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Toppin's Diesel & Marine of Columbia Falls has loaded this Wesmac 50 at Boricua Custom Boats in Gouldsboro for her trip to Harrington where she was launched on 27 January. Boricua Custom Boats less fuel and be a little easier on the motor. Gouldsboro I was told not to do it, but I did not listen. I On the morning of 27 January, a major mean it was good, you had plenty of power, boat hauling job took place from Boricua but the fuel burn was high. It wasn’t that big Custom Boats to His Cove in Harrington. of deal.” They had just finished a new lobster boat, Travis builds his boats to be comfort- named ISLA & GRAYSON, and Toppin’s able so he can stay out overnight. This Diesel’s truck had her on the trailer and allows him to haul until dark, get up in the ready to head down the road escorted by a morning, haul for another four hours and be police car from Milbridge and trailed by a done. When asked how the new boat went, procession of vehicles. he said, “She did 25 knots and was burning The boat on the trailer was a Wesmac about 44 gallons. She will cruise 19 knots 50, which was finished out as a split-wheel- at 27 gallons an hour. Dry, holy cow is that house lobster boat powered with a 900-hp thing dry.” Scania was for Travis Perry of Harrington. Before the Osmond 50 Travis had Moises Ortiz, owner of Boricua Custom an Osmond 47 named RATTLESNAKE, Boats, said, “She’s one of a kind. Everything which was built for Derek Feeney by H&H is custom. On the hull I did an extra set of Marine in Steuben in 2008. Before that he chines and added a bow thruster. Down had the plug for the Wayne Beal 36, which forward is simple, she has just four bunks was named PROVIDER. and a closet for the head. Under the platform This is not the first Wesmac Moises has she fits 38 crates in three lobster tanks and done. He did the one for Trevor Hooper, 1,200-gallons of fuel. For a galley, there is another for Mike Hunt and before these he Moises Orellana Ortiz, owner of Boricua Custom Boats of Gouldsboro. a little sink, stove and a microwave. She worked on one for Dana Rice. He was mod- was built strong and everywhere you look ifying a Wesmac top to fit, which Wesmac of Columbia Falls. He has modified the top will be finished out as a sportfisherman for a its smooth. did not think was doable. Wesmac was so saying, “I raised the top four inches. The customer from New York City. This is going Travis Perry had an Osmond 50 pow- impressed that they came down and took windshield comes straight on them so I got to be his first sportfisherman and it is going ered with a 1,650-hp diesel engine and then measurements and created a mould for their three windows on this one and moved it to be well-appointed. He was not sure how he got a ride on Trevor Hooper’s Wesmac larger models. He added, “It was a lot of ahead. Kind of do my own thing. My own long this will take to complete. Out in the 50. He explained, “She was wicked dry. We work, but it takes a young guy like Trevor look. She will be a plain Jane.” yard is an Osmond 44, which will be coming went out on a day that was blowing 30 east- to come up with a crazy idea and the money. Down below she has nothing and will in to be finished off as a lobster boat for a erly, going 29 knots into it and the next day Then me who wants to do it.” be powered with an 800-hp Scania. Moises local fisherman. I went up and put a deposit down on one. I Next Moises is finishing a Mitchell is hoping to have her done early this spring. Continued on Page 14. thought bigger power would run easier, burn Cove 35 as a lobster boat for Tim Toppins Next her is a Mussel Ridge 46, which - C o n t e n t s Publisher's Note 4 U. S. Coast Guard News 8 Directors Report, DELA 11 Ocean Globe Race 18 Calendar of Events 4 U. S. Navy News 9 Miscellaneous Fishing News 12 Wood's Hole Institute News 19 Benny Beal of Jonesport 5 Commercial Fishing News ME DMR News 13 Maritime History Wayne Rich & RICH RETURNS 6 Boats, Trucks & Fishing 10 Boat and Ship Yard News 14 Industrial Journal - 1890 25 Passed Over the Bar 7 Wood Island Lifesaving Station 10 IMOCA News 19 Classified Ads 29 Page 2. MAINE COASTAL NEWS March 2020 Maine's Propeller & Fabrication Experts are 163 Orion St. Brunswick, ME 04011 Now Your Source for Marine Hardware! Phone 207-729-3303 Fax 207-729-0027 Nautilus Marine Hardware 2317 US HWY 1, SULLIVAN, ME www.bamforthmarine.com email: [email protected] Gary Favreau - Scott Favreau 14 miles east of Ellsworth opposite Chester's Pike

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Most Winterport, Maine 04496-0710 U.S.A. coast, get the paper out, gather information have heard about the Photo Archives, which (207) 223-8846 E-mail - [email protected] and take photographs for articles and then is not surprising as they have amassed more run home to work on “Version 2” of the than 350,000 images, mostly of the Maine Website: www.mainescoast.com vessel database. I was working in the Sawyer coast. They have spoke at many of the his- Public Library in Gloucester the first week of torical societies around the state and sent February and met a historian from Rockport, out exhibits to varies places. If you have a MA who asked about the schooner HATTIE maritime interest and have not visited the PAIGE. So, I went to the online database for Museum you are missing out on what this the International Maritime Library on my Museum has to offer. I do not know how cellphone and there she was, which was a many times I have heard someone say that real good feeling. Then Saturday someone they have driven by the Museum for years, else asked about the schooner FRANCIS E. but never stopped in. Many probably realize WATERS and again up came the informa- it is in their back yard and they will do it tion. The only issue with both vessels was next time by, but next time rarely comes. that they had been lost and that information However, when it does, they are pleasantly was not there, so on we go finding more surprised with what they find and wished information and entering it in “Version 2.” they had stopped when they first went by. Right now, I am going through the 20,000+ The biggest question for any museum in Maine-built vessels adding information and today’s world is what does their future look Follow us on Facebook: removing the duplicates from the several like? How do they position themselves so Find under - Jon Johansen lists already crashed into “Version 1.” I will that they can survive in 10, 20 or 50 years? put the new version up the end of March and It is an extremely difficult question as the then begin “Version 3.” younger generation has a very different way Maine Coastal News is published 12 times a year and is dedicated to covering the news On Saturday I was made a Trustee of in what they do and support. For the last along the entire coast of Maine, Kittery to Eastport. We cover general marine news, commercial the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, 75 years maritime museums have survived fishing, yachting (power and sail), boat yard and waterfront news and maritime history. Distribution of Maine Coastal News is from Eastport to Marblehead, MA and is free on which is something I dodged for several because there was a family tie or simply the newsstand. It also can be obtained by subscription. A year subscription, 12 issues, is $20.00. years due to time constraints and other com- someone loved the romance of the sea. The A single copy is $2.00, which covers the postage. Foreign rates for subscriptions are $40.00 per mitments. More than a year ago the Museum more research one does you will find that go- year. hired a new Director, Karen Smith, and this ing to sea was anything but romantic. It was TheMaine Coastal News office is located at 966 North Main Street, Winterport, Maine. has created a very positive change. Back last an extremely hard life, just read “Two Years Comments or additional information write: Maine Coastal News, P.O. Box 710, Winterport, summer she wanted to see some of the coast Before the Mast” and tell me if you would Maine 04496. so we jumped into the GMC and headed for like to climb a mast to furl sails in freezing Beals Island and Jonesport. This is the first condition during a storm off Cape Horn? director I know that wanted to learn what However, keeping this and other maritime Publisher Jon B. Johansen was going on from inside the trenches. We history preserved is important. Museums Editor-in-Chief Rachel Elward have also planned other trips so she can get must find the key that tells the story in a very an idea of what goes on and how important interesting way, either with exhibits or in the every aspect of the maritime world is and digital world. Advertising Deadlines: The deadline for the April issue is March 6. why it needs to be told at the Museum. Spring is just around the corner, so mark The deadline for the May issue is April 10. The Penobscot Marine Museum has an your calendar so you do not miss stopping incredible collection, some of it on display by the Museum this year! MCN's Calendar of Waterfront Events On-going Exhibits Streamlined: From Hull to Home MAY 26 Harpswell Lobster Boat Races Capt. Paul Cuffe: His Work, Vision and Mystic Seaport 4-7 ASMFC Spring Meeting Harpswell Living Legacy Mystic, CT Westin Crystal City Info: Amanda Peacock (207) 756- New Bedford Whaling Museum Info: mysticseaport.org Arlington, VA 3104 New Bedford, MA Kristina York (207) 449-7571 Info: (508) 997-0046 FEBRUARY JUNE 22 Maine Ships in the Arctic 20 Boothbay Lobster Boat Races 29 Castine Classic Yacht Symposium After Ryder – Photographs by Nicholas Charles Lagerbom Boothbay Harbor Maine Maritime Academy Whitman Maine Maritime Museum Info: Ashlee Lowrey (207) 808- Castine New Bedford Whaling Museum Bath 9230 New Bedford, MA Info: (207) 443-1316 30 Castine Classic Yacht Race Info: (508) 997-0046 21 Rockland Lobster Boat Races Castine Yacht Club MARCH Rockland Harbor @ Breakwater Castine Enlightened Encounters: The Two 5 The Effect of Climate Change on Rockland Nations of Manjiro Nakahama Maine’s Infamous Winters Info: Nick O’Hara (207) 542-4348 AUGUST New Bedford Whaling Museum Maine Maritime Museum Mike Mayo (207) 542-1879 8 Winter Harbor Lobster Boat Races New Bedford, MA Bath Town Dock Info: (508) 997-0046 Info: (207) 443-1316 28 Bass Harbor Lobster Boat Races Winter Harbor Bass Harbor Info: Chris Byers, (207) 963-7139 Thou’ Shall Knot: Clifford W. 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Bernard 'Benny' Beal of Jonesport

JONESPORT – There is probably not a bet- and then we built a boat on each side of her. That ter-known fisherman on the coast of Maine than is what really ruined us cause my uncle took the Benny (Bernard) Beal of Jonesport. For those that orders and he didn’t get enough for them. We did not know him from his career fishing around had a carrier in the middle and I think there was New England, they knew him as one of the top a 38-footer on each side, twin screw with two big lobster boat racers. Benny was a hard fisherman, a Oldsmobiles in each one of them. Well this ran hard racer, a hard businessman and this translated into a lot of more money than he figured. It took into success. a lot of work but we built those two on each side One aspect of Benny’s life that few know is plus the big one in the middle and there was still that he also knows how to build boats. Benny’s a lot of room. That is where I built the STELLA father was Elihu Ellis Beal, who was born in Jone- was on one side there. Then there was the loft sport in 1914. He served in the U. S. Coast Guard where smaller boats, row boats and pods, could and came home to lobster and build boats with his be built.” father Riley. Riley, was born William Riley Beal Before he went fishing, he said, “I was driv- on Beals on 13 February 1890. He would passed ing plugs in boats. I was probably 6 or 7 and that away at Milbridge on 9 May 1979. After World was before we had the big shop, we bought that War I, Riley lobstered, but soon he was building afterwards. They didn’t teach you just watched boats on the northern end of Beals Island. Later and learned. We all worked the big shop together, the shop would be moved to Jonesport. Also five of us bought it: my father, grandfather, Lester involved in this enterprise was Riley’s two sons, and my uncle Adrian. Elihu and Adrian were the Elihu and Adrian Velton Beal. ones that built the carriers and stuff outdoors to Benny added, “Grandfather learned out of start with. There was no money in building boats state, the drafting and stuff. Grandmother had a at that time. You were competing with Canadian goiter I believe and they had to go out of state cheap boats.” for the surgery and they lived out of state quite a When they were building on Beals they while. My grandfather could draft boats and build built four large boats: the smack ARTHUR S. any kind of boat. In fact, he ran a shipyard during WOODWARD, and the sardine carriers BET- the war in Stonington. He did all the drafting, and SEY & SALLY, BIFISCO and MAINE QUEEN. they came out so near perfect that they were the Unfortunately, there is no complete list of the best on the coast. The Government wanted him boats built by Riley or his two sons, to go to the different yards to inspect the boats Benny started like most fishermen in Beals and stuff and he could take his wife with him but and Jonesport going out with his father learning they wouldn’t guarantee him not to send him out what to do before getting their own small boat. He of the country, so he didn’t take it. He worked in said, “I started in an outboard boat then I bought, a shipyard out of state, but I don’t know which from Harold Gower, about 20 or 22-footer. I one. Anytime that someone wanted to build a bored a log, put it by the side of the keel. I put dragger he’d go and draft it out for them. Other a Crosley motor in it and then after that I had a Bernard 'Benny' Beal in his office. Note the lobster boat racing trophies, which are all first boat builders from Jonesport weren’t capable of big air-cooled motor in it. Then I had my cousin, place finishes. drafting.” Lester started to build me a boat. He made the would for a new boat and then I kept pulling them 28-foot Crowley BENNY’S BITCH in the diesel Over the years I have numerous stories stem and stuff and it ended up a 22-footer. When in with long screws with washers on them. I got classes and dominated for several years. He said about the boatbuilders of Beals-Jonesport going he got ready to put the log in, he kind of gave her shaped up anyway so she was just like new. that the reason he sold her was that he wanted to to Stonington to work at what is now Billing’s up, so I bought that and finished it. That was the Then I used knit fabrics and epoxy resins, which race his own boat, not someone else’s. There was Diesel & Marine building boats for the war effort. 22-foot DUMPLIN’ we called her and that was was a real expensive way of doing it. I could do also the racer MEGAN, but we did not see her The Downeast builders built the skeg model and the first one that I built that I fished out of.” it in my basement, no odor to it at all.” but once. Benny said, “I told Junior Backman, my the ones from Mount Desert and around Brook- In 1952 in between digging worms and Before the STELLA ANN made her second lin-Deer Isle built the built-down model. The old clams Benny and Ellery Merchant, Jr. built the appearance on the racing scene, Benny raced the Continued on Page 20. builders always said the conversation would be 28-foot STELLA ANN. Ellery clinched the nails quite lively as to which one was the better model. and Benny did all the framing and planking. Benny was born in 1932 and can remember Benny added, “I think Dad helped me set her his grandfather before he was building boats, up, the keel and moulds. Riley sat down at the saying that at that time he was just fishing. kitchen table and made the half-model over the The shop in Jonesport was just to the west way I wanted it. I notched into the moulds and of where Benny’s current dock is. This was built straightened the bottom out the way I wanted it.” by Alton Rogers, who built numerous boats in He fished and raced her until the racing Jonesport before World War II. Benny added, stopped for a time on Moosabec Reach. Benny “We had a mill separate from the shop and the mill added, “I sold her and I was working out of state was about 60 feet long. There were big planers and when I came back and tried to buy her. An that you could run keels through and there were old fellow in one of the western towns had her big band saws and joiners, everything to work and I tried to buy her back for year and couldn’t with in there. Then the big boat shop, it was huge. buy her. When I finally bought her back, she had You know an ordinary shop they had to tip a boat. been hauled out in the woods and turned over and Well, this one the floor of the shop lowered down. the planks were right off of one side, off the stern There were two big winches on each side to lower all together. I had the model so I made moulds the floor. We hauled sardine carriers, 64 to 65 feet for her and put them in her and set them up like I

