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ENGINUITY, a Calvin 36 powered with a 500 Cummins. Hails from Sedgwick. AMERICAN LOBSTER MANAGE- work group to evaluate the measures being For more information, please contact favor). MENT BOARD (OCTOBER 22, 2018) considered by the ALWTRT and provide Megan Ware, Fishery Management Plan Move to approve Marc Palombo (MA) Meeting Summary recommendations to the Board. Coordinator, at [email protected] or to the Jonah Crab Advisory Panel. The American Lobster Management Staff also provided an update on the 703.842.0740. Motion by made Mr. Borden and sec- Board met to discuss bait sources available Electronic Tracking and Reporting Sub- Motions onded by Mr. McKiernan. Motion approved to the lobster fishery, review a Northeast committees. These groups were formed Move that states within the jurisdiction by consensus. Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) Techni- after approval of Addendum XXVI in order of ASMFC’s Lobster Management Plan cal Memo on challenges facing the recovery to carryout provisions of the document. shall initiate a resolution to address the ASMFC Atlantic Herring Board Initi- of right whales, and receive an update on the The Electronic Tracking Subcommittee is threats to interstate commerce that is creat- ates Draft Addenda to Protect Spawning recent Atlantic Right Whale Take Reduction focused on implementing a 1-year pilot ed by the use of lobster bait that is sourced Herring in Areas 1A and 3 Team (ALWTRT) meeting. program to test tracking devices in the fish- from domestic and foreign locations that are NEW YORK, NY – The Atlantic States The Board reviewed the Maine Dept. of ery and has submitted a grant proposal to known to harbor viral, bacterial, parasitic, Marine Fisheries Commission’s Atlantic Marine Resources’ bait protocol. This pro- fund this project. The Electronic Reporting and invasive agents that could pose a risk to Herring Management Board initiated Draft tocol was established by Maine in order to Subcommittee is focused on guiding the lobster and other indigenous species. Such Addenda II and III to Amendment 3 of the reduce the risk of viral agents, parasites, and development of electronic reporting in the measures must ensure that the use of such Interstate Fishery Management Plan for nuisance species being brought via bait into fishery. To date, this group has identified baits will be prohibited by December 2020. Atlantic Herring to consider strengthening nearby waters. Given the quota of Atlantic needed data elements on a form, reviewed Motion made by Mr. Keliher and sec- spawning protections in Area 1A (inshore herring, a preferred bait source in the lobster available software, and discussed the merits onded by Mr. Fote. Motion carries (11 in Gulf of Maine) and extending spawning fishery, is expected to be reduced, the Board of selecting a single, preferred software ver- favor). protections to Area 3 (off of Cape Cod and agreed to develop a resolution to address sus identifying specifications which allow Move to postpone until the February Georges Bank). This action responds to threats created by the use of lobster baits that multiple software companies to develop a 2019 meeting to determine the compliance the results of the 2018 Benchmark Stock are known to harbor viral, bacterial, parasit- reporting form. level for the states of DE and NY for the Assessment which showed reduced levels ic, and invasive agents. This resolution will The Board also reviewed and approved Jonah Crab FMP and send letters to the states of recruitment and spawning stock biomass be developed by a working group which will state compliance reports and FMP Reviews to request they come back into compliance. over the past five years, with 2016 recruit- assess both long-term and short-term needs. for American Lobster and Jonah Crab. The Motion made by Mr. McKiernan and ment levels the lowest on record. The Board also reviewed the NEFSC Board noted that New York and Delaware seconded by Mr. White. Motion carries (10 Currently, the Board uses a series of Technical Memo on right whales as well as have not fully implemented provisions of the in favor, 1 abstention. closures to protect spawning aggregations recent discussions of the ALWTRT. These Jonah Crab FMP; these jurisdictions stated Move to approve the 2018 Lobster and in the Gulf of Maine. These closures, which discussions have been prompted by the de- that regulations are going through respective Jonah Crab FMP Reviews, state compliance were implemented through Amendment 3, cline of the Atlantic right whale population, legislative processes. As a result, the Board reports, and de minimis status for DE, MD, extend for four to six weeks; their timing an endangered marine mammal. Given the agreed to send letters to these states request- and VA for both American lobster and Jonah is informed by samples which are used to recommendations of the ALWTRT may ing them to come into compliance. Finally, crab. project the start of spawning. Recent analy- have management implications for the the Board approved Marc Palombo to the Motion made by Mr. Fote and seconded lobster fishery, the Board decided to form a Jonah Crab Advisory Panel. by Mr. Hasbrouck. Motion carries (11 in Continued on Page 12. - C o n t e n t s Publisher's Note 4 Mercy Ships 9 Commercial Fishing News Maritime History Calendar of Events 4 U. S. Navy News 10 From the Director-DELA 11 Mining Journal 1882 24 Jim Hunt-Shipbuilding, Passes On 5 U. S. Coast Guard News 10 Misc. Commercial Fishing News 1 Classified Ads 28 70s Memories: Hiring... 6 MMA News 10 Boat and Ship Yard News 14 What you Need to Know-Propellers 7 Page 2. MAINE COASTAL NEWS December 2018 Maine's Propeller & Fabrication Experts are 200 Maine 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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www.mainebuiltboats.com Page 4. MAINE COASTAL NEWS December 2018 Maine Coastal News Publisher's Note P.O. Box 710 Believe it or not this is the last issue for much time have you taken. The bigger Winterport, Maine 04496-0710 U.S.A. 2018. That means the New Year ushers in question is was it all worth it? I have stayed (207) 223-8846 E-mail - [email protected] volume 32…31 years of covering the coast. with Facebook and that takes a couple of It certainly does not feel like 31 years, and hours to post to, but it seems worth the Website: www.mainescoast.com you know what they say, “If you do what effort. you like you will not work a day in your My next hurdle is getting the website life.” Not totally true. No matter what one revamped, which is a must. I have not does there are always aspects that are not stayed up with this and that was not smart. always enjoyable or maybe it is I would If I had posted all the material (articles, rather spend my time doing something photographs and the research), it would else. I have no regrets, of course something have been a great source for information. should have been done a little different and Hopefully in the next couple of months we that would have made life a little easier. can have a redesigned website with much This morning while typesetting I went of the back information available. looking for a photograph and after about Now there are questions nobody seems two hours of searching the photo files still to dare answer: how do we plan for the have not found it. I had started an index of future? People do not seem to be able to all the photographs a couple of years ago, judge what society is going to do. I am not and now I realize I should have completed sure Generation Zero has any ideas and Follow us on Facebook: it. Another project, and this could take as a business person that make planning Find under - Jon Johansen months to complete, is to file all the mate- difficult. They do not want to own homes, rial I have collected over the 31 years. Not move every five or so years, and live for the a high priority in my book, but one I am experience. A lot of what most of grew up Maine Coastal News is published 12 times a year and is dedicated to covering the news slowly moving forward on because there with they do not want. Being in print media, along the entire coast of Maine, Kittery to Eastport. We cover general marine news, commercial is a lot of valuable information in the piles an industry most feel is doomed, I am just fishing, yachting (power and sail), boat yard and waterfront news and maritime history. that if I had to find something it could take riding the wave out and so far all is good. I Distribution of Maine Coastal News is from Eastport to Marblehead, MA and is free on days or weeks to locate it. think…hope that I can continue doing this the newsstand. It also can be obtained by subscription. A year subscription, 12 issues, is $20.00. Over these 31 years, there have been as this paper documents the history of the A single copy is $2.00, which covers the postage. Foreign rates for subscriptions are $40.00 per some interesting changes. Technology has coast. Here is the ultimate question - will year. TheMaine Coastal News office is located at 966 North Main Street, Winterport, Maine. to be the most impressive. I remember cut- future generations care about the past? One Comments or additional information write: Maine Coastal News, P.O. Box 710, Winterport, ting and pasting each page on a big sheet can only hope because if they do not realize Maine 04496. and then having the photos processed and the mistakes that have been made in the then tipped into place. Now it is all digital past, they will repeat them. and the time savings each month is at least So as the future continues to arrive, Publisher Jon B. Johansen two or three days. However, technology is I will try to figure out what path I should Editor-in-Chief Rachel Elward changing faster than most of us can keep up be going down and hoping I get it right. with. Social media is constantly changing Till then I will keep plugging the ships in, as interest goes from one site to another. now working on 1891, and digitizing those Advertising Deadlines: The deadline for the January issue is December 7. 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Jim Hunt Discusses Shipbuilding at Boothbay-Passes Over Bar

SOUTHPORT – I had done some research into competition building small mahogany got a contract early in the war for a number in the “Atlantic Fisherman” and kept com- speedboats with their own engines, three of ATRs and they also got a contract to build ing up with questions about boatbuilders light ships, including two in 1950 and one coal barges at the beginning of the war. of Boothbay Harbor. There are several in 1938. They also built the first aluminum The coal barges were essentially 1500 tons knowledgeable people on the subject, but yacht working with a subsidy from Alcoa, schooner hulls, but not rigged. “Jim Stevens the first one I wanted to talk with was Jim the 28-foot WHISTLER. They sank her in was sent up there at 24 years old, a natural Hunt of Southport Island. I knew he had the Damariscotta River on purpose to see builder, and he got them going at 24 years done a lot of research on the builders of the what would happen. She survived quite well old,” added Jim. area, especially if they built military vessels. and I think it is still in existence somewhere. After the war, Sample’s also built drag- So last March I stopped by and had a most They built a lot of minesweepers in World gers and did some yacht work. Jim added, interesting discussion of ship and boatbuild- War II, tugboats, fishing vessels. Their last “They built a bunch of air sea rescue boats, ers, but also discussed some of his personal contract I recall for the government was for which kind of looks like PT boats in the way experiences. personnel boats, I think about 50 feet long, of their hulls, but they didn't have the power. Jim said he could go back to the First for the Navy. They were the most interesting, They were built in the late 40s. There was a World War and discussed the Townsend Ma- most diverse, whatever they had to do they tour boat around here call the STARDUST rine Railway, which is where the Shipyard did.” in the 1950s or early ‘60s, which a lot of at Boothbay Harbor is today and the former Going into Jim’s work area one quickly people thought was a converted PT boat, but site of Sample’s Shipyard. The demand for notices the models he has built over the it wasn't it was an air sea rescue boat. She sailing vessels had increased and they were years. Most of these are naval vessels, one just had 671s.” building the four-masted schooner ANNA he was on, DE 1021 USS COURTNEY, and Jim said, “There was another inter- LAURA MCKENNEY. With the charter others that were built in the Boothbay area. esting shipyard that I would like to know rates as high as they were, a vessel could One of the models he was working on was something about but I can't find anything, Jim Hunt of Southport Island. almost pay for itself in one voyage across the RICHARD T. She was a 38 foot launch, which was started in the World War I period. the Atlantic. The yard was sold to Atlantic built by Jim Stevens's father in 1928. She Never built a vessel, but they built some of the yard and it was down there for refresher Coast Company, Crowell & Thurlow, who was built before Goudy was involved. “She the infrastructure and railway at hospital training. I had orders for that but they sent also bought McFarland’s Point where they was like a little bus,” said Jim. “She went point. They raised money, but it never got me to Newport, her home port but there was would build five more four masters during from Boothbay Harbor, to the fish hatchery off the ground. no one there. I hung around for two or three the war. The last big wooden vessel built was to Juniper Point up to Southport where Jim wanted to build a model of an ATR weeks then finally they said you are going the JOSIAH B. CHASE, built at the Atlantic Robinsons is now. She was built for Emery and a lot of trouble finding the plans. He to Guantánamo Bay here is a train ticket to Coast Company, which laid idle there for six Thompson, a big-name on Southport. I built went to the National Archives and they had Norfolk and then a Navy plane from Norfolk months before she got a charter. the model back a few years ago. I found the them on microfilm and it took him two days to Guantánamo Bay. I was supply officer, but Across the harbor was the Reed Ship- actual blueprint of the hull lines at the His- to find what he needed. He also found out I had my Coast Guard papers for running yard, which was purchased just before the torical Society, but no photographs. I did a that an Australian had come to Boothbay boats here. So when I got aboard the ship the war by a group of Boston businessmen, model for the Historical Society.” before his vessel was commissioned and he captain said why are you a supply officer? I who renamed it East Coast Shipbuilding Getting back to World War II shipbuild- had a lot of material on them. Jim finished a said, ‘My glasses didn't qualify me for line Company and they built four four-masters. ing Jim said that there was about 1200 people beautiful model of an APC in 2002, which officer.’ ‘Well, that's too bad,’ he said. After Right after the war it went back to Reed. employed in the Boothbay region building is mounted on the wall of his work room. a while I guess he saw I liked being on the So during World War I ten four-masters ships for the Navy. Reed built what was The conversation turned to DE 1021, bridge. To make a long story short he said, were built in Boothbay Harbor. known as buoy boats, 30-foot powerboats USS COURTNEY, which Jim served on for ‘do you want to stand bridge watches?’ ‘Yes In the Second World War Goudy & and plane re-arming boats. Goudy & Stevens 19 months. He explained, “I joined the ship Stevens; Hodgdon Brothers; Reed; Rice and Hodgdon worked together and built 10 in Guantánamo Bay. It had just come out of Continued on Page 23. Brothers and Sample’s Shipyard. Some of APCs and two small minesweepers, who’s the noted builders went to work for others hull was similar to the APCs, but five feet like Paul Luke and Norman Hodgdon who shorter. Rice built minesweepers and two went to work for Sample’s as supervisors. APCs. Sample’s built minesweepers, 136 Jim added, “I think Rice Brothers had foot MSCs coastal minesweepers. After the one of the most interesting histories of all war they built four 172-foot MSO. Jim add- the yards in the area. Primarily because ed, “They had some financial troubles and of their longevity, they lasted until 1956 squabbles with the Navy. The ‘511’ was the from the early 20th century. The diversity last of them and she didn't go out until 1958. of what they built and how many they built She laid over here for two or three years is interesting. They built everything from waiting for Samples to get done fighting with aluminum canoes after the war and when the Navy.” business was slow they built tinplate toy Sample’s also built six ATRs starting boats. They built steam powered vessels, in 1942. They had very rugged scantlings, diesel powered vessels, sailing vessels, because they were salvage tugs and they they built a gasoline engine, they went were steam powered. Camden Shipbuilding Page 6. MAINE COASTAL NEWS December 2018 Seventies Memories: Hiring, Crews and W2s

