Camden Yacht Club 2019 Sunset Seminar Series Talks are held late June through August, 7:00–8:30 pm, free of charge, and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP).

June 21 Circumnavigating July 31 Impacts of Warming friday the Americas on Novara wednesday of the Gulf of Maine

Award-winning adventure sailor Steve Brown Richard Wahle is the director of the University departed Camden in the summer of 2014, of Maine’s Lobster Institute and a research sailed around North America via the Northwest professor in the School of Marine Sciences. His Passage and Antarctica, and climbed a few research integrates the ecology, oceanography, mountains along the way. and fishery science toward a better mechanistic understanding of marine populations and July 10 Insights and Inspiration: communities. wednesday Four Decades Painting Maine August 7 Follow the Water One of our country’s most acclaimed con­tem­ wednesday porary artists, Barbara Ernst Prey, will give a talk on insights and inspiration highlighting her Join geologist and CYC member Mark Van four decades of painting Maine. Baalen in a discussion of some of the remarkable properties of water, where it came from and July 23 A Passage to Antigua and where it is going. Water moves from one place to another in various ways, and to understand all tuesday Cruising the Windward Islands this we must follow the water. Bob Osborn will talk about the Salty Dawg Fall Rally (the largest organized flotilla of cruisers August 14 From Shark Bites to leaving the East Coast for the Caribbean) to the wednesday Repairing Human Hearts Caribbean and Antigua as a starting point for cruising the islands from there to the Dr. Kevin Strange, CEO and Co-Founder of Grenadines to the south. Bar Harbor-based Novo Biosciences will explain how a tale of shark bites at a Scottish Pub led July 24 Designing a Spirit of Tradition him and his colleagues to identify the first and wednesday Sailing Yacht only drug candidate to stimulate a damaged heart to repair itself. Bob Stephens, co-owner of Stephens Waring Yacht Design in Belfast, Maine, a custom naval August 21 Crossing the Atlantic architecture and engineering firm, will discuss wednesday in Snow Star the process his design firm follows in designing classic, fast and beautiful yachts for its clients. CYC members Tom Kiley and Ry Hills will give a slide presentation of their memorable voyage on their 37 foot wooden sailboat, Snow Star. The trip included two transatlantic crossings, cruising in the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands, then west to Antigua, and finally north through the Virgin Islands and the Bahamas. 68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series Circumnavigating the Americas on Novara Friday, June 21, 7:00–8:30 pm / Camden Yacht Club

Award-winning adventure sailor Steve Brown departed Camden in the summer of 2014, sailed around North America via the Northwest Passage and Antarctica, climbed a few mountains along the way, and returned 5 years later to Camden in early June. He will speak at the Camden Yacht Club on June 21 at a special Friday version of the club’s popular “Sunset Seminars.” Steve’s sailboat, Novara, is uniquely equipped for such a rugged passage: she is a 60-foot aluminum- hulled yacht built in Holland and extensively refitted at the former Wayfarer Marine yard (now Lyman- Morse at Wayfarer). The yacht features an unusual aero rig, in a two-masted schooner configuration. Steve and his wife Trish are UK citizens living part of the year near the French Alps with many friends in Camden developed mostly during months living in Camden while Novara underwent extensive improvements. Steve will speak about his remarkable sailing adventures and climbing experiences, including mountains in several countries and Antarctica . . . all illustrated with high quality photography and videography. Steve will explain how his adventure was motivated by the exploits of famous British deep-sea sailor and mountaineer, William (Bill) Tillman, a World War II hero who ultimately perished at sea in 1977. Happily, Steve has survived to tell his extraordinary stories. This one-of-a-kind talk begins at 7 PM and will run approximately 1 hour plus. We hope to have Novara alongside the CYC dock for inspection before the talk from 5 to 6 PM.

This presentation is the 1st in a series of eight hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org.

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series Barbara Ernst Prey Insights and Inspiration Four Decades Painting Maine Wednesday, July 10, 7:00–8:30 pm / Camden Yacht Club

One of our country’s most acclaimed contemporary artists, Barbara Ernst Prey will give a talk on her insights and inspiration highlighting her four decades of painting Maine. New York based but long time summer resident, Barbara has a deep connection to the islands of Maine, her family were the first settlers of Vinalhaven and North Haven as well as the midcoast and other Maine islands and it is these islands and the structures that she is drawn to. Her paintings are in numerous prominent collections worldwide including The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., The Brooklyn Museum, The White House (where she is one of two living American female artists included in the collection), The Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, Kennedy Space Center and collections of Tom Hanks, and in over one hundred American embassies and consulates worldwide. In 2015, MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) commissioned Prey to create the world’s largest known watercolor painting ( 8 by 15 feet) for its new Building 6, which opened last summer. In 2003 She was invited by The President and First Lady to paint the official White House Christmas card. As a global Ambassador for American art, her artwork is displayed in more than 100 Embassies and Consulates worldwide through the U.S. Art in Embassies program. As a NASA artist she joins an elite group of American artists who have been invited by NASA to document space history executing commissioned work for NASA on four occasions. Her painting of the x-43 was included in the Smithsonian’s 12 museum traveling exhibit NASA/ART: 50 Years of Exploration. Her other NASA commissions are: The Columbia Tribute, the International Space Station, and the Shuttle Discovery: Return to Flight on exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center. She was recently featured on the CBS Evening News for her NASA artwork. For ten years, Prey has served as the sole visual artist on the U.S. President-appointed National Council on the Arts, the advisory board to the National Endowment for the Arts. Members are elected for their established record of distinguished service or achievement in the arts. Barbara is the recipient of many honors and awards including the New York State Senate Women of Distinction Award. The New York Times writes, “Prey is going where icons Rauschenberg and Warhol have gone before.” A graduate of Williams College with a master’s degree from Harvard, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and a grant from The Henry Luce Foundation. She is adjunct faculty at Williams College.

This presentation is the 2nd in a series of eight hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org.

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series A Passage to Antigua and Cruising the Windward Islands Tuesday, July 23, 7:00–8:30 pm / Camden Yacht Club

Have you been dreaming about cruising the Caribbean? Bob Osborn, Board Member of the Salty Dawg Sailing Association, will talk about the Salty Dawg Fall Rally to the Caribbean and Antigua as a starting point for cruising the islands from there to the Grenadines to the south. The Salty Dawg Fall Rally is the largest organized flotilla of cruisers leaving the East Coast for the Caribbean. Some say that the “Real Caribbean begins in Antigua” and the farther south you get, the more magnificent the scenery becomes with the peaks of magnificent islands shrouded in clouds. This cruising area offers line of sight passages between islands, consistent trade wind sailing and easy reaching both north and south, to just about anywhere in the Caribbean. Bob will share photographs of magnificent tropical scenery, anchorages and yachts in this area. Bob’s presentation will cover the islands of the eastern Caribbean, which form a graceful arc from Puerto Rico south to Trinidad, ending just north of Venezuela. The Windward islands comprise the southern half of the chain from Martinique to Grenada for a total distance of approximately 450 miles. The Salty Dawg Sailing Association is a nonprofit educational and charitable organization that hosts rallies, rendezvous and blue water sailing seminars. The Fall Rally departs from Hampton VA in early November with between 85–95 boats making the trip each year following nearly a week of seminars. Destinations include, in addition to Antigua, the BVIs and Bahamas. Come to Bob’s presentation to see for yourself what it is like to cruise the “islands that kiss the clouds.”

