UPDATE: The Maine Marine Patrol Friday night said that the lobsterman found unresponsive on the deck of his boat discovered circling in Penobscot Bay off Owls Head Lighthouse died of natural…
Marine
Boat was found runing in circles at high rate of speed
Route 1 south of Belfast closed.... Much neighborly pumping at the harbors today — 5 to 8 inches of rain reported
The same rainstorm that is submerging cars along Marginal Way in Portland is also swamping boats in Penobscot Bay harbors and has closed a section of Route 1 south of Belfast where water washed…
CREATE SMALL CUSTOM METAL MARINE HARDWARE IN BRONZE
ROCKLAND — The Apprenticeshop, center for traditional wooden boatbuilding and seamanship, will offer two metalworking workshops this fall:
Brazing Workshop: Custom Pintles and…
Holland America's Eurodam Returns to Rockland Harbor, Sept 27
The Holland America vessel, the Eurodam (2,104 passengers, 929 crew members) will make a day stop in Rockland…
Six-foot-long leatherback entangled in fishing gear
Coast Guard crew members rescued a Leatherback sea turtle entangled in fishing gear Sept. 20, approximately 15 miles south of Cape Elizabeth. …
TERESA AND BEN CAREY DOCUMENT OCEAN ACIDIFICATION AND NOISE POLLUTION. .
PENOBSCOT BAY — Sailors/filmmakers Teresa and Ben Carey are are partnering with the Ocean Foundation Bio-acoustician Michael…
Resisting Entropy tackles Maine Coastal Cleanup Day with art made from debris
ROCKLAND — It can be a thankless job, committing your entire weekend to an art project, working for more than 12 hours straight to form an art piece out of found materials into an outdoor…
ROCKLAND — Passengers disembarked from the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines vessel, Brilliance of the Seas,…
Industrial Arts
Blair Clement, of Matinicus Island and Thomaston, loves to walk the shoreline. Everybody loves a sandy beach in the warm summer sun, but Blair also gets a lot out of exploring the more rugged…
ROCKLAND — The Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines vessel, …
Two pier ordinances remain unchanged...
CAMDEN — Voters in November will be asked to approve a handful of amendments to the Harbor Ordinance after the Camden Select Board Tuesday night voted 3 to 2 to move the proposed changes to the…
license or tag? student commitment age – 15 or 18? offer limited trap licenses for those nearing retirement?
ROCKLAND — Lobster resources in the ocean are currently healthy and there are no immediate signs of decline. Significant latent effort exists in licenses and tags, and a lot more small lobster…
Searsport project halted
ROCKLAND — Fishermen of Zone D applauded the Tuesday evening announcement that the Maine Department of Transportation, along with the Army Corps of Engineers, has withdrawn its application …
Labor Day on the water
CAMDEN– The Labor Day was picture perfect in every sense of the word. What better way to spend part of the day then on one of the many windjammers out of Camden Harbor. Despite the heat of the day…
Originally published in the Summer 2015 edition of The Wave...
Will the fall of 2015 be your first trip on a schooner and is the impending beach lobster bake scarier than the thought of Jaws chasing you down? Or have you always been so intimidated about…
COMPUTER MODELING OF IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON MAINE FISHERIES
WALPOLE — The National Science Foundation recently awarded Brady and colleagues a $266,309 grant to advance UMaine high-performance computer modeling tools for fisheries. Timely forecasts of…
PORTLAND – The owners of a Thomaston contracting business filed a civil suit against a private Rockland ferry service, claiming negligence…
Three Select Board members ignore call to let the citizens decide
CAMDEN — At the conclusion of Tuesday night's public hearing regarding proposed amendments to the Harbor and Waterways Ordinance, during which the Camden Select Board took public comment, and…
Meeting tonight, Tuesday, Aug. 18
CAMDEN — The Camden Select Board tonight, Aug. 18, will hold a public hearing to discuss a slew of proposed Harbor Ordinance amendments, and while some might think they…
Gardeners, get it while you can • clumps together ‘like Cheerios and milk’
ROCKPORT — For the past several days, seaweed has been moving in on the tide through Rockport’s outer and inner harbor. With barely any stirring breezes, it has quietly been rafting into a carpet…
PENOBSCOT BAY — A stretch of hot, humid weather has driven locals and tourists alike to hit the water, and if one has the chance to glide out a few miles across Penobscot Bay, set a course for…
Sheltered overnight on an island
Jackson Day, the missing kayaker that prompted a Coast Guard search, has been located, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
He was paddling back to Swans Island this morning from a night on a…
The Maine Boats, Homes and Harbors Show has assembled a varied flotilla of events and displays for the 13th annual…
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has released a preliminary assessment of the U.S.…
July 21 was a day that started off like any other for lobsterman captain Jonathan Achorn and sternman Brandon McClure, both of Friendship.
