ROCKLAND – “Our industry as a business needs to be environmentally compliant,” a spokesperson for Cruise Line Industry Association told Rockland residents. “It’s bad for business, quite honestly,…
Marine
Mishi Mikinaak means ‘Big Turtle’ in Ojibwe
ROCKLAND – Dozens of spectators arrived July 20 in Rockland to cheer the Mishi Mikinaak, as she was launched from the Apprenticeshop and into the summer-blue Atlantic.
The 26-foot…
ROCKLAND – Sunday evening, July 22, hundreds of people waited in a gray drizzle at the Rockland Public Landing to glimpse the carved dragon head, tail, and everything Viking-like about a 115 foot…
Mariners reminded to use local pump-out services
ROCKPORT — Goodie’s Beach at Rockport Harbor was closed for several days last weekend, following a reported spill of raw sewage from a schooner departing the town dock Friday, July 13. The U.S.…
BELFAST — The United States Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration has awarded a $667,028 grant to Front Street Shipyard of Belfast, as part of the 2018 (MARAD) Small Shipyard…
BOSTON — The Coast Guard is asking the public to label their kayaks, canoes and stand-up paddleboards with their name and phone number after an influx of cases this summer involving unmanned and…
42nd Annual Great Schooner Race
ROCKLAND – The first wave of schooners heaved into the wind at 1:15 p.m., Friday, July 6, having sat idle for three extra hours. The forecast for the Great Schooner Race looked ominous. Gray skies…
Friendship sloops were Maine's first lobster boats
ROCKLAND – Throughout the journey from boat storage to public landing, many hands held the support line of the newly restored friendship sloop Blackjack. Four oxen pulled the vessel just…
What is it like to study the ocean at a world-class research institute? Find out on Friday, July 20, when Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences hosts its annual open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.…
epic oceangoing explorations come to life in the Midcoast
The Norwegian Viking ship, Draken Harald Hårfagre (Draken) will make Rockland its official Maine stop on its Expedition America: East Coast Tour 2018, presented by Highland Park Single Malt Scotch…
Terry Boivin video
ROCKLAND — Watch for wakes in Rockland Harbor in mid-June, when Journey’s End Marina, in Rockland, holds the annual Rockland Lobster Boat races. This year, the diesels and gas-powered engines…
CAMDEN – Aaron Lincoln owns and operates the Olad and Owl off of Camden's public Landing. The Owl can take six passengers and is a cutter — an old-timey rig, in a way,…
‘When I’d asked to see the security cameras of those occurrences, the cameras for those days would be mysteriously out of order.’
ROCKLAND – Well into June, a frozen mound of dirt remains, long after the last of an estimated 20-foot-tall mountain of city-plowed snow began to melt. In its wake, the designated snow-dumping…
100-plus volunteers clean up Criehaven and Ellwell islands followed by a lobster bake!
TENANTS HARBOR— Sundays are the only days off for Maine’s lobstermen, but on Sunday, June 10, a number of them in the Tenants Harbor Fishermans Co-op got right back on their boats to take more…
Muscongus Bay
On Thursday, May 31, Maine Sport Outfitters partnered with Maine Coast Heritage Trust (MCHT) for a day of service on Black Island in Muscongus Bay.
The volunteers devoted their time to…
BELFAST — Recently, a dozen area students bid goodbye to their salmon fry after caring for them since they were delivered as eggs earlier this spring.
The 12 schools involved include…
ROCKLAND – Twenty eighth grade students from Kimberton Waldorf School, Kimberton, Pennsylvania, arrived at Rockland Harbor, Sunday evening, May 28, after a 10-hour drive. They were about to embark…
Filmmaker Terry Boivin recently spent time recording the final preparations of the schooner Bowdoin prior to an upcoming voyage to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.
The Bowdoin…
The board of the Apprenticeshop in Rockland has appointed Isabella Ferracci as its new executive director. In her new capacity, Ferracci will work with the board and staff to continue the…
Last day, 6 a.m., May 24
The Maine Department of Marine Resources said May 23 that it is shutting down the elver fishery two weeks early, on May 24 at 6 a.m. The closure, done through emergency rulemaking, is being…
rates ‘improperly, unfairly, arbitrarily, wrongfully, and unconstitutionally’ raised
ISLESBORO — The island community of Islesboro is not taking the new ferry rate schedule lightly and has filed an administrative appeal of Maine Department of Transportation action in Kennebec…
CAMDEN – A tweek, tweek here. A new build there. Springtime is a bustle of activity as the town and merchants prepare for the arrival of tourists. Everybody wants to look their best whether it…
Belfast, Camden, Lincolnville, Rockport, Waldo County Commissioners support Islesboro
UPDATE: The Maine Department of Transportation has declined to adopt a 90-day stay of the new ferry ticket structure, as had been requested by Islesboro, thus sending the situation closer to legal…
Voice, energy behind the Maine Windjammer Assc. for decades
ROCKLAND – The Maine Windjammer Association, North America’s oldest fleet of commercial sailing vessels, kicked off the 2018 sailing season by…
ROCKLAND – Though the matter of cruise ships had not been listed on the May 14 council agenda, a line of impassioned speakers still made their way to the podium to address Rockland City Council.…
BELFAST — Front Street Shipyard in Belfast, has finalized the financing to begin construction of a new facility adjacent to its existing yard on the Belfast waterfront. With the combined support…
In November 2017, Camden residents passed an Unencapsulated Polystyrene Ordinance designed to eliminate the use of unencapsulated polystyrene in dock floats and buoys on Camden’s lakes, rivers,…
BELFAST – In a May 9 news release, Nordic Aquafarms announced its intentions to proceed with permit applications to construction and operate a land-based salmon farm on 40 acres in Belfast.
