MaineBoats Blog
Heidi and Cabot Lyman receive CCA award
Cabot and Heidi Lyman, founders and owners of Lyman Morse Boatbuilding in Thomaston, owners of Wayfarer Marine in Camden, and of the 250 Main Hotel in Rockland, have been chosen to receive the Cruising Club of America’s Far Horizons Award for 2016. The award recognizes a member CCA for a particularly meritorious cruise or series of cruises.
The Net Result: Our Evolving Fisheries
Penobscot Marine Museum will present The Net Result: Our Evolving Fisheries, a conference exploring whether innovation and technology have proven to be too successful for the health of our fisheries and our coastal ecosystem. The speaker line-up of scientists, historians, journalists, activists, consumers and fishermen will answer the question: How did this happen and what do we do now?
Southport Announces New Dealer Partnership in North Carolina
Southport Boats of Augusta, Maine has announced a new dealer relationship with Collins, Inc., of Smithfield, North Carolina.
American Rich Wilson sails to 13th place finish in grueling Vendee Globe
American Rich Wilson finishes grueling Vendee Globe in 13th place, setting a new American record for solo, non-stop circumnavigation
Science on Ice: Bigelow Team Studies Antarctic Phytoplankton
Despite the barren Antarctic landscape, the Southern Ocean is rich with life. For the last two months, a team of scientists from the Bigelow Laboratory in East Boothbay, Maine, were conducting field research on the phytoplankton that live in its icy waters.
Castine Classic Yacht Racers will honor Aage Nielson
The 2017 Castine Classic Yacht Race to Camden will take place this summer on Aug. 3, kicking off three days of spectacular racing on Penobscot Bay. Event organizers plan to honor Aage Nielsen, a genius of 20th century yacht design, at an exhibition at the Town Dock and an Aug. 2 symposium at Maine Maritime Academy.
2017 Monhegan Residencies Open to Maine Artists and Teachers
The Monhegan Artists’ Residency is accepting applications for its 2017 residency programs. Residencies are available to Maine-based visual artists during the weeks of May 27 to June 30, and September 2 to October 7. Also, a two-week residency is available to a Maine art teacher from July 2 to 14. Applications are now being accepted online at monheganartistsresidency.org through March 17.
American is headed toward finish in Vendee Globe
American sailor Rich Wilson, who has been racing solo around the world in the grueling Vendee Globe, crossed the Equator back into the northern hemisphere Feb. 5 after 91 days, 6 hours, and 14 minutes of racing. Currently he is in 14th place out of 18 boats still racing.
Karen Talbot calendar illustrations feature Maine's native sea-run fish
The Maine Sea Grant College Program at the University of Maine has produced a wall calendar featuring detailed scientific illustrations by Rockland-Maine artist Karen Talbot of Maine’s twelve native species of sea-run or diadromous fishes. The twelve species are sea lamprey, shortnose sturgeon, Atlantic sturgeon, alewife, Atlantic salmon, brook trout, rainbow smelt, American eel, Atlantic tomcod, striped bass, blueback herring, and American shad.
Community mourns loss of birchbark canoe builder David Moses Bridges
Maine’s community of artists and boat-builders lost one its bright stars last week with the death of birchbark canoe master builder David Moses Bridges, 54, following a courageous battle with cancer.
