Club Rockland


19 Rockland Lobster Boat Races Rockland Harbor @ Breakwater Rockland


Info: Dot Black (207) 594-3301


21-23 - NEFMC Meeting Holiday Inn by the Bay Portland, ME


25 Harraseeket Regatta Harraseeket Yacht Club South Freeport


25 Camden Summer Series #1 Camden Yacht Club Camden


23-24 Camden Invitational Regatta Camden Yacht Club Camden


24 Friendship Lobster Boat Races Barge middle of harbor Friendship Info: Wes Lash, Jr. (207) 832-7807


30 Camden Summer Series #2 Camden Yacht Club Camden


3 Bass Harbor Lobster Boat Races Bass Harbor Info: Wayne Rich (207) 244-9623


3 Round Southport Race Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club Boothbay Harbor


10 Stonington Lobster Boat Races Town Dock Stonington Info: Nick Wiberg, (207) 348-2375


16-17 PHRF New England Championship Handy Boat/Hallett Canvas Falmouth


16-17 Penobscot Bay PHRF Front Street Shipyard Belfast


23 Seguin Island Trophy Race Southport Yacht Club Southport


JULY 2 Moosebec Reach Lobster Boat Races U. S. Coast Guard Station Jonesport Info: Adrian Rittenhouse (207) 598- 6387


30-31 Boothbay Regatta Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club Boothbay Harbor


AUGUST 6-7 Monhegan Race Portland Yacht Club Falmouth


13 Winter Harbor Lobster Boat Races Town Dock Winter Harbor Info: Scott Young (207) 963-7272


13 Camden Summer Series #3 Camden Yacht Club Camden


14 Merritt Brackett Lobster Boat Races State Park Restaurant Pemaquid


Info: Don Drisko & Laurie Crane (207) 677-2432


20-21 34th


Annual Antique & Classic Boat Festival


Sat.: 11 AM-5 PM Sun.: 11 AM-3 PM Brewer’s Hawhtorne Cove Marina 10 White St. Salem, MA


Info: (617) 666-8530 or (978) 448- 6757


www.boatfestival.org


20 Long Island Lobster Boat Races Long Island


Info: Lisa Kimball (207) 332-3968


20 MS Regatta Handy Boat Falmouth


21 MS Harborfest Lobster Boat Races Portland Yacht Services Portland


Info: Jon Johansen (207) 223-8846


26-28 ONE Championship Marblehead, MA


27 Bluewater Regatta Centreboard Yacht Club South Portland


27 Camden Summer Series #4 Camden Yacht Club Camden


SEPTEMBER 10 Around Islesboro Race Northport Yacht Club Northport


10 Harraseeket Punch Bowl Harraseeket Yacht Club South Freeport


10-11 J/24 Downeast Regatta Portland Yacht Club Falmouth


15-18 Newport International Boat Show Newport, RI Info: www.newportboatshow.com


17 PYC Fall Series Portland Yacht Club Falmouth


17-18 Maine Rocks Race (Shorthanded) Rockland Yacht Club Rockland


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