This presentation is the 3rd in a series of eight hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org.

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series Designing a Spirit of Tradition Sailing Yacht Wednesday, July 24, 7:00–8:30 pm / Camden Yacht Club

Ever wonder where some of the fastest, most beautiful sailing yachts on Penobscot Bay come from? To learn the answer come to a presentation at the Camden Yacht Club on July 24 at 7:00 p.m. by Bob Stephens, one of the foremost designers of classic yachts. Bob is co-owner of Stephens Waring Yacht Design in Belfast, Maine, a custom naval architecture and engineering firm whose sailing and motor yachts elegantly blend the heritage and traditions of classic designs with the latest in modern technologies and materials. Bob brings a love of history (evidenced by his history degree from Bowdoin) and decades of master carpentry and yacht design to blend the heritage and traditions of classic designs with the latest modern technologies and materials. Bob will discuss the process his design firm follows in designing classic, fast and beautiful yachts for its clients and illustrate the results with photographs.

This presentation is the 4th in a series of eight hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org.

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series Impacts of Warming of the Gulf of Maine Wednesday, July 31, 7:00–8:30 pm / Camden Yacht Club

Come and hear about the future of lobstering and the Gulf of Maine from the foremost expert on July 31st at the Camden Yacht Club. Richard Wahle is the director of the University of Maine’s Lobster Institute and a research professor in the School of Marine Sciences. He is based at UMaine’s coastal laboratory, the Darling Marine Center, where he teaches and conducts his research. He received his PhD in zoology in 1990 at UMaine. After postdocs at Brown University and the University of Rhode Island, he served as a senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences for 15 years before taking his current faculty position in 2009. Rick is broadly interested in the influences of the ocean’s physical and biotic environment on the population dynamics and distribution of marine benthic organisms. Much of his research integrates the fields of ecology, oceanography, and fishery science toward a better mechanistic understanding of marine populations and communities. An experienced scientific diver, he employs field experiments and long-term monitoring to gain insight into the drivers of change in marine populations and communities. He founded the now long-standing American Lobster Settlement Index, a US-Canadian monitoring collaborative and database of lobster nursery grounds that has proven to be instrumental in predicting trends in the fishery through an understanding of larval transport, settlement, and post-settlement processes. He has published over 75 peer reviewed publications and book chapters, and has recently chaired two international lobster conferences and co-edited their proceedings for publication in professional journals.

This presentation is the 5th in a series of eight hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org.

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series

Follow the Water Wednesday, August 7, 7:00–8:30 pm / Camden Yacht Club

To date, Earth is the only known planet with intelligent life, occasioned by a remarkable coincidence: we have a planet at just the right distance from its parent star, provided with abundant water that remains the backbone of life as we know it. Aside from these cosmic benefits, water also floats our boats, rains on our crops (and sometimes our picnics), creates some of the most beautiful images in nature, and provides countless other blessings that we tend to take for granted. Water in the form of waves is both fun for surfers and destructive when a tsunami occurs. Join geologist and CYC member Mark Van Baalen in a discussion of some of the remarkable properties of water, where it came from and where it is going. A few years ago Mark gave a talk that focused on the physical properties of water. This new talk will pick up where his previous talk left off, after a quick review. The total amount of water on Earth is essentially constant and it exists in various reservoirs, some obvious, others not so obvious. Water moves from one place to another in various ways, and to understand all this we must follow the water. This water budget is not fixed, but responds to changes in the Earth’s climate. Finally, given the importance of water to life, the search for water on other planets and satellites is driven by the hope of finding signs of life out there somewhere. The talk will end up with what we know about water in our solar system and beyond. Mark Van Baalen holds degrees in Geology and in Astrophysics from Harvard University, and taught popular courses at Harvard. Currently he is an Associate in Earth & Planetary Sciences at the university and and is privileged to serve students in a mentoring role. He is also an avid sailor (and CYC cruiser); and together with his wife Louisa, leads study groups to all seven continents.

This presentation is the 6th in a series of eight hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org.

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series From Shark Bites to Repairing Human Hearts—A Maine Tale Wednesday, August 14, 7:00–8:30 pm / Camden Yacht Club

For decades, scientists have been defeated in their attempts to find a treatment that reverses the life-threatening damage caused by heart attacks. Now, thanks to scientific research taking place in Bar Harbor, Maine, that may all be changing. To find out how, come to the Camden Yacht Club on Wednesday August 14th at 7 PM to hear from Dr. Kevin Strange, CEO of Bar Harbor- based Novo Biosciences. Dr. Strange will explain how a tale of shark bites at a Scottish Pub led him and his colleagues to identify the first and only drug candidate to stimulate a damaged heart to repair itself. Dr. Strange is an internationally recognized biomedical scientist, scientific leader, entrepreneur and pioneer in the discovery and development of drugs for regenerative medicine. His research has been funded for more than 30 years by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, and numerous private foundations. Dr. Strange cofounded Novo Biosciences, Inc., in 2013 to pursue the development of a novel regenerative medicine therapy. Novo’s work has received U.S., European and Japanese patent protection and is supported by federal funding and private investment. In April 2019, Scientific American published the story behind Novo’s pioneering regenerative medicine R&D approach. In 2017, Dr. Strange was recognized as one of 50 Mainers “charting the state’s future” and “leading by example.” He is also the recipient of numerous awards including the John C. Parker Endowed Chair, the Pittinger Award for Excellence in Basic Research, the B.E. Smith Mentorship Award and the American Heart Association Established Investigator Award.

This presentation is the 7th in a series of eight hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org.

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series Crossing the Atlantic in Snow Star

Wednesday, August 21, 7:00–8:30 pm / Camden Yacht Club

Camden Yacht Club members, Tom Kiley and Ry Hills, will give a slide presentation of their memorable voyage on their 37 foot wooden sailboat, Snow Star. The trip included two transatlantic crossings, cruising in the Azores, Madera and the Canary Islands in the summer of 2017. In the fall of 2017, the couple were joined by two more crew members and sailed west from the Canary Islands to Antigua, a passage of 3200 miles in 25 days. They spent the winter in the Caribbean where they were joined by friends and family. The trip north included cruising the Virgin Islands and the Bahamas. This was not an unusual trip for many salty cruisers, but what made this trip unique was their Danish-built 50-year-old 37 foot wooden sloop. Few boats like this are voyaging offshore anymore. Further, Tom and Ry had 14 crew members join them throughout the voyage who were under 40 years old. The opportunities for young people sailing offshore are few and far between. Many of the next generation crew started their sailing at the Camden Yacht Club. All were excellent crew members. Tom and Ry are life long sailors, having grown up on boats both racing and cruising. Their previous offshore experience has included trips to the Caribbean in 1977 on Snow Star and along the east coast. They have five grown children who join them when time allows.

This presentation is the 8th and final in a series of eight hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org.

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club 2018 Sunset Seminar Series Talks are held weekly in July and August, 7:00–8:30 pm, free of charge, and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP).

