June 2018 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 9. Waterfront News M A I N E M A R I T I M E A C A D E M Y N E W S


MMMA Training Ship Departs May 10 for European Ports


CASTINE—Maine Maritime Academy stu- dents, offi cers, and crew departed Castine on Thursday, May 10 on the Training Ship State of Maine (TSSOM) for the annual training evolution to foreign and domestic ports of call. This year’s itinerary includes stops in Cadiz, Spain; Rotterdam, Netherlands; Lisbon, Portugal; Civitavecchia, Italy; and Alicante, Spain. Schedule and ports are subject to change. Under the direction of Captain Leslie


B. Eadie III, master of the Training Ship State of Maine, the educational cruise will commence in port on Sunday, May 6 for pre-sailing preparation. Captain Eadie, of Brewer, Maine, a 1976 graduate of the Academy, assumed command of the vessel in 2011. Well-wishers were welcomed and en-


couraged to view the vessel departure and return from the Maine Maritime Academy waterfront or via webstream at mainemar- itime.edu/streaming. Friends, family, and fans are invited to follow the ship’s journey through the cruise blog at cruise.mainemar-


itime.edu. The ship will host the traditional family


day sail on the return leg from Searsport to Castine on Saturday, July 14. For this section of the trip, Second-Class students (Juniors) may invite their parents aboard. The day sail allows parents the unique opportunity to see the high level of technical profi ciency and leadership achieved by the students. Training cruise activities will continue in port through Monday, July 16. According to s ea time and instruction


required by STCW (Standards for Train- ing, Certifi cation and Watchkeeping), total cruise length is 70 days. Students pursuing an offi cer’s license from the U.S. Coast Guard as a third mate or third assistant en- gineer are now required to train at sea for at least 300 days during their fi rst three years at the Academy. Freshmen and juniors sail aboard the State of Maine while sophomores are assigned to merchant ships worldwide. In past years, MMA training cruises have taken students to Aruba, Bermuda, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Malta, Poland, Puerto Rico, and Russia, as well as other European,


Penobscot Marine Museum Opens for 82nd Season


SEARSPORT - Penobscot Marine Museum begins its 82nd


season with an opening recep-


tion Friday, May 25, 2018, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. The reception will take place in the Main Street Gallery, part of Penobscot Marine Museum’s campus, located at 40 East Main Street in Searsport. The event is free; dona- tions are welcome. The full campus opens for regular admission on Saturday, May 26. What inspires model makers to create


miniature versions of watercraft? Penobscot Marine Museum will explore this question through the 2018 exhibit Sailing Small: Small Boats, Big Ideas. Using objects, pho- tographs, and primary source audio, visual, and written accounts, the exhibit will spot- light Maine model makers. Models, and the inspiration to build


them, range from the practical to the whimsical. Sailing Small: Small Boats, Big Ideas will showcase key models from the Museum’s collection. Master shipbuilders and designers create models to test design theories, test out buoyancy and load limits, and to build the full-size watercraft. Pris- oners of war with no other outlet for their creativity built models from any materials at hand, including soup bones as in the case of French prisoners-of-war during the 1810s. Nostalgia and pride for a beloved watercraft led many sea captains or ship owner to build or commission the building of a ship model long after the original craft met its end. Models inspire great thinkers, like Buckminster Fuller, to ponder how we humans design functional objects to harness


the power of nature to our advantage. The exhibit’s model-making shop,


fi lled with Burt Libby’s tools and his se- ries of canoes showing the progression of model-making steps and interviews with other model makers, provides visitors with a look into the craft of model-making. The photographs and rowboat models of Elmer Montgomery of Rockland, Maine document the working waterfront of the 1940s that is slowly fading from view with the advent of gasoline and diesel engines. Elmer Mont- gomery’s models inspired Harold “Dyna- mite” Payson of South Thomaston, Maine to build his own models, that eventually be- came a business with model-making books, plans, patterns and model components that have in turn inspired this generation of model-makers. An accompanying speaker’s series will invite current model-makers to share what inspires them to build in minia- ture.


Daily and special programming will al-


low the visitor to transition from an observer of inspiration to becoming the source of in- spiration. Visitors will have the opportunity to build a model, test it out in our model pond, and take it home. In addition to testing out their own models, visitors can test out remote control boats and race our fl eet of sailboats.


Sailing Small: Small Boats, Big


Ideas runs May 26 through October 21, 2018 throughout the Penobscot Marine Museum campus.


Caribbean, and U.S. destinations. The Training Ship has limited internet


connectivity while on cruise. Bangor Daily News will continue to donate daily news service, sending statewide, national, and world news, sports, and business articles via email.


Complementing the educational focus


of MMA’s training cruise, students and staff sailing aboard the State of Maine will work for the 11th consecutive year with the Belfast-based organization, Educational Passages, which utilizes 5-foot unmanned sailboats to enable the study of ocean wind and current patterns by school and com- munity groups. Boats are crafted to sail indefi nitely downwind and will transmit their location and boat speed via a GPS interface for up to one year. The boats rely solely on wind and current power. Initial sea trials were launched from MMA’s schooner Bowdoin in 2008 off the northeast coast of North America.


Coordinated by program director, Cas-


sie Stymiest, this year’s boat launch from the TSSOM will provide an exciting learning opportunity for students at Scarborough, Maine schools. Their boat, “Red Storm,” was fi rst launched in 2015 off Georges Bank and sailed to Ireland in six months. Its second voyage was short as it sailed from and back to Ireland again. Its third voyage was originally scheduled for 2017, but has been rescheduled to this year. To learn more, visit Educational Passages online or contact Cassie Stymiest atcassie@educationalpas- sages.com or 207-619-1259. The 500-foot, 16,000-ton Training Ship


State of Maine, originally commissioned as the USNS Tanner, served as a Navy ocean- ographic research vessel before being con- verted in 1997 to accommodate the training needs of the college. The fourth vessel to bear the name State of Maine, the ship is a modern, technologically advanced training vessel.


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