By Lee S. Wilbur to meet, sales of new boats with Jarvis New- “go-fer” meaning “I've got to go find a …...” Les King, was still teaching so I gave him Guy comes into my downstairs office. man continually scaling up, I'd occasionally and return an immoderate time later... closer a call. He outlined some ideas and gave a Cup of coffee in hand. Unannounced. Un- have to hire “in the margins,” hoping some- to “coffee” or lunch break. thumbs up to talk with the principal. invited. No clue who he was. Just walks in. how the new hire might take hold. Fit in. Interviewing potential employees I had We were not only able to set up an In our small town of Southwest Harbor, I'd Skeptically, I asked, “What do you do?” learned was not just about the potential's afternoon schedule for a few students in- never laid eyes on him. Steps over to a filing “Oh, I've done a little bit of everything. abilities but because they'd be working terested in building skills but a young lady, cabinet and leans on it, one elbow resting on Some carpentry, little plumbing. Done some in close quarters, there was the factor of Cheryl Mcintire, who now takes care of all top. electric too, but I don't like that as much...too being able or willing to not only do first the accounting at Wilbur Yachts signed up “Got any jobs?” easy to get bitten if you know what I mean.” class joinery or electrical or fiberglassing, to work with Heidi as well. And, there were If my face wasn't hanging open in a (followed by a kind of conspiratorial chuck- or plumbing, or engine installation, I had to several others who came on board. Andy quizzical look, it should have been. Where le). Asked him where or who he'd worked keep in mind how his or her personalities Davis worked for us until he graduated and did this guy come from? This early. Couldn't for to get an idea of qualifications. List he and skills fit in with the rest of the crews'. became a valuable employee for McEachern imagine Heidi wouldn't have reminded me reeled off made me wonder just how old he The individual's ethics on coming to work lumberyard and then McEachern Hardware of an interview that morning. Nothing, but was, it being a tad on the long side. Figured on time, willing to work (not just overtime), store in town. Our head painter Albert Farley nothing ever seemed to get by her. more than a few of the employments had to and also having a resilient personality (guys whose daughter Lisa joined the program be- We'd been working in our new shop have been, shall we say, “brief”. have a tendency to poke a bit of fun or sar- came a skilled varnisher and painter. His son going on five-plus years. Built one new ad- For as many people as I'd been inter- casm occasionally) all came into play. Scott, developed joinery skills, took over the dition on the front and one on the side with viewing, and honestly never imagining And then, there were other situations joinery shop and later went on his own and joinery shop plans drawn for the next. Up this business of boatbuilding would have to keep in mind as we added many terrific opened a very successful joinery shop. John to four boats under construction at any one taken off as it had, I'd never experienced individuals to the crew. Office staff for Fernandez son, Anthony, also in the program time and looking for new people pretty much anyone quite like this guy. A question made one. Heidi, who singlehandedly for several went on to open his own boatshop. I could on a continuous basis. Anyone at that time, it's way quickly to the surface, “Would he years did the bookkeeping alone and also name several others who came with us and as now, who was/is willing to work can find fit in with our crew, the guys and girl(s), shouldered the responsibility of being home not all on the High School program who a job on the “Million Dollar Island”. Only some who were now coming in at 5:30 in when our children, Ingrid and Derek, got off went on to have outstanding careers in their difference with the “70”s and “80”s were the morning, putting in a solid day, then on the school bus at day's end , needed to add chosen fields many jobs developing from construction in occasion coming back after supper to work at least one and perhaps two individuals to This was an interesting time I think for the housing and boatbuilding operations. a few more hours.” If he was a “leaner” in help in her office. all of us. We were able to work together, We were all drawing from a shrinking labor an interview, he'd probably be a “leaner” Around this same time, Heidi had called young and older; not to say everyone hired pool of island residents and with deadlines on the line, or perhaps of another variety, a down the hall toward my office. Hers being worked well or stayed or didn't have to be on the other end. said “good by”. Our goal was turning out · Cummins, MAN, FPT, Baudouin, Nanni, Volvo “Step out in the hall for a minute. I have a great product we believed in. And, with Engine Sales & Services something to show you.” a crew for each boat, employees knew the · Complete line of marine hydraulics I did, and she was holding a roll of paper. rhythm of who did what and in particular “What's that?” I asked, as she let the roll sequence. · Belts, hoses, fasteners & fittings of all sizes go running down the length of the hall. 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Perhaps there were a few young neglected to call him. people at the regional high school who'd be Heidi was saved from one more W-2, interested in leaving classroom and earning and I was saved from having to let someone a few dollars while getting hands on educa- go, a task I never liked. tion. My good friend and mentor himself,

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TRENTON – One of the sciences needed the lobstermen that we deal with, like most to make your boat perform to the best of people, are right handed, so most of their its ability has to deal with the choice of a boats are set up on the starboard side for the propeller. It is not an easy science to under- helm, docking and hauling gear. When you stand and some say it is nothing but black pull into a dock on your starboard side you magic. With the advent of the computers put the boat in reverse and a left-handed pro- and laser measuring systems this science is peller will help draw your boat into the dock becoming much more precise. Now couple instead of pushing it away. That is why most that with the knowledge of what worked on of the lobstermen have a left hand propeller. the same hull with different configurations Cupping is rolling up the trailing edge of the (i.e. how it was finished, weight distribution, blades of the propeller to a certain amount. engine horsepower and gears) and one can There are all different degrees of cup. How be extremely accurate. So what do you need high is the cup? Some people call it light, to know about propellers, well I asked Mark medium, heavy. Well, there's numbers that Dickinson of Nautilus Marine in Trenton to relate to that. A medium cup in number form give me an understanding of the basics. is a number five which in measurement form “Things that people should know about is 73/1000 of an inch of lip that you roll that propellers and in particular, people who lip up above the actual surface of the blade might work on their own boats or even finish of the prop. What does it do? It is really It is all about getting the right propeller and it all comes down to giving the propeller shop their own boat,” explained Mark, “Number designed to help control cavitation. I am not the right information. one, what do the measurements mean? What enough of an engineer to explain that well, bronze and aluminum. It is extremely strong. Nibral as far as being able to straighten it, is the diameter? That's how big around the but it has to do with redirecting the water It welds nearly as nice as stainless steel. It is because we can straighten it. We like the propeller is. From tip to tip the blades are around the propeller. Most Maine lobster much harder to bend, but it will damage. The Nibral better because it welds better and it 26 inches so that is the diameter. What most boats, or lobster boat type hulls, benefit from damage usually doesn't run as deep into the straightens better. Costs more money initial- people don't know is, what the pitch really a cupped propeller of some degree. Most of propeller as it does on a manganese bronze ly to purchase a Nibral propeller, but most means? The pitch is the number of inches them have interrupted water flow to the prop prop. Nowadays, with our type of more mod- of the time it is well worth it in longevity. If that your boat will move forward per one because of the keel in front of the propeller ern equipment for repairing with hydraulic Continued on Page 8. revolution of the propeller. So, 30 inch pro- and that produces cavitation, some a little, presses we don't really care if it's bronze or peller in theory will move your boat forward some a lot, and cupping helps that. That is 30 inches each revolution. It doesn't really why cupping usually helps performance and go 30 inches, because a propeller is always propeller longevity on a lobster boat type slipping in water. If it is a good efficient hull, hull. Material, bronze and Nibral are the two light weight, slippery, maybe it's going to most common ones. Once in awhile people move forward 28 inches for a 30 inch pitched ask us about stainless, it is ungodly expen- prop. The rotation left hand or right hand, or sive; it has very limited availability and it is you can call it clockwise or counterclock- unnecessary in our waters up here. Stainless wise, simply is which way does the propeller props on big boats are used where there is turn when you put the boat in forward gear. a tremendous amount of silt and abrasive Does it turn clockwise or does it turn the stuff in the water, like the Mississippi River other way, left hand or counterclockwise. and the Gulf of Mexico. Places like that. What difference does that make? It makes a Here, the main two materials are manganese difference in how your boat handles. Most of bronze and Nibral. Nibral stands for nickel,

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Continued from Page 7. the correct RPM that it's rated at and exact- seen much of an advantage over the really What is slippage? “I have done it for ly what is the gear reduction ratio. Those fancy, expensive ones other than the fact that just a few boats this year,” explained Mark, you don't really need it because of the lower numbers even though they sound close can they print off a really fancy looking report “that seemed to be incredibly slippery for horsepower requirements or something else make as much as an inch or more difference for you to look at. All of them, almost always their horsepower and the numbers were manganese bronze is fine.” in pitch or diameter of the final size of the unless you know what factors to put in, will quite amazing. Again, let’s go to a 30 inch “People talk about differences in 3 prop. Engine manufacturers with the new over prop a Maine lobster boat.” pitch, it ought to be going ahead 30 inches blade, 4 blade, 5 blade,” continued Mark. computerized systems, all digital controls, it “Proper clearance,” stated Mark. “Cor- for every revolution of the prop. You calcu- “Those are the three most common for what is critical to have the right size propeller for rect clearance for a propeller. The kind of late however many revolutions that prop is we use around here. A correctly sized 3 blade the correct engine loading to No 1: so that industry rule of thumb is 15 percent of the turned when the boat has gone a mile. Well propeller with the right amount of blade area your engine is warrantied and No. 2: for the diameter of the prop between the blade tips say it was only going five percent less than and everything will still almost always give most efficient operation. We have to have and the hull and the skeg. We have found that speed, well there is your five percent you the highest top end speed, generally. the exact information. We have to know how with most of these, again lobster type hulls slippage. Twenty to fifteen percent slippage, They might make more noise in normal big a propeller can fit under the boat with the with some cup, we can get away with 10 is pretty average for a heavy well-equipped operation even as nice as we can tune them correct clearance. So, the procedure is, give percent clearance and it works fine. Guys boat. This rush to huge power, I get it, you now. The 4 blade is kind of the standard that the prop shop all the information that I just keep putting more and more power in these are a working guy going I don't know how everybody uses. Mostly it is a great compro- spelled out, and there is a formula that can boats, but they are not making the boats many miles offshore, every knot makes a mise between cost and performance. There figure it all out. Beyond that, being able to any deeper. You have got to be able to get difference in how much time you spend are various options available for blade area know how a certain boat goes through the the proper propeller under it. Ten percent is going back and forth. It is kind of interest- and profile. Five blades, we are probably water, just kind of having the experience. In kind of easy to figure out. If you have a 30 ing when you compare your typical 42 foot going to start to see more usage in some Maine, every boat we build is custom. Well inch prop, 10 percent of that is 3 inches. So lobster boat with 750-hp if everything is all of the lobster boats than we use to. With I have got a book full of them and every you need 3 inches of clearance from the tip balanced right and everything is nice, she these big boats, with big power, fairly low one of them is different. This guy has 200 of the blade to the underneath of the hull and will do 25-26 knots, maybe a little better. gear ratio and kind of limited prop diameter gallons of fuel, the next guy has 400, this guy to the skeg. It is not as important to have that Now, spend another $100,000 on an 1,000- aperture size, you get to the point where you wants his engine further forward because he clearance to the skeg. It can run closer, but hp engine and it will do 28½-29 knots. The need more blade area than you can efficient- doesn't want an engine box. That makes the the clearance from the tip of the prop to the engine is a lot bigger, a lot heavier; the shaft ly put on a 4 blade. We are starting to see boat sail different. The next guy wants his bottom of the hull is very important. Propel- is bigger and heavier; everything is bigger more of those boats that benefit, not just in boat to sail as fast as it will go, so they pull lers and air bubbles don't get along well. The and heavier. A lot of time the gains aren't smoothness and quietness, but actual speed the engine back, adjust the weight, and add propeller loses everytime. Cavitation is the as drastic as some think. You can put a hu- and efficiency with a 5 blade over a 4 blade small tanks. Do they have a great big light impingement of air bubbles caused by a low mungous engine in your boat, but you are because you have just got to have that blade stand up on the roof or those humungous pressure area on the propeller blade and will not going to be able to get enough propeller area because you have so much power and it LED lights and two radars and big stick actually eat away the metal. Appendages under it to take advantage of it. I have seen is turning kind of slow and in all reality you antennas? Makes a huge difference in the hanging down on the hull will create a stream a shift, ‘we are building this boat, what do don't have enough room for the diameter that amount of windage that the boat is pushing of interrupted water or air bubbles if you will we need, what would work best for this gear you really ought to have to be as efficient as through. It could make an inch difference and all of those things create interruptions so we get the right sized prop. Run some you could be.” in pitch in the propeller or more. Is the boat and induce cavitation in the propeller.” comparisons in this engine and that engine How do you size a propeller? “Well, the going to have a cage on it? Two inches less Balance! “Prop balance is simply with this gear ratio, that gear ratio. See what basic information that we have to have is,” pitch if it has.” making sure all the blades weigh the same is going to be the most efficient and that is said Mark, “what hull is it? If it's one we are “The computer program that we use,” within a few grams,” said Mark. “One could great. It is a simple operation to at least get in familiar with then we are leaps and bounds added Mark, “which is from Michigan imagine that if there is a heavy spot on a the ballpark. Then we can fine tune the prop ahead. It is great to have the finished weight Wheel, it's simple, it doesn't cover every- prop, once it gets spinning it would set up size later. I encourage people to do that.” with the fuel and everything if we possibly thing, none of them do. I have looked at and quite a vibration. It’s the same reason a tire Continued on Page 22. can. What is really the horsepower, what is tried a few of the other ones, I have never is balanced.” Gloucester Marine Railways Full Service Shipyard Commercial Vessels & Recreational Boats

