STONINGTON — It was almost 45 years ago when a fictional news anchor named Howard Beale, played by Peter Finch in the Academy Award-winning film “Network,” shouted out to listeners “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!” Last week, Stonington lobsterman Julie Eaton, speaking for most members of her industry …
MOUNT DESERT — For sailors not engaged in the pursuit of victory or the pleasure of doing some real good while having a good time last weekend, Mount Desert Island’s Great Harbor must have seemed as busy as Interstate 295 during Portland’s rush hour. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, three different fleets — Luders 16s, …
ELLSWORTH — Maine’s lobstermen received some much-needed good news in the last several days about a looming shortage of bait for their traps, though some of the bait they use may seem a bit strange to lobsters from the Gulf of Maine. Late last month, the Department of Marine Resources approved the use of the …
BLUE HILL — Last month, Kollegewidgwok Yacht Club sailor Roger Shepley grabbed the top prize in the single-handed phase of the biennial Bermuda One-Two ocean race, piloting his Omega 42 Seriana to a first in class and first overall finish in the 635-mile rhumb line race between Newport, R.I., and St. Georges. Not satisfied with …
STEUBEN — Mike Light stood in the doorway of his boatshop and watched as a truck hauled the spanking new lobster boat Thai Lady off toward the Milbridge town dock one day before its scheduled launching. On the boat’s starboard quarter, tucked up beneath the rail just forward of the transom and above the federal …
WALPOLE — If Maine lobstermen aren’t facing enough uncertainty, what with the late wet spring that delayed the start of the fishery, the likely scarcity and high price of bait and coming federal whale protection rules that could force radical changes in the way that they set their gear, a recent report on where juvenile …
ELLSWORTH — “In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you can stretch right up and touch the sky,” or at least that’s what the song made popular by Mungo Jerry almost 50 years ago promised. Well, the sky may be out of reach but around the waterfront it’s hard to turn around without touching …
JONESPORT – It’s a bit soon to be sure, but after Saturday’s Moosabec Reach lobster boat races, it looks like there may be a new sheriff in town. Appropriately, the evidence was on displace on Moosabec Reach, home waters for Jeremy Beal’s new 28-footer, Maria’s Nightmare, built in Wayne Beal’s boatshop and home-ported on the …
BROOKLIN — Nineteenth century newspaper editor Horace Greely is credited with advising young men in search of fame and fortune to “Go West!” Nowadays, the advice to a man who already has the fortune but wants the fame that comes with winning prestigious sailing races would likely be “Go North and go to Brooklin Boat …
STONINGTON — There’s good news from Augusta for two Downeast towns. Last week, the Land for Maine’s Future Board announced funding for six projects that will help protect and sustain the state’s dwindling working waterfront resources. Two of the projects are in eastern Maine. The Stonington Lobster Co-op has received a preliminary allocation of $216,250 …
ELLSWORTH — Maine lobstermen are catching it coming and going, but the “it” ain’t lobsters. Last month, the lobster industry found itself confronted with a demand from federal fisheries regulators that it reduce the risk it posed to endangered right whales by 60 percent and began the arduous task of figuring out how to remove …
BLUE HILL – Roger Shepley’s Omega 42 sailboat Seriana has been a familiar sight at its summer mooring off Kollegewidgwok Yacht Club in Blue Hill harbor and it is becoming a familiar sight at the top of the biennial Bermuda One-Two ocean race fleet. The race encompasses a singlehanded sail from Newport, R.I. to St. …