There was thick fog all around while they were…
Motto: Tough, Tall, Tenacious!
ROCKLAND — The naval ship USS Tortuga anchored in Rockland Harbor during this week’s 68th annual Lobster Festival. On Thursday, Festival attendees interested in touring the vessel were…
A labor of love, Former Nathaniel Bowditch relaunched under original name
THOMASTON — With a tumultuous thunderstorm looming down from the northeast, it was quick, yet celebratory, business easing Ladona into the …
Right place at the Right Time...
YORK — Maine Marine Patrol Officer Benjamin Burnes, who graduated from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in May, has already put his training to good use, saving the life of a man whose canoe…
A fishing heritage unique to Maine
ROCKLAND — U.S. Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, House Chair Chuck Kruger, D-Thomaston, Dave Miramant, D-Camden, and Thomaston’s Chris Rector, regional representative for U.S. Congressman Angus King…
Herring — the lobster bait of choice
ROCKLAND — Random firecracker-like sounds whipped the air around the Rockland Municipal Fish Pier on a July midmorning. The source of those cracks came from Neil Harrick, sitting on the back rim…
Viva la France!
PENOBSCOT BAY — She loomed up from the pea-soup fog, first her bright golden forepeak and royal blue trim slipping into view, then her gunports. Towering above her decks, still partially ghosted…
Music, dancing, cultural events July 14-15, public tours July 15
CASTINE — In April, the 18th century replica French frigate Hermione set sail from the River Charente in France for the United States. The transatlantic crossing, following the same route…
One of the best places to be in summer is Midcoast Maine at Maine Windjammer Association events. For the past 12 years, people from everywhere have thrilled to these events, which include the "…
A parade of sail on a gorgeous July afternoon
ROCKLAND HARBOR, and beyond — The breeze was out of the north, Friday afternoon, July 10, perfect for tacking back and forth by the Rockland Breakwater for the annual Windjammer Parade. There was…
‘The buzz around here is awesome’
CAMDEN — The docks at Lyman-Morse at Wayfarer were filled with celebratory well-wishers Thursday evening, July 9, when Drew Lyman officially cut the ribbon on a new venture that combines two…
News from Penobscot Bay waterfront
ROCKPORT — Rockport Marine recently debuted a custom 26-foot powerboat, Rembrant, which won “Best Professionally Built…
Citizens question disposal of dredging spoils
BELFAST — Five Maine legislators gathered at the Belfast Boat House late this morning, July 7, to share their reasons for signing a letter asking the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Maine…
July 3, a day of sun, wind, high spirits, and then little wind on Penobscot Bay
ROCKLAND — Small boats carrying upwards of four crew members from schooners gathered off Islesboro Thursday, July 2, circumventing the perimeter of the windjammers anchored there before the…
A conversation with the Lymans
CAMDEN — The day after Lyman Morse Boatbuilding Company bought Wayfarer Marine, Cabot Lyman and Bob Flight, the man who will help run operations at the Camden boatyard, inched their way through…
North America’s oldest annual schooner…
Historic French ship on her way up the East Coast to Canada and back to France
The Hermione, a replica 32-gun French frigate, will be sailing up East Penobscot Bay from Boston to make an historic visit to Castine, July 14-16. The visit will coincide with several…
CAMDEN — Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding Company, of Thomaston, has purchased Wayfarer Marine, in Camden.
“With this purchase, Lyman-Morse at Wayfarer Marine will now have the advantage of the…
A morning in photos
ROCKLAND — Photographer Joe McGurn was out and about June 25 on Rockland Harbor, seeing what people were up to.
“The place…
Down to the sea he will go, with a new boat
Say you bump into a lobsterman just days before spring arrives, when the snow is still knee deep on the Midcoast.
“…
AUGUSTA — The 2015 Maine elver harvest season, which ended officially May 31 at noon, netted Maine fishermen nearly $3 million in additional value over the 2014 season, according to the Maine…
‘I'm here now, and I will be here for the rest of the summer’
ROCKLAND — Harbor Master Ed Glaser returned to work at the Rockland Public Landing Friday, June 19, only a few days after being put on an administrative leave until Monday, June 22.
Last…
PORT CLYDE — Seventh graders and their teachers at the St. George School recently completed a Port Clyde Fisheries Trail project in collaboration with Herring Gut Learning Center to explore the…
Camden Harbor Committee...
CAMDEN — Over the decades, Curtis Island, which sits at the entrance to Camden's outer harbor, has had less foot traffic than other historical and popular attractions around town. That is true for…
Putting practice into real life...
CASTINE — Students aboard Maine Maritime Academy's training ship State of Maine, currently transiting the Atlantic Ocean, responded to a distress call Wednesday morning, getting a first-…
ROCKLAND — Rockland officials gathered at the public landing Thursday, June 4, for a brief ribbon-cutting celebration for the walkway connecting Harbor Park with the docks afloat on the water.…