Wednesday, July 11 Thursday, August 2 “Maine Illuminations” NY40 MARILEE: Artistic Inspirations in the Mid Coast Restoration of a Herreshoff Classic

Artists Greg Mort and Jon Mort will reflect This documentary film follows the story of on the powerful influence Maine’s natural Marilee’s restoration and her racing program wonders and mysteries have had on their artistic throughout New England. Following the film will development. be a discussion with Alison Langley, filmmaker, Todd French, boat builder, Dennis Gunderson, Wednesday, July 18 project manager, and Paul Waring, yacht designer. To Sail Beyond the Sunset Wednesday, August 8 Susan St John will show slides and speak The Benefits and Brilliance of about experiential education, including her Traditional Open Boats and experiences at Outward Bound and creating Their Relevance in Modern Times the book To Sail Beyond the Sunset. Captain Arista Holden will speak about her Wednesday, July 25 800-mile round trip voyage to the Norwegian World Class Skipper Recounts Arctic in an open boat, and her work with the Capsize of 57' Atlantic Cat Atlantic Challenge International. Charles Nethersole, a professional captain, Wednesday, August 15 will give an account of what happened one fateful Nordic Aquafarms night in November, 2016 aboard a 57-foot Atlantic Catamaran. Camden’s own Ben Ellison will Erik Heim, CEO of Nordic Aquafarms, will deliver discuss the EPIRB that was critical to the rescue information and answer questions about the plans along with other marine safety beacons. for the world’s largest inland salmon aquaculture facilities in Belfast, Maine. Wednesday, August 1 Sea Shanties & Poetry Readings Wednesday, August 22 Protecting Nature in Maine’s Join our two world-class artists, Bennett Konesni Coastal Waters and Kristen Lindquist, both with local connections, for an evening of music and poetry. Lisa Pohlmann, the executive director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, will discuss current challenges facing Maine’s ocean waters as they relate to policy debates.

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series “Maine Illuminations” Artistic Inspirations in the Mid Coast

Wednesday, July 11, 7:00–8:30 pm / Camden Yacht Club

Artists Greg Mort and Jon Mort will reflect on the powerful influence Maine’s natural wonders and mysteries have had on their artistic development. This father and son artistic duo work together in their Port Clyde summer studio but each creates in a very separate universe. Greg Mort is a widely recognized American contemporary artist whose unmistakably modern creations have the classic feel of the Dutch Masters juxtaposed with startlingly modern designs. His signature images combine his twin passions for science and nature. Founding The Art of Stewardship Project (TAOS) he took this effort to a higher level, encouraging other artists to use their talents to collaborate and support environmental organizations. Mort’s artwork is in many prominent collections including the Smithsonian, National Gallery of Art, Boston Museum of Science, Delaware Art Museum, Farnsworth Museum, Academy Art Museum, Portland Museum of Art, Brandywine River Museum and the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum. The United States Department of State’s Art in Embassies program has selected many of his paintings for their cultural diplomacy efforts including an exhibition at The White House. Mort’s artwork has been exhibited in over one hundred museum and gallery shows around the world. Millennial artist Jon Mort has received broad acclaim for his startlingly realistic colored pencil and large-scale graphite images and is also a highly sought-after portrait artist. Captivated by design and drawing since childhood, Jon received Fine Art and Classics degrees from Franklin and Marshall College and his Masters in Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design Jon’s creations have been shown in exhibitions at the Phillips Museum, the Portsmouth Museum of Art, and recently in a one-person exhibition titled “Living Legends” at the Sandy Spring Museum in Maryland. He has participated in twenty one-person or group museum and gallery exhibitions. His 2017–18 winter show “New Horizons” at Somerville Manning Gallery is featured in November 2017 American Art Collector Magazine.

This presentation is the 1st in a series of 8 hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org.

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series To Sail Beyond the Sunset Outward Bound: The Hurricane Island Years Wednesday, July 18, 7:00–8:30 pm / Camden Yacht Club

Beginning in 1973, Susan St. John was a sea instructor for 30 years with the Outward Bound School, which was then based on Hurricane Island. She taught teens, women over 30, families, executives, and Vietnam Veterans on land,but 90% of the time in the pulling boats. Susan will show slides and speak about experiential education, including her experiences at Outward Bound and creating the book To Sail Beyond the Sunset, which contains stories and photographs from 100 people associated with the school. She will engage with questions from the audience.

St John lives in Owls Head in the house she designed and built 40 years ago for her late husband, Bob Rheault, with whom she worked at Hurricane Island. There they raised their now-grown children, Nicholas and Alexis St. John-Rheault. “I wake up every morning and, if it isn’t foggy, look ten miles across Penobscot Bay to Hurricane Island. It is a touchstone.” Susan’s formal education includes a BA from Bennington College in literature and a Masters in Architecture from Yale University. To Sail Beyond the Sunset is her first book.

This presentation is the 2nd in a series of 8 hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org.

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series Charles Nethersole, World Class Skipper, Recounts Capsize of 57' Atlantic Cat

Wednesday, July 25, 7:00–8:30 pm / Camden Yacht Club

Charles Nethersole, a professional captain, will give an account of what happened one fateful night in November, 2016 aboard Leopard, a 57-foot Chris White design Atlantic Catamaran. The Leopard capsized 400 miles north of the Dominican Republic due to a random weather event. The cause of the capsize has been debated by meteorologists, suggesting that a volatile tornado waterspout or a microburst was to blame. The captain and crew had been sailing proficiently prior to the capsize and did all the right things in response to the disaster. We will hear about the hours of the night leading up to the event, the crew’s response to the difficult circumstances of being upside down as water rose to chest level, and the rescue after the EPIRB signal was picked up. Charles, with over 4 decades of skippering a diversity of boats, will share other stories of mishaps along the way including dismasting and grounding and his preventative and recovery strategies. As an afterword to Charles’ presentation, Camden’s own Ben Ellison will discuss the EPIRB that was critical to the rescue along with other marine safety beacons. In 1971, Ben moved aboard a 40-foot sloop in the harbor intent on circumnavigating with a crew of college friends, but he’s still here. While he spent much of his career as a professional skipper and navigation/seamanship instructor, for the last 20 years he’s focused on writing about marine electronics, often from his Duffy 37 Gizmo.

This presentation is the 3rd in a series of 8 hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org.

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series Sea Shanties & Poetry Readings with Bennett Konesni & Kristen Lindquist

Wednesday, August 1, 7:00–8:30 pm / Camden Yacht Club

The Camden Yacht Club is delighted to host two world-class artists, both with local connections, for an evening of music and poetry.

Bennett Konesni, who grew up on Islesboro and currently lives in Appleton, will share songs from the 1900s recordings of Searsport native Joanna Colcord’s collection of sea shanties. He will lead a lively discussion of the successes and challenges he’s encountered during his efforts to revive these songs through recreational and competitive boating in the 21st century. Konesni was naturally drawn to the communities of sailing, farming, and old-time music. He has a history of sailing on Penobscot Bay in small racing boats and in tall ships, where he learned traditional work songs. He attended Middlebury College where he founded the student farm and did undergraduate studies with his Thomas Watson fellowship studying work songs in South Africa, Europe, and Asia. He recently co-founded Sylvestor Manor in Shelter Island, New York, where he teaches sea shanties and work songs. As Curator of Worksongs.org, he has launched the Worksong Project with song collections from all over the world via the internet. You can find Bennett in fields in Belfast, Maine, and on Shelter Island, New York, garlic shucking and planting and singing.