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BERNARD – At the end of the lobstering season Once we got up past Provincetown it got really you pull up your gear and put it on the hard. Then rough and by the time we got home, we knew we you haul your boat and put it in the shop to make had a good boat.” some minor repairs and a give her a coat of paint Once in the shop he removed the guard and so she is already for the next season. Well, the toe rails, coamings and then began chasing the couple of weeks job did not go as planned. Just rotten wood. “I had to replace the wood behind ask Wayne Rich who put his wooden 38-footer the coamings,” continued Wayne, “Then I had to in David Schlaefer’s shop in Bernard and three replace some more cedar on the wash rails, the months later she is just starting to go back to- main transom frame, both sides as the top corners gether. were rotten. I had to cut that out and splice some Wayne added, “About five or six years ago new pieces in. Then I got the jack knife out and it I noticed my wash rails were coming apart. They got worse up by the port bulkhead so out came the are cedar on oak and were nailed and of course whole side of the house. The water would come to the nails were letting go and the oak underneath this corner and run down the side. I have been into was getting tired so everything was coming apart. that about every five or six years and of course I took some 3/8-inch bronze rods, threaded both that was all gone. I said, “Well we have gone this sides and drilled through the coaming and the far so I got the saw out and cut her right off at the guard rail and squeeze everything back together windshield and took it to the dump. It weighed and said, “Oh that will get me by.” It did for five 625 pounds. What I have put back is going to be or six years and then I noticed up by the bulkhead about the same amount of weight. Everything forward it was starting to come apart. You would is glass panels. The roof is inch foam, glassed hit a good wave and see it coming through. I have both sides and what I thought was just going to The lobster boat RICH RETURN getting major repairs this winter. been working for everybody else, putting your be a really good paint job has turned into quite a inspections. When they were done you were out own stuff off, but I knew this was the year.” project. And thanks to David Schlaefer and Jon there watching the fish jump. This is Wayne’s bread and butter boat and Thurston for their help doing some of the glass “I really enjoyed it. I really like the people one he truly loves. Wayne added, “She was built work.” I met and worked with. They will be lifelong for Nick Hyora in Chatham, Massachusetts. He The washrails, upper corners of the transom, friends. I have got two guys that I keep in touch was the original owner and I bought it from him. windshield and shelter are all done and now and with quite a lot, one especially. You don’t forget I am not sure if it started out for him, it may have Wayne is waiting for the windows. The only dif- that. To me it was more like a job because I did been for Ray Noyes or Bob Griffin. This boat ference in appearance will be the window frames not live on base, I had a townhouse that we rented originally was named WILD WOOD. Chummy used to be wood and now they will have black so it was more like a job so I wasn’t overseas or (Robert Rich) built it. Bobby (Chummy’s father) frames. Wayne figures she will be good to go until anything like that. What they said out of school died in June of ‘81 and this was launched in he decides to retire as now the entire deck and was you guys all should go to sea first and be- May of ‘82. This was one of the first projects shelter are glassed over. cause usually if you go to shore base first, they Chummy did on his own. Just after Colyn was Wayne, like most fishermen started in say you don’t re-enlist and that was the case. I born in 2001, we went and got it. Dad (Walter), an outboard boat. However first he joined the was in a huge squadron and I felt like I was a Chum and I went, I think it was the day after Navy and worked on F14 Tom Cats. He said, “I number. When it was time to re-enlist no one Thanksgiving or the week after, because it was was plane captain and metal smith, but I spent came knocking on my door to say hey, so I came the 1st of December when we landed here so it more time flight line and plane captain. Of the home.” would have been the last day. We drove down, four years in the service I spent just 27 days When Wayne got home, he fished with spent the night got up five in the morning, wind at sea on four carriers: FORRESTAL, CORAL his father and got seasick every day. He added, howling and the owner was going to go with us SEA, EISENHOWER and AMERICA. I was “Chummy was in the boat shop and dad was fish- to Portland but that morning he said, “I am not in VF-101 in Oceana, Virginia and they were a ing. Dad was scalloping and lobstering and doing going.” He had us follow another fisherman out training squadron. We would just go out there home boat repair, house carpenter and stuff when of Chatham harbor and he said just stay behind and do touch and goes and that was it. We were he wasn’t fishing. He built MY SHARE, which him and you will be all set and then just turn left. out there to make sure nothing broke and do the was a 37 Repco, and left the shop in ‘81. When I came home, I worked with dad some and then Wayne Rich I got a job for about a year and a half up to the INC. Trenton Airport. Then Chum asked me to come so I bought a 36 Stanley from Wayne Davis. She SEAL COVE BOATYARD, to work with him doing boat transportation so I was the MARGARET E. and then it became STORAGE • MAINTENANCE • RESTORATION went and got my CDL license and drove a truck JACKIE’S DIAMOND and now she is over to from ‘92 to ‘96 moving a lot of boats and working Stonington. I think she is now CRAZY TRAIN. in the shop. In ‘96 I got married and said I am not going to drive truck and be gone all the time Continued on Page 22.

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Presented by Portland Yacht Services - (207) 774-1067 www.boatshow.portlandcompany.com March 2020 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 9. U. S. Navy News Keel Laid for Future USS John Basilone notice,” said Grady, also the commander Johnson said naming CVN 81 in honor ward asset for crisis response and human- From Team Ships Public Affairs of U.S. Naval Forces Northern Command. of Doris Miller has done so much to recog- itarian relief, and early decisive striking BATH -- The keel of the future USS John “It is incumbent upon us to treat every day nize and highlight that no matter the color of power in major combat operations. The air- Basilone (DDG 122) was ceremoniously as though it were the last day of peace, and a person’s skin, they can achieve anything. craft carrier and the carrier strike group will laid at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works so we have to own the fight today. That is Congressman Bill Flores, U.S. Rep- provide forward presence, rapid response, (BIW) shipyard Jan.10. imperative.” resentative for Texas’s 17th Congressional endurance on station, and multi-mission Speakers included Capt. Seth Miller, Grady gave a hypothetical scenario in District, which includes Dorie Miller’s capability throughout its 50-year service DDG 51 class program manager; Diane which a future U.S. Navy is charged with hometown of Waco, said it was an honor to life. Hawkins, niece of the ship’s namesake; and helping small forces across the globe fight, pay tribute to one of America’s heroes from For more information about Dorie July 2012 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 15. the ship’s sponsors, Amy Looney and Ryan as well as helping care for their people. To the greatest generation. Miller, visit https://www.history.navy.mil/ Manion. The ship’s sponsors authenticated help the Navy prepare for such possibilities, “[Miller] was a man who exemplified research/histories/biographies-list/bios-m/ the keel by etching their initials into the keel he urged leaders to shift their mindset from the hearts of our Sailors and the spirit of miller-doris.html plate, a tradition that symbolically recogniz- short-term preparedness toward long-term Reverend MartinBoat Luther King, Jr. who And we Ship Yard News es the joining of modular components and capabilities. also recognize today,” said Flores. “Dr. Submarine USS Pittsburgh Inactivated the ceremonial beginning of the ship. “We need you to own that fight,” Grady King once said ‘the time is always right to After 35 Years “It’s an honor to celebrate this mile- said. “We need combat-ready ships and bat- do something right’ and that is what Petty By Petty Officer 1st Class Andrea Perez, stone with Ms. Looney, Ms. Manion, and tle-minded crews. Officer Miller did. His story of bravery is a Commander, Submarine GroupBROOKS 9 Public TRAP MILL members of the Basilone family,” Miller “Being combat-ready means being testament to his courage and commitment to Affairs said. “Laying the keel for our nation’s 72nd relentless on readiness,” he continued. “We serve both his fellow Sailors and his coun- KEYPORT, Washington (NNS)& MARINE -- The SUPPLIES

Arleigh Burke destroyer, and building a ship must dispense with the mindset where we try.” crew of the Los Angeles-class1- fast-attack800- 426- 4526 named for a man who embodied the spirit build materiel readiness just in time for the For the members of Miller’s family submarine USS Pittsburgh (SSN 720) held of commitment and strength, this is a truly next deployment and instead constantly present at the ceremony, it was a moment an inactivation ceremony at theBath, U.S. ME Naval ~ Portland, ME ~ Thomaston, ME special occasion.” prepare ourselves for the unknown.” to reflect on the legacy their family lives to Undersea Museum in Keyport, Washington, MORE THAN JUST LOBSTER TRAPS!! The ship’s namesake was a United honor with every generation. Jan. 17, to celebrate the boat’s 35 years of

States Marine Corps gunnery sergeant who Navy Names Future Aircraft Carrier “When Uncle Dorie decided that he service. was killed in action during the Battle of Iwo Doris Miller During MLK, Jr. Day was going to step up to the machine gun and The occasion marked the crew’s final Jima in WWII. Basilone received the Medal Ceremony shoot, it was a ‘why not me?’ moment,” said public event before the submarine is official- of Honor for heroism displayed in the Battle From Secretary of the Navy Public Affairs Henrietta Blednose Miller, a niece of Miller. ly decommissioned in the controlled indus- of Guadalcanal in 1942, and for conspicuous WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Acting Secre- “As we go through life, we’re all going to trial area at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in A. L. Pettegrow of Southwest Harbor has a Duffy 35 and a Pettegrow 30 in for upgrades. Your one-stop-shop for traps and marine supplies! gallantry displayed in the Battle of Iwo Jima, tary of the Navy Thomas B. Modly named be confronted with ‘why not me?’ moments Bremerton, Washington. after he singlehandedly destroyed an enemy a future aircraft carrier USS Doris Millertotally gonewhether through they so areshe issmall just like or big,new. butthey with are each now installing Crew the engine, members, which isNavy League• Lobster members Traps • Apparel Down below she has a V-berth, galley and a C-18 Caterpillar. She will be done late this • Shrimp Traps • Aquaculture Supplies blockhouse and led a Marine tank under fire (CVN 81) during a Martin Luther King, Jr. one, you will be affecting someone if you and supporters, past and present,• Crab were Traps on • Bait Bags head with shower. She is powered with a summer. safely through a minefield. Day ceremony honoring African Americans take an action at that moment. At the time hand to bid farewell to the boat.• FishDr. Traps Carol • Ballast(steel,cement,etc) 3406E Caterpillar diesel. They hope to have Still to do are two salmon seiners, built • Sea Bass Traps • Bessy Bait Drums/Pails Arleigh Burke class destroyers are of the Greatest Generation in Pearl Harbor,her over[Uncle early this Dorie] summer. did what he did, onhe the did 38 notfoot hulls,H. which Sawyer, will be a going professor to of organizational• Scup Traps • Buoys multi-mission surface combatants that serve Hawaii, Jan. 20. In therealize far bay how was proud a 42 kit he boat was that going they toAlaska. make this leadership at University of La •Verne, Conch TrapsCal - • Paint Eel Traps • Rope were putting the top on and installing the • as integral assets in global maritime security, The backdrop for the day’s ceremony family.” ifornia, spoke fondly of what it• hasUsed meantTraps • Trap Accessories 700-hp John Deere diesel before shipping to Hewes Company in Blue Hill has just engaging in air, undersea, surface, strike and paid homage to the beginning and ending of This will be the second ship named in to her to have been the Pittsburgh’s sponsor Connecticut the middle of the summer. She been given the contract to build the interior Stop in and see us! ballistic missile defense, as well as provid- America’s role in World War II and the scenewill be honorfinished of out Miller, as a sportfisherman. and the first aircraftof an 86-foot carrier carbon and fibre a part racing of thesled Pittsburghunder family since the ing increased capabilities in anti-submarine where Doris Miller’s heroic actions cement- A 46-footever named Wesmac for is being an African finished outAmerican.construction This in theship’s State commissioning, of Washington. Dec. 8, 1984. warfare, command and control, and anti-sur- ed him into books of American history. as a lobsterwill alsoboat befor thea fisherman first aircraft from This carrier project to is be waiting “Itfor meansdesigns andthat they every day for 35 years, I face warfare. “It’s an honor to join you today Vinalhaven.on named The in hull honor and topof aare Sailor done forand actionsdo not expectwhile to beginhave until embodied August. Most the ofgratitude of the Ameri- As a Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class the birthday celebration of one of our na- serving in the enlisted ranks. can people. In my very person, in who I am, destroyer, John Basilone will employ the tion’s, and the world’s, greatest spiritual, LawsuitThe future USS Against Dorie Miller and Maine other Boat Continued on Page 24. Visit us online at: Aegis Baseline 9 Combat System, which intellectual and moral leaders,” said Modly. 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In addition to John Basilone, BIW has But we were not perfect in our ownwas familiar withRELIABILITY another boat in New Jersey ISApparently A FAMILY this passenger, TRADITION. Michael four additional Arleigh Burke class de- pursuits of these values here at home,”built by Lash and was impressed with the Bradley, a resident of Broomall, Pennsylva- quality of the hullMEET and finished construction.THE NEXT GENERATION. stroyers under construction - Daniel Inouye Modly continued. “That contradiction is nia, fell off a cooler on which he was standing The NJ businessmanINTRODUCING contracted THEwith NEWESTwhen the MEMBERS propeller broke OF off.THE The IN-LINE passenger FOUR FAMILY. (DDG 118), Carl M. Levin (DDG120), Har- an undeniable part of our history, one thatLash to furnish a 34 foot Calvin Beal lobster claims the vessel somehow came to an abrupt This powerful vey C. Barnum Jr. (DDG 124) and Patrick boat. 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i4Family_Sgl_7x10_BW.indd 1 6/25/15 1:32 PM Page 10. MAINE COASTAL NEWS March 2020 Commercial Fishing News Boats, Trucks and Fishing - Survival By Sheila Dassett there was a big breakthrough for a longer Now, by the ‘70’s and ‘80’s, we mostly overhead, insurances and sizeable monthly This topic can be condensed or it can lasting boat with less maintenance. Thus saw cab over trucks, which looked like payments. The income revenue to the truck have a vast range of directions to go in. I came the fiberglass hulls and deck tops. boxes going down the road. It was much has not kept up with the cost of operation for have been writing about “then and now” Dad used to say to Philo Dyer (well known easier to turn them around in tight places. the owner-operators. This is much like the with the fishing industry, but I have left out wooden boat builder from Vinalhaven), They were also very efficient but uncom- price of lobsters going up very slowly over some very important factors for the survival that he was building his boats backwards, fortable to ride in as they were mostly spring the years. They also have been regulated to of our fishing industry. Which one comes wooden boats were built from the inside-out ride instead of air ride and you sat over the death much like the fishery. They now have first? Well, it would seem that we need a and painted last, the fiberglass boats were engine. Remember B.J. and the Bear! That electronic logs much like the VMS systems. boat in order to fish. Then, we need trucks painted first and built from the outside-in. truck was cool. Then we went to long nose These two industries have a lot in to transport our lobsters from the dock to Philo never appreciated Dad’s philosophy! Pete’s, Freightliners or Kenworths with big common because they both have a tenden- their destination on land. Years ago, and But it is true, a fiberglass boat is painted first stacks and lots of lights along the bumper cy to be strongly regulated by the federal even now, we also had smack boats to hold in the mold with gelcoat and then layered and trailer. We were fortunate enough to government. Fishermen have conservation and deliver lobsters from the dock to usually with fiberglass saturated with resin. Some be part of that Heyday, with Smokey and measures, (whales, over fishing), as for the Boston for further marketing. also have a core that makes them a little the Bandit and Sonny Pruitt. Just a few of trucks, there is electronic logs, drug testing, My Dad was working on the lobster lighter and stiffer. It also adds a little more many urban cowboys of that time. Everyone mileage, fuel taxes, even pollution standards smack, Perry B. and Lynn II based in Ston- floatation. had dingo boots and cowboy hats! And of in some states where they are not allowed to ington when my brother and I were born. Most of the boats have evolved from course, a CB radio. go into unless they have special pollution The boats were primarily used for lobster 30-32 foot boats to 40 to 50 feet in length The similarity that I am getting to, is we control apparatus. (smog cans). transport at that time and evolved to using with a width of 16-20 feet. They also have all needed each other to make our product As a matter of fact, a lot of fishermen box trucks and tractor-trailer trucks. primarily diesel engines now with wet ex- move and get to market. Most of the fisher- are truck drivers during the off-season. This The first lobster boats were dories or haust instead of the pipes going through the men and truckers had a common respect for is where the two come together. I’m sure dories with sails, which goes back a ways. shelter top. The boats are going further out each other whether it was on the land or on that everyone knows someone that fishes Then, as time went on, we had wooden lob- now and are required to fish trawls due to the the sea. If someone was broken down, we and drives during the off-season! Most ster boats with center console steering and whale rules. This is much more dangerous did not leave them stranded, we helped. of our lobster dealers also have their own spray hoods for cabins. How many remem- for the smaller vessels. It puts too much If you really look at the numbers, when trucks and their drivers are also fishermen. ber the beautiful torpedo stern boats? They weight on the side board. Makes them tipsy. Mike and I were involved with trucking, the As vastly different as the two industries are, did have inboard engines. The outboards Now, with such large boats, it is much numbers for the mileage rates are not much they still work hand in hand. Dare I say that didn’t come along until later. A large lobster more difficult for them to fish within the different from then and now. There is a lot of this is traditional Old School! boat for that time was probably 28 to 30 feet three-mile line, because they are too large to long and 8-½ feet wide. They were very maneuver around the rocks and ledges like seaworthy and fairly fast for their design. the smaller boats. Unless they can afford two Funding for Wood Island Pier Their engines were car engines, preferably boats, one for inshore and one for offshore, it Oldsmobile, Ford, Pontiac, etc. The funny is starting to create an inshore and offshore Council Considers Funding to understand is that our largest donor wants thing is, they usually ran like a sewing fishery. Wood Island Pier to follow, not lead. That means with Kittery machine and were quite economical. They I’m going to get to the trucks now. They Public Hearing Will Need funding for the pier additional grants to fin- were equipped with a brass bit head, which have evolved over the years as well. The All Supporters ish the project can follow. Without Kittery also had another name that is not acceptable trucks also went from smaller to larger over Town Council member and lobster- paying for the pier the project will be held to use…but most of you know the piece of the years. I remember when a truck was a man Ken Lemont has proposed that Kit- up. With Kittery funding the pier, the project equipment that I am referring to. There were big scary looking Mack with the bulldog on tery pay for the Wood Island pier! Thank could be completed and the museum open to no pot haulers with the plates until later on. the hood and a roaring engine to go with it. you Ken! the public in the spring of 2021! From there, wooden cabins were being built We got out of their way when we saw them This means that a public hearing will The hearing on Monday night at for better protection from the weather, with coming down the road! The boxes or trailers occur, likely March 23, where all Wood Council didn’t see fault with the Wood full windshields and a better place for the were stocked with ice instead of refrigera- Island Station supporters will need to attend Island restoration needing some funding exhaust pipes. tion units or reefer units. (I guess I can say and give their support - and bring some from Kittery. The focus was on how to pay By the time the seventies rolled along, that now). They hadn’t been created just yet. friends! for it and what other competing projects The question for that hearing will be if could use the same dollars. But what was Council should allow the voters to decide never mentioned was positive economic JOHANSON BOATWORKS about this funding in June, the next election. impact for Kittery. There will be a vote to put the question on This project has already generated $3.5 Full Service Yacht Yard the ballot or not. million for the Seacoast area, with more to Kittery owns Wood Island, it is their come when the maritime museum is open. property, but has not paid for any of the There is no other project relating to Kittery $3.5 million in restoration costs so far. That property that can say that. Not even close. is because when this project started in 2016 $500,000 for the pier at Wood Island there was far too much risk and spending from Kittery would be an excellent value Town funds would have been crazy. It was for taxpayers. entirely uncertain that WILSSA could se- Assuming that Council agrees to put cure the permits, the funding and figure out this question on the June ballot, we will need the challenging logistics. But all of that has to work hard to turn out the vote needed for happened and in excellent fashion. approval. The total project is expected to cost $5 It seems hard to argue that Kittery voters Rockland, Maine • 207-596-7060 million. The pier is estimated to be $500,000 should not have the chance to decide. Let’s of that total, or only 10%. But what is critical have a vote! AllenBW_coastalNews_4.937x3.687_013019.qxp_Layout [email protected] • 1jboatworks.com 1/30/19 8:04 PM Page 1 DOMETIC TRAINING Marine Insurance Dometic has offered to host a Marine CW School at Front Street An employee-owned company serving Maine people and their boats since 1866. Shipyard in Belfast this March. They would like to invite boatyard staff from around New England free of charge. 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Our Commissioner Pat Keliher in May. Evan will be serving in Boothbay you didn’t know, we all (the directors and our and summer were just the blink of an eye! and Sarah Cotnoir of DMR are scheduled on the Patrol Vessel Monitor. Keegan will industry) supply and donate the seafood for There has been a lot going on this year, to be at this meeting. We have asked for be serving his patrol in Machias. the Seafood Reception on Thursday night. starting with our Whale Rules which have folks to come along to the meeting and bring We offer our sincere condolences to the It is definitely “top of the line” seafood resulted in being the top agenda topic at the their ideas with them. This is all a work in Family of Ed Blackmore of Stonington who donated with lots of caring and sharing. most recent round of Zone Meetings. The progress. passed away in late December at 92. Ed was There is more to the spring line-up of one item that we do understand is that the Mike and I met with our Marine Patrol a long time President of the Maine Lobster- activities. Once again, the MLA is offer- color for Maine is Purple. The Department Officer, Rick Derboghosian at Holland’s men’s Association who was well liked and ing those of us in the industry a free trip of Marine Resources has very distinctly pro- Boat Shop with a rope set-up that Mike put highly respected. Ed was the president and on March 16 to the Seafood Expo North vided written information telling us where together. We had a gathering for suggestions executive director from 1974 to 1991. This America. The bus departs from Bangor, to put the markings on the rope. One of the and opinions of the one that we had with generation is slowly slipping away from us Augusta, Portland and Kennebunk and takes big questions is, to use paint, dye, purple us. It was a very good gathering that told and will be greatly missed. you to Boston. The show is hosted by the rope and what is the availability of all of me that we are all trying to work together to We also offer our condolences to the Maine Lobster Marketing Collaborative. these purple items for this year’s season? make this as safe and livable as possible. No families of Arnold “Joe” Nickerson IV To register call 207 967-4555 or visit www. We have been asked to keep our thinking matter how we look at this, it is a lot of extra of Arundel, ME, and crew member Chris mainelobstermen.org. This is a great indus- caps on for further suggestions before this work! One concern is that our ropes are easy Pinkham of Boothbay Harbor who died Jan- try adventure! whole session is final. One piece of good for us to configure and easy for our Marine uary 23 when Nickerson’s vessel the Hayley One more feature that you’d like is the news is purple sink rope is now becoming Patrol to work with from an enforcement Ann sank about 45 miles off the Portland Maine Boatbuilder’s Show presented by the available at Hamilton Marine and Brooks point of view. We welcome two new Marine coast. Joe was the Chairman of the Maine Portland Yacht Services. It is located on 512 Trap! We thank you for getting this rope Patrol Officers. Commissioner Pat Keliher Coast Fishermen’s Association. Both men Warren Avenue, Portland 04103, Portland in a timely manner to make our lives just a swore in Keegan Nelligan of Abington, will be greatly missed in our fishing industry. Sports Complex. For further information By the time that you receive this paper, call 207 774-1067 or www.boatshow. 2019 Rolex Yachtsmen & Yachtswoman of the Year we will be well into the Maine Fishermen’s portlandcompany.com. You will see some Forum. This will be celebrating 45 Years of beautiful Maine Built boats at this show. US Sailing Announces 2019 Rolex Yachtswoman of the Year awards. The the Forum! It will be held March 5-7, 2020 Well, this should be enough to keep us Yachtsmen and Yachtswoman of the Year annual determination of this year’s awards at the Samoset Resort in Rockport, Maine. all busy this spring. They are all great cabin Winners Aboard USS Midway represented a wide range of accomplished Admission to the Forum is still free, which fever relievers. If you have a chance, take SAN DIEGO, CA – On Thursday night sailors from various disciplines in the sport. is very rare nowadays! This is a great way some of these opportunities in! We have a under the stars aboard the historic and The winners were presented with US to see friends and family all in one friendly great marine industry in Maine as well as the storied USS Midway in San Diego at Navy Sailing’s Rolex® Yachtsman and Yachts- setting. We will have a booth there and look folks that represent it. Pier, the best U. S. sailor athletes of 2019 woman of the Year award trophy along forward to see all of you. They have a web Take care and see you at the Forum, were honored among family, friends, peers, with specially engraved Rolex® timepieces. site if you’d like to look up information: Sheila competitors, and contributors to the sport These honorees join an elite group of notable www.mainefishermensforum.org. of sailing. national sailors. International 505 World Champions, The 2019 finalists were listed on a ballot Mike Martin (Mill Valley, Calif.) and Adam and presented to panels of past award win- Lowry (Mill Valley, Calif.) and IKA Formula ners and sailing media journalists who voted Kite Class World Champion Daniela Moroz for the winners. In an exciting twist to this (Lafayette, Calif.) earned this year’s special year’s process, the fans had an opportunity distinction and were celebrated along with to be part of the selection process and vote the 2019 award finalists who were all partic- online for the 2019 winners. Votes from the ipating in the evening program’s festivities. three voting groups, including the sailing In February, the top performing U.S. media, past award winners, and the fans sailors of the year were shortlisted for counted equally towards determining the US Sailing’s 2019 Rolex Yachtsman and winners.