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By Joyce Mulcahy They wait. Peering out over the water, they squint to see any sign of the beacon of light. Neither heavy rain, nor thick fog, or stormy sea can keep them from coming, and they do come -by the thousands. They wait on the shores of West Africa for the beacon of light to break through the darkness. Much like the 65 lighthouses off the coast of Maine that have offered safety and guidance to sailors in the most perilous of storms, so too, does the Africa Mercy ship offer refuge for people seeking their godsend from the sea. Mercy Ships began in 1978 with founder Don Stephens, and his wife Deyon and their dream and determination to bring hope, healing, and dignity to people in ab- ject poverty. The Africa Mercy is 499 feet long, nearly 17,000 gross tonnage and is the largest civilian hospital ship in the world. Mercy Ships volunteer Physical Therapist According to Don Stephens, “Our ships Tracey Merrill helps Ulrich learn to balance are state-of-the-art facilities that offer clean on his newly straightened legs. water, reliable electricity and care centers. ©Mercy Ships, credit: Shawn Thompson Because over 50% of the population lives within 100 miles of the coast, we’re able may not take things for granted anymore. I to sail a modern hospital ship with a crew have become more appreciative of basic ne- of 400 volunteers directly to people who cessities like food, clothing and shelter. But lack access to first-rate medical care.” The Ulrich was born with dislocated knees. A life destined to begging and hopelessness I’m also more appreciative of my access to former Danish rail ferry underwent major was transformed to a young man standing tall looking towards his future. healthcare, my education and even my rights outfitting to become the Africa Mercy, a ship ©Mercy Ships, credit: Shawn Thompson as a woman.” of hope that has been bringing free surgeries any longer. Severe facial deformities caused variety of deformities and problems unlike As the Africa Mercy travels to ports and medical services, and mentorship and by overgrown tooth enamel, gum disease, anything I have ever seen before. I have seen along the coast of West Africa, where people training to healthcare professionals since or goiters that can grow up to nearly 20lbs. the transformation from ‘how do we even still live on less than $2/day the work never 2007. Prior to the Africa Mercy, there were Bow-leggedness from childhood diseases, treat that?’ to ‘what an amazing outcome!’ diminishes. The need to provide surgery three other Mercy Ships that traveled to malnutrition, or ill described pharmaceu- I have seen unbelievable teamwork among is always present as 5 billion people lack Central and South America and the Carib- ticals bring pain, ridicule, shame and thus the volunteers to serve the patients.” access to safe, affordable surgical and an- bean basin. Mercy Ships is celebrating its a lack of education because the child can Perhaps you are a ship captain or other esthesia care when needed. On some days 40th year anniversary this year. Over that no longer attend school. Many afflicted mariner, a receptionist, a teacher, a nurse, a when the people wait, the fog lifts, and the time the volunteer crew has performed over adults come to the ship blind from decades doctor, an IT professional, a dental assistant ship docks, the air is thick not with darkness 95,000 life-changing or life-saving oper- of suffering with cataracts, and after a 30 or a chief engineer. Mercy Ships is in need of and hopelessness, but with the belief and ations such as cleft lip and palate repair, minute surgery, and some days healing, can volunteers. Tracey, the fellow Mainer says possibility of a better life. A life where a cataract removal, orthopedic procedures, see again. Children, too, suffer from this it best. “Will YOU dare to go outside your child can return to school with straight legs facial reconstruction and obstetric fistula disease that causes blindness and in many comfort zone and volunteer? It will change Continued on Page 10. repair. And, they have trained over 42,250 incidences when parent and child reunite your life in so many ways – like myself, you local professionals in their area of expertise after surgery to see one another clearly, there (anesthesiology, midwifery, sterilization, is much celebration and a firm hope for their orthopedic and reconstructive surgery, lead- future. ership). The Mercy Ships have visited over Tracey explains from her first-hand 594 ports and counting. experience aboard the ship working in the The Africa Mercy is the only ship pres- rehab department that “many have spent ently in the fleet. It has 8 decks, and at pres- years feeling like social outcasts because of ent has 400 volunteer crew with 40 nations their infirmities and deformities. To them, it represented on board. Each crew member is is a miracle to receive free care in a country a volunteer, from the captain to the cook, in- that usually can’t provide proper care due to cluding the doctors, dentists, nurses, school lack of doctors, equipment, or money. I see teachers, bosuns, carpenters, engineers and potential patients by the screening tent — a additional medical and administrative posi- tions. From several weeks to several years, volunteers from all over the world come to the Africa Mercy to donate their skills, gifts and time towards bringing help to the people of West Africa. The ship is currently in Guinea and will remain there until June, 2019. It will then sail to a dry dock port and undergo two months of annually required maintenance before sailing to Senegal for its next 10-month field service. One volunteer, Tracey Merrill, who hails from South Portland, Maine served on the Africa Mercy as a physical therapist in Madagascar in 2015, Benin in 2016, and Cameroon in 2017. She says, “A few years ago, I decided to quit my full-time job in my hometown of South Portland, Maine, and do some things I have always wanted to do. I had heard about Mercy Ships and decided that would be a great way to serve others. It’s like a mini-United Nations. It is fascinating to meet people from all over the m a r i n e Bar Harbor, ME (207) 288-5247 world, and I learn about different cultures, s e r v i c e both similarities and differences to my own.” www.bowdenmarine.com In Guinea, over 6,000 people lined up to be seen by the Mercy Ships medical screening team in hopes of receiving a sur- gery card for a free operation onboard the Africa Mercy. Patients suffer from diseases we generally do not see in the United States Page 10. MAINE COASTAL NEWS December 2018 U. S. Navy News Navy to Christen Submarine Vermont an engineering training ship before being Delaware, moving the submarine from a jection, forward presence, maritime security From From Department of Defense Public converted to carry out her final missions as a mere hull number to a boat with a name and and deterrence. Affairs troop transport, returning about 5,000 World spirit,” said Secretary of the Navy Richard WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Navy will War I U.S. service members from Europe. V. Spencer. “This submarine honors the con- USS Constitution Celebrates 221 Years christen its newest attack submarine, the She was decommissioned June 30, 1920. tributions and support the state of Delaware Underway future USS Vermont (SSN 792), during an The future USS Vermont is the 19th Vir- has given to our military and will stand as a By Airman Olivia K. Manley, USS Consti- 11 a.m. EDT ceremony Saturday, Oct. 20 at ginia-class attack submarine and the first of testament to the increased capabilities made tution Public Affairs General Dynamics Electric Boat in Groton, ten Virginia-class Block IV submarines. The possible through a true partnership between CHARLESTOWN, Mass. (NNS) -- USS Connecticut. ship’s construction began in May 2014 and the Department of the Navy and our industry Constitution and its crew headed underway The principal speaker will be Vermont it will deliver in the fall of 2019. Vermont teammates.” from the ship’s berth in Charlestown, Mas- Governor Phil Scott. Ms. Gloria Valdez, will provide the Navy with the capabilities The future USS Delaware, designated sachusetts, Oct. 19, in commemoration of former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the required to maintain the nation's undersea SSN 791, is the seventh ship to bear the the ship's launching 221 years ago on Oct. Navy (Ships), will serve as the ship’s spon- superiority well into the 21st century. name of “The First State.” The first Dela- 21, 1787, and is celebrating the U.S. Navy’s sor. In a time-honored Navy tradition, she Virginia-class submarines are built ware served in the American Revolution, 243rd birthday. will christen the ship by breaking a bottle to operate in the world's littoral and deep the second in the Quasi War with France. “There’s no better place to commem- of sparkling wine across the bow and state, waters while conducting anti-submarine The third was burned to prevent her from orate the Navy’s and Constitution’s anni- “In the name of the United States, I christen warfare; anti-surface ship warfare; strike falling into the hands of the Confederate versaries in our natural state, underway at thee.” warfare; special operation forces support; Navy. The fourth served blockading duties sea,” said Cmdr. Nathaniel R. Shick, 75th “The future USS Vermont honors the intelligence, surveillance, and reconnais- through the end of the Civil War. Little is commanding officer of USS Constitution. contributions and support that the state of sance; irregular warfare; and mine warfare known about the fifth, other than she was a “I still remember the excitement I felt as Vermont has given to our Navy and Marine missions. Their inherent stealth, endurance, screw steamer that began life with another my first ship pulled away from the pier in Corps team throughout the years,” said Sec- mobility and firepower directly enable them name before being renamed Delaware on Norfolk, Virgina. Anxious, yet filled with retary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer. “For to support five of the six maritime strategy May 15, 1869. The sixth Delaware was a a genuine sense of adventure. As we left decades to come, this boat and the Sailors core capabilities – sea control, power pro- battleship commissioned Apr. 4, 1910, that the familiarity of home behind, I formed an who will serve on it will stand as a tribute to jection, forward presence, maritime security served in the Atlantic and Caribbean. During instant connection with every generation of the patriotic people of Vermont and a testa- and deterrence. World War I, she provided convoy escort and American Sailors who had put to sea before ment to the value of the partnership between participated in allied naval exercises. She us.” the Department of the Navy and our industry Navy to Christen Submarine Delaware was decommissioned Nov. 10, 1923. At 11:30 a.m., Constitution performed teammates.” From Department of Defense Public The future USS Delaware is the 18th a 21-gun salute, which was returned by the The future USS Vermont, designated Affairs Virginia-class attack submarine and the 101st Field Artillery near Fort Independence SSN 792, is the third U.S. Navy ship to bear WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Navy will eighth and final Virginia-class Block III on Castle Island. Massachusetts Dept. of the name of the “Green Mountain State.” christen the attack submarine, the future submarine. The ship’s construction began Conservation and Recreation preserves Fort The first Vermont was one of nine 74-gun USS Delaware (SSN 791), during a 10 in September 2013 and will deliver in 2019. Independence as a defensive position for warships authorized by Congress in 1816. a.m. EDT ceremony Saturday, Oct. 20 at Delaware will provide the Navy with the Boston Harbor from 1634 to 1962. The ship spent her early life laid up, but was Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of capabilities required to maintain the nation's “It is an amazing experience to be put into service as a store and receiving ship Huntington Ingalls Industries in Newport undersea superiority well into the 21st cen- stationed on Constitution, and to take her during the Civil War. She continued in that News, Virginia. tury. underway with all of our friends and family,” service until struck from the Navy list in The principal speaker will be United Virginia-class submarines are built said Seaman Tukker Michael Uniatowski, 1901. The second Vermont (Battleship No. States Senator Tom Carper from Delaware. to operate in the world's littoral and deep crewmember of ‘Old Ironsides.’ “I am 20) was laid down in May 1904 and commis- Dr. Jill Biden, former second lady of the waters while conducting anti-submarine extremely proud of my ship and to be an sioned March 4, 1907. She was a member United States, will serve as the ship’s spon- warfare; anti-surface ship warfare; strike American.” of The Great White Fleet that conducted sor. In a time-honored Navy tradition, she warfare; special operation forces support; The ship fired an additional 17 shots at a world cruise during the Presidency of will christen the ship by breaking a bottle intelligence, surveillance, and reconnais- 12:15 p.m. as it passed U.S. Coast Guard, Theodore Roosevelt. Later she participated of sparkling wine across the bow and state, sance; irregular warfare; and mine warfare the former site of the Edmund Hartt Ship- in the American occupation of Vera Cruz, “In the name of the United States, I christen missions. Their inherent stealth, endurance, yard where Constitution was built. Each Mexico. During World War I, she served as thee.” mobility and firepower directly enable them round of this salute honored the 16 states “Today’s christening marks an import- to support five of the six maritime strategy Continued on Page 18. MMA Signs ant milestone in the life of the future USS core capabilities – sea control, power pro- Purchase and Sale Mercy Ships Agreement for U. S. Coast Guard News Continued from Page 9. Coast Guard medevacs sick fisherman Search crews included: Station Jone- Former Verso 42 miles off Nantucket sport; Air Station Cape Cod; Cutter Sanibel; and a curved smile, a father can work to 11 November Maine Marine Patrol; Maine State Police Paper Mill support his family able to see again after BOSTON — A Coast Guard Air Station dive team; and Maine Warden Service dive months, or years of blindness, and a mother Cape Cod helicopter crew medevaced a sick team. CASTINE—William J. Brennan, President horribly scarred after a cooking oil accident, 54-year-old man from the 87-foot fishing of Maine Maritime Academy (MMA), has can care for her children again after an oper- boat Generation Sunday night 42 miles off Coast Guard, local agencies recover announced that a purchase and sale agree- ation brought back mobility to her arms and Nantucket. missing diver off Nahant, Mass. ment has been signed with American Iron hands. The captain of the GENERATION 20 October and Metal (AIM), owners of the former When the Africa Mercy arrives in port contacted the Coast Guard at approximately BOSTON — Coast Guard crews along with Verso paper mill in Bucksport, to acquire very often the ship and crew are greeted 5:20 p.m. and requested assistance for his local agencies recovered a diver that was a six-acre parcel of land to locate the col- with dancing, music, and celebration. The sick crew member. reported overdue Saturday morning approx- lege’s new Center for Professional Mariner people of West Africa know about Mercy An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew imately one mile south of Nahant. Development (CPMD). The agreement is Ships. They’ve heard the stories. They’ve arrived on scene and hoisted the patient to Coast Guard watchstanders at the Sec- expected to be finalized following a 60-day seen the evidence of kindness, healing, hope the helicopter. tor Boston command center received notifi- due-diligence period, after which a closing and faith that have been shared by those who The aircrew flew the man to Massachu- cation from the captain of the charter boat date will be determined. have come aboard before them. They know setts General Hospital for further care. Keepah at 10 a.m. that the diver, a 37-year- The CPMD will provide state-of-the-art that when it is their turn to climb the metal The patient was reported to be in stable old man, did not surface when expected. training for undergraduate students, profes- gangway there will be healing at no cost condition at the time of the transfer. Coast Guard crews from Station Bos- sional mariners, and workforce develop- to them. That mercy comes free of charge. ton, Station Point Allerton, and Air Station ment. For professional mariners the CPMD There is no cost because of individuals that Coast Guard, local agencies find body of Cape Cod all responded and searched. will meet the demand for highly specialized give generously to Mercy Ships. missing lobsterman off Jonesport At approximately 12 p.m. divers from courses that enable mariners to receive certi- With the holidays soon approaching and 23 October the Beverly Fire Department located and fication and credentialing to meet maritime much within our own lives to be thankful for, BOSTON — Coast Guard and local agen- recovered the missing man. regulatory and industry-sector demands. would you consider supporting Mercy Ships cies recovered the body of the missing lober- He was brought unresponsive to Sea- The Center will be a public-private ven- to continue to bring hope, healing, dignity sterman Tuesday off Doyle Island, Maine. port Landing Marina in Lynn where he was ture. “Maine Maritime Academy’s new Cen- and a future to the people of West Africa? At approximately 5 p.m., Maine State transferred to awaiting emergency medical ter for Professional Mariner Development For more information on how you can Police and Maine Warden Service divers personnel. will be an auxiliary enterprise, the revenue volunteer, or support Mercy Ships, please recovered the lobsterman about 200 yards Responding agencies included: Massa- from which will support the college’s mis- visit www.mercyships.org. To contact the west from where he entered the water. chusetts State Police dive team; Boston Fire sion and programs,” said President Brennan. Northeast Regional Development Manager Crews searched 233 square nautical Department dive team; Beverly Fire De- “A phased approach will ensure that we can for Mercy Ships about individual giving and miles. partment dive team; Nahant Harbormaster; steward the finite resources MMA has to de- corporate partnership opportunities, please Station Jonesport took lobster boat, Nahant Police Department; and Swampscott vote to the enterprise while simultaneously email Joyce Mulcahy at joyce.mulcahy@ Marie Louise II, to their station for further Harbormaster. cultivating private funding.” mercyships.org. investigation. December 2018 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 11. Commercial Fishing News From the Director of D.E.L.A. From the Director - the matters at hand. The only thing that is the concerns that we are hearing the most technological solutions. Maine’s scallop Here we are, almost Thanksgiving in a true reality, is just about the time there is about is bait concerns. It would seem that season begins November 20, 2018 for divers the month of November and which way do a good understanding of the job, it is time if there is going to be less bait next season, and December 10, 2018 for draggers in Zone we go? I apologize for not making the paper to step down and start all over again. Quite that we will need to ration our bait per 1, in Zones 2 and 3, the season is scheduled last month, it seemed that the world was just often, a lot of newcomers have no idea about haul and perhaps use a viable hard bait or to begin December 1, 2018 for divers and spinning way too fast and I think I lost Jon’s some of the issues of our fishery. On the bait extender that is DMR approved for December 3 for draggers. More information memo in cyberspace that it was time for other hand, there are some newcomers that Maine waters. The last thing that we want can be found on the DMR website. my report. I don’t know if it happens to all know more about our fishery than some that is “tainted” bait that comes in from foreign The Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund I-phone users over the age of 50, but when are stepping down, so it balances the scales countries. Trying to use these forbidden Grant Improves Marine Patrol Surveillance I scroll down through, sometimes I delete in the long run. As an association, DELA baits successfully is kind’ve like cheating Abilities. “With a $3,000 grant from the things…..the darn phone is smarter than I is ready to start working and teaching the on a diet, it will show eventually in the end. Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund and match- am for sure! newcomers if they have any questions about If we can work with our bait suppliers, they ing funds of $2,339.50 from the Maine We are looking at new Representa- the fishery and need a better understanding will need co-operation as well. It is going to Department of Marine Resources, the Maine tives, Senators and Governor in the State of the issues that we are now dealing with. be a tough time for everyone, bait suppliers, Marine Patrol has purchased Binoculars that of Maine, so we all need to get ready and We personally know a lot of the folks that are dealers, fishermen, even our marine supply will improve Officer’s ability to conduct start communications right out of the gate. coming on board, so we are happy to work people and boat builders. This all reminds surveillance for enforcement and search and We congratulate everyone that won their together. me of a few years back when everyone was rescue. seat and thank those that have served us so A lot of the issues are the same, bait, affected by changing times. At least we have DELA offers our condolences to the well and put their best effort into serving whales, global warming, ropeless lobster- been around long enough to remember and Family of Scott Chandler of Jonesport, who us. Although, I am always glad when an ing, rope sizes and strength, and trash in have an idea of how to deal with it. Time was claimed by the sea on October 23, 2018. election is behind us, so we can get back to the water. Where do we begin? Most of marches on… He was a great person that was loved by There are programs (grant money) that many. are funding ropeless lobster trap fishing. We have good news, the former Jasper’s News from Maine DMR Most feel that it is not feasible, but they will in Ellsworth is now the Tan Turtle and is Maine's 2018-19 Scallop Season Gets season for divers will run from December 1, give it a try and report back to us with the open for business! So we have set our next Underway Soon 2018 to April 13, 2019. results. I can’t imagine doing this 800 times meeting for Thursday, December 6th at 6:00 AUGUSTA - The 2018-2019 Maine scallop In Zone 3, draggers will have a 50-day in a haul! p.m. We welcome as many as possible, so season will soon start, with few changes season which begins on December 3, 2018 The DMR has announced the winners we can start talking about the upcoming from last season. and ends March 27, 2019. Zone 3 divers will of the scallop license lottery, which was issues that we are facing and the legislature As in the 2017-2018 season, there will also have a 50-day season which starts on established to enable younger fishermen an with our new comers. Your opinion and be a daily possession limit of 15 gallons of December 1, 2018 and ends March 28, 2019. opportunity: Matthew Alley, Beals; Chase voice counts, so please come and join us! shucked scallops for Zone 1 and Zone 2, Areas in Zones 1 and 3 are again des- Fitzsimmons, Lubec; Jonathan Oliver, Deer We are also open for new membership, which together stretch from the New Hamp- ignated as Limited Access Areas, meaning Isle and Frank Gott from Bar Harbor. Lottery fishermen and business owners, as well as shire Border to the Lubec-Campobello harvesting in those areas will be limited to winners were chosen at random by InforME, supporting members (Friend of DELA). Bridge. There will also be a daily possession fewer days a week than in other areas to an enterprise created in 1997 by state law to Happy Thanksgiving to you, Sheila limit of 10 gallons for Zone 3 which includes allow the resource to re-build. In Zone 1, ensure access to public information through Cobscook Bay and the St. Croix River. those areas include Casco Bay, the Sheep- For Zone 1, a 60-day season for drag- scot River, the Damariscotta River, Muscle gers will begin on December 10, 2018 and Ridge near South Thomaston, and Western end on March 28, 2019, while the Zone 1 Penobscot Bay Area. In Zone 3, the Limit- season for divers will begin November 20, ed Access Areas include Whiting/Dennys 2018 and end April 20, 2019. Bays. For Zone 2, the 70-day season for In Zone 2, rotational management, draggers will start on December 3, 2018 and Continued on Page 21. end March 28, 2019. For Zone 2, the 70-day

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However, in years mittee found that while the current spawning 40.1% is allocated to July/August, 34.0% is Move to substitute to request the ASM- of higher sub- ACLs, choose options that closure system was significantly improved allocated to September/October, and 9.5% is FC Executive Committee direct funds for would allow for an expansion of harvest to under Amendment 3, the protocol could allocated to November/December; the fish- increased spawning sampling in Georges meet the needs of the market. continue to be strengthened by considering ery will close when 92% of the period’s quo- Bank and Nantucket Shoals. The Board Motion made by Mr. Keliher and sec- when, and for how long, a closure is initiat- ta has been harvested and underages from initiates an addendum to develop a her- onded by Mr. White. Motion carries (4 in ed. Specifically, the analysis showed, under one period may be rolled into the following ring spawning protection program in Area favor, 3 opposed, 2 abstentions). the current protocol, spawning closures are period. The Board also discussed initiating 3. Recognizing the New England Fishery Main Motion as Amended initiated when there are approximately 25% an addendum to provide the Board greater Management Council as a federal partner Move to initiate an Addendum which spawners in the fishery; greater protection flexibility in setting Area 1A specifications in the management of Atlantic herring, the considers providing the Atlantic Herring could be provided by initiating a closure as, at present, the Board is limited to options Board requests the Council consider herring Board greater flexibility to set annual quota when a lower percentage of the population contained in Amendment 3. Ultimately, the spawning protection in its 2019 priorities. period specifications for the Area 1A fishery. is spawning and extending the closure for a Board postponed initiating an addendum in Motion made by Mr. Grout and sec- This issue can be included in the addendum longer time. As a result, the Board initiated order to provide an opportunity for the Ad- onded by Mr. Train. Motion carries with one initiated regarding the Gulf of Maine herring Draft Addendum II to consider these mod- visory Panel to provide input and feedback abstention. spawning protections, or it can be a separate ifications to the Gulf of Maine spawning on the topic. Main Motion as Substituted document. Task the PDT to expand the quota closure protocol. As outlined in the Atlantic herring press Move to request the ASMFC Executive period options to increase flexibility when In addition, the Board initiated Draft release, the Board discussed the addition of Committee direct funds for increased spawn- distributing Area 1A herring quota. During Addendum III to consider the establishment spawning protections in Area 3. Given the ing sampling in Georges Bank and Nantuck- years in which sub-ACLs are lower, it may of a spawning protection program in Area New England Fishery Management Council et Shoals. The Board initiates an addendum be prudent to concentrate harvest during the 3. This management area encompasses is a federal partner in the management of to develop a herring spawning protection months of July through September. However, Georges Bank and the back side of Cape herring, the Board agreed to write a letter program in Area 3. Recognizing the New in years of higher sub-ACLs, choose options Cod. While both are recognized as important requesting the Council consider herring England Fishery Management Council as a that would allow for an expansion of harvest spawning areas for herring, they do not cur- spawning protections in its 2019 priorities. federal partner in the management of Atlan- to meet the needs of the market. rently have protections specific to spawning. Finally, the Board approved Joseph tic herring, the Board requests the Council Motion postponed. By initiating this addendum, the Board seeks Jurek to the Atlantic Herring Advisory Pan- consider herring spawning protection in its Move to postpone the motion until the to protect spawning in this region in order to el. 2019 priorities. AP can be convened to discuss options for promote stock rebuilding. Motions Motion carries with one abstention. greater flexibility for Finally, to support future management Move to approve the 2018 Atlantic Her- Move to allocate the 2019 Area 1A sub- Area 1A allocations. of the stock, the Commission’s Executive ring Benchmark Stock Assessment and Peer ACL bimonthly in a manner consistent with Motion made by Mr. Nowalsky and Committee allocated funds to carry out Review Report for management use. the options in Table 5 in Section 4.2.3.2 of seconded by Mr. Hasbrouck. Motion carries sampling of the Atlantic herring fishery. This Motion by Mr. Borden, second by Mr. Amendment 3 that is labeled “No Landings (7 in favor, 2 opposed) sampling will focus on investigating spatial Kane. Motion carries without objection. Prior to June 1 (with June as a one- month and temporal spawning patterns in Georges Move to initiate an Addendum to con- period)” resulting in the following distri- ASMFC Coastal Sharks Board Ap- Bank and Nantucket Shoals. For more infor- sider strengthening the spawning protections bution: Period 1 (June) - 16.4%; Period proves Addendum V mation, please contact Megan Ware, Fishery provided to Atlantic herring in the Gulf of 2 (July/August) - 40.1%; Period 3 (Sept/ The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Management Plan Coordinator, at mware@ Maine. This addendum should consider Oct) - 34.0%; Period 4 (Nov/Dec) - 9.5%. Commission’s Coastal Sharks Management asmfc.org or 703.842.0740. measures including, but not limited to, the The fishery will close when 92% of the Board approved Addendum V to the Inter- closure period length and the GSI30 trigger seasonal period’s quota has been harvested state Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for Meeting Summary value. and any underages from one period may be Atlantic Coastal Sharks. The Addendum In addition to initiating addenda to Motion made by Mr. White and second- rolled into the following period. allows the Board to respond to changes in strengthen spawning protections in Area 1A ed by Dr. Pierce. Motion carries unanimous- Motion made by Mr. Grout and second- the stock status of coastal shark populations and establish spawning protections in Area 3 l y. ed by Mr. Keliher. Motion carries (Roll Call: and adjust regulations through Board action (see press release), the Board also reviewed Main Motion In favor - ME, NH, RI, CT, NY; Opposed rather than an addendum, ensuring greater the 2018 Benchmark Stock Assessment Peer Move to request the ASMFC Executive - MA, NJ; Abstention - NEFMC, NMFS). consistency between state and federal shark Review Report and set specifications for the Committee direct funds to initiate a research Move to approve Joseph Jurek (MA) to regulations. 