Our poet is Kristen Lindquist, a freelance writer and author from Camden, Maine, whose works have appeared in Downeast Magazine, Bangor Metro, Bangor Daily News, and many journals. She was a finalist for the Maine Literary Award with her first full length poetry collection: Transportation. Her most recent book, Tourists in the Known World: New and Selected Poems was published in 2017. Kristen attended Middlebury College and holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Oregon. An avid birder, she leads bird walks all over the state. She writes a natural history column for the Pen Bay Pilot. Kristen will read poems inspired by life on the Maine seacoast, especially Monhegan Island, where she spends several weeks during spring and fall bird migrations.

This presentation is the 4th in a series of 8 hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org.

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series NY40 MARILEE Restoration of a Herreshoff Classic A film by Alison Langley

Thursday, August 2, 7:00–8:30pm / Camden Yacht Club

This 40-minute documentary follows the story of Marilee’s meticulous and unique restoration by French & Webb in Belfast, Maine, as well as Marilee’s ambitious and successful racing program throughout New England. Following the film will be a discussion with Alison Langley, filmmaker, Todd French, boat builder, Dennis Gunderson, project manager for Marilee, and Paul Waring, yacht designer. In 1916, the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, Rhode Island introduced the New York 40, a new one-design class for the New York Yacht Club. Nathanael Herreshoff’s objective was to design a competitive racer seaworthy enough for ocean racing as well as provide accommodations for coastal cruising. The NY40 class was quickly interrupted by entry of the United States into World War I in 1917, when all class racing was ceased. But it was not long after the war ended that the boat’s performance was proven on the racecourse and the class soon became known as the “Fighting Forties.” Only four of the NY40s still remain: Marilee and her sistership Rugosa II (the last two NY40s built in 1926), along with Rowdy and Chinook, currently active in Europe. In 2014, Marilee came under new ownership and a complete restoration was soon on the table. At French & Webb, modern innovations and engineering were combined with meticulous and artistic craftsmanship. With access to the original Herreshoff Manufacturing Company’s building plans, documents and images archived at MIT Museum’s Hart Nautical Collections, and the Herreshoff Marine Museum, the crew at French & Webb brought Marilee back to perfection. This included interchangeable Gaff and Bermudian rigs, a breathtaking and uniquely designed interior, and more. Note: This evening takes place post-Castine Classic Regatta and pre-Camden Classic Regatta, in which hundreds of classic wooden yachts participate (many of which will be in Camden Harbor). Marilee will be dockside at the Camden Yacht Club. Alison Langley is a nautical photographer and filmmaker living in Camden, Maine. Alison’s nautical images artfully express the essence of sailing as she captures moments of breathtaking beauty when wind, water and sails meet. After studying film at NYU and photography at RISD, Alison moved to Australia, where she learned to sail. She then spent several years sailing around the world, honing her craft and embracing a passion for the sea. Combining her artist’s eye and an intimate knowledge of classic yachts, Alison has earned recognition for her exquisite fine art and commercial photography worldwide.

This presentation is the 5th in a series of 8 hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org.

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series The Benefits and Brilliance of Traditional Open Boats and Their Relevance in Modern Times Wednesday, August 8, 7:00–8:30 pm / Camden Yacht Club

Arista Holden, captain and longtime seamanship instructor for programs such as Outward Bound, the National Outdoor Leadership School, Atlantic Challenge, and the Wooden Boat School, will present on her recent 800-mile round trip voyage to the Norwegian Arctic in an open boat. She will also talk about her work as Head Trainer for the team representing the USA in the Atlantic Challenge International. Arista is a Lincolnville native and got her start in sailing Penobscot Bay out of the Rockport Boat Club. “Starting from Rissa, Norway, in the Trondheim Fjord, a crew from the Fosen Folkehøgskole (folk school) and myself made our way up the west coast of Norway to 100 miles past the Arctic Circle in a 42' fembøring, a type that represents the last evolution of a thousand-year Viking boat lineage. In the mid-1800s, thousands of these boats were used to fish cod in the Lofotens during the winter months before returning, their crews perhaps richer, to the Trondheim region in the spring.” The Atlantic Challenge International Contest of Seamanship will take place on Loch Neigh in Ireland, where 14 teams from around the world will convene to showcase their maritime skills and create an international community in the spirit of friendly competition. The USA team is training on Greens Island in Penobscot Bay, Maine, where team members camp in tents and live in the absence of electricity. For two and a half weeks, twenty individuals become a tight-knit team with event-specific training on the water in Bantry Bay gigs.

This presentation is the 6th in a series of 8 hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org.

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series Nordic Aquafarms with Erik Heim, CEO

Wednesday, August 15, 7:00–8:30 pm Camden Yacht Club

Nordic Aquafarms is planning on building one of the world’s largest inland salmon aquaculture facilities in Belfast, Maine. Aiming for a 2019 start date, they predict producing more than 60 million pounds of salmon a year and potentially creating 140 jobs in the $400,000,000 facility. Erik Heim, CEO of Nordic Aquafarms, will deliver information and answer questions about the project. He explains that the land-based tanks set them apart from other systems that raise fish in pens in oceans. This tank model avoids the problem of escaped farm fish entering the oceans, removing the possibility of spreading diseases, and decreases the amount of chemicals and medications expelled. The Gulf of Maine was chosen due to its pristine environment, cold water conditions, its long history as a leader in the seafood industry and its proximity to consumer markets on the Northeast. This project has the support of the state, congress, and environmental groups.

This presentation is the 7th in a series of 8 hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org.

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series Protecting Nature in Maine’s Coastal Waters

Wednesday, August 22, 7:00–8:30 pm / Camden Yacht Club

Lisa Pohlmann, the executive director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, will discuss current challenges facing Maine’s ocean waters as they relate to policy debates in Maine, and how the Natural Resources Council of Maine is addressing them. NRCM is Maine’s leading environmental advocacy organization, with more than 20,000 members and supporters in Maine and beyond. Started by Maine people in 1959, NRCM is based in Augusta and is actively engaged in policy making and works statewide to protect Maine’s woods, waters and wildlife. Learn about restoring sea-run fisheries through dam removal, promoting policies to address climate change, reducing single-use plastic materials, and fighting current federal proposals—like offshore oil and gas drilling—that could harm Maine’s environment. The Natural Resources Council of Maine works on such issues every day and can help you become involved, too.

Lisa has worked at and led advocacy organizations throughout her 37 year career in Maine. She has a PhD from the Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine. A resident of Jefferson, Lisa has had a lifelong love of the outdoors, and regularly kayaks, hikes, skis, and camps across Maine.

This presentation is the final in a series of 8 hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org.

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club 2017 Sunset Seminar Series Talks are held Wednesdays in July and August, 7:00–8:30 pm, free of charge, and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP).

