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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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this issue done, which is unfortunately becoming the norm. I still have not learned to start putting some things together when I fi nished the previous issue. I also try not to go on the road the weekend before the press deadline, but there were a couple of events that needed to be covered and a grandson was playing baseball in Hollis. I also had two projects close to being done. I fi nally fi nished the “List of Merchant Sailing Ves- sels for 1889”, which means I get to start 1890 with just 50 more years to go. It is interesting to see the total number of vessels drop from 17, 215 in 1885 to 16,007 in 1889. After 1900, these vessels drop drastically from just over 200 pages to about 5 pages in 1940. Why do this? Simply it allows me to break down the vessels listed in numerous ways, by type, where or when built instant- ly. Exciting right? The other project was reformatting the “List of Merchant Sailing Vessels, 1867 to 1885,” and I have just a few hundred pages to go. Talking of changes, it is interesting to


see the changes from years and years ago to what now takes place on the coast. I com- piled the article “Boat Yard News, 1945” and it is amazing to note that there are only a few draggers, mostly smaller in size, left on the Maine coast. Most of the yards mentioned in the article are now gone, as well as the boats and the companies they worked for. Fortunately some of this history was written down and photographed as few of the people from that time would remember much about


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On-going Exhibits – 10 June 2018: Pull Together: Maritime Maine in the 1914-1918 Great War Maine Maritime Museum Bath


Info: (207) 443-1316


- December 2018: “Thou Shalt Knot: Cliff ord W. Ashley” New Bedford Whaling Museum New Bedford, MA Info: (508) 997-0046


After Ryder – Photographs by Nicholas Whitman


New Bedford Whaling Museum New Bedford, MA Info: (508) 997-0046


Coming: A Spectacle in Motion: The Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage ‘Round the World New Bedford Whaling Museum New Bedford, MA Info: (508) 997-0046


To 7 June: Harold Rotenberg: An Ameri- can Impressionist Cape Ann Museum 27 Pleasant St. Gloucester, MA Info: (978) 283-0455


To Sept. 2018: Unfolding Histories: Cape Ann before 1900 Cape Ann Museum 27 Pleasant St. Gloucester, MA Info: (978) 283-0455


7 July to 28 October 2018: Harrison Cady: View from the Headlands Cape Ann Museum 27 Pleasant St. Gloucester, MA Info: (978) 283-0455


10 August to 25 August 2018: Gone... Fishing


Cape Ann Museum 27 Pleasant St. Gloucester, MA Info: (978) 283-0455


JUNE 9 Centreboard Regatta Centreboard Yacht Club South Portland


16 Boothbay Lobster Boat Races Boothbay Harbor Info: Ashlee Lowrey (207) 808- 9230


16 Pilot Regatta Portland Yacht Club Falmouth


17 Rockland Lobster Boat Races Rockland Harbor @ Breakwater Rockland


Info: Nick O’Hara (207) 542-4348 Mike Mayo (207) 542-1879


23 RYC Solstice Race Rockland Yacht Club Rockland


23 Harraseeket Regatta Harraseeket Yacht Club South Freeport


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


30 Moosabec Reach Lobster Boat Races U. S. Coast Guard Station Jonesport


Info: Jay Mills (207) 598-6347


JULY 1 Round Southport Race Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club Boothbay Harbor


8 Stonington Lobster Boat Races Town Dock Stonington


Info: Cory McDonald (207) 664- 4525


Genevieve McDonald (207) 266- 5113


14-15 PHRF Maine State Championships Front Street Shipyard Belfast


21 Seguin Island Trophy Race Southport Yacht Club Southport


22 Friendship Lobster Boat Races Town Dock Friendship


Info: Robin Reed (207) 975-9821


26-28 Camden Classic Cup Camden


AUGUST 4 Eggemoggin Reach Regatta Brooklin BY/Rockport Marine Center Haarbor


11 Winter Harbor Lobster Boat Races Town Dock Winter Harbor


Info: Chris Byers, (207) 963-7139


11-12 Monhegan Race Portland Yacht Club Falmouth


12 Merritt Brackett Lobster Boat Races


State Park Restaurant Pemaquid


Info: Brent Fogg (207) 380-4909 Sheila McLain (207) 677-2100


18 Long Island Lobster Boat Races Ferry Dock Long Island


Info: Lisa Kimball (207) 332-3968 Amy Tierney (207) 317-1576


18 Retired Skipper’s Race Maine Maritime Academy Castine


them or they are gone. These draggers were interesting boats and I remember being at my grandmother’s house watching them come and go out of the port of New Bedford and Fairhaven in the 1960s. The ones I remember were all eastern rigged as it took a while for the western rigs to come and replace them. I wish I had taken photographs, because I wonder just how many photographs of these old boats have survived. I am also amazed at the changes in equipment, especially en- gines, systems and navigating instruments. You quickly see that it was all about a paper chart, a compass, and a chronometer. What would they think of today’s electronics? While working in the “Atlantic Fisherman” I fi gured they catered to the bigger boats as I wished there was more about the lobster boat builders and the boats they did. I do know “National Fisherman” covered the lobster boats pretty well in the 1960s and I am hoping “Maine Coast Fisherman” did likewise in the late 40s and 1950s. Maybe we can piece a pretty good history together if we use all the sources available. Well, it is warming some and one


morning I was Abel Marine at the head of Somes Sound and was told we were all set to go out and get photographs as they had already broken out the ice. It was not that bad, a good wind out of the sou’west and I did not turn blue and numb. People are always complaining about the cold, rainy spring, but I bet they happen more often than a nice warm and sunny one does. The boats are the ones who can have an issue with the weather if they do not have a way of getting boats inside so they can work on them out of the cold and rain. Most yards over the years have made changes so that they are not behind the eight ball if the weather is a little rugged.


MCN's Calendar of Waterfront Events


28-29 Boothbay Regatta Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club Boothbay Harbor


29 Harpswell Lobster Boat Races Harpswell Info: Larry Ward (207) 798-1725


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