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ARLINGTON, VA – The Atlantic States the 2019 fishing season, the Board imple- that the fishing mortality reference points The ERP assessment, which was en- Marine Fisheries Commission will hold a mented a bimonthly quota period approach for menhaden should be lower to account dorsed by an independent panel of fisheries second American Lobster Benchmark Stock to maximize use of the reduced sub-ACL for menhaden’s role as a forage fish. In scientists in November, uses the Northwest Assessment Workshop on February 24 – 27 when demand for bait is high. Due to the low order to consider moving forwardJuly with 2012 the MAINEAtlantic COASTALCoastal Shelf Model NEWS of Intermedi Page 21.- at the University of Rhode Island Bay Cam- quota, the 2019 fishery experienced frequent use of ERPs for management, the Board ate Complexity for Ecosystems (NWACS- pus, 215 South Ferry Street, Narragansett, closures to avoid an overage. The 2020 tasked the ERP Workgroup with producingMaritime MICE) to develop History Atlantic menhaden Rhode Island. The stock assessment, which sub-ACL (3,344 mt) is lower than in 2019, several scenarios to explore how different ERPs. The model was chosen from a suite is scheduled for completion in the summer creating further challenges in distributing fishing mortality assumptions for the other of potential options because it was the only of 2020, will evaluate the health of the Gulf the quotaJ throughoutOHN the fishing T OFTseason. predator'S and Tprey speciesALE in the ERP model model that could explore both the impacts of Maine/GeorgesBy William Bank Bunting and Southern New andThe fall Draft of thisAddendum once great considers Maine additional industry (i.e., bluefish, weakfish, spiny dogfish, and of predators on menhaden biomass and the England A year stocks or so and ago inform the Maine management Coastal of Johntools first to providewent to thework Board in a moreLubec flexibility sardine Atlantic herring) might affect the menhaden effects of menhaden harvest on predator Newsthis species.printed Thea pleasantCommission’s little stock story as- factoryin specifying in 1904, the and allocation one year under later was low made quota ERP fishing mortality target and threshold. populations, and be updated in a time- concerningsessment process the old and Eastern meetings Steamship are open to foremanscenarios of and the meetSeacoast the needs sardine of thefactory herring at The Board will review these analyses and frame that is informative for management. Company’sthe public, 1903with thesteamer exception Calvin of discussionsAustin, a Lubec,fishery then moving the largest forward. in the United States. take up the issue of formally adopting ERPs NWACS-MICE is an intermediate complex- handsomeof confidential coastal data*,packet, when 298 the feet public long, will AsAdditionally, the largest in the Lubec Draft as Addendum well, we may con- in May at the Commission’s Spring Meeting. ity ecosystem model that focuses on four paintedbe asked white, to leave with the a towering room. black stack supposesiders expanding that the Seacoast landing factory provisions was acrossfitted “On behalf of the Menhaden Board, key predator species (striped bass, bluefish, and twoThe lofty, draft raked agenda masts. for Priorthe workshop to World is withdifferent the loudest permit whistle categories in town within for alerting the days I commend the ERP Workgroup and the weakfish, and spiny dogfish) and three key Waravailable I, she ran at on http://www.asmfc.org/files/ the International Line from employeesout program. of the The arrival Board of fishutilizes and ofdays work. out dozens of state, federal, academic, and prey species (Atlantic menhaden, Atlantic BostonMeetings/AmericanLobsterAssessement to Portland, Lubec, Eastport, and - Inof any the event,fishery it andwas weeklycustomary, landing on limits foggy to ASMFC scientists for their countless hours herring, and bay anchovy). These species SaintWorkshopII_DraftAgenda_Feb2020.pdf. John, New Brunswick. mornings,adjust the forrate John of Area to blow 1A catch. that whistle The Draft to of dedication to this formidable task,” were chosen because diet data indicate they For Running more informationacross Publisher about Johansen the assess not - answerAddendum the whistleincludes of options the approaching that apply stated Board Chair Nichola Meserve. “The are top predators of Atlantic menhaden or longment after or the attending article appeared,the upcoming I told workshop him that Portlandweekly landingsteamer limits so as to to all help vessel her categories captain Board has long recognized the importance are key alternate prey species for those pred- I, (spacetoo, knew will a good be limited), story about please the Calvin contact findlanding his way herring in through in Area the1A channel.throughout As the it of Atlantic menhaden as a forage fish for a ators, and datasets were available to describe Austin,Caitlin and Starks, that I Fisherywould send Management it along after Plan happened,entire fishing John season.was especially good friends variety of predators as reflected in its setting their population dynamics. I Coordinator,had consulted at [email protected] notes from aor with CaptainInterested Lowell groups Ingalls are encouragedof the Calvin to of conservative harvest limits for menha- The ERP assessment recommends a 703.842.0740. provide input on the Draft Addendum either den and its emphasis on the development combination of the single-species model conversation I had had with John Toft, the Austin. Ingalls was from the nearby * Each state and federal agency is re- by attending state public hearings or provid- of ERPs as one of its highest priorities for (Beaufort Assessment Model) and the teller of the tale, in the mid- 1970s. We had Canadian island of Grand Manan and sponsible for maintaining the confidentiality ing written comment. The Draft Addendum managing the species. The ERP assessment NWACS-MICE model as a tool to evalu- met at the R.J. Peacock sardine factory on became a naturalized American citizen so of its data and deciding who has access will be available on the Commission web- is an impressive body of work and a huge ate trade-offs between menhaden harvest Brown’sto its confidential Wharf in Portland data. whereIn the Toft,case thenof our thatsite he (www.asmfc.org) could serve as underan officer Public aboard Input step towards fully realized ecosystem-basedThe steamer CALVIN and predator AUSTIN. biomass in a quantitative and in stockhis late assessments eighties, was and vice peer president reviews, and all Internationalby February Line 12, steamers. 2020. Public comment fishery management. Although there is still transparent way. An important conclusion superintendent.analysts and, ifI necessary,have since reviewers, looked high have will By be the accepted turn of until the century,5:00 PM coastwiseon March Calvinmuch moreAustin, work and to answeredbe done, thein kind.ERP asAs- frompassing the a ERPremark assessment to the ”wheelsman,” is that the final as andbeen low granted for that permission notebook by butthe appropriatehave not steam25, 2020 packet and lines should – those be forwardbased at toBoston Kirby soonsessment as providesthe big managerssteamer withwas awarped critical ERPquartermasters definitions on and these values, steamers including were the foundagency it, toand use thus and the view rendition confidential of John data. hadRootes-Murdy, been combined Senior by the FMP notorious Coordinator, Charlie alongsidetool in setting the harvestwharf Johntargets hopped for menhaden aboard appropriatecalled. Everything harvest beinglevel asfor it menhaden,should be, Toft’sWhen tale the that assessment follows is drawnteam needs entirely to from show Morse1050 ofN. Bath,Highland Maine St., under Suite the 200 flag A-N, of theAr- andin an headed ecosystem-context.” up to the captain’s cabin on the dependIngalls decidedon the managementto cat-nap on theobjectives settee at for the memory.and discuss However, these data, I observers believe toit our to stock be Easternlington, VirginiaSteamship 22201; Company 703.842.0741 – were (fax) hurricane Under deck, the just traditional aft of the single-species pilothouse, to theback ecosystem of the pilothouse. (i.e., management Some time objectiveslater, while reasonablyassessment accurate. process are asked to leave the significantor at [email protected] carriers of passengers (Subject and alsoline: findreference out whatpoints, had Atlantic happened. menhaden When arehe forhalf both asleep, Atlantic he overheard menhaden the andpilot its remark preda to- room At theto preserve time of our confidentiality. meeting I was at work freight,Atlantic muchHerring of Draft it express. Addendum Steamers III). It is arrivedneither the overfished exhausted Ingallsnor experiencing was already in -over tors).the wheelsman The Board that will the continue wind had to discussbacked on a project which, many years later, resulted deliveredanticipated tin, some solder, states and will cotton conduct seed publicoil to bed,fishing. his eyes Population – as described fecundity, by John a measure so many of managementtowards the west. objectives Good, and thought use of Ingalls, ERPs theat in theASMFC two volumes Atlantic of Herring A Day’s Board Work Ap ; A- Downhearings East on sardinethe Draft factories, Addendum; and the carried details yearsreproductive later — lookingcapacity like (i.e., “two number holes burnedof ma- thefog Commission’swas lifting, and Spring he snoozed Meeting some in May. more. Samplerproves of Draft Historic Addendum Maine IIIPhotographs for Public awayof which millions will ofbe cansreleased of sardines. via a press release inture a eggsblanket.” in the Ingalls population), explained has been what above has Copies Then suddenly of the Assessmenthe sat up as and his Peerhalf- 1860-1920. TravelingComment about the state with a once Coastal they are waters finalized. were then very crowded, happened.the single-species threshold since 1991 and Reviewconscious Reports brain cantumbled be found to the on realizationthe Com- 4x5 camera,The Atlantic I sought States out historic Marine photos Fisheries of and withoutFor more the benefit information, of any electronic please contact aids above The the Calvinsingle-species Austin target had in departed20 of the mission’sthat if the windwebsite had on indeed the Atlantic backed menhaden to the west MainersCommission’s at work to Atlantic copy, and Herring old-timers Manage who - toKirby navigation Rootes-Murdy the piloting at of krootes-murdy@ these scheduled Portland27 years onsince schedule then, including at 5 PM 2017.in a thick Fishing fog webpage,he shouldn’t http://www.asmfc.org/species/ still be hearing the deep couldment help Board me approvedunderstand Draft what Addendum the images III steamersasmfc.org was or 703.842.0740. a very demanding, high- withmortality a light ( F)easterly has remained wind. After below running the sin out- atlantic-menhaden,reverberating voice under of the stock fog status. signal! A depicted.to Amendment I was privileged 3 of the to Interstate be able to Fishery talk pressure job with great responsibilities, hergle-species time so asoverfishing to put Seal threshold Island abeam, (0.6) since the moreLeaping detailed to the overview compass ofhe thesaw, stock to his assess alarm,- withManagement a number ofPlan sharp-minded, for Atlantic dry-wittedHerring for requiringASMFC much Atlantic skill, Menhaden experience, Board and a veryPre- coursethe mid-1970s, was andchanged below thefor single-species the long, mentsthat the is availablebig steamer at http://www.asmfc.org/ was headed at right public comment. The Draft Addendum pro- overfishing target (0.22) since the mid- uploads/file/5e3c4663AtlanticMenhade- folks hailing from the late 1800s who were level-headpares to Movein moments Forward of stress. with NavigationMenhaden uninterrupted Down East leg. In the angle to its proper course, straight out into poses options to better manage the Area 1A Ecological Reference Points 1990s. Fishing mortality was estimated to be nAssessmentsOverview_Feb2020.pdf. The eager to talk about the old days one more in fog was based on running established darkened pilothouse the pilot on watch sat the North Atlantic! (inshore Gulf of Maine) sub-annual catch The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries 0.11 in 2017. Although the ERP assessment overview aims to aid media and interested time. I treasure the memories of those compass courses at known rates of speed for on a stool by a partially opened window, limit (ACL) under low quota scenarios. This Commission’s Atlantic Menhaden Man- indicates that the F reference points should stakeholders in better understanding the meetings, including the hour or so that I was prescribed lengths of time. Continued on Page 22. action responds to the challenges encoun- agement Board accepted the results of the peeringbe lower into than the the dark single-species fog, and occasionally reference assessment results. For more information, privileged to chat with John Toft. Since slower speeds gave the wind and tered in managing the reduced sub-ACL Single-Species and Ecological Reference points, it also showed that the conservative please contact Max Appelman, Fishery based John on Toft the had,2018 for benchmark many decades, stock assess been - currentsPoints (ERPs)greater Assessments opportunity and to Peerput the Re- a ment,leading which figure highlighted in the decliningMaine sardine trends in steamerview Reports off her course, for management and since late use. arrivals The industry,recruitment although and spawning one would stock never biomass. have weresingle-species very bad for assessment business, indicatesmaintaining the known that from his baggy khakis and normal or near-normal speed in fog was the PAULLuke's E. LUKE,Boatyard INC. equally casual manner. Sitting outside on the general rule. 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The carriers breaking on the beach. servingpodcasting John Toft’s factory at were weru.org the first to and While on the the New WERU York to Portland app. run was be outfitted with ship-to-shore radio, radar, said to be the most demanding on the coast, and fathometerslive every second TuesdayBoston of to each Saint John month was no milk 4-5pm run, thanks Incidentally, a Maine fisherman once especially to the strong tidal currents and told me that when some Gloucester seiners, frequent fog at the eastern end. Not GreatHarborBoatworks.com having heardLocal about boating the pumping news, of fish interesting from surprisingly, guests, and a number your of input the International too. a flooded hold, tried to copy this technique, Line’s officers, as with Lowell Ingalls, were at firstCall-in they didn’t live realizeand join the thenecessity conversation of natives or of just the Passamaquoddyroll with the flow region on and having a tightthe fish nautical hold, Perhaps radio thatshow was without a very familiarpiers. with Non-commercial their perilous home waters. MAINE COAST LUMBER, INC. libelous fable… On coastwise steamers the rankings beneath An unlikelycommunity but evidently supported true radio.story captainThanks were for first your pilot, support. second pilot, first concerning John Toft appeared in the mate, second mate and so on, in that order. 17 White Birch Lane 4 Warren Ave. November 13, 1970 issue of the Kennebec When underway one of the two pilots was York, ME 03909 Westbrook, ME 04902 Journal . Groups of school children were always in the pilot house, attending to (207) 363-7426 (207) 856-6015 reported to be visiting Brown’s Wharf to see navigation. (The captain and the first mate, (800) 899-1664 (877) 408-4751 the dugong – a genuine Pacific or Indian at least, would also have had pilotage Fax (207) 363-8650 Fax (207) 856-6971 Ocean dugong, as identified by its dolphin- endorsements on their tickets, but had other M-F 7am-4:30pm M-F 7:30am-4:30pm like tail, and not an Atlantic manatee – which responsibilities beyond navigation. had for some time appeared at the wharf at About now you are probably now high tide when herring were being landed. wondering whatever happened to John Although primarily a herbivore, this dugong Toft’s tale, so here goes. *HARDWOOD LUMBER*SOFTWOOD LUMBER* would eat herring thrown to it, provided that One foggy morning at Lubec the *HARDWOOD PLYWOODS*MELAMINE*MDF*MARINE they were undamaged in appearance. The expected sound of the whistle from the PLYWOODS*MDO*PARTICLE BOARD*SLATWALL*LAMINATE* *EDGE BANDING*VENEER*HARDWOOD MOLDINGS* visits of both the dugong and the kids usually prompt Portland steamer was not *CUSTOM MILLING*DOVETAILED DRAWER BOXES obviously delighted Superintendent Toft. heard. The factory crew finished up I don’t believe that the Brown’s Wharf processing the morning’s herring and went sardine factory lasted very long after Toft’s home, but John remained standing by, We Deliver www.mainecoastlumber.com death. Indeed, his lifetime – he was born in listening. And in the late morning he finally ME, NH, VT, MA, RI [email protected] We Ship UPS Trescott in 1887 – nearly matched the rise heard the distant wail of the approaching MAINE COASTAL NEWS MarchJuly 20122020 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page Page 13. 13. Commercial FishingFishing NewsNews MiscellaneousISCELLANEOUS CommercialOMMERCIAL FishingISHING NewsEWS Management Plan Coordinator,M at mappel- New Hampshire Fish and GameC Webinar link: F in specifying N the allocation under low quota Center, and Marine Mammals of Maine Waring noted that the 2012 harbor seal process for the last decade made him a sure opportunity to look back at where we have [email protected] or 703.842.0740. March 3, 2020 at 6 PM https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/regis- scenarios and meet the needs of the herring joined the team for the Rockland tagging study is an example of collaboration among choice to serve as the Commission’s Acting been and what we have accomplished, and Urban Forestry Center ter/2774987433446335756 fishery moving forward. Additionally, the effort. many different organizations so that Executive Director,” stated ASMFC Chair chart a new course for the future.” States Schedule Hearings on Atlantic 45 Elwyn Road Conference Call # 1.888.585.9008 (enter Draft Addendum considers expanding A pre-abundance survey aerial flight everyone involved benefits as much as Paul Diodati. ”Recognized and well The Commission was formed over 70 Herring Draft Addendum III Portsmouth, New Hampshire passcode: 853-657-937 when prompted) landing provisions across different permit along the entire Maine coast will begin on possible. “My goal is to successfully respected by the fisheries management years ago by the 15 Atlantic coast states to ARLINGTON, VA – The Atlantic coastal Contact: Cheri Patterson at 603.868.1095 Contact: Kirby Rootes-Murdy at categories within the days out program. May 26 or 27 to determine the general conduct the capture/tagging and aerial community, he brings to the position strong assist in managing and conserving their states of Maine, New Hampshire and Mas- 703.842.0740 The Board utilizes days out of the fishery locations of the radio-tagged harbor seals at abundance survey,” Waring said, “and to leadership skills and a thorough shared coastal fishery resources. With the sachusetts have scheduled their hearings to Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries and weekly landing limits to adjust the rate that time. Antennas mounted on the wings continue developing the regional network of understanding of the issues faced by the recognition that fish do not adhere to gather public input on Draft Addendum III. March 2, 2020 at 6 PM The Draft Addendum proposes options of Area 1A catch. The Draft Addendum of the radio tracking airplane can detect the seal researchers and cooperative research Commission and the states. His appointment political boundaries, the states formed an The details of those hearings and the public MA DMF Gloucester Office to better manage the Area 1A (inshore Gulf includes options that apply weekly landing radio signals from tagged seals within a 5-10 programs.” will ensure continuity in the Commission’s Interstate Compact, which was approved by hearing webinar follow: Annisquam River Station of Maine) sub-annual catch limit (ACL) limits to all vessel categories landing herring mile area when the radio-tagged animals are scientific and management programs during the U.S. Congress in 1942. The states have 30 Emerson Avenue under low quota scenarios. This action in Area 1A throughout the entire fishing hauled out on the ledges. Navy to Host Series of Public Meetings to this time of transition.” found that their mutual interest in sustaining Maine Department of Marine Resources Gloucester, Massachusetts responds to the challenges encountered in season. On about May 27, the aerial Solicit Comments on Proposed Training Over the next couple of months, the healthy coastal fishery resources is best March 9, 2020 at 6 PM Contact: Melanie Griffin at 617.626.1528 managing the reduced sub-ACL based on the Interested groups are encouraged to photographic abundance surveys will and Testing Exercises off U.S. Atlantic Commission’s Executive Committee will promoted by working together ME DMR Augusta Office 2018 benchmark stock assessment, which provide input on the Draft Addendum either begin. The survey will photograph seals on and Gulf of Mexico Coast; Comments Due develop a vacancy announcement and cooperatively, in collaboration with the 32 Blossom Lane, Room 118 Webinar Hearing highlighted declining trends in recruitment by attending state public hearings or provid- haul-out ledges in bay sectors in four-hour July 10 selection process for the new Executive federal government. With this approach, the Augusta, Maine March 12, 2020 at 5:30 PM and spawning stock biomass. ing written comment. The Draft Addendum intervals. Simultaneously, the radio tracking The Department of the Navy has Director. Mr. Diodati continued, “This is an states uphold their collective fisheries Contact: Megan Ware at 207.624.6563 Currently, the Board can allocate the will be available at http://www.asmfc. aircraft will search in the same bay sectors for prepared a Draft Environmental Impact exciting time in the Commission’s seventy management responsibilities in a cost- radio tagged seals. Data from both aircraft Statement/Overseas Environmental Impact yearsub-ACL history. throughout It offers our the Commissioners fishing season an us- effective,org/files/PublicInput/AtlHerringDraftAd timely, and responsive fashion. - will be used to deriveMaine an abundance estimate. 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The well-known lobster boat racer WHISTLIN’ DIXIE (Holland 40, 1,000-hp Caterpillar) sitting on the hard after hitting a reef hard off of Harpswell just before Christmas. You can This is the oyster sloop, which has been an ongoing project at Buxton Boats in Sunset (Ston- see some of the damage to her keel. ington). The hope is to finish the interior, deck and cabin this year.