July 5 August 2 Arctic Observations Penobscot Sense of Place

Peter Ralston Join this noted photographer and James Francis Sr, Director/Tribal Historian co-founder of the Island Institute in a conversation Penobscot Nation and Jennifer Neptune, with slideshow of an epic trip documenting the Coordinator Penobscot Nation Museum beauty of the Arctic wildlife, the land, its people, and An exploration of the indigenous Penobscot Culture the reality of climate change. to broaden our view of the landscape that we see. “Through Language, the Landscape, and Lore we can July 12 re-create a place that is harmonious, rough, and A Night of Sea Shanties, Bluegrass, sophisticated.” and Folk Music August 9 Rusty Hinges Come sing along to familiar tunes Different Strokes by Identical Blokes: played by this popular midcoast Maine 5-piece band Nautical Art Show and Tell and their special guests. Art and Chuck Paine Identical twin brothers who July 19 are noted yacht designers, boatbuilders, and marine painters will display, discuss, and demonstrate their Deepwater Offshore Wind in Maine approaches to painting and drawing. Maine Aqua Venus Project Representatives August 16 Learn about their work to tap into Maine’s maritime heritage and natural wind resource to advance clean, Paralympics Program and domestic energy, while strengthening coastal the Future of Olympic Sailing economies. Hugh Freund Member of the Silver Medal-winning team in the Three-Person Sonar class in the 2016 July 26 Rio Paralympics, Hugh will share his stories about Filming the Sea: Past and Future competing in Rio, and the challenge of balancing the demands—after losing his leg to cancer in college—of David Conover: Compass Light Productions training for sailing in the Olympics with real life. Award-winning filmmaker David Conover will share stories and clips from a creative life with the world’s August 23 oceans. Aquaculture in the Gulf of Maine: Opportunities and Obstacles

A panel presentation with Maine Sea Grant’s Dana Morse and local kelp, scallop, and oyster fishermen/ farmers who are members of the Maine Aquaculture Co-op, seeking to expand the seafood industry through: integrating fishing and farming, 68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 diversifying income opportunities, maintaining 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org working waterfront, and strengthening the coastal community—while sharing climate change concerns. Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series Arctic Observations by Peter Ralston Wednesday, July 5, 7:00–8:30 pm at the Camden Yacht Club

Peter Ralston, noted photographer and co-founder of the Island Institute, roamed far last summer with 6 others . . . all the way to Greenland and the heart of the Northwest Passage, a 900-mile sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. On Wednesday July 5th, from 7–8:30 at the Camden Yacht Club, Peter will share his observations through conversation and slides. It was a trip of epic proportions aboard a friend’s 184-foot luxury sailing yacht, which Ralston describes as “a privileged front-row seat in the most dramatic theatre of rapid climate change on the planet.” “Climate change is obviously not a ‘hoax,’ the core questions are to what extent are we actually culpable as well as what can we as a species do about our contribution to it all,” Ralston says. “There were many lessons to be learned up north that can be applied to our own changing Gulf of Maine and the fisheries that support so many here.” Ralston’s photographs document the austere and severe beauty of the landscape, as well as Inuit villages and hunting camps, polar bears, and whales, all under the midnight sun. “It was truly the trip of a lifetime.”

Peter Ralston grew up in Chadd’s Ford, Pennsylvania, worked for a decade as a freelance photojournalist, and then began photographing the coast of Maine in 1978, drawn especially to the working communities that define the coast’s enduring character. His work has been seen in many books and magazines, featured on network television and has been exhibited in galleries, collections and museums throughout the United States and abroad. In 2003 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree at Colby College for his photography as well as his role as co-founder of the Island Institute. He created Ralston Gallery in Rockport, Maine, in 2011, selling his photographs as well as the work of his lifelong friends, Andrew and Jamie Wyeth. This is the first in a series of eight Wednesday seminars hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org.

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series Rusty Hinges A night of sea shanties, bluegrass, & folk music with this 5-piece band Come sing along!

Wednesday, July 12, 7:00–8:30 pm at the Camden Yacht Club

Please join us at the Camden Yacht Club on Wednesday, July 12, from 7:00 to 8:30 for a fun musical night with the Rusty Hinges and their special guests! The Rusty Hinges are a midcoast Maine band who will be playing a wide variety of genres that will include sea shanties, folk songs, oldies, love songs and more. Some sea songs you may recognize (and you’re encouraged to sing along), such as Drunken Sailor, Sloop John B, Water is Wide, and Row the Old Chariot Along. They will also be happy to play special requests. The bandmates include John Couch from Bristol on guitar, Brian Dunn from Waldoboro on banjo and mandolin, Charles Chairchairo from Nobleboro playing the resonator guitar, John Monterisi from Nobleboro on guitar, and Nancy Jones from Warren playing guitar, fiddle, and pennywhistle. Every Tuesday night you can hear them play at The Narrows Tavern in Waldoboro, as well as other venues across the midcoast . The band has extended an invitation to other salty dogs (who are expected to show up!) to perform their favorite sea shanties. We may also hear from some familiar schooner captains and Camden’s own harbormaster.

This is the second in a series of eight Wednesday seminars hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org.

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series Deepwater Offshore Wind in Maine Tapping into Maine’s maritime heritage and natural wind resource to advance clean, domestic energy while strengthening coastal economies Wednesday, July 19, 7:00–8:30 pm at the Camden Yacht Club

On Wednesday, July 19, from 7:00 to 8:30, join representatives from the Maine Aqua Ventus project, who are working to develop a clean, renewable energy source off Maine's shores. For more than 10 years, UMaine has led development of the patented VolturnUS floating concrete hull technology that can support wind turbines in water depths of 150 feet or more, and has the potential to significantly reduce the cost of offshore wind. Maine Aqua Ventus I, GP, LLC, is leading a demonstration project called New England Aqua Ventus I, a 12 MW floating offshore wind pilot project to develop a clean, renewable energy source off Maine’s shores. This demonstration project will deploy two 6 MW turbines on VolturnUS, the floating concrete semi-submersible hull designed by UMaine, south of Monhegan Island. Each floating hull/turbine is held in position by three marine mooring lines securely anchored to the seabed, with the electrical generation connected by subsea cable to the Maine power grid on shore. Maine’s manufacturing heritage was built on local power. Successfully harnessing offshore wind will contribute to the transformation of Maine’s energy sector to renewable sources, and keep our energy dollars in our state. Offshore wind is Maine’s largest natural resource, with more than 156 GW off of our coast. The entire state of Maine uses 2.4 GW each year.

This is the third in a series of eight Wednesday seminars hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org.

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series Filming the Sea: Past and Future David Conover: Compass Light Productions

Wednesday, July 26, 7:00–8:30 pm at the Camden Yacht Club

Award-winning filmmaker David Conover will share stories and clips from a creative life with the world’s oceans at the Camden Yacht Club on Wednesday, July 26th, from 7 to 8:30 pm. He has traveled to some of the most extreme coasts on earth, from Newfoundland to Madagascar and Svalbard to the Galapagos. His talk will also include discussion of current work with the Conservation Media Group, with a focus on sanctuary for marine life, issues related to rising ocean levels, reducing ocean plastic, and transitioning to a low-carbon future.

David Conover was raised in a New England family with strong ties to the sea and a tradition of active storytelling. He is founder and executive director of Compass Light, a 25-year-old production company that has produced over 600 award-winning productions, many exploring the human relationship to the ocean and the outdoors. The company was named a Global Top 100 by Realscreen. In 2003, Compass Light created and developed “Experiential” or "Slow TV," with its Sunrise Earth series (Discovery). In 2015, they produced their first 4K VOD series, titled Big Picture Earth (CuriosityStream). Three years ago, David founded the Conservation Media Group, a non-profit initiative that builds communication capacity for work targeting urgent ocean and energy challenges via workshops, residencies, grants, and placement of fellows with partner conservation organizations. Recently, he was the Coastal Studies Scholar at Bowdoin College in Maine. He has also taught at the Maine Media Workshops and serves on the board of the Hurricane Island Center for Science and Leadership. David resides in Camden with his wife Beverly.

This is the fourth in a series of eight Wednesday seminars hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org.