2019 Area 1A fishery. program for increased sampling to support the Atlantic Herring Advisory Panel. Previously, the FMP only allowed for The Board reviewed the Peer Review herring spawning protections in the north- Motion made by Dr. Pierce and second- commercial quotas, possession limits, and Report from the 2018 Atlantic Herring west corner of Georges Bank and Nantucket ed by Mr. Ballou. Motion carries without season dates to be set annually through Benchmark Stock Assessment. While the Shoals – protection through a 2020 ASMFC objection. specifications. All other changes to com- Board had reviewed the content of the Stock addendum to the ASMFC Sea Herring Man- Move to initiate an Addendum which mercial or recreational management could Assessment at its August 2018 meeting, the agement Plan. The Board recognizes the considers providing the Atlantic Herring only be accomplished through an addendum Peer Review Report had not been available need for increased sampling in these regions Board greater flexibility to set annual quota or emergency action. In instances when at the time. After receiving the Peer Review in order to inform management and protec- period specifications for the Area 1A fishery. addenda were initiated, the timing of when Report, the Board approved the 2018 Stock tion. Recognizing the New England Fishery This issue can be included in the addendum the addenda were completed and state Assessment for management use. Management Council as a federal partner initiated regarding the Gulf of Maine herring implementation resulted in inconsistencies The Board also set specifications (i.e. in the management of Atlantic herring, the spawning protections, or it can be a separate between state and federal shark regulations, quota periods) for the Area 1A fishery. Giv- Board requests the Council consider herring document. particularly when NOAA Fisheries adopted en the sub-ACL is expected to be reduced spawning protection in its 2019 priorities. Motion made by Mr. White and second- changes through interim emergency rules. ed by Mr. Train. Motion amended with final Moving forward, Addendum V will vote postponed. allow the Board to change a suite of com- Main Motion mercial and recreational measures, such as Get on Board! Move to amend to include to task the recreational size and possession limits, sea- PDT to expand the quota period options to son length, and area closures (recreational increase flexibility when distributing Area and commercial) in addition to the current 1A herring quota. During years in which specifications for just the commercial

Get on board to float the Boat School! Eastport's college for nautical knowledge Visit us on theboatschool.org and donate to our capital campaign or contact us with your name, address and email so we can keep you updated. If you are an alumni from 1970 to 2012 let us here from you. We want to know when you attended and what program you were in. December 2018 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 13. Commercial Fishing News Miscellaneous Commercial Fishing News fishery, throughout the year when needed. Assessment Update, which indicates that to the Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black fishery: (1) coastwide management (the Under this provision, if the Board chooses while the population is not overfished and Sea Bass Fishery Management Plan. default program for both species under to adjust measures through Board action, the overfishing is not occurring, biomass has 1. Conservation equivalency for the the FMP), or conservation equivalency for public will be able to provide comment prior declined, requiring an approximate 46% recreational black sea bass fishery summer flounder; and (2) setting measures to Board meetings, as well as at Board meet- reduction in the 2019-2020 quota to ensure 2. Conservation equivalency rollover through a specifications process. ings at the discretion of the Board Chair. that overfishing does not occur. The next for summer flounder The Draft Addendum seeks to address Additionally, the Board can still implement benchmark stock assessment is currently 3. Transit provisions for Block Island several challenges with the recreational changes in shark regulations through an scheduled for completion in 2021. Sound for recreational and/or commercial management of summer flounder and black addendum. For more information, please contact fisheries for all three species sea bass. Since the adoption of the FMP, In addition, the Board considered pro- Kirby Rootes-Murdy, Senior Fishery Man- 4. Slot limits (not currently a manage- shifts in abundance, distribution, and be- posed federal 2019 Atlantic shark specifica- agement Plan Coordinator, at krootes-mur- ment option in the Council’s FMP) havior of these two species have created tions. Similar to recent years, NOAA Fisher- [email protected] or 703.842.0740. challenges in constraining harvest to the ies is proposing a January 1 open date for all The Draft Addendum aims to increase coastwide recreational harvest limit (RHL) shark management groups, with an initial 25 States Schedule Public Hearings on Draft the suite of tools available for managing while providing fair and equitable access to shark possession limit for large coastal and Addenda XXXI and XXXII summer flounder, scup and black sea bass, fishermen throughout the species’ ranges. hammerhead management groups, with the Management Board Seeks Input on Options as well as reduce inconsistencies between In addition, the use of highly variable and possibility of in-season adjustments. The for Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea state and federal regulations. This action inherently delayed annual harvest estimates Board will set the 2019 coastal shark speci- Bass Management does not consider implementing black sea to establish management measures for the fications via an email vote after the final rule Atlantic states from Massachusetts bass conservation equivalency or slot limits subsequent year has led to regulatory insta- is published later this fall. through Virginia have scheduled hearings for any of the three species in 2019. Rather, bility, regulatory disparities, and frustration Addendum V will be available on the to gather public comment on Draft Addenda the options would update the FMPs to allow on the part of stakeholders. Commission’s website (www.asmfc.org) XXXI and XXXII to the Summer Flounder, these management tools to be used in future Setting measures through specifica- on the Coastal Sharks webpage by the end Scup and Black Sea Bass Fishery Man- years. tions would be a procedural change, allow- of October. For more information, please agement Plan (FMP). The details of those Draft Addendum XXXII ing regional management to reflect the cur- contact Kirby Rootes-Murdy, Senior Fish- hearings follow: Draft Addendum XXXII was initiated rent condition and distribution of the stocks ery Management Plan Coordinator, at kro- to establish new recreational management and fisheries, and enabling measures to be [email protected] or 703.842.0740. Massachusetts Division of Marine Fish- programs for summer flounder and black sea established based on more complete harvest eries bass, as the current addenda under which the data rather than preliminary projections. ASMFC Spiny Dogfish Board Sets Quo- November 28, 2018 at 6 PM two fisheries are currently managed (Adden- This process would eliminate the need for tas for 2019-2021 Fishing Seasons Bourne Community Center, Room 2 da XXVIII and XXX, respectively) expire measures to be established through addenda; The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries 239 Main Street at the end of 2018. The Draft Addendum Continued Page 20. Commission’s Spiny Dogfish Management Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts proposes two options for each recreational Board approved the following coast-wide Contact: Nichola Meserve at 617.626.1531 commercial quotas for the 2019-2021 fish- ing seasons (May 1-April 30): 20,522,832 Rhode Island Division of Fish & Wildlife pounds for 2019/2020; 23,194,835 pounds November 7, 2018 at 6 PM for 202/2021, and 27,421,096 pounds for University of Rhode Island Narragansett 2021/2022 (state-specific allocations are Bay Campus Corless Auditorium provided in table below). The quotas are South Ferry Road consistent with the measures recommended Narragansett, Rhode Island to NOAA Fisheries by the Mid-Atlantic Contact: Robert Ballou at 401.222.4700 Fishery Management Council. The Board ext. 4420 also established a 6,000 pound commercial trip limit for the northern region states of The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Maine through Connecticut, while New Commission’s Summer Flounder, Scup York through North Carolina have the ability and Black Sea Bass Management Board to set state-specific trip limits based on the approved Draft Addendum XXXI for public needs of their fisheries. The Commission’s comment at the Joint Commission/Mid-At- actions are final and apply to state waters lantic Fishery Management Council meet- (0-3 miles from shore). The Mid-Atlantic ing in Virginia Beach, VA in August 2018, and New England Fishery Management and approved Draft Addendum XXXII yes- "We encourage your support and membership!" Councils will forward their recommenda- terday at the Commission’s Annual Meeting tions for federal waters (3 –200 miles from in New York City. shore) to NOAA Fisheries Greater Atlantic Draft Addendum XXXI Working together, we can speak as one to maintain our fish- Regional Fisheries Administrator for final Draft Addendum XXXI and the Coun- eries, working families and working waterfronts. approval. cil’s complementary framework consider The quotas are based on the 2018 Stock adding the following management options

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At Maine Yacht Center they have just completed outfitting the Class 40 '102'. At Padebco Boat in Round Pond this AJ 28 is getting ready for her annual maintenance. Maine Yacht Center in Portland has work. That boat is also getting ready to go busy, unusually busy, with boats in prepa- to service your storage customers. I'd rather had a very busy summer and fall. Brian Har- south next week (end of October). ration for going south. Which is stuff we turn away one refit job and make 100 storage ris, who heads the yard, said, “We had sev- Some of the most interesting work they don't normally do. I think there's just so customers happy than the opposite.” eral large projects here for service and refit do is on the Class 40 racers. “We got PRI- many boats that are moving around now that work in preparations for boats going south. VATEER 109 here, which is a Bruce Farr there's more work to go around. We haven't Gamage Shipyard in South Bristol is We had 100 foot sloop here for the majority design built by Cookson in New Zealand, done anything to seek it out or anything like getting busier and busier. Mike Tatro added, of the summer, getting work on to go south. which has been here all fall for refit. That that.” “We have got a couple big rigging refits, both Mostly systems related and generator work; included new batteries, new solar panels, I believe it is related to their reputation on Aldens. We have got a woodworking refit electronics, mast wiring, rigging work, just new hydro-generators, mast modifications as one of the pre-eminent yards on the coast, in the pilothouse on a Norther Bay 36. a wide variety of items. We had an 80 foot and bottom job. That boat is going in the especially related to sailboats, cruisers and Like all the yards on the coast, they were sloop in for the majority of the fall. Again, water next week to go south. racers. right in the middle of hauling season. Mike mostly systems related and deck hardware Brian added, “We have been really While they were in the middle of getting said, “We are up on the sailboats. We picked these boats finished up so they could head up an Alden 54, there was only a couple of south, they were also in the middle of haul- those built, and she is potentially a repower, ing their storage customers. They are full, new genset, big rigging job. even the lot they leased to the west of them Awlgrip will be busy again this winter near the B&M Baked Bean plant. At the end with a number of mid-sized projects, 25 to of October they had about 75 percent of the 35 feet. boats hauled up. They have also been converting ship- As for work this winter, they have 58 ping containers into usable structures. These foot fiberglass Alden Challenger ketch, are small, 16 or 19 feet x 8 feet. They con- built by Hodgdon. That is in for a cosmetic verted one into a kiosk, and another into a refit, plus paint and varnish, new charging private closet for a person who flies coast to system and batteries. Then they have a Sa- coast all the time. Right now they are doing bre 42 sailboat that wants to get optimized one for Rwanda Coffee Bean, which is a full for the Bermuda Race, so they are bringing service coffee shop; and some work contain- that boat up to some performance standards. ers for a couple different organizations that This includes a repower. They also have a want on site work containers. Mike added, 46-foot sailboat that needs a bottom job and “We just take containers and change them to paint this winter. A Hinckley 48 is in and she be whatever the client wants. It looks like we needs a paint job. are going to do one for Starbucks and another Brian is making sure that he does not for Helly Hansen with a fold down front so take on too much extra winter work. As he it's a show booth. It's portable so they can said, “Take on too much of these 1000 hour take it to shows and they just open it up and service refit projects and all the sudden you they are ready to go. don't have enough available labor resources They also recently hired on another diesel tech, who started the end of October. Mike said it was not easy to find him, but he was more than happy he did as he has the work to keep him busy. One boat that he will be working on the launch at Sebasco Estates, named RUTH. She is an old T-boat, probably around 85 years old. They will be rebuild- ing her Ford Lehman and then adding new tankage, new glass, and a few other things.

Padebco Boat Yard and Custom Boatbuilders in Round Pond was in the midst of hauling boat and getting ready for a winter and spring’s worth of work. For new construction, they are expect- ing to build two Padebco 23s this year. As for other work, they have a 33 foot Wasque that they are doing a full renovation on. They have a Marshall 24 that is going to be engine out and refurbishing that engine. They have a Padebco 32 that is going to be two engines out, replace fuel tanks and put engines back in. Probably the biggest project this winter is on a Padebco 27. This was a project that was supposed to be done last year, but they could not get ahold of two 200 hp Yamahas in time to do it. She currently is powered with Yanmar diesel to Hamilton Jet Drives. That power plant is coming out and they are putting an extension on and then December 2018 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 15.