Continued from Page 1. he went to work for RP boats in Steuben. and I went and talked to Mike and he said will be finished out as a lobster boat for a He then went to work for Dana Rice at come on in.” fisherman of Prospect Harbor. She will be Moises said he came from Puerto Rico Bunker’s Harbor for a number of years. He Moises has self-taught himself a lot getting a 500-hp Iveco. This is the 105th 36. in 2001 and could not speak a word of added, “Five and a half years ago I moved to about boatbuilding and he takes a lot of pride Behind PULL ‘N PRAY there is BOB- English when he got here. He said, “I like Presque Isle because my woman has family in what he is doing and it shows in the boats BY O., which was built in 1990. She has had Maine. I feel like I am at home here.” up there. Presque Isle isn’t for everybody. I he has finished off. Despite doing this for her house extended for sportfishing. When he arrived here, he was buying came back down here to visit and little Dana just a few years on his own, his reputation There are a number of other jobs coming seafood and trucking it to Massachusetts. (Rice) who was building his Wesmac. Mike is growing rapidly. in. A Repco 30 and a Holland 38 will be in His first taste of boatbuilding came when Light had it and asked me to help him out for new tops, which they modify from their Wayne Beal’s Boat Shop 36 top. Out back is a Crowley 28 that needs Jonesport some repair work. In the shop is the Wayne Beal 40 PULL MARIA’s NIGHTMARE, a Wayne ‘N PRAY (built 1999), which last summer Beal 28, which you saw Jeremy race last suffered a major fire as she approached the year, will be back out this year with a diesel dock on Long Island. She was hauled up at engine. He is thinking of putting in a 500-hp Johnson’s Boat Yard on Long Island and Cummins, but he will not compete against cleaned up a bit. She was then trucked to his father. AT PORTLAND YACHT SERVICES Jonesport for a full restoration. They have done some additional cleaning and next East Side Boat Shop 100 West Commercial Street, Portland, Maine 04102 they will begin ripping out the rest of the East Machias platform. They will then be putting back the Inside they are finishing off a Libby 41 REGISTER structure and tankage under the platform. as a lobster boat for a fisherman from Rhode NOW This will be followed by a new platform, Island. At the end of January, they were USCG Master 100 Tons new bulkhead, moulded top and then she putting the structure and tankage under the will be sanded down and the topsides refin- platform. Next to the hull they are laying up Jan 6 - Feb 15 or April 6 - May 16 ished. Jeremy Beal said, “It is going to be her top. quite a project. I am hoping to have it for They have been working on a 34-foot him so he can take it to Boothbay, but I don’t top, which is actually going to be for their 1-day Boater Safety Classes know, but we will try.” new model, a Libby 36. She is going to be Next to PULL ‘N PRAY they are laying 36 feet 11 inches long, a little wider, higher Offered Monthly on Saturdays up a Wayne Beal 32 (hard chine), for Wayne top, straight transom and probably a deeper Beal, which will be finished out as lobster keel. The have taken the existing 38 mould March thru July 2020 Dates TBA boat. She will have a 500-hp Cummins and and have completely refinished it removing FMI Call 207-774-1067 or [email protected] they are hoping to have it done for the first all the bumps, dimples and plank lines and race of the season at Boothbay. made it perfectly smooth. They have also They also have a Wayne Beal 36, which rebuilt all the structure of the mould so that it is completely solid. The hull and the top will be done this spring. The mould for the 41 is getting tired and they are going to build a new one. She will be modified to be two feet wider, six to eight inches higher and the keel will drop eight From winning races to inches. It all comes down to power and the cruising or power boating more power put in the bigger the propeller needs to be and the keel needs to be deeper. use Hallett Canvas & Sails They have someone interested in lengthening the Libby 47 to a 50. He also to get you there. Made in the USA. wants them to widen it 20 feet so that he can Still time to winterize shift all his traps in two loads. He presently has a 47 and he goes out in weather that no your canvas and sails one else will go out in. He says it is not as fast Photo Ann-e Blanchard as a 41, but he can work in anything. Frank • Wash, Check & Repair (In house) Coffin, owner of East Side Boat Shop, owns • Clean & Waterproof (Canvas) a 47 and he is thinking of building another one and if he does, he will not change a thing. • Repair & Store Only In the far bay they have a 30 year old Young Brothers 35 and she is getting a new • Wash & Store Only floor and fuel tanks. The floor was so rotten they were able to shovel it out of the bilge. HALLE T T CANVAS & SAILS This will be followed by a 40-footer 215 Foreside Rd, Falmouth, Maine that at least needs a new floor, but they are (207) 781-7070 (800) 639-9907 thinking she will need more than that. www.hallettcanvasandsails.com John Williams Boatbuilder www.h2ube.com Hall’s Quarry