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series Penobscot Sense of Place

Wednesday, August 2, 7:00–8:30 pm at the Camden Yacht Club

James Eric Francis Sr. and Jennifer Neptune—who both reside and work on Indian Island, Maine—will reveal the indigenous Penobscot Culture, to enable us to broaden our view of the landscape that we see, in a presentation at the Camden Yacht Club on Wednesday, August 2nd, from 7:00 to 8:30 pm. Jennifer Neptune will also be doing a basket weaving demonstration.

Passadumkeag, Kenduskeag, Katahdin, Sebago, Passagassawakeag, and even Penobscot are words that a local Mainer may be familiar with. But what do they mean? How much is the meaning tied up in a romanticized notion of cultures of the past, and how can we look at it from a cultural worldview that is indigenous to this landscape? To truly understand a sense of Place, one must explore the cultural elements that occupy a given space. By exploring indigenous Penobscot Culture we can broaden our view of the landscape that we (American/Maine Cultural beings) see, we can imaging a Penobscot Cultural Landscape. “Through Language, the Landscape, and Lore we can re-create a place that is harmonious, rough, and sophisticated. We can imagine a Penobscot Sense of Place.”

James Eric Francis Sr. is a historian, geographer, storyteller, photographer, artist, father, husband and a Penobscot. He is the Director/Tribal Historian of the Penobscot Nation, Cultural and Historic Preservation Department.

Jennifer Neptune is the Coordinator of the Penobscot Nation Museum, an Anthropologist, Maine Guide, Herbalist and award-winning Basket Weaver.

This is the fifth in a series of eight Wednesday seminars hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org.

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series Different Strokes from Identical Blokes Nautical Art Show and Tell

Wednesday, August 9, 7:00–8:30 pm at the Camden Yacht Club

Identical twin artists Art and Chuck Paine display, and briefly talk about, their approaches to nautical painting and drawing. Both have had successful careers as yacht designers and commercial artists. A 60-minute slide presentation will depict their early efforts as “child prodigies,” mid- careers in the fields of commercial art, yacht design and yacht building, and mature work as painters in oil and watercolor. They will have some of their most recent paintings on display for sale and critique. There will be time at the end for questions and discussion.

Art and Chuck began their lives on the island of Jamestown in the middle of Narragansett Bay, just across the East Passage from Newport. Like Jamestown resident William Trost Richards before them, their exposure to the beauty of their native island, surrounded as it was in the summer by the nautical creations of Nathaniel Herreshoff, gave rise to their lifetimes in the nautical field. Both have branched out into non-marine subject matter, though it never strays far from the edge of the sea. Come and see how the twins’ sibling rivalry and lifelong collaboration gave rise to well over a thousand beautiful yachts, black and white sketches and colorful paintings.

This is the sixth in a series of eight Wednesday seminars hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org.

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series Paralympics and the Future of Olympic Sailing with Winner Hugh Freund

Wednesday, August 16, 7:00–8:30 pm at the Camden Yacht Club

Come and hear Hugh’s story of balancing the demands of training for the paralympics with real life.

Hugh Freund is a 2016 Paralympic Silver Medalist in the three-person keelboat event, competing in a 23-foot Sonar in Guanabara Bay at the Rio Olympics last summer. After a year-long battle with bone cancer during his freshman year of college, Hugh was introduced to the world of adaptive sailing. He began a seven year journey, along with his teammates Rick Doerr (Clifton, NJ) and Brad Kendell (Clearwater, FL), and together they have sailed in ten countries and won eight World Cup medals. Paralympic sports require the same level of physical and mental dedication on and off the field of play, but also bring a unique set of challenges and opportunities for individuals to reclaim or reshape their identity. Hugh resides in South Freeport, Maine, and is a member of the Harraseeket Yacht Club, where he first learned to sail. He earned his degree in Architecture from the Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island and is now a graphic designer.

This is the seventh in a series of eight Wednesday seminars hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org.

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series Aquaculture in the Gulf of Maine Wednesday, August 23, 7:00–8:30 pm / Camden Yacht Club

The Camden Yacht Club closes their 2017 Sunset Seminar Series with a mini fisherman/farmers forum discussing the opportunities, obstacles, and methods of Aquaculture in our waters, including scallop, kelp, and oyster farming—complete with film and slide presentations and samples to taste. Farming is relatively new in the waters of coastal Maine, but it has been a way to diversify working waterfront incomes. The panel members include: Dana Morse, an Extension Associate for the Maine Sea Grant College Program. Morse has worked for 18 years developing approaches that maximize integration between commercial and aquaculture industries. Merritt Cary, an attorney by trade, and current Director of Maine Operations Acadian Seaplants Ltd and board member of the Tenants Harbor Fishermen’s Coop, which she help found. Cary also helped found the Maine Aquaculture Co-op. She was a member of the first all women’s America’s cup team and raced around the world in the Whitbread Round the World Race. Merritt also knows her way around the stern of a lobster boat. Peter Miller, a commercial fisherman for over 40 years with a career that includes scalloping, shrimping and lobstering, was recently awarded a lease site to begin growing scallops outside of Tenants Harbor. Miller co-founded the Maine Aquaculture Co-op and acts as treasurer. Karen Cooper, a North Haven resident, has been lobstering since she was a child with her dad and now owns her own boat and gear. She started a kelp farm a few years ago after being accepted into the Island Institute Cohort for Aquaculture. Ralph Hamill, a cardiologist, took over a failing oyster farm in 2007 and is now growing beautiful oysters. His first venture into aquaculture was in 1985 with steelhead trout. The Maine Aquaculture Co-op is Maine’s first aquaculture cooperative, with a board and membership comprised of Maine fishermen and aquaculturists. They seek to expand Maine’s seafood-producing industries through the thoughtful integration of fishing and farming, to diversify income opportunities for Maine fishermen, maintain our robust working waterfront, and strengthen our coastal communities. By working cooperatively, they are better able to solve technical difficulties, share best practices and resources, and leverage buying and marketing power. This co-op was formed under Maine’s Fish Marketing Association law, intended to promote, foster and encourage the intelligent and orderly marketing of fish and fishery products through cooperation; to eliminate speculation and waste; to make the distribution of fish and fishery products between producer and consumer as direct as can be efficiently done; and to stabilize the marketing of fish and fishery products. FMI visit https://maineaquaculturecoop.com/

This is the final in a series of eight Wednesday seminars hosted by the Camden Yacht Club and is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted, to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information, please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org.

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club 2016 Sunset Seminar Series Talks run from 7:00–8:30pm and are free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP).