This Newman 46 was totally reburbished by Finestkind Boat Yard in Harpswell this summer. installing twin Yamaha 200s with Seastars Doughdish and for the same owner they re- Optimist 360 joystick docking control sys- did a Rozinante. Leon added, “He is a bit of a tem. They were able to do the electronics Herreshoff guy. He brought the Rozinante in last year so she has got a 22-inch screen for and we were brokering it. It was a bit rough, the chartplotter/radar overlay and they will lovingly neglected, and it lost its charm, but be adding to that system this year. They have I convinced him to put a little money into it, got a 38 foot ketch that went aground over paint the topsides, paint the decks, redo the in Camden. The owner did not realize how varnish and she would sell easier. He came bad, but did complain about their bilge pump in to see it and fell in love with it all over working overtime. They yard convinced again. So, he's decided to keep it.” them to haul the boat even though it cut their Last year they began making changes vacation short and discovered that they were to their storage and work space up on Route going to need to replace the keel, because it 32. Last year they took their cold storage was set back about ½-inch. They also know building with a dirt floor and no insulation that there will be additional work making and put in concrete floor with radiant heat, repairs to the internal structure of the hull. full insulation and LED lighting. This gave They have a 26 Pearson, which when they them 5000 square feet of indoor heated lifted the boat up this year to launch her the space and doubles as a work bay. Then over keel moved. So she was put back in the yard last winter they built a 10,000 square foot and this winter they will remove the keel and building, which was married to their other see about making her solid again. storage building on the site. When this is all A 26-foot powerboat has arrived, which done the building will be 15,000 square feet. they will be finishing off. Leon McCorkle, She is not yet finished, but they do have the owner of the yard, said, “I am going to be insulation up and so they are using it for cold optimistic and say the boat is 70 percent storage. However, next season they will put complete. So, we probably have two or three in a cement floor with radiant heat and put on months of work to put her together. the doors. They have room for another two In their shop down on the shore, they storage buildings and they will go up as the have a 36 foot Tiara, which in the past re- need arrives. Right now they are growing by powered with twin diesels and then made 15 or 20 boats a year so it will not be long it into an express cruiser with a flybridge. before the need is there. This winter they will be going through the To get all the storage boats ready for engines and drivetrain because he went next season, they will move boats in and out aground and it is not quite right. They have of the heated bay and by spring a majority gone through the entire drivetrain and the will be ready for the water. engines. The engines are getting detailed, some repairs done, and then set back in. Then Hutchinson Composites in Cushing they are stripping the bottom, putting Epoxy completed a Mussel Ridge 46 for John barrier coat on then repainting. Continued on Page 22. They just finished up refurbishing a

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Continued from Page 10. stitution is berthed at Pier 1 in Charlestown the time to prepare for that is now. Hahn Baggeroer, the Secretary of the Navy and Navy Yard. quoted James Forrestal, appointed the first Chief of Naval Operations Chair for Ocean that comprised the U.S. when Constitution Secretary of Defense in 1947, who said in Science at the Massachusetts Institute of launched in 1797 and one in honor of the Sea Science: Navy Task Force Promotes a Congressional testimony, “The tempo of Technology. ship’s birthday. Increased Knowledge of Ocean Envi- modern war has reached the point where this “Getting the opportunity to celebrate ronment Nation will probably never again have the Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay Holds USS Constitution’s 221st birthday while From Office of Naval Research Public opportunity to arm itself successfully after 30th Submarine Veterans of World War underway is a once in a lifetime experience,” Affairs the start of hostilities.” II Memorial said Madison C. Manley, guest from Para- ARLINGTON, Va. (NNS) -- In a keynote That message bolstered the one given at From Commander, Submarine Group 10 gould, Arkansas. “Being a big fan of history, speech to attendees of the 2018 Oceans a Tactical Oceanography Symposium held Public Affairs I feel incredibly fortunate to have been Conference—held last week in Charleston, a week earlier at the Undersea Warfighting KINGS BAY, Ga. (NNS) -- Naval Subma- aboard the oldest commissioned warship South Carolina—Chief of Naval Research Development Center in San Diego. Hahn rine Base Kings Bay held a ceremony in afloat.” Rear Adm. David Hahn discussed the goals highlighted the importance of furthering ties honor of World War II Submarine Veterans, “This underway crosses another successful of the U.S. Navy’s Task Force Ocean, a between the Navy, academia and industry. Nov. 2. sailing season for Constitution,” added signature program of Chief of Naval Op- “The Navy needs your help,” he told This is the 30th year the base has hosted Shick, “for which I am extremely proud of erations Adm. John Richardson. TFO is attendees at the three-day symposium, the the ceremony honoring submarine veterans. the dedication and professionalism my crew designed to reinvigorate the Navy’s commit- first in a series designed to highlight Navy “This ceremony is important because exhibited in achieving our goals of increased ment to ocean sciences, advancing its tacti- ocean science issues. “We need a committed these submarines laid the foundation of our community engagement and education as cal advantage through a better knowledge partnership between government, academia modern submarine force,” said Electrician’s the America’s Ship of State.” of the ocean environment and its impact on and industry to ensure the U.S. remains the Mate 1st Class Kegan Ciampini, a Sailor The ship returned to her berthing Pier sensors, weapons and operations. world leader in ocean science, especially assigned to the Ohio-class ballistic-missile 1, of the Charlestown Navy Yard, at 1 p.m. Hahn, who leads the Office of Naval Navy-relevant science. Our competitors are submarine USS Maryland (SSBN 738), USS Constitution, America’s Ship of Research (ONR) and serves as the director gaining on us.” homeported in Kings Bay. “We owe our State, actively defended sea lanes against of TFO, began his comments by highlighting “Our decades-long competitive advan- submarine force to these veterans for what global threats from 1797-1855. The world’s the critical role of ocean commerce to global tage in the undersea domain is eroding. This we are today.” oldest commissioned warship afloat,Consti - prosperity, and the need to provide order and is not a Navy problem—it is our nation’s In addition to the more than 500 sub- tution embodies 221 years of maritime heri- security to that commerce for the good of the problem,” said Oceanographer of the Navy marine veterans and family members in tage and unwavering service to her country. nation and the world. Rear Adm. John Okon during a presentation attendance, there were also 13 World War Now a featured destination on Boston’s “Fundamentally, that is the role of your at the symposium. “As Task Force Ocean II veterans in the audience. Freedom Trail, Constitution and its crew of Navy—it’s what we do every day,” Hahn continues to evolve, we must remain focused “This is the largest crowd we’ve ever active-duty Sailors offer community out- said. on advancing ocean science and uniting our had,” said Command Master Chief Alan reach and education about the ship's history He pointed out, however, that in this era nation’s intellectual capital to increase our Propes, the command master chief of Naval and the importance of naval sea power to of increasing “great power competition,” the competitive advantage.” Submarine Base Kings Bay. more than 500,000 visitors each year. Con- Navy needs to maintain an advantage, and A recent report prepared by the Con- The keynote speaker was retired Vice sortium for Ocean Leadership, an umbrella Adm. Albert Konetzni, who retired from the organization that includes over 100 public U.S. Navy Submarine Force in 2004 after and private ocean research organizations, 38 years of service. Konetzni expressed his highlights the mounting pressure on the gratitude for the veterans in the crowd and Navy’s advantage over global competitors. the importance of having this ceremony on To accelerate the recovery of that an active submarine base. advantage in these critical areas, Hahn “The nation owes a great deal of grat- announced that ONR will increase research itude toward the submarine force,” said and sponsor an additional 50 graduate stu- Konetzni. “You operated in uncharted wa- dents and 50 post-doctorates under TFO, ters and hazardous conditions. By having primarily in the areas of physical oceanog- the ceremony here, you get to see Sailors raphy and acoustics, in addition to ONR’s that are currently serving today. Our current ongoing support for academia. force is made of American inventiveness. It According to Dr. Tom Drake, director continues to reinvent itself and you, in World of ONR’s Ocean Battlespace Sensing De- War II, started that tradition.” partment, “ONR will revitalize the “Scien- The ceremony included the ringing of tist-to-Sea” program, which provides oppor- two bells for the 65 submarines that have tunities for selected scientists and engineers been lost at sea and are now on "eternal to visit submarines and submarine training patrol." facilities, undersea warfighting training “A total of 52 submarines were lost centers, Navy laboratories and engineering during World War II to protect and preserve centers to better understand the needs and the freedom of this fine country,” said Capt. priorities of the Navy.” Wayne Wall, commanding officer of Train- The Navy’s commitment to revitalize ing Trident Facility. “It has been more than its ocean science efforts will have very 50 years since the last submarine was lost, positive benefits to the national ocean sci- but the veterans and Sailors here pay tribute ence program, as well as the Navy. “This to those lost and keep their memory alive.” is a most welcome turn of events for Navy William W. Seaword Jr. was one of the oceanographic research,” said Prof. Arthur World War II submarine veterans in atten- The Power to Change Lives

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She is the oldest carrier in our fleet community.” and in my opinion the most capable.” Executive Director of the St. Marys This exhibit is Gillam’s way of sharing Submarine Museum, Keith Post, is the lead a story in an interactive way. The exhibit coordinator of the four-day event. Post was gives viewers a chance to not only learn the a submariner and joined the Navy in 1981 history of Nimitz, but to see, touch and feel and retired in 2003. it. “This is a Team Kings Bay show,” said “Our job here at the National Naval Post. “It takes a lot of planning and moving Aviation Museum is to tell the story of our parts, but honoring our submarine veterans rich, 107-year legacy of Naval aviation,” is the right thing to do." said Gillam. “That history is not static. Right The second Zumwalt destroyer heading down the Kennebec River from Bath Iron Works on “It is important to show these veterans now, men and women are flying off aircraft 9 November. how much we appreciate what they have carriers around the world. These are Nimitz done not only our nation, but the world,” class carriers.” of the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation. to understand it, and you get to experience he said. “It’s important that we never forget There were many moving parts that “They’re going to step on to a facsimile of it.” and share with our Sailors that true history. brought this project, as well as the ceremony, a Nimitz class carrier. This is today. This Although Nimitz will one day reach We have the ceremony on the base so our together. is the Navy today. It's deployed today. It's its life span and be replaced, its history and Sailors currently serving can listen to these “The museum is a part of history,” said operational today. These visitors are then legacy will live on at the National Naval veterans and hear their sea stories and help George Taylor, project manager. “The guys going to go off of this carrier, through the Aviation Museum. them remember and reconnect. These war that worked with us to get the flooring in museum, and they’re going to then learn and Gillam may never again have the op- heroes have changed the course of history.” place, brought their families out. They were understand how they got to that point.” portunity to launch from a flight deck or Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay is proud that they were a part of history.” Thiessen talked about the unveiling feel the jet’s tailhook catch the arresting home to five Ohio-class ballistic-missile “This new display is designed to get event as being the first of many experiences gear wire. However, his contribution, and submarines and two Ohio-class guided our visitors in the frame of mind of what for those visiting the museum in the future. that of thousands of others who have served missile submarines. they’re going to experience throughout the “You come here, you’re going to get an on board Nimitz, will be preserved as part museum,” said retired Marine Corps. Lt. experience,” said Thiessen. “You don’t just of the Nimitz legacy. Future USS Sioux City to arrive in An- Gen. Duane Thiessen, president and CEO learn something, you get to touch it, you get napolis for Commissioning From PEO USC Public Affairs WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The future USS Sioux City (LCS 11) will arrive in Annap- olis, Maryland, Nov. 12, in advance of the ship’s commissioning ceremony. The Freedom-variant littoral combat ship (LCS), the first ship named after the fourth-largest city in Iowa, Sioux City, will be commissioned at the U.S. Naval Acade- my, Nov. 17. 