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CUSTOM CONSTRUCTION, RESTORATION & STORAGE Page 18. MAINE COASTAL NEWS March 2020 IMOCA News Boris Herrmann and Vendée Globe or- Class understands the urgent need to protect oped by a Copernicus-funded project from ganization work together at the Dussel- Science sets sail: New partnership and preserve our seas, making our work with EUMETSAT (TRUSTED buoys), and an dorf Boot Boat Show between UNESCO’s IOC and IMOCA UNESCO’s IOC even more valuable.” The oceanographic sensor capable of measuring Boris Herrmann is, of course, well Class Signed in Paris IMOCA class. levels of CO2, salinity and surface tempera- known in the world of offshore racing after 31st January 2020, Paris – A partnership Navigating in much more agile and ture. The deployment of these observing his participation in several major ocean agreement between UNESCO’s Intergov- nimbler boats than heavier traditional sci- systems was coordinated by JCOMMOPS events such as the 2018 Route du Rhum, the ernmental Oceanographic Commission entific vessels, the competitive sailing boats (IOC-UNESCO/WMO). Barcelona World Race and the Global Ocean (IOC) and the International Monohull Open of the IMOCA class can reach areas of the “Everyone has his or her role in the Race in Class 40s. But the German skipper Class Association (IMOCA) was signed ocean that are poorly served by regular mar- journey to a sustainable ocean, sometimes in takes a big step up as he strives to line up today at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, itime traffic. Gathering ocean-atmosphere distant and less accessible parts of the ocean. at the start of the Vendée Globe 2020. The France. Over the next two years, the two data with on-board instrumentation all along The sailing boats of the IMOCA Class will collaborative approach by the skipper and partners will carry out joint projects to sup- the track and deploying Argo profilers and be special contributors to ocean observa- the Vendée Globe organization at the Boot port marine scientific research and to raise surface drifters are very valuable contribu- tions, helping to collect crucial ocean data,” in Dusseldorf takes the chance to publicize awareness about the importance of ocean tions to the Global Ocean Observing System commented Vladimir Ryabinin, Executive the solo nonstop race round the world to a science for the protection of the ocean and coordinated by UNESCO’s IOC. Secretary of UNESCO’s IOC to welcome nation, which perhaps knows other ocean the sustainable use of marine resources. Back in October 2019, navigator Alex- the partnership between sailing and science. races better, not least the crewed Whitbread The activities will be coordinated by ia Barrier and co-skipper Joan Mulloy of Volvo Ocean Race which was, after all, won a Joint centre for oceanographic and ma- 4myplanet deployed an Argo float donated To mark the signing of the partnership by a German team in 2002. Both parties are rine meteorological observing programme by the French consortium Coriolis off the agreement, five renowned skippers (Fabrice sure this initiative at Boot will profit both support (JCOMMOPS) – a collaboration Bay of Biscay, during the Jacques Vabre Amedeo, Alexia Barrier, Boris Herrmann, the skipper and the race in terms of visibility between the IOC and the World Meteo- Transatlantic yacht race from Normandy Stéphane Le Diraison and Paul Meilhat) and a greater understanding of the challenge rological Organization (WMO) – which to Brazil. Other crews (Boris Herrmann participated this morning in a “Campus UN- that is the Vendée Globe, not least because internationally coordinates about 10,000 and Will Harris of Malizia, Stéphane Le ESCO” with young students from French no German solo skipper has finished the race in situ ocean observing instruments for the Diraison and François Guiffant of Time For schools to share their experience as profes- so far. continuous monitoring of the global ocean Oceans, and Fabrice Amedeo and Eric Péron sional sailors committed to promoting sci- Boris Herrmann skipper of Malizia II - Yacht and the atmosphere above it. of Newrest-Art & Fenêtres) contributed to ence for the protection of our shared ocean. Club of Monaco: Founded in 1991, the IMOCA man- the collection of scientific data, by taking “The priority will of course be to com- ages the class of 60-foot (18.28 metres) aboard two weather drifter floats devel- municate about the Vendée Globe. There is open monohulls. The aim of the class is to an audience for this type of race: the proof develop the fleet of monohulls and offer its is, the tens of thousands of spectators who skippers an attractive and coherent sports Ocean Globe Race came to Kiel for a stage of the Volvo Ocean programme, which includes the well-known Ocean Globe Race from the High Arctic to the Caribbean and Race. The participation of a German skipper races Route du Rhum, Monaco Globe Se- 23 entries confirmed, largest crewed RTW everywhere in between. They aim to sail is a first for the Vendée Globe and should ries, and The Vendée Globe and The Ocean race in 30 years with a 50/50 mixed team of men and women offer an unprecedented focus on the race. Race, among others. It contributes to the Entries from 13 countries in the Ocean and fund the campaign with a combination For our team, it is also an opportunity internationalisation of offshore racing and Globe Race are going strong, just six months of sponsorship and paying crew. to promote the “My Ocean Challenge” combines the notions of competition, inno- after announcing the inaugural race starting As Andy Shell, Icebear’s skipper ex- program, which combines work to collect vation, human adventure and safety. Further, in May 2023 plains it was a natural choice: “I’m romantic scientific data as we navigate the South Seas central to IMOCA is how to constantly • The 10 entries in Adventure Class (47- for the sea. I love the old traditions, the chal- with an education and awareness program respect the environment better. 56 feet production yachts) have now been lenges that an ‘analog’ circumnavigation to the destination especially the youngest. “Our skippers each share a variety filled and a waiting list has been established presents, the old boats, the adventure and I am convinced that my participation of unique experiences; navigating to the • 8 entrants are now confirmed in the philosophy of it all. The OGR feels like it in the Vendée Globe will allow the race to most isolated corners of the globe whilst Sayula Class (56.1 to 66 feet production was made just for us – it is the right time in reach new audiences and further strengthenMaine witnessing Boats, Homesfirst-hand & our Harbors impact onMagazine the yachts), leaving only 2 boats left to partici- our business, the right time with us starting the international dimension of the event.” World’s oceans. 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Their find- tion already suggest that site assessments ocean twilight zone The essential roles that microbes play ings indicate the likely impacts of mining on should include how much microbial life is Did you know that there’s a natural in deep-sea ecosystems are at risk from the microbial communities vary substantially, present, the researchers on the new study carbon sink—even bigger than the Ama- potential environmental impacts of mining, from minimal disturbance to the irreversible emphasize that it is equally important to de- zon rainforest—that helps regulate Earth’s found a new paper by researchers at Bige- loss of important habitat services. termine what roles the microbes are playing climate by sucking up to six billion tons of low Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Woods Hydrothermal vent systems, for exam- and assess how they would be impacted by carbon from the air each year? Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), ple, are particularly sensitive – and valuable. mining. A new report from researchers at Woods and colleagues. The study reviews what The hot, mineral-rich waters support robust “It is important to understand the poten- Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is known about microbes in these envi- communities of microbes that form the vital tial impacts of mining activities to figure out reveals for the first time the unseen—and ronments and assesses how mining could base of the food web in these ecosystems. if they should occur and how to manage them somewhat surprising—benefits that people impact their important environmental roles. The extreme environmental conditions also if they do,” said James Bradley, a scientist receive from the ocean’s twilight zone. Also The findings are published in the journal of foster rich genetic diversity among the mi- at Queen Mary University of London and known as the “mesopelagic,” this is the Limnology and Oceanography. crobes, making them promising candidates co-author on the paper. “This is an important ocean layer just beyond the sunlit surface. “The push for deep-sea mining has real- in the search for anti-cancer drugs and other conversation between policy makers, indus- The ocean twilight zone is a mysterious ly accelerated in the last few years, and it is new biotechnology applications. try, and the scientific community, and it’s place filled with alien-looking creatures. crucial that policy makers and the industry “These microbes have incredible po- important that we work together to get this The nightly, massive migration of animals understand these microbes and the services tential to inspire new solutions to all sorts right. Once these ecosystems are damaged, from the zone to the surface waters to find they provide,” said Beth Orcutt, a senior of medical and technical challenges we face they may never fully recover.” food helps to cycle carbon through the research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory today,” said Julie Huber, a WHOI scientist This study was supported by the ocean’s depths, down into the deep ocean for Ocean Sciences and the lead author of and co-author of the new study. “But if we NSF-funded Center for Dark Energy Bio- and even to the seabed, where it can remain the study. “This paper establishes what we damage or destroy a habitat like a hydro- sphere Investigations (C-DEBI) and the sequestered indefinitely. know and suggests next steps for using the thermal vent, we lose the diverse the pool of Sloan Foundation-funded Deep Carbon “We knew that the ocean’s twilight zone best science to evaluate the impacts of this microbial genetic information from which Observatory. played an important role in climate, but we new human activity in the deep sea.” we can find new enzymes or drugs.” are uncertain about how much carbon it is Microbes across the seafloor are re- Consumer demand for products like Continued on Page 21. sponsible for essential ecosystem services, smartphones and electric cars is driving from fueling the food web to powering glob- the rapidly growing interest in deep-sea al nutrient cycles. Environments that are mining for metals like cobalt and rare earth promising for mining are also often the sites elements, which are used in lithium-ion bat- of globally-important microbial processes teries. The International Seabed Authority of and unusual animal communities – and may the United Nations is working to establish be slow to recover from disturbances. guidelines for countries and contractors to Orcutt and her coauthors analyzed four explore the seafloor for minerals, and to types of deep-sea mineral resources, includ- eventually mine them.

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Page 20. MAINE COASTAL NEWS March 2020 Bernard 'Benny' Beal of Jonesport

and she was different but basically in the sea she Continued from Page 5. was about the same.” uncle built boats, and I was going to notch into When asked who built her, Benny said, her mould and he said he didn’t think I ought to “Well, now that is something else. My Dad and I let her come up. I wasn’t satisfied with her at all built it and oh my God. I was buying and selling when I got her done, cause I knew it wasn’t right. worms and stuff. I built a basement with 8 foot He talked me out of letting her go that way, so walls cause I needed it to handle worms in. Well, she came out too far dropped down. I fished her we built the PIONEER in the basement. People for years and I’ve still got her in the boat shop.” said “how are you going to get it out?” Well, it Benny had a lot of fun racing, but he had didn’t worry me any as I figured I’d get a big the most fun racing Doug Carter and the Barlow crane and take her out. Got ready to take her out, designed BABE [Everett Barlow, 1962; 455 got the crane, and they said “oh we can handle Oldsmobile] of Boothbay. Benny added, “Every her, no problem.” He got her picked up and went year he’d say you ain’t sand bagging are you? I to turn her and the crane started lifting and was sand bagged all the time with him. Then I’d just going to go right into mother’s house. So, he had edge him out. He’d work and work and the next to drop her. She was out over the cellar wall, but year I’d go back and I’d edge him out again. I I had built a real rugged cradle for her and just had more fun with him. as well, when they dropped her one end of that Another race he fondly remembered was his cradle caught on that wall if it hadn’t it would first race, which was in an outboard boat again have taken the side right out of the boat. There she BENNY'S BITCH Bill Church of Jonesport. It was real rough and was sitting there. Next thing he done, he latched he knew Bill had a faster boat, but due to the a bulldozer to the back end of the crane to hold conditions Bill opted to go closer to shore and it down. We finally got her down off the cellar that was a longer distance. Benny decided to wall and that was scary when they dropped her. I go straight for the finish bouncing up and down thought she was gone. After a while with enough and when he came up, he got his bearings and action we got her down.” pounded his way all the way down the course. When she came out, she was completely He said, “I took one hell of a beating but I beat done and Benny thought all they had to do was him. That was the first time I ever raced.” install the engine. He explained, “She was 38 Benny has owned a number of boats over foot. The first straight sheered, high sided lobster the years. Elihu built him ANN MARIE in the boat at the time. We were way ahead of these other 1970s. The 41-footer DONNA MARIE was also guys. I know one of the old fisherman said, “I see built by Elihu in 1972. In 1979 Clifford Alley built your new boat on the mooring and I’d be some him a 39-footer named SHIRLEY JEAN, which proud of her.” She had a yacht finish. I sanded Benny said was a lot like his grandfather’s model. her by hand with blocks. In 1982 Doug Dodge finished off a Newman 46 Benny not only fished off Beals-Jonesport, named BESSIE MAE. but also out-of-state. He said he fished out One of the best boats he owned was the PIO- Gloucester and Nantucket going out over 200 NEER. He said, “I told my grandfather I wanted miles fishing for lobster on the Continental Shelf. a model made like the one my uncle Adrian had. Benny was the first from Maine to fish that far STELLA ANN She wasn’t right flat and steady as some, but she offshore. Another one to do this Was Bob Brown first ones to go offshore lobstering. I met Bobby any time while he was fishing. was one hell of a sea boat. He made me the model of Gloucester, who was one of Benny’s best when I was long lining out of Gloucester. It was There was also a 55-foot Bruno Stillman for the PIONEER, only I put a lot of flare in her friends. Benny explained, “He was one of the miles and miles every trip where we set, seems that Benny owned. On a motorcycle trip through as much as 20 miles. We set an awful lot of gear. the White Mountains he stopped to see the prog- Bobby Brown was working doing the same thing ress. When he saw the boat, he told them, “We with me at the same time. He tried to tell me I was wouldn’t put that kind of work in an outdoor shit paying my crew too much. I paid my crew well. house. When I got her home, I took her over to He wouldn’t. He was hard on his crew. His way Junior Backman’s and grounded her out and I you have to break in new crew in every trip. You worked on her there.” Penobscot Marine Museum’s Nati onal Fisherman want somebody you can depend on. You have got Following a fall that broke his hip, Benny photography collecti on is the defi niti ve resource for to treat them right.” has stopped fishing. After more than eighty years The boat he used offshore out of Gloucester fishing the New England coast Benny has left a seeing and understanding the commercial fi sheries in was ANN MARIE. Some would use the new last legacy showing that hard work and sheer 20th century North America. fangled electronics to find their fish, but Benny determination will equal success. He did that knew exactly where he wanted to be and did not fishing, but also when it came to racing. See the images online: waste any time getting there and did not waste penobscotmarinemuseum.org/nati onal-fi sherman/

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MSS-137A_wooden_boat_4x5.indd 1 6/21/16 10:49 AM March 2020 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 21. Wood's Hole Oceanographic News Continued from Page 19. plates because of their small size and strange ic Institution (WHOI), and colleagues found ranging from small to mega-deltas. appearance, they do provide meals for larg- that delta areas worldwide have actually “Applying this novel prediction of sequestering, or trapping, annually,” says er, economically important fish, like tuna gained land in the past 30 years, despite river delta shape to global examples allowed us Porter Hoagland, a WHOI marine policy and swordfish, and for other top predators, damming. However, recent land gains are to quantify how delta shape affects change,” analyst and lead author of the report. “This including sharks, whales, seals, penguins, unlikely to last throughout the 21st century says WHOI geologist Andrew Ashton, massive migration of tiny creatures is hap- and seabirds. due to expected, accelerated sea level rise. a coauthor of the paper. “For example, pening all over the world, helping to remove The twilight zone’s biological abun- The researchers published their findings in when sediment supply diminishes, deltas an enormous amount of carbon from the dance makes it an attractive target for com- the journal Nature. dominated by waves tend to erode, while atmosphere.” mercial fishing operations. Ocean twilight River deltas rank among the most eco- tide-dominated deltas continue to grow.” Exactly how much carbon is difficult zone animals could be harvested to produce nomically and ecologically valuable envi- The next step in the research is to extend to pinpoint because the ocean twilight zone fish meal to support the rapidly growing ronments on Earth. People living on deltas the model to make predictions of future delta is challenging to get to and is understudied. aquaculture industry and to provide fish oils are increasingly vulnerable to sea-level rise change, particularly for rising sea levels. The WHOI Ocean Twilight Zone project, for nutraceutical markets. Because the twi- and coastal hazards such as major storms, Understanding how waves and tides modify which launched in April 2018, is focused on light zone is situated largely in unregulated extremely high tides, and tsunamis. Many river deltas will be critical for anticipating changing that with the development of new international waters, there is concern that deltas experience a decline in sediment future change, both locally and globally. technologies. its potential resources could be subject to supply due to upstream damming, making The research team also included col- It’s estimated that two to six billion met- unsustainable exploitation. them even more vulnerable. However, the leagues from Florida State University, Wa- ric tons of carbon are sequestered through The research team hopes that the report new study found that long-term, large-scale, geningen University and Research, Tulane the ocean’s twilight zone annually. By will be useful for decision makers, such upstream deforestation has resulted in soil University, Indiana University, University comparison, the world’s largest rain forest as the United Nations delegates who will erosion that increased the amount of sedi- of Colorado Boulder Institute of Arctic and sucks in only about 544 million metric tons meet this spring in New York to continue ment transported to many deltas. Alpine Research, and Los Alamos National of carbon a year—five percent of the world’s developing a new international agreement “A large driver for these gains turned Laboratory. annual 10 billion metric tons of carbon emis- governing the conservation and sustainable out to be human action,” says lead author The work was funded by the National sions. management of marine life on the high seas, Jaap Nienhuis, a geoscientist at Utrecht Science Foundation and the Netherlands Using a range of prices for carbon, in areas beyond the coastal waters managed University and a graduate of the MIT-WHOI Science Organization NWO. reflecting future damages expected as a by individual member States. Joint Program. “Twenty five percent of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution consequence of a changing climate, this “We need to think carefully about what delta growth can be attributed to upstream is a private, non-profit organization on Cape “regulating” service has an estimated value we stand to gain or lose from future actions deforestation, which results in soil erosion Cod, Mass., dedicated to marine research, of $300 to $900 billion annually, Hoagland that could affect the animals of the twilight and increased sediment delivery to the coast. engineering, and higher education. Estab- notes. Without the ocean’s ability to seques- zone and their valuable ecosystem services,” Human action such as damming causes sedi- lished in 1930 on a recommendation from ter carbon, atmospheric carbon dioxide lev- says Hoagland. “Increasing scientific under- ment starvation and increased importance of the National Academy of Sciences, its prima- els could be as much as 200 parts per million standing is essential if we are going to move wave- and tide-driven transport, which can ry mission is to understand the oceans and higher than they are today (about 415 ppm), toward a goal of the sustainable use of the also change delta shape.” their interaction with the Earth as a whole, which would result in a temperature increase resources.” The relationship between the sediment and to communicate a basic understanding of about six degrees Celsius or 10.8 degrees This research is part of the Woods Hole deposited by rivers, oceanographic forces of the oceans’ role in the changing global Fahrenheit. Oceanographic Institution’s Ocean Twilight of waves and tides, and delta shape has environment. For more information, please In addition to its role in the carbon Zone Project, funded as part of The Auda- remained poorly understood. To address visit www.whoi.edu. cycle, the twilight zone likely harbors more cious Project housed at TED. this, the international team of researchers fish biomass than the rest of the ocean developed and applied a novel theory that Go to Maine Coastal News' combined, and it is home to the most abun- For now, river deltas gain land world- can quantify how waves and tides influence WEBSITE! dant vertebrate species on the planet— the wide delta shape. The availability of global satel- bristlemouth. While twilight zone fish are Researchers from Utrecht University in lite imagery allowed them to test their new mainescoast.com unlikely to ever end up on peoples’ dinner the Netherlands, Woods Hole Oceanograph- model on over 10,000 deltas worldwide, I n t e r n a t i o n a l M a r i t i m e L i b r a r y We have gone live! at: internationalmaritimelibrary.org