July 6 Salty Dog Tales August 3 Celebrating Sailing

Captains Aaron Lincoln, Jim Sharp, Gary Jobson Harbormaster Steve Pixley, and more World-class sailor, tv commentator, and author Well-known local sailors will share their best stories Gary Jobson will talk about the upcoming Olympics; from their adventures at sea, as they compete for the America's Cup past, present, and future; and the Peoples’ Choice Award for the saltiest yarn. quest for sailing speed records. Gary will be signing copies of his book following the talk: Gary Jobson, July 13 On Being Prepared An American Sailing Story, available for purchase to benefit CAYSP. Chief Chris Farley, Camden Fire Dept, with the Marine Patrol, and the USCG August 10 Save Our Seas Who is responding to your call for help? Should you use a cell phone or marine radio? How will you Greenpeace extinguish that fire? What equipment should you have John Hocevar, Greenpeace Oceans Campaign on board? Chief Chris Farley (Camden Fire Dept) will Director, will discuss the expedition and research lead a hands-on discussion of safety at sea, complete work that Greenpeace has done to bring light not with demos of PFDs, flares, fire extinguishers, just to the issues of overfishing, seismic testing, cold-water immersion suits, and a deployment of a agricultural runoff and global climate change, but survival raft. also to discovering the opportunities to make the transformational change needed to save our seas. July 20 The Future of Maine’s Working Waterfront August 17 Reliving the Dream

Tom Groening­, Island Institute Tom & Jane Babbitt, CYC Members Maine's coastal and island communities have relied Comparing a 1989 offshore cruise to the Caribbean on natural resource harvesting for centuries, but with a similar cruise this past winter, Camden Yacht climate change and other factors could remake the Club members Tom and Jane Babbitt will talk local economy. These dynamics will be explained and strategies, boats, costs, and technology: then and explored in a wide-ranging discussion that includes now, and will share their photographs. short films produced by the Island Institute.

July 27 Changing Tacks August 24 Island Foraging

Captain Michael Tolley­ Kerry Hardy Captain Tolley has changed tacks numerous times Local author, naturalist and steward, Kerry takes us throughout his career at sea: from Maine Maritime on a “tour” of the edibles you might find along the Academy, the US Navy, and Columbia River Bar Pilots, beaches and coastal waterfronts, from kelp and to schooners, stowaways, pirate attacks, a Syrian crustaceans to mushrooms and elderberries, with refugee rescue, and food delivery to the most photos and freshly-picked specimens. troubled regions in desperate need. What is next?

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series Salty Dog Tales Wednesday, July 6

Please join us on Wednesday, July 6, 7:00–8:30 pm at the Camden Yacht Club to hear these extraordinary and entertaining stories about life on the sea.

Local Captains Aaron Lincoln, Jack Moore, Jim Sharp, and Harbormaster Steve Pixley will share their best stories from their adventures at sea, as they compete for the Peoples’ Choice Award for the saltiest yarn. Please join us at the first of 8 Wednesday nights of the Camden Yacht Club’s Sunset Seminars.

Captain Aaron Lincoln has logged over 1000,000 miles in Penobscot Bay alone. He has run the schooner Olad out of Camden Harbor for 16 years and has owned the business since 2005. Three years ago he purchased the cutter Owl and captains her as well. Other boats Aaron has worked on include the North Wind, Liberty Clipper, Black Pearl, Luna Dans, and White Hawk. Aaron has sailed the Maine Coast, Boston, Florida Keys, British Virgin Islands, Nova Scotia, Bermuda, St. Martin, and Cape Cod. He loves to talk about the history of the area and the schooner trade.

Captain Jack Moore has been sailing out of Camden Harbor for the past 32 years. Jack and his wife, Barbara, spent 7 years living aboard their ketch, Milky Way with their 4 children, sailing throughout the eastern Caribbean and along the East Coast. Beginning in 1984, family living aboard and daysailing the schooner Surprise continued for the next 27 years. Many of those years Capt. Jack combined sailing with teaching high school science. Capt. Jack and his wife sold Surprise in 2014 and now enjoy sailing their 35 ft. sloop Milky Way to somewhere just beyond Mark Island.

Captain Jim Sharp has been the skipper and owner of a whole fleet of vessels on the Maine coast including four windjammers (the Roseway, Stephen Taber, Bowdoin, and his favorite the Adventure), various tugs and freight boats. He is an avid reader of a bevy of historic sea stories, and the author of his own, a memoir written with humor, covering hair-raising adventures from Maine’s rockbound foggy coast to Lake Michigan and European canals. In 2009, Jim opened up his Sail, Power and Steam Museum in Rockland where people are drawn to his stories and treasures of Maine’s marine heritage.

Captain Steve Pixley grew up sailing on the mighty Hudson River in New York. After graduating from Maine Maritime Academy, Steve became the captain of the Grace Bailey. He also skippered the Mercantile, Mistress, and Appledore, driving them in Penobscot Bay but also sailed south to Key West. For the last 15 years Steve has served the town of Camden as Harbormaster.

The talk is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org

68 Bay View Street, Camden, Maine 04843 • 207-236-7033 • camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series On Being Prepared! Wednesday, July 13 Please join us on Wednesday, July 13, 7:00–8:30 pm at the Camden Yacht Club to learn the importance of knowing how to deal with emergencies at sea.

Chief Chris Farley, Camden Fire Dept, with the Marine Patrol and the USCG Who is responding to your call for help? Should you use a cell phone or marine radio? How will you extinguish that fire? What equipment should you have on board? Camden Fire Department’s Chief Chris Farley will lead a hands-on discussion of safety at sea, complete with demos of PFDs, flares, fire extinguishers, cold-water immersion suits, and a deployment of a survival raft. He will be joined by firefighters Scott Entwistle and Matthew Heath, Maine Marine Patrol Officer Corrie Roberts, and USCG Operations Petty Officer Thomas Laci.

Chris Farley has been in the Fire Service since 1988 and is currently the Fire Chief and Emergency Management Director in Camden holding those positions since June of 2008. He is an instructor for the Southern Maine Community College's Fire Service Institute. Prior to this he was an instructor in the Marine Fire Training Program at Maine Maritime Academy for 14 years.

Corrie Roberts has been in the Maine Marine Patrol for 10 years. She is a sworn state law enforcement officer as well as the boat captain for the Patrol Vessel Guardian III based out of Rockland Maine. She holds a USCG 100- ton Masters License, has a BA in biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, is a certified Rescue Diver, a member of the Maine Marine Patrol Whale Disentanglement Team, the Maine Marine Patrol Honor Guard, and the Maine Marine Patrol Critical Incident Stress Management Team. Corrie is also a NASBLA certified Officer Water Survival training instructor.

BM1 Thomas Laci joined the Coast Guard in January of 2003 and attended basic training at Cape May, NJ. During his career, BM1 Laci has served on two cutters and three stations performing vessel safety checks that ensure compliance with all applicable federal laws and regulations to promote safety, and reduce mishaps. In addition to promoting safety as sea, BM1 Laci’s primary missions is Search and Rescue. BM1 Laci has saved or otherwise assisted over 500 people while in the United States Coast Guard. BM1 Laci is currently serving as the Operations P.O. at CG Station Rockland.

The talk is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series The Future of Maine’s Working Waterfront Wednesday, July 20, 7–8:30 pm

Maine’s coastal and island communities have relied on natural resource harvesting for centuries, but climate change and other factors including ocean acidification could remake the local economy. It’s not only some species of fish that are endangered; the vitality and authenticity of island and coastal communities are at risk. These dynamics will be explained and explored in a wide-ranging discussion that includes short films produced by the Island Institute. Tom Groening is the editor of the Island Institute’s annual publication, Island Journal, and the ten-times a year newspaper The Working Waterfront (circulation 50,000). Previously, Groening was a reporter and editor for the Bangor Daily News and the (Belfast) Republican Journal. He lives in Belfast. Island Institute president Rob Snyder will be joining Tom.

