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Many have asked me what is the future of the Maine Boatbuilder’s Show? The defi nitive answer is it is going to live on, big- ger and better. The promotors at Portland Yacht Services say that they will announce some ground breaking news at their open house for their new facility on 11 June. This show is special as it draws a number of people from southern New England, due to its uniqueness in that you get to meet the actual boat builder not some salesman. I made a change several months ago
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when I switched from micro-cassettes to a digital recorder for doing interviews. I can be slow to make changes, not because I do not embrace technology, but because if something works why change. What a mistake it was not going digital sooner, because the recordings are so much easier to transcribe. If you are going to document certain aspects of history you need good interviews and lots of them. It creates a lot more work, i.e. transcribing, but the value in getting the story correct is invaluable. Anyone who thinks they can write an article by taking notes, often falls short on accuracy. I want true quotes not paraphrasing. On the following page you will note a
new book written by Jonathan Eno, “Naval Visits to Mount Desert Island and French- man’s Bay.” Jonathan did an incredible job putting this together and early on I had off ered to help him publish it. I thought this was going to be a simple book with a little text and lots of photographs, maybe a couple of hundred pages and we would be done a few months. Boy, did I mis-cal- culate that. We spent more than a year and a half type-setting, inserting photographs
and proofi ng and re-proofi ng this book. I will be the fi rst to say I was a little nervous about how it was going to look when it came back from the printer/binder and fortunately I could not have been happier and more importantly the book has been very well re- ceived. Now I am assisting the Blue Hill His- torical Society on publishing a book on their shipbuilding history, which was published as a thesis by Rebecca Herrick more than 50 years ago. The thesis has been digitized and now comes the hard part: research and adding additional material, which both the Society and the author wants to see happen. Time ticks on and on and I am coming
to realize my time is fi nite. You cannot dwell on that, because your clock’s fi nal tick can come at any time. It may stop today or maybe it is in the way distant future. My view is to identify what needs to be documented and work at as best you can to get it done. Every month more and more pages of transcription are completed, mostly in newspapers. I am now up to 1874 in the Republican Journal (Belfast) and I am trying to spending more time up at U Maine working in their news- paper collection. And last month I spent an extra day in Gloucester at their public library working in their local newspapers. Researchers have to be careful that they make sure that at some point they put pen to paper, because it all goes for not if you do not publish your work. Right now I am try to fi gure out how best to document my work in the newspapers as there is so much material it would be overwhelming (boring) to many. I am thinking of a timeline with a brief citation that could lead you to a more comprehensive entry if interested.
MCN's Calendar of Waterfront Events
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
26 Bass Harbor Lobster Boat Races Bass Harbor Info: Wayne Rich (207) 244-9623
JULY 2 Moosebec Reach Lobster Boat Races
U. S. Coast Guard Station Jonesport Info: Adrian Rittenhouse (207) 598-6387
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
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
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
19-21 Belfast Harbor Fest Belfst
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
17 PYC Fall Series Portland Yacht Club Falmouth
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
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