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Page 22. MAINE COASTAL NEWS March 2020 U. S. Coast Guard News Continued from Page 8. pi, a contract for the design and construction nations throughout the Caribbean Sea.” Tamara Alane, who reported that they had of the Coast Guard’s lead polar security Coast Guard Cutter Seneca is a 270- become disabled due to fuel issues, then ran a navigable channel through seasonal and cutter, which will be homeported in Seattle. foot Medium Endurance Cutter with a aground and began taking on water. multi-year ice, sometimes as much as 21- The contract also includes options for the crew complement of 100. Seneca missions The crewmembers asked to be removed feet thick, to allow refuel and resupply ships construction of two additional PSCs. include counter-narcotics, migrant interdic- from the vessel due to harsh weather condi- to reach McMurdo Station. “Replacing the Coast Guard’s icebreak- tion, search and rescue and living marine tions. “I am immensely proud of all the hard er fleet is paramount,” said Vice Adm. Lin- resource operations from the Gulf of Maine An aircrew aboard an MH-60 Jayhawk work and dedication the men and women da Fagan, commander of the Coast Guard’s to the Pacific Ocean. The cutter was commis- helicopter from Air Station Elizabeth City of the Polar Star demonstrate each and ev- Pacific Area. “Our ability to clear a channel sioned in 1987 and is homeported in Boston, launched to assist. ery day,” said Greg Stanclik, commanding and allow for the resupply of the United Massachusetts. Once on scene, the aircrew hoisted the officer of the Polar Star. “Maintaining and States’ Antarctic stations is essential for four crewmembers and transported them to operating a 44-year-old ship in the harshest continued national presence and influence Coast Guard hoists 4 fishermen after Michael J. Smith Airport in Beaufort. of environments takes months of planning on the continent.” vessel runs aground near Shackelford There were no reported injuries or visi- and preparation, long workdays and missed Banks, North Carolina ble signs of pollution. The Coast Guard will holidays, birthdays and anniversaries with Coast Guard Cutter Seneca returns to 7 February continue to monitor the situation and salvage loved ones. The Polar Star crew truly em- Boston after migrant interdiction and WILMINGTON, N.C.- The Coast Guard operations. bodies the ethos of the Antarctic explorers counter-narcotics patrol rescued four men after their 78-foot fishing “The fishermen did the right thing by who came before us — courage, sacrifice 28 January vessel ran aground near Shackelford Banks, calling us as soon as possible,” said Chief and devotion.” BOSTON — U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Sen- North Carolina, Friday morning. Warrant Officer Kristen Auer, command Commissioned in 1976, the Polar Star eca returned home to Boston after a 57-day Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector duty officer at the Sector North Carolina is the United States’ only operational heavy deployment in the Caribbean Sea, Tuesday, North Carolina’s command center received command center. “With the deteriorating icebreaker. Reserved for Operation Deep January 28. a radio distress call at approximately 3:30 weather conditions, the situation could have Freeze each year, the ship spends the winter Throughout the patrol, Seneca rescued a.m from a crewmember aboard the vessel gone from bad to worse.” breaking ice near Antarctica, and when the 187 Haitian Migrants, conducted countless mission is complete, returns to dry dock in hours of training exercises with Coast Guard order to conduct critical maintenance and Air Stations Jacksonville and Clearwater, Wayne Rich and repairs in preparation for the next Operation and spent several weeks as a law enforce- Deep Freeze mission. ment presence in the southern Caribbean If a catastrophic event, such as getting aided by Helicopter Interdiction Tactical stuck in the ice, were to happen to the Coast Squadron (HITRON) Jacksonville. RICH RETURNS Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB 20) in the Arc- In late December, the Seneca crew Chevrolet. The first year they owned her they put Continued from Page 6. in sister ribs, which really meant rebuilding the tic or to the Polar Star near Antarctica, the intercepted an overloaded Haitian sail I went scalloping dragging with her for three or hull. They then changed out her six cylinder after U.S. Coast Guard is left without a self-rescue freighter. Coordinating a joint response with four years, but there weren’t enough scallops, two years of racing and put in the 350. Wayne capability. the Turks and Cacaos Royal Police, the two you could not make a go of it. Then I worked for added, “The first time I saw it, Josh Lawson, By contrast, Russia currently operates agencies rescued all 187 Haitian nationals Chummy wintertime for many years. I have also right here in Bernard had it and that was the first more than 50 icebreakers – several of which from the vessel. worked for a local fuel company for two or three boat he fished in. He sold it to Chummy and then are nuclear powered. “I am exceptionally proud of this crew winters and David Gott’s & Sons driving truck Chummy was going to fix it up for his grandson, The Coast Guard has been the sole and their success and achievements,” said for a couple of winters. but he never went fishing. A local guy just used When asked about some of the old fishermen provider of the nation’s polar icebreaking Cmdr. John Christensen, commanding it for a pleasure boat. He used it for a while, but he remembered that fished out of Bass Harbor, capability since 1965, and is seeking to officer of Seneca. “Over the course of the then things were coming apart and it sat on shore Wayne said he was into sports and did not hang for a year or so. I said, “What are you going to increase its icebreaking fleet with six new last two months, they persevered through around the shops much. He remembered George do with that? I think I can make a race boat out polar security cutters to ensure continued the challenges of conducting operations Sawyer saying, “He had a wooden boat built of that so I bought it and put a slant 6 Chrysler national presence and access to the Polar at sea, put aside their personal sacrifices, in Stonington. Billings Diesel I believe built it. in and raced it. The slant six Chrysler was for- Regions. particularly throughout the holiday season, Chummy built him a 36 Newman fiberglass that ward of the bulkhead and she was nose heavy. In April, the Coast Guard awarded VT and displayed an unwavering commitment his son now owns. George has now passed away. So, I tore the engine out and when I was taking Halter Marine Inc. of Pascagoula, Mississip- to serving the United States and our partner Some of the other guys I know would be Stan the engine out, I went to cut off one of the bolts Wass and he had a Ronald Rich boat and then and it looked like the beds were a little wobbly. went to a South Shore 30 that was stretched to a 31 I just reached down and pulled them out because or 32 by David Schlaefer of Mitchell Cove Boats. they weren’t fastened to anything, they were all Arthur Colbath had a 37 Repco; Earl Thurlow and rusted and gone. Gravity was holding it in place. he’s pushing 90 has a 35 Duffy. GAIL & DAVID. The 350 we put in aft of the bulkhead and I had Ned Lawson, who I think just retired, had a 36 to make steel hangers that are bolted into one of Stanley. Russell Lawson, who must be 88 or 89, the stringers. I knew I wanted the weight back has a 34-foot wooden boat Bobby Rich built in because I knew one of the ones that Chummy had ‘75. built, built similar, that if you get going fast the Now many people along the coast know torque would roll her on her side. I put a small Wayne from lobster boat racing. When asked spray rail, right at the bottom of the boot stripe, how he got into racing he explained, “I can the whole length and we put her in and test drove remember as a kid taken a speed boat ride with her and I am still smiling!” mom and dad to Corea and having a picnic with A few years ago, Wayne discovered that the Young Brothers. My grandfather Bobby and the top was rotten so he cut it off and put on a the Young Brothers had things in common. I re- sprayhood. She looked like the classic lobster member going to Winter Harbor and watching the boat from the ‘40s and ‘50s, but on the trip down DISCOUNT POWER TOOLS races and seeing the CAMEL, and VOOP race. to Jonesport he and his son Colyn almost froze to I remember watching the SILVER DOLLAR in death. The following year they got the trunk cabin CORDED POWER TOOLS Winter Harbor thinking, look at the at boat go, just and the windshield on, but no house. Again, they CORDLESS POWER TOOLS sliding through the water as easy as it did it. We had some miserable runs to some of the races. would always go to Winter Harbor or Stonington WIDE OPEN will take little time to get FUELED POWER TOOLS to watch the races and then the first time I went ready for this racing season. He thought using the PNEUMATIC POWER TOOLS was Winter Harbor with that 36 Stanley in ‘97. wire brush on the starter and then just putting her FASTENERS It was a 471 Detroit race and I was hooked after over. that!” With his love of racing Wayne decided to HAND TOOLS Most would remember when he first came start the Bass Harbor Lobster Boat Races in MATERIAL HANDLING with RICH RETURNS, which had a 315 Cum- 2011. He decided not to charge an entry fee, no mins and did 20 1/2 knots. Wayne said, “For prizes for first, second and third (all the prizes go POWER TOOL ACCESSORIES many years Thurman Alley (MELANIE JEAN, into a hat drawing) and have breakfast and lunch SAFETY SUPPLIES a Willis Beal 38) handed me a handful and it was right at the town dock and it has been extremely all I could do to see his transom at the end of the successful. This year Wayne is stepping back and WELDING SUPPLIES race. It was meeting guys like Stevie Carver, Colyn will be taking over with help from several Stevie Johnson, Sid Eaton, my cousin Glen others in town. Last year there were 77 boats that Crawford, just being with these guys, is so much came to race and given a good day weather-wise fun. I am in David Schlaefer’s shop and he had they could easily best that. CAPTAIN JACK. What I really like about it is the As we head towards spring Wayne still has camaraderie of the people you meet from all up a lot to do to get RICH RETURNS ready for the and down the coast. You meet some really good water. He figures another month and a half and people, some really fun characters. I just enjoy she will be ready for the water with the race boat it.” to follow later in the spring. So if you are running Wayne still races RICH RETURNS at the by Bass Harbor by boat look for the black hull Bass Harbor event, but his real race boat is WIDE of RICH RETURNS and then if you came to OPEN, which has dominated Gasoline Class B the races you can watch the black hull of WIDE since 2013. This 26-footer was built by Robert OPEN leading the rest of the gas boats to the Rich in 1953 and is now powered with a 350 finish line. March 2020 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 23. Passed Over the Bar

Continued from Page 7. coming from a long line of fishermen. He Matthew Sledge, his 4 grandchildren Cody, most of his life. “Bobby” as he was known to worked aboard his father’s boat the Sea Zach, Meg & Will. His siblings Katherine everybody, met his wife Louise while work- Joe is survived by his wife of 34 years Smoke from the time he was young. Chris Casey, Susan and Don Lang, Patricia and ing at Forty Fathoms in Rockland. They Sharon Ann Rivard Nickerson of Arundel has fished on a variety of vessels over the Jon Picard and Marry Barry, sister-in-law were married 49 years before she passed in who he adored; his beloved daughter Hayley years. He worked at BIW for a brief time Claudia Novak and Les Novak, Deborah 2013, he is now reunited with the love of his Renee Brown and her husband Isaac James but his love for the ocean called him back. Hodgdon and Jonathan Hodgdon, brother- life, his mother and 3 brothers. and his grandson Killian Jack Brown all Chris spent the last year fishing on his own in-law Don Oakman and Michelle Oakman Bobby lobstered for many years with of West Kennebunk; his father Arnold A. boat, the F/V Ginger, hoping to pass down among many loving nieces, nephews and his boat named LOWEBA which stood for Nickerson III of Sanford; his brother Andy the family tradition to his children. cousins, including the community of Booth- Louise, Wendi and Barbie. After leaving Nickerson of Portland; two sisters: Bonnie For Chris, the love of the ocean came bay. lobstering he worked as a carpenter and Weeman and her husband Mark of Kenne- second only to the love he had for his family. He was born at the Chelsea Naval helped build the “new” Friendship Post Of- bunk and Patty Walters and her husband He enjoyed sharing his love of hiking, camp- Base, Chelsea, MA. on September 29, 1949 fice among other projects, he then worked at Bill of Greensboro, NC; several nieces and ing and fishing with his wife and children. to Robert Barry and Margery Barry. He BIW until a neck injury made him retire. He nephews and many cousins, including his No matter what he did he put his whole heart graduated from Norwell High School and became a stay at home dad for his family. He nephew Joel T. Rivard of Arundel who Joe into it. joined the Navy Reserves shortly after. Upon loved making Finnish bread with dropped taught from a young age everything he knew Chris was predeceased by his father getting married he and his family moved to eggs on toast for his girls before they headed about lobstering and fishing. From the day Murray Pinkham and his son Bradford Maine to start a new life on the coast. to school. Joe sat Joel in his captain’s chair Joel caught Boyce Pinkham. For many years Jack ran Boothbay Ma- He loved his huge garden and took the fishing bug and Joe’s love and passion He is survived by his beloved wife rine, a local family boatyard formerly known tremendous pride in how it looked and the for the industry will live on through him. Jessica; his two daughters, Dorothy “Dory” as the Rice Brothers Co. Shipyard that dates quality of the vegetables. He even won a Pea A Celebration of Life Service was held and Cedelia Pete; his mother, Ellen Wil- back to 1903. Jack ran the boatyard with contest in 1980 for the best tasting peas out on 1 February at the American Legion Hall, liams of Boothbay Harbor; siblings, Cindy his brother-in-law Don Oakman. He was a of 21 entries. He proudly told that story to Kennebunkport. Pearce and her husband Brady, Debbie skilled builder and was never afraid to share everyone who would listen. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations Todte and her husband Rob, Brian Pinkham his knowledge with anyone who needed it. One of his and Louise’s greatest ad- may be made to the Maine Coast Fish- and Susan Hodgdon, all of Boothbay, Lynn He was a true ‘Jack of all trades’. For the last venture was a trip across county to Alaska erman’s Association Box 40 Brunswick, Pinkham and her husband Darryl Hanson of 10 years, he has continued with his love of to visit Barbie, then down to San Diego to Maine 04011 in Arnold A. “Joe” Nicker- Richmond; and many cousins, nieces and boat building, working for his son-in-law at see Wendi, then across the lower US back son’s memory. nephews. Samoset Boatworks. to home. In earlier years he loved whittling A Celebration of Life was held 9 Febru- Jack was a third-generation firefighter, small pot buoys, reading his Alaska maga- ary at the Opera House in Boothbay Harbor. the Assistant Fire Chief of Boothbay and zines, and taking rides up country with his worked part-time for Boothbay Water Dept. wife. His grandchildren have fond memo- for over 20 years. Jack enjoyed being a part ries of Gramp’s wonderful Thanksgiving of the Fire Department and serving the local dinners with his mashed potato and tractor community for over 40 years. His continu- rides around the yard. ous dedication to the fire department was one He is survived by his two daughters, of his greatest loves and he was a mentor to Wendi Munson of RI, Barbie Reed of many young up and coming firefighters. NY, 4 grandchildren, Laura Maher, Susan A funeral service was held at Hall’s Kennedy, Michael and Robbie Lunt and 12 Funeral Home on 9 February. There will be grandchildren, Emmelyn, Adadlie and Bri- a private family service in the Spring. elle Maher of CT, Ezri & Alara Kennedy of In Lieu of flowers, please donate to the RI, Nathin, Chase, Grace, Justin and Bishop Christopher Pinkham John R. “Jack” Barry Boothbay Fire Department, P. O. Box 304, Lunt of ME, Lucy and “born any day now” On Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, Chris- 29 September 1949 - 3 February 2020 Boothbay, Maine 04537 Lunt of ME. topher Pinkham of Boothbay, loving and John R. “Jack” Barry, 70 of East Boothbay, A special thanks to the Nystrom family devoted father and husband, passed away Maine, passed away on February 3, 2020 Robert Arnold Reed for all of their help and time in caring for dad, at the age of 44. Chris died suddenly and with loving family after a brief battle with August 19, 1933 – February 2, 2020 an additional special thanks to Michael Lunt tragically when the fishing vessel he was cancer. Robert Arnold Reed passed away peacefully for being there and caring for dad at the drop working on capsized. Jack’s greatest love was his family and on February 2, 2020 at 86 surrounded by of a hat while he was at Windward Gardens. Chris was born on Feb. 10, 1975 in he always went above and beyond. He will family and friends. He was born August 19, A Celebration of Life will be held at the Boothbay Harbor to Murray Pinkham and be greatly missed by all. He left behind the 1933 in Friendship to Philip (Bud) and Mil- Hahn Community Center on 29 February Ellen Williams. Chris grew up in the Booth- love of his life, Cynthia after over 50 years dred Simmons Reed. He lived in Friendship starting at 12 noon. bay region and attended local schools. He of marriage, his two daughters, Sandra Bar- came by the love of the water naturally, ry & Jennifer Barry-Sledge, his son-in-law M C N A D V E R T I S E R S