The talk is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series Changing Tacks: A Career at Sea Wednesday, July 27, 7–8:30 pm

Michael Tolley, one of fifteen Columbia River Bar Pilots, will give an overview of his career at sea. From his time at Maine Maritime Academy to becoming a Naval Officer, sailing the local schooner Roseway, where he met his wife, to captaining 4 merchant ships delivering 50,000 metric tons of grain to the most troubled and poorest regions of the world. Tolley will share stories of being attacked by Somalian pirates, fires aboard a naval landing craft, dealing with stowaways, beaching his ship in Bangladesh and sailing in 66 foot seas while circumnavigating the globe thirteen times. Tolley was also responsible for rescuing 241 Syrian refugees off the coast of Sicily in November of 2014, who were left stranded by their smugglers for seven days without food or water. The memory of the Syrian children has profoundly impacted his life and he has stayed in contact with many of the families. When not being dropped from helicopters onto giant freighters in the dangerous waters of the Columbia River in Oregon, he resides in Maine with his wife and three children. This talk with be highlighted with videos and slides.

The talk is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series Celebrating Sailing World-Class Sailor Gary Jobson Wed, August 3, 7–8:30 pm

Gary Jobson, decorated sailor, television commentator, film maker, sailing lecturer, Emmy winner, coach and author will present from his vast list of experiences at the Camden Yacht Club on Wednesday evening August 3 at 7:00. Included in the 90-minute talk, he will bring us up to date with the progress of the 2017 America’s Cup Challenge in Bermuda and talk about the Cup’s history and future, preview the Rio Sailing Olympics, and introduce us to his newest film about the Magic and Mystery of Sable Island. Jobson will touch on the quest to set sailing speed records. In 2013, Emirates team New Zealand recorded a speed of 50.8mph with a wind speed of 18mph. Gary Jobson has spent his life sailing. He is Vice President of the International Sailing Federation. Gary has authored 19 sailing books and is Editor at large of Sailing World and Cruising World magazines. He is the President of the National Sailing Hall of Fame. Jobson has covered the America’s Cup for NBC and will be leaving Camden after his talk to cover the Olympics in Rio. He has been ESPN’s Sailing Commentator since 1985 and won the Award for Cable Excellence for his coverage of the America’s Cup. Jobson has also won an Emmy for his production of sailing at the Olympics in South Korea and for his coverage of the Volvo Ocean Race in 2006. In 2013 he was presented a Telly Award for Unfurling the World, The Voyages of Irving and Electa Johnson, recognizing his creative work in broadcast video productions. Jobson has won many one design championships including the America’s Cup with Ted Turner, the infamous Fastnet Race and many world ocean races. In college at SUNY Maritime, he was an All American sailor three times and was twice named College Sailor of the Year. Gary is also an active cruising sailor and has led ambitions expeditions to the Arctic, Antarctica and Cape Horn. In 2011, Gary Jobson was inducted into the National Sailing Hall of Fame and into the America’s Cup Hall of Fame in 2003. In 1999, Jobson won the Nathanael G. Herreshoff Trophy, US SAILING’s most prestigious award. Gary has been the National Chairman of the Leukemia Cup Regatta program and has been involved in raising money and awareness for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society since 1994. Following the talk, Gary will be signing copies of his book: Gary Jobson, An American Sailing Story (available for purchase to benefit CAYSP).

This presentation is part of the week long celebration of Classic Yacht Racing in Camden. The new Classics Cup Regatta is scheduled for July 29 and 30. For more information please visit www.camdenclassicscup.com

The talk is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site www.camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series Greenpeace: Save our seas and protect those who depend on them Wednesday, August 10, 7–8:30 pm

We depend on the world’s oceans for our very survival. Tragically, unsustainable activities such as over fishing, seismic testing, agricultural runoff and global climate change are urging forward the catastrophic collapse of whole marine and coastal ecosystems. We are also seeing increased documentation of horrifying human rights violations and outrageous practices by pirate fishing operations that jeopardize the livelihoods of small-scale fishing operations. On August 10 at 7 pm at the Camden Yacht Club, John Hocevar, Ocean’s Campaign Director of Greenpeace in the USA, will discuss the expedition and research work that Greenpeace has done to bring light not just to the issues, but to discovering the opportunities to make the transformational change needed to save our seas. He will also touch on specific degradation concerns and rising temperatures in the Gulf of Maine.

A trained marine biologist and an accomplished campaigner, explorer, and marine scientist, John has helped win several major victories for marine conservation since becoming the director of Greenpeace’s oceans campaign in 2004. These victories include neutralizing the influence of the commercial fishing industry to protect pollock fisheries in Alaskan waters. On the international level, John helped persuade the United Nations to protect coral reefs and other sensitive ecosystems from bottom trawling and other destructive fishing practices, and helped secure an agreement from eight Pacific island nations to prohibit fishing in large areas of the Pacific Ocean. He has also played a leading role in Greenpeace’s global anti-whaling campaign, successfully persuading the Japanese to drop plans to hunt humpback whales and to end all private investment in Japan’s whaling industry.

This is the 6th in a series of eight Wednesday Sunset Seminar talks at the Camden Yacht Club.

The talk is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series Reliving the Dream Tom and Jane Babbitt, CYC members Wednesday, August 17, 7–8:30 pm

Comparing a 1989 offshore cruise to the Caribbean with a similar cruise this past winter, Camden Yacht Club members Tom and Jane Babbitt will discuss strategies, boats, costs, and technology then and now at the Camden Yacht Club on Wednesday, August 17 at 7 pm. Fellow CYC members Galen and Sue Todd, crew for the offshore passage, will be present to add their perspective. The talk will be accompanied by photographs taken on both trips.

Tom and Jane Babbitt have led sailing-centric lives since childhood. Jane was brought up cruising Lake Ontario and Maine starting at age five. Tom started on a lake in Wisconsin at age 12 on a $35 sloop. They met through sailing friends and their honeymoon was spent sailing with Jane’s parents from Florida to Hopetown, in the Bahamas. That voyage introduced Tom to the wonders of the cruising life. Their children, Mary and Laura, also grew up sailing. They were introduced as infants and seasoned with an 8,000-mile family adventure from Maine to Grenada and back, with 3,000 of those miles offshore. Over the years Jane and Tom have been members, officers, or directors of many yacht clubs, class associations, rallies, and rendezvous. Together they have cruised over 50,000 miles and owned a dozen performance cruising boats ranging from 22' to 46', all but the first named Bravo. They presently cruise a J/46 nearly full time.

This is the 7th in a series of eight Wednesday Sunset Seminar talks at the Camden Yacht Club.

The talk is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org Camden Yacht Club Sunset Seminar Series Island Foraging with Kerry Hardy Wednesday, August 24, 7–8:30 pm

Kerry Hardy, local author, naturalist and steward, will take you on a “tour” of the edibles you might find along the beaches and coastal waterfronts, from kelp and crustaceans to mushrooms and elderberries, with photos and freshly-picked specimens.

Hardy grew up in Lincolnville, Maine, exploring human ecology and natural history and eventually writing about traditional foodways of Maine in his book Notes on a Lost Flute: A Field Guide to the Wababanki, published in 2009. He has worked as a landscape designer and was the director at Merryspring Gardens in Camden for ten years. Today Kerry Hardy is the steward for the Vinalhaven Land Trust.

“We only protect that which we cherish. So if you want to see change, it starts here (pointing to his head and his heart). You have to find a way to connect yourself to these native foods.”

The talk is free of charge and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted to benefit the non-profit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP). For more information please contact the CYC office at 207-236-7033 or visit our web site: camdenyachtclub.org

This is the final event in our series of eight 2016 Sunset Seminar talks at the Camden Yacht Club.