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From Washington, D.C.
U.S. Senators Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Angus King, I-Maine, sent a letter to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, urging the agency to prioritize the Gulf of Maine as an area of…
Hoping for a May 1 launch
CAMDEN – April 20 was a perfect day to work on the boat. Not too hot and not to cold. Time to pull that winter shrink wrap off and start the sanding and painting. Sadie Samuels lobsters out of…
Boothbay Harbor Shipyard has hired three sturdy young men to help in the five-year, $6.5 million restoration of the schooner Ernestina-Morrissey. Two have deep roots in the Boothbay area…
According to the latest information from the Penobscot Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce, M/V Fram will now arrive Thursday, April 19, according to the nonprofit Rockland Main Street.…
ROCKLAND — The Maine Department of Transportation said April 17 that it will implement a new flat rate ticket pricing structure at the Maine State Ferry Service May 21, standardizing ferry prices…
One of the most important safety devices aboard vessels
The Coast Guard recognized April 6 as 406 MHz Day focusing on the importance of the use of emergency positioning indicating radio beacons. 406 MHz Day is a national campaign run by National…
Right now, approximately 76,000 Maine residents have health insurance through the federal Affordable Care Act. Many of them are fishermen and their family members who never had health insurance…
After a pilot boys-only program in 2017, the Apprenticeshop, Hurricane Island Outward Bound School and Hurricane Island Center for Science and Leadership are offering collaborative courses this…
Secret ballot May 14
PORT CLYDE — On May 14, residents of St. George will be asked to vote on a $2.64 million rehabilitation and development project at the former St. George Marine property at 10 Cold Storage Road, in…
New sloop crafted by local boatbuilders, designers
THOMASTON — Since Sept. 2016, the 65-foot Anna has been under construction in the Lyman-Morse boatbuilding barn, on the shores of…
Maine Lobstermen’s Association offers guidance
MIDCOAST — Congratulations! Right now, approximately 76,000 Maine residents have health insurance through the federal Affordable Care Act. Many of them are fishermen and their family members who…
Each spring, schools in the Midcoast partner with Belfast Bay Watershed Coalition in the Salmon in Schools program.
BBWC President Tom King recently delivered salmon eggs to 12 schools…
CASTINE — Maine Maritime Academy President William J. Brennan announced that Maritime Administrator, Rear Adm. Mark H. Buzby, USN, Ret. will deliver the college's Commencement address on Saturday…
At the 64th annual meeting of the Maine Lobstermen’s Association on March 2, long-time president David Cousens stepped down from his position as MLA president and Kristan Porter, of Cutler, was…
ROCKPORT - The 43rd annual Fishermen’s Forum got to a great start Thursday night, March 1, at the Samoset Resort with a reception and seafood demonstration. Guests at the reception sampled…
‘change is inevitable and we must be prepared’
Maine commercial fishermen once again landed more than a half-billion dollars’ worth of marine resources in 2017, according to the state Department of Marine Resources, in a March 2 press release…
March 1-3 in Rockport
ROCKPORT — Maine fishermen are gathering this week and weekend at the Samoset Resort in Rockport for their 43rd annual Fishermen’s Forum. The annual congregation draws hundreds of fishermen, gear…
Down to the sea
Most everyone in this vicinity is familiar with the large wooden building, on Atlantic Avenue in Camden, just beyond the steps that go down into Harbor Park…
Harbor Master to conduct fish pier cost analysis
ROCKLAND –The Rockland fish pier needs a lot of work. Of interest is replacing the asphalt deck with concrete to make it less porous and longer lasting. Also of interest are electrical system…
Question of whether it is even necessary
ROCKLAND – An application by the Pen Bay and River Pilots Association to have an area of Rockland Harbor classified as a federal anchorage site is still being deliberated, according to a…
Feb. 20 meeting
ROCKLAND – Representatives from the U.S. Coast Guard will meet with the Rockland Harbor Management Commission, at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 20, in City Hall chambers for a question and answer session…
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Bath, was awarded a $14.9 million firm-fixed-price contract for Guided Missile Frigate Conceptual Design. …