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Because USS Fitzgerald Returns to Sea it was necessary to complete the journey in From NAVSEA Public Affairs I have literally lived our gratitude for the ‘Lucky Day’: Navy Celebrates 60th a single day, when there was daylight avail- PASCAGOULA, Miss. (NNS) -- The guid- commitment, the service, the professional- Anniversary of Deepest Ocean Dive able, Walsh and Piccard could only spend ed-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG ism, the sacrifice and the patriotism that I By Scott Hochenberg, Office of Naval 20 minutes in the Challenger Deep before 62) is underway to conduct comprehensive have witnessed,” said Sawyer. “And not just Research Public Affairs heading back to the surface. at-sea testing, marking a significant step in gratitude for those who have sailed with USS ARLINGTON, Va. (NNS) -- Plunging into Still, the Trieste’s success is a tribute her return to warfighting readiness. Pittsburgh, but also gratitude for those who the deep, dark abyss of the Pacific Ocean’s to the value of basic research endeavor, an The ship departed Huntington Ingalls supported her at home, and in countless or- Mariana Trench, U.S. Navy Lt. Don Walsh idea shared by Capt. Matthew Farr, execu- Industries-Ingalls Shipbuilding’s Pasca- ganizations and locations around the world.” and Swiss engineer Jacques Piccard heard tive officer of ONR Global, the command’s goula shipyard at approximately 6:30 a.m. Rear Adm. Douglas Perry, Command- a loud cracking sound in their vessel—the international arm. Farr represented ONR at (CDT) to conduct a series of demonstrations er, Submarine Group 9, and a prior crew bathyscaphe Trieste, which the Office of Na- the anniversary ceremony. to evaluate that the ship’s onboard systems member aboard Pittsburgh, served as the val Research (ONR) purchased for scientific “The only limit that humans can face meet or exceed Navy performance specifica- ceremony’s guest speaker. observations. is the limit of the ocean itself,” said Capt. tions. Among the systems that will be tested “Pittsburgh Sailors; they are tough. Already 30,000 feet below sea level, Farr. “Cuts in basic research deplete our are navigation, damage control, mechanical They’re resourceful. They know how to Walsh and Piccard faced the ultimate de- knowledge base. ONR is a guardian look- and electrical systems, combat systems, have a good time, said Perry. “We are all cision—risk their lives to become the first ing beyond the immediate needs of science communications, and propulsion. better Sailors for having been a part of the people to travel to the deepest part of the toward the future.” The underway reflects nearly two years’ Pittsburgh’s history.” ocean, the Challenger Deep, or return to A lucky pilot worth of effort in restoring and modernizing Inactivation is the process in which a safety. Walsh said Jan. 23 “was a lucky day.” one of the Navy’s most capable warships submarine will be de-fueled, with the hull The crack had scarred one of Trieste’s Ambition, a sense of adventure and good after it was damaged during a collision in retained in safe storage until decommission- outer plexiglass panels. Walsh and Piccard fortune placed him on the path to historic 2017 that claimed the lives of seven Sailors. ing, when the boat is then taken out of active (whose father designed Trieste) decided to destiny. “Since we launched the ship this past service and the crew is reassigned to another push on. After all, if Trieste had suffered cat- Growing up near the San Francisco Bay, April our efforts have focused on restoring ship or command. astrophic damage, both men would already Walsh was captivated by the ships entering ship systems, conducting pier side tests and “Pittsburgh was and, as long as she has be crushed by the ocean’s pressure. After a and exiting the harbor. Inspired, he attend- readying the ship for sea,” said Rear Adm. former crew members in the fleet, is a major nearly five-hour descent, the Trieste reached ed the U.S. Naval Academy and became a Tom Anderson, NAVSEA director Surface part of the legacy that has built this truly the Challenger Deep, approximately 36,000 submariner. Ship Maintenance and Modernization and asymmetric advantage that the CNO speaks feet below sea level, on Jan. 23, 1960. Not long into his naval career, Walsh commander, Navy Regional Maintenance of in the undersea domain,” said Perry. “As Exactly 60 years later, on Jan. 23, 2020, heard about an unusual opportunity. The Center. “The government and industry team you and your crew go about your work put- the National Museum of the U.S. Navy in Navy recently acquired Trieste and needed has been working hand-in-hand on this ex- ting USS Pittsburgh to rest, take that legacy Washington, D.C., celebrated the anniver- volunteer pilots to test it. However, since ceptionally complex effort, with a common forward. Take that spirit and that heart of sary of Trieste’s journey with a program bathyscaphes didn’t operate like traditional purpose of returning Fitzgerald to sea and steel out into the rest of the submarine force featuring Walsh, the lone remaining pilot of ships, volunteers were scarce. ultimately back to the Fleet.” and our Navy.” the trip. Trieste had to be towed to an area for Upon Fitzgerald’s return to the ship- The ceremony concluded with the “ONR is underappreciated for this exploration—and there it sank to its desired yard, crew training and certifications will lowering of the national ensign, a symbolic whole enterprise,” Walsh said at the ceremo- depth. To ascend, it simply dropped ballast commence as final work items are complet- securing of the watch and remarks from the ny. “All credit is due to ONR—they were the and rose to the surface. Walsh said few ed in support of the ship’s sail away later this 14th and current USS Pittsburgh Command- ones that rolled the dice buying the Trieste people in the Navy wanted to risk their lives spring. ing Officer Jason Deichler, who himself is a from the Swiss.” sitting in a steel ball the size of a refrigerator “We are excited to take the next step native of Pittsburgh. A new chapter of naval research and while descending thousands of feet. to get Fitzgerald back out to sea where the “The essential inside of the submarine discovery “This was a balloon, plain and simple, ship belongs. My crew is looking forward to is gone. But what remains are the stories, Trieste’s descent to the Challenger except in the water,” said Walsh, who retired moving onboard the ship and continuing our the memories and moments… that’s where Deep was a remarkable achievement for the from the Navy as a captain. “I had nothing training to ensure we are ready to return to the Pittsburgh will eternally reside.” said Navy, ONR and oceanography as a scientific to lose. I was on the ‘junior varsity’ for the fleet,” said Cmdr. Scott Wilbur, Fitzger- Deichler. “I consider myself truly blessed to discipline. Bought by ONR in 1958, Trieste the Navy. My class standing at the Naval ald’s commanding officer. close the final chapter and draft those final was designed to go deeper than any craft Academy was not great. I was told, ‘You’re After receiving its full complement of memories on board the Pittsburgh.” before it. The ship boasted a small, spherical officially stupid.’” basic and advanced phased training, as well Pittsburgh completed their last deploy- crew space slung underneath a large float Adm. Arleigh Burke, then Chief of Na- as crew and ship certifications, the USS Fitz- ment Feb. 25, 2019. Then the boat and her resembling a balloon in both shape and val Operations, told Walsh if he and Piccard gerald will return to the Fleet mission-ready crew made their first Arctic transit for a final function. were successful, the Navy would publicly with the improved capability and lethality homeport change from Groton, Connecticut, The historic feat of reaching the deepest celebrate the mission—but, if they failed, it required to successfully support high-end to Bremerton, arriving May 28, 2019 to part of the ocean ushered in a “golden age” of would remain silent. operations. commence the inactivation and decommis- manned underwater exploration in the 1960s Worried about the potential dangers Naval Sea Systems Command is the sioning process. and 1970s, in which submersibles helped of the Mariana Trench, a risk-averse com- largest of the Navy’s five systems -com Pittsburgh is the fourth U.S. Navy ves- make extraordinary discoveries in biology, manding officer ordered Trieste’s crew to mands. NAVSEA engineers, builds, buys sel to be named for the city of Pittsburgh. The geology, chemistry, oceanography and other abort the journey on launch day. However, and maintains the Navy’s ships, submarines boat’s mission was to seek out and destroy fields. a chief petty officer decided to deliver a and combat systems to meet the fleet’s cur- enemy ships and submarines, and to protect That’s ironic, since neither Walsh nor delayed response to the commanding officer rent and future operational requirements. U.S. national interests. At 360-feet-long and Piccard saw much when they hit bottom. A only after Trieste was 10,000 feet down, 6,900 tons, Pittsburgh could support arma- large cloud of particles from the sea floor knowing it would be too late to stop the trip. USS Gerald R. Ford Passes Aircraft ment of sophisticated Mark 48 torpedoes engulfed the ship, preventing the pilots Walsh knew the many potential dangers Compatibility Testing facing him and Piccard. They could be adrift From USS Gerald R Ford Public Affairs at sea for days or be locked inside of the Norfolk (NNS) -- The aircraft carrier USS Ocean Globe Race Trieste while it was being towed ashore. Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) completed Air- Continued from Page 18. cial Director David Cusworth, several race As a precaution, Walsh brought Hershey’s craft Compatibility Testing (ACT) Jan. 31, entries at BOOT Dusseldorf from 18 to 26th chocolate bars for emergency rations. Being following 16 days at sea, during which the is being refitted in the Baltic Yard, Project January, on the GGR/OGR stand located in Swiss, Piccard brought Nestle chocolate. crew launched and recovered 211 aircraft, Director and Skipper Anders Onsager, a HALL 17, Stand C80. To commemorate this tasty thinking, testing five different airframes, using first former Royal Norwegian Navy officer serv- GGR participants will be on the stand the anniversary ceremony concluded with generation, state-of-the-art flight deck ing in submarines, is working on his crew to share their experience, including six-time the distribution of Hershey’s bars to guests. systems. composed of youth at risk, looked after by solo circumnavigator Jean-Luc Van Den The testing phase included the first-ever Navy watch Leaders. Heede, Malta entry Daniel Gatt, Ian Her- underway catapult launches and arrested OGR founder Don McIntyre is thrilled bert-Jones, Michael Guggenberger, Simon Caption landings for the T-45 Goshawk and E/A- with the response: “The Classic Challenge Curwen, and John Clark. On January 21st PASCAGOULA, Miss. (Feb. 3, 2020) The 18G Growler from Air Test and Evaluation as expected has opened opportunities for a at 2:30 pm, Jean-Luc will hold a talk on his guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald Squadron 23 (VX-23); as well as the E-2D whole new group of competitive Whitbread victorious 2018 GGR and how this was his (DDG 62) departs Huntington Ingalls In- Advanced Hawkeye and C-2A Greyhound, and Volvo 60 sailors who seem to be chafing ultimate victory, titled “Non-stop around the dustries - Ingalls Shipbuilding’s Pascagoula from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 20 at the bit! The conversations I have had over world in 212 days”. shipyard to conduct comprehensive at-sea (VX-20). Crews also tested F/A-18F Super the past weeks are very exciting indeed and Don McIntyre will also take the stage on testing, marking a significant step in the Hornets from VX-23, which earlier had con- just a few days after entries opened we con- January 18, 20, 23, 25 and 26, talking about ship’s return to warfighting readiness. The ducted initial compatibility tests on board firmed three teams. No Maxi’s yet, but they the success of the Golden Globe Race and underway reflects nearly two years worth Ford in 2017. are talking and there is still 1334 days to the the upcoming 2023 Ocean Globe Race, with of effort in restoring and modernizing one This second and final round of testing start!“ a presentation on “The growing appeal of of the Navy’s most capable warships after validated the ship’s capability to launch and Meet GGR and OGR Founder and low-tech sailing and slowing down. Filling it was damaged during a collision in 2017. to recover aircraft with ordnance loadout Race Chairman Don McIntyre, Marketing the void left by the need for speed” (U.S. Navy photo/Released) and fuel states mirroring deployed require- Director Sebastien Delasnerie and Commer- ments and operating tempos, using the March 2020 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 25. U. S. Navy News Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System ACT began on Jan. 16 and concluded supporting the five aircraft that came to “We’re seeing the ship come to life. Just (EMALS) and Advanced Arresting Gear with 211 successful launches and arrest- Ford to validate launch and recovery wind over the last few weeks, we’ve got salt air (AAG)—two Aircraft Launch and Recovery ments using EMALS and AAG technology. and weight envelopes, our Sailors are fully on the flight deck, we’ve got skid marks on Equipment (ALRE) systems unique to Ford. The Gerald R. Ford now has 958 total traps aware of the importance of this historic the flight deck, and it’s really starting to feel By completing T-45 testing, the Ford to date and will likely surpass 1,000 launch- event. This was it—the book will be written like an aircraft carrier.” will be able to provide carrier qualification es and arrestments during the upcoming and our crew’s name will be stamped on it.” support to the Training Command and to Flight Deck Certification (FDC) phase, Akacem explained that ACT was more student naval aviators in the jet/E-2/C-2 currently scheduled for March, when her than a test and evaluation event—it was also SHIP MODELS & KITS pipeline. crew and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) Eight a learning opportunity for Ford Sailors who Swampscott Dory “There are so many firsts happening, will take over all aspects of flight operations. have never had the opportunity to train on This model is simple, and many of them we frankly don’t even The crew is fully prepared for FDC, having these new systems at sea or who may have quick to build, and really realize,” explained Ford’s Air Boss, already received hands-on experience with never seen flight operations on board the makes a lovely display Cmdr. 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Kenneth Sterbenz, program and sea states, and with varying aircraft manager of the ALRE office (PMA-251) weights—from heavy aircraft in light wind that oversees EMALS and AAG, noted that conditions to light aircraft in heavy wind ACT’s success test demonstrates the capa- conditions. bility and versatility of the ship’s EMALS “At this point we’ve proven time and MOTORSPORTS and AAG systems. time again—this underway with 211 launch- “This success is the result of the hard es and recoveries on-and-off the deck—that work and collaboration of the men and wom- we’re ready to shoot and catch all aircraft,” KYMCO en in the entire ALRE team, including our said Chief Aviation Boatswain’s Mate World's #1 Scooter government personnel and industry partner (Equipment) Louis Mountain from Ford’s General Atomics, and fleet,” said Sterbenz. Air Department. “We’re happy to show the starting at $1499 “I am extremely proud of what we have fleet that we’re ready to start slangin’ and accomplished together, and am fully confi- bangin’ and get aircraft on-and-off the deck. dent in our ALRE systems moving forward, Ford is ready.” HJC Woody's ZOX especially with the backing of our highly The information captured during ACT dedicated and professional ALRE team.” will continue to inform improvements and Amsoil Carbide Katadin Gear During ACT, test pilots from Air Test modifications for the Gerald R. Ford and and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 20 and VX- follow-on Ford-class aircraft carriers. Cou- 23 conducted catapult launches and arrested pled with the historic aspect of this ACT, the 56 New Meadows Rd., W. Bath, ME 04530 landings in order to verify EMALS and culmination of this testing phase was not lost Open Mon.-Fri. 8-5, Sat. 8-12 AAG performance mandates. The shipboard on Ford’s Commanding Officer, Capt. John events confirmed more extensive testing J. Cummings. previously conducted ashore in Lakehurst, “(The crew) came into ACT as pioneers; 207-443-9702 New Jersey, ensuring the operational safety we wrote the book for the Ford-class for of both aircrew and flight deck Sailors. the rest of its history,” said Cummings. “By