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Continued from Page 13. (www.asmfc.org) under Public Input. Pub- 239 Main Street This process would eliminate the need for lic comment will be accepted until 5:00 PM Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts measures to be established through addenda; instead, the Board would approve measures (EST) on November 28, 2018 and should Contact: Nichola Meserve at 617.626.1531 instead, the Board would approve measures in the late winter or early spring each year, be forwarded to Caitlin Starks, Fishery in the late winter or early spring each year, based on technical committee analysis of Management Plan Coordinator, 1050 N. Rhode Island Division of Fish & Wildlife based on technical committee analysis of harvest estimates and other information on Highland St., Suite 200 A-N, Arlington, November 7, 2018 at 6 PM harvest estimates and other information on resource availability. Public input on specifi- Virginia 22201; 703.842.0741 (fax) or at University of Rhode Island Narragansett resource availability. Public input on specifi- cations would be gathered by states through [email protected] (Subject line: Draft Bay Campus Corless Auditorium cations would be gathered by states through their individual public comment processes. Addendum XXXI and XXXII Comment). South Ferry Road their individual public comment processes. For each species, the Draft Addendum also Narragansett, Rhode Island For each species, the Draft Addendum also includes proposed standards and guiding States Schedule Public Hearings on Draft Contact: Robert Ballou at 401.222.4700 includes proposed standards and guiding principles to structure how measures are set Addenda XXXI and XXXII ext. 4420 principles to structure how measures are set in order to provide fair and equitable access Management Board Seeks Input on Options in order to provide fair and equitable access to the resource, and increase regulatory for Summer Flounder, Scup and Black Sea The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries to the resource, and increase regulatory stability. Bass Management Commission’s Summer Flounder, Scup stability. Interested groups are encouraged to Atlantic states from Massachusetts and Black Sea Bass Management Board Interested groups are encouraged to provide input on Draft Addenda XXXI through Virginia have scheduled hearings approved Draft Addendum XXXI for public provide input on Draft Addenda XXXI and XXXII either by attending state public to gather public comment on Draft Addenda comment at the Joint Commission/Mid-At- and XXXII either by attending state public hearings or providing written comment. XXXI and XXXII to the Summer Flounder, lantic Fishery Management Council meet- hearings or providing written comment. Draft Addenda are is available at http:// Scup and Black Sea Bass Fishery Man- ing in Virginia Beach, VA in August 2018, Draft Addenda are available at http:// www.asmfc.org/files/PublicInput/SF_ agement Plan (FMP). The details of those and approved Draft Addendum XXXII yes- www.asmfc.org/files/PublicInput/SF_ Scup_BSB_DraftAddendumXXXI_Pub- hearings follow: terday at the Commission’s Annual Meeting Scup_BSB_DraftAddendumXXXI_Pub- licComment_Oct2018.pdf and http:// in New York City. licComment_Oct2018.pdf and http:// www.asmfc.org/files/PublicInput/SF_ Massachusetts Division of Marine Fish- Draft Addendum XXXI www.asmfc.org/files/PublicInput/SF_ BSB_DraftAddendumXXXII_Public- eries Draft Addendum XXXI and the Coun- BSB_DraftAddendumXXXII_Public- Comment_Oct2018.pdf. They can also November 28, 2018 at 6 PM cil’s complementary framework consider Comment_Oct2018.pdf. They can also be accessed on the Commission website Bourne Community Center, Room 2 adding the following management options be accessed on the Commission website to the Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black (www.asmfc.org) under Public Input. Pub- Sea Bass Fishery Management Plan. lic comment will be accepted until 5:00 PM 1. Conservation equivalency for the (EST) on November 29, 2018 and should recreational black sea bass fishery be forwarded to Caitlin Starks, Fishery 2. Conservation equivalency rollover Management Plan Coordinator, 1050 N. Storage/Repair * Feathering Propellers * Storm Anchors for summer flounder Highland St., Suite 200 A-N, Arlington, 3. Transit provisions for Block Island Virginia 22201; 703.842.0741 (fax) or at Sound for recreational and/or commercial [email protected] (Subject line: Draft fisheries for all three species Addendum XXXI and XXXII Comment). 4. Slot limits (not currently a manage- www.PELuke.com (207) 633-4971 ment option in the Council’s FMP) American Lobster Benchmark Stock Assessment Workshop Scheduled for The Draft Addendum aims to increase January 28-31, in New Bedford, MA the suite of tools available for managing ARLINGTON, VA – The Atlantic States summer flounder, scup and black sea bass, Marine Fisheries Commission will hold as well as reduce inconsistencies between the American Lobster Benchmark Stock state and federal regulations. This action Assessment Workshop at the Massachusetts does not consider implementing black sea Division of Marine Fisheries, 836 South bass conservation equivalency or slot limits Rodney French Boulevard, New Bedford, for any of the three species in 2019. Rather, MA. The stock assessment, which is sched- the options would update the FMPs to allow uled for completion in the summer of 2020, these management tools to be used in future will evaluate the health of the Gulf of Maine/ years. Georges Bank and Southern New England Draft Addendum XXXII stocks and inform management of this spe- Draft Addendum XXXII was initiated cies. The Commission’s stock assessment to establish new recreational management process and meetings are open to the public, programs for summer flounder and black sea with the exception of discussions of confi- bass, as the current addenda under which the dential data*, when the public will be asked two fisheries are currently managed (Adden- to leave the room. da XXVIII and XXX, respectively) expire The Commission welcomes the sub- at the end of 2018. The Draft Addendum mission of alternate assessment models. proposes two options for each recreational For alternate models to be considered, the fishery: (1) coastwide management (the model description, model input, final model default program for both species under estimates, and complete source code must the FMP), or conservation equivalency for be provided to Jeff Kipp, Senior Stock As- summer flounder; and (2) setting measures sessment Scientist, at [email protected] by through a specifications process. December 28, 2018. Any models submitted The Draft Addendum seeks to address without complete, editable source code and several challenges with the recreational input files will not be considered. management of summer flounder and black For more information about the assess- sea bass. Since the adoption of the FMP, ment or attending the upcoming workshop shifts in abundance, distribution, and be- (space will be limited), please contact havior of these two species have created Megan Ware, Fishery Management Plan challenges in constraining harvest to the Coordinator, at [email protected] or coastwide recreational harvest limit (RHL) 703.842.0740. while providing fair and equitable access to * Each state and federal agency is re- fishermen throughout the species’ ranges. sponsible for maintaining the confidentiality In addition, the use of highly variable and of its data and deciding who has access inherently delayed annual harvest estimates to its confidential data. In the case of our to establish management measures for the stock assessments and peer reviews, all subsequent year has led to regulatory insta- analysts and, if necessary, reviewers, have bility, regulatory disparities, and frustration been granted permission by the appropriate on the part of stakeholders. agency to use and view confidential data. Setting measures through specifica- When the assessment team needs to show tions would be a procedural change, allow- and discuss these data, observers to our stock ing regional management to reflect the cur- assessment process are asked to leave the rent condition and distribution of the stocks room to preserve confidentiality. and fisheries, and enabling measures to be established based on more complete harvest data rather than preliminary projections. December 2018 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 21. News from the Department of Marine Resources

Continued from Page 11. The new licenses are the result of a Improves Marine Patrol Surveillance fishing gear from such a great distance that limited entry system mandated by the legis- Abilities the remaining MPO's aboard the boat have which is like crop rotations in agriculture, lature and implemented through regulation With a $3,200 grant from the Maine difficulty seeing what the user is describing. will be used to support resource rebuilding. that allows someone who did not hold a Outdoor Heritage Fund and matching funds These will without a doubt be a useful tool Areas open this season in Zone 2 had been scallop license in the previous year to be of $2,339.50 from the Maine Department of for Marine Patrol conservation cases for closed for the previous two seasons. eligible for one. Marine Resources, the Maine Marine Patrol many years to come," said Wyman. Maine state territorial waters surround- In developing the limited entry system, has purchased Binoculars that will improve This project was funded in part by the ing Machias Seal Island and North Rock will the Department consulted with the Scallop Officers' ability to conduct surveillance for Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund, in which be open to harvest during the entire month Advisory Council (SAC). The Council rec- enforcement and search and rescue. proceeds from the sale of a dedicated instant of January 2019 in addition to the open days ommended that eligibility for the lottery be The new 14x40 Fujinon Image Stabi- lottery ticket are used to support outdoor rec- in the Zone 2 calendar, providing additional limited to individuals 18 years of age or older lization binoculars have been distributed to reation and natural resources conservation. opportunity for Zone 2 harvesters on days to ensure that new licenses are awarded to the Marine Patrol's fleet of large patrol ves- when other areas in the Zone are closed. individuals that have a good probability of sels throughout the State, replacing previous Body Recovered from Kennebec River Targeted closures, due to resource de- being able to use the license. models that had only 7x magnification. Identified pletion, high concentrations of seed or sub- The SAC also recommended designing "The enhanced magnification allows Richmond - The identity of the body recov- legal scallops or the presence of spat-pro- the lottery for drag licenses to ensure that Marine Patrol Officers to survey more area ered Friday, October 26 from the Kennebec ducing scallops will again be implemented there is opportunity for both younger (18-30 in greater detail," said Marine Patrol Colonel River has been confirmed by the Medical for the entire season to support resource years of age) and older (31 years of age and Jon Cornish. "This is especially important Examiner's Office as that of Mark Johnston, rebuilding. Areas closed include Lower older) fishermen. as more fishing activity is moving farther 64 of Richmond. Muscle Ridge, Eastern Casco Bay, the Under the regulation, each year two off-shore. Johnston's body was recovered by the Upper Sheepscot River, the New Meadows individuals will be awarded eligibility for "We made the decision last year that Maine State Police/Marine Patrol dive team River, Card Cove and Beals Island Bridge. a drag license through a lottery for every we needed to improve our ability to conduct from the Kennebec River in Richmond Fri- A provision that caps the daily per three individuals who did not renew their surveillance of a fleet that is spread out over day at 3:10 p.m. vessel limit of diver-harvested scallops has drag license in the previous calendar year. a greater area, and to build on our search and The recovery occurred after an exten- also been removed. The daily limit for divers One of the licenses issued will go to an rescue capabilities," said Colonel Cornish. sive search for Johnston, who was reported now applies to individuals, providing more individual over the age of 18 and under the A decision was made to purchase binoc- missing the previous night when he failed to incentive for multiple divers to work from age of 31, and one of the licenses will go to ulars with higher magnification. "However, return after moving his 32-foot recreational the same boat. In a winter fishery with set an individual 31 years of age or older. because of the continual movement of patrol vessel from a mooring in Richmond to the fishing days, having multiple divers working One person will also be awarded license vessels at sea, binoculars with greater mag- Town Dock. together improves harvester safety. eligibility for every person who held a com- nification alone were not seen as practical In addition, drag size restrictions for mercial dive license but did not renew their because a more magnified image becomes Body of Fisherman Recovered Near the Kittery area, Swan's Island Conserva- license in the previous calendar year. Since unstable in the view finder," said Colonel Jonesport tion area, and Gouldsboro Bay have been no dive licenses were retired in 2017, there Cornish. The body of Scott Chandler, 51, of West removed. Harvesters in those areas are were no dive licenses available in the lottery. The stabilization technology allows Jonesport was recovered at 5:10 pm today authorized to use any drag size, provided it Of the 1,290 lottery entrants, 401 ap- images at the higher 14x magnification to by divers taking part in a search near Doyle does not exceed the State maximum of 10 plied for the 18-30 category and 889 sub- remain in view as Marine Patrol Officers Island, west of Hopkins Point in Jonesport. feet, six inches. mitted lottery applications for the 31 years stand on the deck of a moving boat. Chandler was seen falling off his As in past seasons, areas along the and older category. The waterproof binoculars are equipped 20-foot lobster boat near the island at coast will be closed by the Department Lottery winners were chosen at random with a durable hard plastic carrying case. approximately 9:20 a.m. this morning by using emergency rulemaking when 30 to by InforME, an enterprise created in 1997 The 40mm lens diameter provides superior commercial seaweed harvesters in the area 40 percent of the volume of legal sized by state law to ensure access to public infor- light gathering, which is important when who reported the incident. scallops have been harvested. The 30-40 mation through technological solutions. working in occasional low light conditions. The search involved members of the percent trigger has been shown to allow the The limited entry regulation also stipu- "We've gone from trying to identify Maine Marine Patrol, the Maine State Po- resource to regenerate sufficiently to ensure lated that individuals are not eligible for the boats that we can barely see on the horizon, lice/Marine Patrol dive team, members of a commercial harvest in the future. lottery if they have been convicted or adju- to being able to see the antennas on boats the Warden Service Dive Team, US Coast Using information collected during the dicated of a marine resource violation that before we can see the actual boat because Guard boats, helicopter and plane. season from industry and Marine Patrol and resulted in the suspension of their license it is still below the horizon!" said Marine Chandler's body has been transported to from in-season trawl surveys, the Depart- within the past seven years. To be eligible Patrol Officer Matthew Wyman. a local funeral home. ment can determine how much legal-size for the lottery, entrants must be 18 years of "It is common for the user of these The circumstances around how Chan- resource remains on the bottom and when age or older, must have held a commercial new binoculars to point out vessels and dler fell into the water remain under inves- to close areas. scallop license or have crewed aboard a tigation. commercial scallop vessel, and must not be Scallop Dragger License Lottery Win- a current commercial scallop license holder. ners Announced Beginning in 2019, eligible lottery en- The Maine Department of Marine Re- trants will have the opportunity to enter the sources has announced the first new entrants lottery one additional time for each consec- into the scallop fishery since 2009. utive year they have entered the lottery. The winners of a recent department Maine's scallop fishery has rebounded lottery to apply for a license include Mat- since 2009, when landings were 665,758 thew Alley from Beals Island who holds a pounds, to 6.6 million pounds harvested in lobster license, Chase Fitzsimmons from 2017, the most since 1998. Lubec who has crewed on a scallop boat, Pending approval of the proposed reg- Johnathon Oliver from Deer Isle who holds ulation that establishes the 2018-19 season, a lobster license, and Frank Gott from Bar Maine's scallop season begins November Harbor, who also holds a lobster license. 20, 2018 for divers and December 10, 2018 Each will be responsible for applying for draggers in Zone 1. In Zones 2 and 3, for a scallop dragger license within 30 days the season is scheduled to begin December of being notified. Under a law passed during 1, 2018 for divers and December 3 for drag- the past legislative session, the license hold- gers. er must own the vessel designated on the license. 