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7 February feet. It is said to be the longest tramway in kiln built in Rockland, was abut 1856. These empt form competition. Their competitors Page 3. the country. The advantages of a tramway are constructed of granite, and lined inside are our neighbors of the Maritime Prov- The Lime Industry in Maine. over a derrick are many. It will take with the with fire brick. These patent kilns average in inces. The St. John lime comes into direct Facts and Figures as Presented in The Re- use of the tramway, only about ten minutes height 28 to 36 feet above the arches inside competition with the Knox county lime, port of The Bureau of Industrial and Labor to load the buckets, hoist them 100 feet, and of kiln, averaging seven feet in diameter. At in the eastern states, and more especially Statistics. dump the rock in cars on the bank of the the bottom is a hopper, on an inclined plane in the markets of Massachusetts and New The limestone formation underlying so quarries. There are about 20 engines used of 45 degrees; below this is an iron door from York. Lime can be produced cheaper in the large a portion of Knox and Waldo Counties, for hoisting rock, running the steam drills, which they take the lime from the kiln. Six British Provinces than here in the state, and is of uncertain age. It seems to be almost and pumping water from these quarries. The feet above the hopper are the arches, fjrom as the status of the lime industry in the states entirely lacking in fossils, which would average power of these stationary engines which the kiln gets its heat or blaze to burn is at the present time, if it were not for the of itself seem to indicate a special variety is 30 horse power. Most of the quarries the rock into lime. The rock, by the power of superior quality of the lime of Knox county of geological conditions extended over in Knox county are very deep, requiring a the heat, passes through a chemical change, over the St. John, the latter lime would drive repeated ages. Geologically speaking, the great expense for the pumping of water. A which consists of expelling the carbonic the former out of a great many of its markets; rocks in this portion of Maine are probably good steam engine and a set of pumps are acid, and lime is left. but notwithstanding the finer quality of the among the oldest of any in the known world. indispensable for every quarry of any extent. There were in Knox County in 1888 Knox county lime over the St. John, the latter This limestone crops out in various places Much expense, now and then, is incurred in ninety-two patent kilns and the total pro- lime Is being used in conjunction with the throughout Knox and Waldo counties. The clearing away chips and other loose debris duction was 1,800,000 casks of lime. Of Rockland lime in building and other indus- geologists say, generally, wherever found in from the quarries. For a few years past, at the 85,000 cords of wood consumed about tries. Good authorities estimate that in the this district, it lies between strata of talcose, Rockport, they have operated two engines 52,173 were imported form the Maritime year 1888, there were shipped to the states micaceous, and argilaceous slates. on a narrow gauge road, running two and Provinces. The wood was invoiced for about 225,000 casks of this St. John lime. The Samuel Waldo of Boston, having by one-half miles from quarries to kilns. This $1.50 per cord. Our domestic manufacturers duty on this lime is ten percent ad ralorem, purchase or inheritance from his father, Jon- road cost $40,000. This road supplies nearly paid on an average $3.75 per cord. The gross but the lime is incoiced for thirty-five cents athan Waldo, obtained a title in the lands of all the kilns at Rockport. The kilns not ac- sum paid to foreign producers of kiln wood per cask, which gives a specific duty of only the St. George and Medomac rivers and hav- commodated by this road, at Rockport and was $195,648.75. To freight this 52,173 three cents per cask. ing made experiments upon the limestone Camden, use horse teams. The rock for the cords of wood the were 602 foreign arrivals An analysis of the twenty-nine returns found near the river at what is now called kilns at Thomaston is transported by horses; at Rockland alone. This wood was brought received by the Bureau of lime manufactur- the prison quarry, and finding it good caused but within the last year, the manner of trans- in what is known as St. John’s wood boats. ers shows eighteen concerns operation both about 1833 a lime kiln to be erected, and lime portation of the rock for the Rockland kilns These boats will carry from 50 to 60 cords quarries and kilns; ten, operating kilns only; was burnt in considerable quantities for the has undergone an extraordinary transforma- on an average, per load. The crew generally and one quarries only. Boston markets. This was the commence- tion. A corporation, known as the Rockland consists of three to four men to a vessel. The ment of an industry, on which, to-day, the Lime Rock Railroad Company, commenced lime is put into casks that will hold about two Page 4. people of Knox County, directly and indi- building a standard gauge railroad. They bushels and a peck. It will take about five Ice Notes. rectly, in a great measure, depend for their have built and equipped for active work, up coopers working nearly all the year through W. Cutter & Son, the Bangor contrac- prosperity. The lime of Knox County has to this time, 10 miles of surface road. This to supply the lime casks for a kiln, or about tors, are still further enlarging F. W. Ayer & been examined and tested by experienced road is at present employing two engines, 460 coopers to make all the casks required Co.’s extensive plant of ice houses at South lime men, architects and builders, from 264 cars, and about twenty men, in the for the kilns in Knox county for the year Brewer. Maine to the Gulf States, who universally transportation of rock from the quarries to 1888. These cases are made within a radius The Clark and Chapin Ice Company are pronounce it the best produced for nearly the kilns. The mouths of the kilns being a of twenty miles of the kilns. To burn, fill, cutting ice on Sebago Lake, twelve inches all purposes for which lime is used. greater elevation than the railroad bed, they cooper and put on board of vessels and care thick and clear as crystal and are shipping The lime industry is carried on in the were under the necessity of building trestle for shipment, requires about six men to a kiln large quantities to Boston by rail. city of Rockland and the towns of Thomas- work to reach them. One and seventy-four or about 644 men to the kilns in Knox county. Ice is now being shipped direct to ton and Camden. The quarries are situated hundredths miles of this work has already To distribute this lime to the various markets the large cities form the ponds at Belfast, about one mile and a half from the kilns. The been built. This trestle work is all built it takes 275 vessels. These vessels, on an Bristol, Rockport, Boothbay, Wiscasset, kilns are always built near the water-front out of yellow pine brought from the south. average, for the Boston market, will carry Phippsburg, Horse Island Harbor and Gun for the purpose of easy shipment by water, This road will, when completed, cost over 700 casks; vessels for New York market will Point. by which channel nearly all the lime is $300,000. freight 1,500 casks. This gives employment The latest company to engage in the sent to the various markets. The process The kilns in Rockland are not at present to over 800 sea-faring men. Boston and New ice business on the Penobscot is composed of quarrying, transportation of the rock to all supplied with rock by this company. It is York are the two principal distributing points of C. S. Pearl, J. F. Woodman and Frank C. the kilns and its manufacture into lime, is claimed, by good authority, that this road for the lime. The Knox & Lincoln railroad Brackett, all of Bangor. An ice house of 6000 nearly the same in all quarries and kilns will be able to put rock upon the kilns at a transported for the year ending December to 7000 tons is being erected by them on the in Knox county. The quarries from which great deal less expense than can be done by 31st, 1888, over their road, 114,000 casks of steamboat wharf, this city. Rockland and Thomaston get their supply horses. It takes one two-horse and one four- lime. New York parties are negotiating for the of rock, are about one and one-half miles horse teams, with two drivers, to haul the It is claimed that the first cargo of lime use of the old Haynes & Lawrence houses, form their kilns; also the rock for Rockport rock for a kiln. On an average, the former ever shipped to New York, was by Samuel in Randolph, which have a capacity of some and Camden kilns comes from quarries two team will haul 12 casks, and the latter, 18 Rankin in 1823, from East Thomaston, now 50,000 tons. These houses have lain idle for to three miles from kilns. Rockland and casks of rock per load. If all the rock for Rockland, on board the schooner “Leo,” a number of years, and Randolph people are Thomaston quarries generally run north and the kilns in Knox county for 1888 had been Captain Josiah Spaulding. The lime sold in now looking forward to the opening. south, extending one and one-half miles in hauled by horses, it would have required at New York at $2.00 per cask. In 1888, lime The Clark & Chaplin Ice Co. are erect- length, with an average width of from 150 to least 550 horses to have done the hauling, sold, on a average, in the markets at 97 cents ing three large ice houses in addition to 200 feet and some 50 feet deep. The deepest and given employment to 184 teamsters per cask. There has been within the last year, their present stand at South Gardiner. M. quarry is about 150 feet. nearly all year around. These teamsters a new quarry opened at North Warren, in D. Harrington, of Augusta, will superintend The rock is separated from the native generally receive abut ten dollars per week Knox county, situated 2 ½ miles from the construction. They have also taken the con- ledge by blasting. Until within a few years, for their work. Previous to 1856, lime was Knox & Lincoln railroad, where there is said tract to fill the Page houses in Hallowell and gunpowder may be said to have been exclu- all burnt in what is now known as the “old to be a large quantity of fine rock. There has have commenced work. sively used for the purpose of blasting lime fashioned kilns.” Kilns are always built upon been a patent kiln erected, and a survey for a Extensive operations under the direc- rocks. The blasting or digging of rock in the the sides of hills, so as to give a good chance railroad to connect with the Knox & Lincoln tion of representatives of two New York quarries is done by what is known as the for their economical working, which gives railroad. At Lincolnville, in ice companies, will soon be commenced on small short system. The small short system a better chance for sheds in which to store Waldo county, there are one patent and Winnecook Lake, Unity. They propose to consists of drilling holes into the rock with lime, wood and casks. These “old fashioned eight “old-fashioned kilns.” The quarries pack as long as the season lasts, unless the steel pointed drills about two inches in diam- kilns” were constructed on the following are situated four miles from the kilns.” This Hudson freezes so as to enable them to oper- eter to six to ten feet in depth. Whole drilling plan, viz: they were on an average, about 6 lime is almost all shipped to New Bedford, ate there, in which event they will close work the rock the workman pours, now and then, ½ feet wide at the bottom, tapering a little Massachusetts. There have been a number of in Unity about the middle of this month. a little water in the hole; this serves to pre- towards the top of the kiln, 20 to 23 feet experiments tried, and a great deal of money J. E. Clark, of Bar Harbor, is to cut and serve the temper of his drill, and makes the long, 12 feet high; they were constructed lost by the experimenters, to find a cheaper ship ice this winter from Hodgdon’s Pond at rock easier to cut. When using gunpowder out of field rock, laid in lime mortar. These substitute for wood in the production of Seal Cove. New York parties have already for quarrying the rock, two men can drill, kilns would make form 400 to 550 casks at lime, such as soft coal, crude petroleum, etc., commenced to cut and ship from Northeast blow and break, on an average of ten hours a burn. With good lump rock, they would but without success up to the present time. harbor, and will harvest a large quantity on per day, 120 casks of rock. For a number produce two-thirds lump lime; but in com- To run these plants requires an active capital the island. Every pond on the island is now of years there has been a great revolution parison with the patent kilns now in general of over three quarters of a million dollars under the control of the ice companies and in and around the quarries and kilns. One use, it cost a great deal more to produce the annually, giving employment, directly and they are all making arrangements to cut large of the changes is in the removing of rocks same amount of lime. Owing to this fact, indirectly, to 3000 men. These employees, amounts. from the quarries, which was formerly done the “old fashioned kilns” have become al- as a class, are intelligent, industrious and fru- The Parker’s Head ice property at the by horses, but now, in most of the quarries most obsolete. There are not more than ten gal. There are but few foreigners employed mouth of the Kennebec has been bought by in Rockland, is done by steam derricks and “old-fashioned kilns” in Knox county at this in this industry. Quite a percentage of the A. G. Chase of Randolph, and S. N. Glazier tramways. There are two tramways in use time. It took five days and nights to burn an workmen own their homes. of Hallowell. This is the sole right to cut ice in Rockland quarries. The distance between “old-fashioned kiln,” giving employment to As in all other commercial transactions, on a lake area of three hundred acres, the the towers of one of these tramways is 500 a day man and a night man. The first patent the lime burners of Knox county are not ex- largest privilege of its kind in Maine. There March 2020 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 27. MARITIME NEWS FROM THE PAST - Maine Industry Journal - 1890 are no houses and the ice will be shipped a view to securing his services as landlord. cool coast of Maine for relief from their own rail for a moment, and it rolled overboard. directly from the water to the vessel. Mr. Messrs. Brookmine and Richardson, of sweltering summers. They mentally know The delinquent was treated to a liberal dose Glazier has closed contracts for all the ice St. Louis, Mo., who have recently consum- and physically feel for weeks at a time the of profanity, but of what use was that? the firm can cut on its new purchase. Vessels mated land purchases at Biddeford Pool, difference between 64 and 100 degrees Fahr- Presently the whistle of the steamer was have already been chartered, and shipping will doubtless do much towards restoring enheit. They are beginning to appreciate the heard through the fog, and the noise of the will commence as soon as possible. this once famous summer resort to its former effects of our exhilarating climate and to paddles as they tore up the water. She was The annual meeting of the American Ice glory. There is no more delightful place on know something of the original “down east evidently gearing right down upon them. Company, successor to the Penobscot River the coast of Maine than Biddeford Pool, Yankee” and why he is so ruddy and robust Skipper and crew shouted until their lungs Ice Company of this city, and the Willis Ice and it is sincerely hoped that these western and lives beyond his three score years and were sore , beat on pans form the galley, but Company of Washington, D. C., was held gentlemen may boom it in every possible ten. These and many more tangible signs are to no purpose. Every instant they expected in this city Tuesday. Officers were elected way. unmistakable indications that the coast of to be sunk on the onrushing steamer. as follows: President, F. H. Ciergue; Vice Old Orchard people ar taling now of Maine is to be, and is fast being made, the Suddenly the skipper’s eye fell on a President, E. L. Stewart; Treasurer, M., H. a race track. A lot of land of sufficient size nation’s future summer resort. lusty young pig, that was being transported Wardwell; General Manager and Secretary, and conveniently located can be obtained Camden, Feb. 3, ’90. in a temporary pen. In a trice that porker C. E. Field; Auditor, J. C/ Taylor. Directors, for almost nothing, and the Boston & Maine EARL AYYERS. was out, a powerful sailor gripped his tail F. H. Ciergue, E. L. Stewart, J. A. Bacon, C. Railroad will haul free of charge all the earth with a pair of pincers and gave a twist with E. Field, and C. M. Stewart, of this city, and that may be required for the purpose of build- Page 7. the energy born of despair. Heaven! What a E. M. Willis, J. C. Taylor and John Lynn, of ing a half-mile track at Old Orchard. It is A Pig as a Fog Horn. squeal rent the air. “Keep it up! Keep it up!” Washington. thought that such a piece of property would How A Sea Captain was obliged to re- yelled the skipper, as he danced up and down A syndicate of Bucksport business men, be a paying investment, and it would not vise his Code or Signals. with excitement. The blasts of the steamer’s comprising Captain Mark Gray, George be surprising if such a track was completed A coasting schooner was becalmed in whistle redoubled in frequency, and her Eldridge, W. N. Lee and Chas. Williams, before July next. the fog off the cost of Maine not long ago. It machinery stopped. In a few moments her are actively engaged in cutting ice at Silver The Boothbay Land Company, at its was a genuine Bay of Fundy fog of the same outlines emerged from the mist right over Lake, for shipment from Bucksport. A por- recent annual meeting elected the follow- variety that the man inadvertently nailed an the schooner. Half the crew and passengers tion of the property of the Central Wharf Co. ing officers: Preesident, James F. Bliss, extra course onto while shingling his house. were on the forward deck. has been leased, upon which an ice house of Boston; Treasurer, G. B. Kenniston, of You could not see the end of the bowsprit The captain leaned over the rail and 80x100 ft. is being erected in which, when Boothbay Harbor; Clerk and Secretary, R. from the foremast and a man up aloft might shouted: “You blank dash son of a dash there are no vessels ready for loading, the E. Goodwin, of Augusta; Directors, James have been ten miles form earth for all that he blanked lubber, what in dash bank, blank to ice will be stored. The vessels will ordinarily F/ Bliss, Boston, John G. Stetson, Boston; could see. Not a breath of air was stirring , dash and return, are you trying to do? I’m be loaded directly from the pond, the ice W. H. H. Andrews, Boston; S. S. Marble, and the sails only statted lazily as the vessel blanked it I didn’t think I was going ashore being brought in by teams and sluiced from Waldoboro; Richard C. Goodwin, Augus- rolled on the swell. right into the midst of a dashed pig yard.” a platfor, adjoining the store of C. C. Homer ta; G. B. Kenniston and A. R. Nickerson, The skipper was anxious, for he was & Co., to the deck of the vessels. Boothbay Harbor. right in the track of the steamers, and the Ice cutting is now in full blast on the New York, of which his brother was captain, Penobscot and ice of splendid quality and Maine’s Mountain Coast. was just about due. He commanded the look- fifteen inches or more in thickness is being The future Summer Resort for Uncle out to keep the horn sounding vigorously. rapidly harvested. The probable cut on the Sam’s sixty millions.—Mount Megunti- Alas, the man carelessly laid the horn on the river for the season is put at from 350,000 cook the only Mainoand Mountain that to 400,000 tons. The amount which the var- comes down to the Ocean’s edge. ious operators will put in is as follows: E. (Correspondence of The Journal.) & I. K, Stetson, 15,00; Penobscot, 45,000; No state bordering on the Atlantic coast Maine Coastal News Morse & Co., 20,000; F. W. Ayer & Co. of the United States possesses so many and 50,000; Katahdin, 40,000; Union, 30,000; varied advantages as a summer resort for Dirigo, 25,000; D. Sargent’s Sons, 28,000; Uncle Sam’s family of sixty millions as does H new England, 10,000; Arctic, 28,000; C. G. the state of Maine, with her miles of rock as a newly updated website! Sterns Co., 14,000; Orrington, 30,000; h. bound and mountain coast, her exhilarating W. Smith & Co., 7000; E. H. & H. Rolins, summer air and her invigorating climate. Check it out: 10,000; making a total of 351,000 tons. With her lakes and lily ponds, mountain This total is likely to be largely increased roads and seaside pathways, with her hills, by stacking if the conditions are favorable, springs, and brooklets, her river banks, her present indications being that every block of wayside beaches and her ocean roaring mainescoast.com ice cut will be sold at good prices. coast, with her spruce and oak, her pines Ice cutting is going on at a tremendous and fir balsams, all contributing to health, rate on the Kennebec and the river is be- pleasure and enjoyment. Read the current issue of MCN sieged with ice men from New York and Few, perhaps, save mariners, who coast Lobster Boat Racing News the South. The poor prospects for securing along the Atlantic form port to port, are Photo Galleries anything like a full crop on the Hudson aware that from Passamaquoddy to Panama Boat Yard News have sent many dealers who have hetherto there are but two points where mountains Feature Articles depended upon that river, to the State of come down to the ocean’s edge and that Maine for their ice. The capacity of the Ken- both of these are in Maine—one on the nebec houses is rated at 1,250,000 tons, and island of Mount Desert, the other Mount prominent iceman says that every available Megunticook, on the mainland at Camden inch will be utilized. In addition to this an Harbor. So it seems that Nature has not been amount of ice will be stacked this season for prodigal of such unions. This combination larger than ever before known on the river. of mountain and ocean has given and is Several of the companies which commenced giving an activity to real estate in these two housing ice last week now have their houses localities possessing this double attraction. half full and the ice is bring secured at a Of the sixty millions of inhabitants of very small cost. The fever is reaching such the United States a great portion live in the Used Boats a height that private parties who own land interior and during the summer season of the in advantageous places along the river are year a large percentage, which is increasing 16.5’ Larson Dual Console 1985 SALE $3,200 considering the utilizing of them by putting every year, must come to the seashore to w/ Evinrude 90 hp 2 stroke 1998, Galvanized Bunk Trailer up large stacks. recruit their energies and to sp end several Updates: New seats, lights, bilge pump, engine recently tuned up. weeks or months, some to the boarding Page 5. house and summer hotel, some to their 18’ Pioneer Islander Center Console 2016 SALE $22,500 Real estate transfers at North Lubec cottages and other to their summer homes w/ F115 Yamaha and EZ Loader Galvanized Trailer amounting to $2700 have recently been and villas, and to accommodate all these, Includes: Garmin GPS/Depth sounder, Bimini Top, etc. recorded in favor oth the North Lubec Im- there is no seacoast that surpasses Maine’s provement Company in accessibility, healthfulness and beauty. A 21’ Mako Center Console w/ T-Top 1987 SALE $11,900 Messrs. S. K. Whiting and E. H. Greeley million or tow of our country’s overworked, Yamaha 2 stroke 225 hp 1997, Galvanized Roller Trailer, Updates: New fuel tank, of Ellsworth have purchased the property of weary, wilted and plethoric population are Garmin GPS/depth, Yamaha controls, Seastar hydraulic steering, etc. the Bar harbor Land Company situated non coming and can come and have summer Hancock Street, Bar Harbor. homes along our coast and not be crowded 24’ Robalo Walkaround 1999 SALE $35,900 The Bay Point, Rockland’s elegant either, and only those who want the choicest New in 2017 F350 Yamaha; 3 Years of warranty still available! summer hotel, will open to the public July spots will be compelled to pay high prices Gal. tandem axle trailer, Loaded electronics; upgraded in 2016, fishing gear, etc. 1st. The managers are now in correspondence for building sites. with a well-known Florida hotel man, with The south and west are looking to the 207-443-6277 Page 28. MAINE COASTAL NEWS March 2020 CLASSIFIED POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER

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