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Continued from Page 8. you poured it into a mould and that mould or 4,000 or maybe a$10,000 propeller every modern propeller blade profile designs. was made the old fashioned way. Now, a couple of years or you can put a $15 or $20 There is a lot of engineering that you could Many years ago when you took a pro- lot more of them are still cast in a mould zinc on the shaft and save your propeller. The discuss, but to put it simply, a traditional peller in to be reconditioned it was done with but the mould has been made on a five or other thing that happens a lot is electrolysis. propeller is a flat faced designed propeller or pitch blocks and a rubber mallet, but that is six axis C&C machine. That mould itself is The terms get used interchangeably but they constant pitch, no matter where you measure not how they are done today. “I can't remem- dead-accurate. It still has to be finished on are different. Electrolysis is stray electrical the prop, Let’s say it's a 30 inch pitch whether ber when we built the first hydraulic press,” the outside and then the propeller goes into current from a bad ground. That current pulls you measure it right in next to the hub or said Mark. “What has changed is how we another C&C machine and every surface of the iron molecules out of the metal and puts all the way up next to the tip. These more work on them today. The advent of the the blade, front, back, edges, bore, hub is it out in the water. The iron in propellers are modern designs, call it variable pitch. I will computerized measuring systems, the MRI, finished to exact specs. The price is more or a big part of the strength of the metal. The just say that when you measure the propeller I think the original one came out of Australia. less the same as any other.” rest of it goes if the situation continues and the graph line looks like a big S-curved cup. That allows us to accurately measure and So as fall comes to end, and you have then all that is left is the copper, which has The whole blade, not just the lip where you map out on a computer screen so you can hauled your boat up on the hard what should no strength. It is all red and rotten looking, put a cup in. The whole thing starts out as see in dimensional form the dimensions of you do to get the prop ready for next season? flakey, looks like a Ritz cracker when you kind of an S-curve and then turns into a big where the various sections if the propeller “Well, physical damage of course,” said break off the edges. How do you fix that? gentle, gradual cup. They grab water and blade are in relation to where they are sup- Mark. “Look for little chips and chunks You have to check and make sure there isn't are efficient like no other. Some of these posed to be. So it gives you an extremely ac- or bends; red, flakey corrosion which is any electrical current going down your shaft lobster boats racers have gone with these curate map so that you then can manipulate electrolysis and/or galvanic corrosion; cav- and if there is you have to find out where it types of propellers and the improvement has that blade to within a few thousandths of an itation issues will just have a whole series is coming from and that can be a bear of a been quite remarkable. As far as what else is inch of where it is supposed to be. It is kind of uniform little round pits in certain areas problem.” coming down the line, I hope that they are of a blend of computerized wizardry, but of the prop; and check the edges to see if What does the future hold for the pro- not made out of composites any time before there is still some blacksmithing involved. they are eaten away. If there is any question peller? Mark said, “We have seen different I retire.” You push it this way and you push it that take it in and have it inspected. We have had blade designs over the past few years. They “MAKE SURE you tell your prop guy way and you are eyeballing it, maybe you are them come in and there's no real obvious were initially designed for use on more the right information,” concluded Mark. “It taking a quick measurement to see if you are damage and maybe the prop has some age higher speed pleasure boats, off-shore patrol has got to be right. You can't say it's a 2½:1 close. Then you put it back on the computer on it and you start to clean it off a little bit craft, oil rig tender boats, that kind of thing. gear when it's really a 2.05:1 gear, that will to measure it and it tells you if you are close and where the blades come down and meet The benefit we have seen is amazing with not work out very well. It's always good to or not. That has been a massive change and the hub there are stress cracks showing up the relatively high powered, relatively light- check with your prop guy before you plunk a huge difference in performance. Let's say and that is a recipe for disaster. Just the fact weight boats that are made in Maine. They that money down for your engine and gear it's a 4 blade, you can have all 4 blades, for that you lost a blade off your propeller can have benefited drastically with these more that is for sure.” all intents and purposes, exactly the same. So set up a vibration and quickly you can bend every blade is taking the exact same bite of the shaft and wreck your bearings all within water on every revolution. Vibration comes a matter of a few seconds.” Boat & Shipyard News from propeller blades that are not the same. “Zincs, there is nothing more important Continued from Page 15. is talking about ordering another one. This One blade is trying to push your boat ahead to the life of your propeller than keeping a one would be a Mussel Ridge 42, finished 34½ inches and the other blade is trying to zinc on the shaft,” said Mark. “Hull zincs, Farrell, former manager of the Boston Red out as a sportfisherman, which he could take push your boat ahead 33 inches, which is transom zincs that are connected through Sox, who is now fishing out of Gloucester. down to the islands for the winter. more common than you think. Computers bonding and connected to the engine and all She is powered with a 800 Volvo and has a They have a 46 being finished out as have allowed prop shops to really super that, those are great for your electronics and 9-kW generator. Down below she has a three a shark/crab boat for a fisherman down in tune props. Much more efficient, more fuel interior metal parts. Your bronze and Nibral bunks, head and shower, with galley up in Florida. Then they have a sportfishing boat efficient, better speed, smooth, quiet, all of propeller is setting on a stainless steel shaft, the wheelhouse. The galley contains a cook going to Texas in a year. They have got those things.” which is bolted to an iron engine. You have stove, countertop and seating arrangements two 54s sold, just having issues trying to “Now,” continued Mark, “speaking of got at least three different metals in a brine of in the split wheelhouse. Under the platform find finish shops to put the boats in. Albert computerization, the shift you are starting salt water. The least corrosion resistant met- there are tanks for 15 crates of lobsters, 800 Hutchinson, owner of the company, said, to see is a shift in propeller manufacturing. al, which is the bronze or the Nibral will go gallons of fuel and 120 gallons of water. The “That is the big problem. We don't have a They are still casting. They are poured into away. So, the propeller goes away, the shaft top end was 23 knots with a cruise speed of problem selling boats, it's just finding a place a mold and then finished, but it used to be stays there, and I get to sell you a new $3,000 17 at 2100 RPMs and burning 20 gallons an to put them to be finished.” hour. John was so happy with the boat that he Looking to Publish a Maritime or History Book? We at Maine Coastal News have the experience and know how to keep the costs in check. We are presently working on our third project and you could be next. For more information: (207) 223-8846

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Continued from Page 5. models had come off the wall and crashed to mer jobs and enjoyed sailing. In 1999, Jim Jim loved everything nautical and was the floor. Jim had made all the repairs and and Ann built their year-round home on Pine happiest when at the helm of his sailboat or sir but I am not qualified,’ and he said, ‘I'll they looked like the day he finished them. He Cliff. powerboat, or as OOD on a Navy destroyer decide that.’ There was no qualified OODs added, “It's a lot harder to repair them that Jim believed in volunteering in his escort. He loved working in his workshop, in the Atlantic Fleet at that time. Four it is to build them I will tell you that. To get community. In Worcester, this ranged making furniture or repairing old outboard months after I got on board the ship I was a those lines just right.” from coaching his sons’ hockey teams to motors, surrounded by ship models he built qualified officer of the deck. I went right to Jim was a very interesting man, who serving as a Vice President of the Cham- from scratch. He relished the challenge of junior officer of the deck. The advantage of had a lot of knowledge about the maritime ber of Commerce, during which time he creating detailed and accurate models from being a supply officer even though I was an happenings of the Boothbay region and I just was instrumental in establishing Amtrak’s original architectural plans, or from nothing Ensign, I was a department head. There were wish I had spent more time learning what I Boston-Worcester-Chicago passenger rail more than old photographs. He specialized four department heads: supply, operations, could from him for in September he lost his service. (He did so love trains!) He was in ships that were built in the Boothbay re- gunnery and engineering. The department battle with cancer and passed away. a member for 61 years of the Boothbay gion. As his days on earth waned, he spent heads report to the exec so I got a two-man * * * * * Harbor Yacht Club, focusing his efforts on them grateful for his wife and family, his state room instead of the Ensign locker six James W. Hunt, 82, died Sept. 22, 2018, the junior program and the waterfront. For dear friends, and for the life that he had. ensigns in the bunk room which we called at his home on Southport, surrounded by his the last three years he worked diligently to A memorial service to celebrate Jim’s it the Ensign locker. I just started standing loving family to whom he was entirely de- accomplish the successful building of the life was held on October 7, at the Boothbay watch with an operations officer, who was a voted. He was born June 4, 1936 in Worces- new Sailing Center. He was a Trustee of Harbor Congregational Church, Boothbay senior watch officer, a Naval Academy guy. ter, Massachusetts to Robert Hunt and Marie St. Andrews Hospital and Miles/Lincoln Harbor, which was followed by a reception He taught me a heck of a lot of stuff, a very (Davis) Hunt, and had one younger brother Health for 10 years, and a member of the at the Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club. In lieu good Navy officer and that is how I qualified. Robert H. Hunt, Jr. (Bob), who died in 2013. Maine Maritime Museum, Maritime History of flowers, contributions may be made to: That captain left the ship in May or June, and Jim was educated at Bancroft, Deer- Group, Ship Modelers Guild, Jeffersonians, Boothbay Region Community Resource I stayed on until December. When the new field, Cornell and Babson. As teenagers, Lyman Boat Owners Association, Navy Council 185 Townsend Avenue Boothbay captain came aboard he said, ‘you can't do Jim and his best friend Bob Bowden fa- League, and past president of the Boothbay Harbor, Maine 04538. this that's against Navy regulations.’ He said, mously braved the entire Inland Waterway Region Historical Society. ‘You could stand junior officer of the deck, from Norfolk to Miami in a 1952 13-foot would you do that? I said, ‘Sure. I was still Lyman runabout, which we own to this day on the bridge.’ I was lucky, had a great time.” (maintained to his exceptional standards). An incident that occurred was on their At Cornell, he and his roommate bought way back to Newport, RI following a winter an antique fire engine – the memories of training exercise in the Caribbean. “Have which he delighted in sharing with his fam- you ever heard of the Ash Wednesday Storm ily and friends. His fraternity, Alpha Delta in 1962?” asked Jim. “We were coming back Phi, maintained the iconic fire engine for from that exercise with two Bath built DEs, decades. CROMWELL and HAMMERBERG and In 1955 Jim’s parents bought a cottage us and FOREST SHERMAN, which was on Pine Cliff, Southport Island, and from a Bath built ship too, who carried an admi- then on Jim spent all his summers here. ral. Our exec was a graduate of the Navy During a year off from college, Jim worked Meteorological School in Monterey and I for Manley Reed in his boatyard (now remember he was on the bridge so I heard Blake’s) in Boothbay Harbor. He spent sum- the conversation, telling the commodore we mers running the Linekin passenger boat. He were going to get hit hard and we should do cherished the Boothbay Harbor area and the something different than we planned. This many friends he made here. was batted around in the higher elevations He became a U.S. Navy Supply Officer, and I guess the admiral on the SHERMAN and proudly served on the USS Courtney, said that if this was wartime we would stay DE 1021. In1963, Jim began his career with here so we will stay here. Well we came Norton Company (now St. Gobain), the into Newport a few days later and the wives world’s largest manufacturer of abrasives. would go down to the shore and waved to He was “grateful for a job that gave him us. Then they had time to drive up to the satisfaction, making things that made other pier and meet us by the time we got there. things – not just shuffling papers on a desk When we got up to the pier no wives. About from one pile to another.” He retired in 1990 an hour later they finally showed up. They as Director of Manufacturing for North had not recognized the ships. Four or five America. years ago in Portland, there was a retired Jim married Ann Cochran on Oct. 15, M C N A D V E R T I S E R S admiral there that I had known, he was the 1960 and together they raised three chil- Advertiser Page John Williams Boat Co. 3 commanding officer of the CROMWELL dren: James W. Hunt, III (Bill) (wife Heidi, Alexseal 2 John's Bay Boat Co. 29 at the time. I showed him the deck log and Orono, Minnesota); John Hunt (Kimmie, Allen Agency 11 Jonesport Shipyard 7/27 he looked at it and I said Captain Stanfield Charlottesville, Virginia); and Jean Hunt Bamforth Marine 2/30 Journey's End 16 said the waves were 50 feet and he said he (Alexandria, Virginia). Jim’s family was Bath Industrial Sales 22 Kennedy Marine Engineering 6 was wrong they were 70. He did tell me that his first priority, and he dearly loved and Billings Diesel & Marine 3 Kittery Point Yacht Yard 17 was the only time in his entire naval career was very proud of all of them. He had six Bluejacket 20 Kustom Steel 6 that he was really scared. We were terribly grandchildren: Alexis (husband Chris) Izzo, Bowden Marine 9 Liferaft Services 3 beaten up. The numbers were washed right William Hunt, Laura Hunt, Caroline Hunt, Brewer South Freeport Marine 19 Maine Built Boats 2 Maine Yacht Center 17 off the bow. Both the motor whale boats Tyra Pranger, Tove Pranger, and to his great Brooks Trap Mill 15 Brunswick Cushion 15 Moose Island Marine 7/30 and the davits were gone. The forward gun delight, one great-grandchild: Cordelia Izzo. C & C Machine 13 Mystic Seaport 18 mount, which was a twin 3 inch 50, which Jim also leaves behind a large extended fam- Casco Bay Yachts Sales 31 Nautilus Marine 2 had an aluminum weather shield, well that ily, including Laurie Hunt (mother of Alexis Chase, Leavitt Co. 6 Ocean Point Marina 31 weather shield was molded right around the and Caroline), and Sue Hunt (sister-in-law) Cod Cove Inn 31 Ocean Pursuits 15 guns. That was an exciting thing, but I don't and her family. Jim and Ann raised their Custom Composite 17 Otis Enterprises 9 want to do it again. When things were finally family in Holden and Harvard, Massachu- Custom Float Services 31 Owl's Head Transp. Museum 8 quieted down, we were sent to a tanker that setts and in Contoocook, New Hampshire. Dark Harbor Boat Yard 13 Paul Luke, Inc. 20 was broke in half. The bow was gone. The Summers were spent on Southport, where Derecktor Robinhood 16 Penobscot Marine Museum 8/20 Portland Yacht Services 3 after half was still afloat and all the men the children and grandchildren found sum- Downeast Lobstermen's Assc 13 Dysart's Great Harbor 2 R. E. Thomas 14 we took them off. Because it was a hazard Edgecomb Boat Works 15 Richard Stanley Custom Boats 16 to navigation we threw a few rounds into Epifanes 15 Rockport Marine 16 her and she went down. That was quite an Eric Dow Boatshop 13 Rollins Boat Shop 28 experience. I had a great time. Farrin’s Boat Shop 17 Royal River Boat Yard 3/28 Back to boatbuilders, Jim said, “There Finestkind Boat Yard 2/25 Rumery's Boatyard 17 was a guy over where Carousel Marina is Front Street Shipyard 5 SW Boatworks 16/29 now, up where the condos are, what we H&H Marine 17 Samoset Boatworks 16 called the potato chip factory. I was a teen- Hallett Sails 14 Seal Cove Boat Yard 6 Smithwick & Mariners 3 ager and there was a guy named Danny Va- Hamilton Marine 32 Hansen Marine 7 Southport Marine 3 more, and he was building the first fiberglass Harding's Book Shop 29 Spartan Marine 29 boats I ever saw. They were small runabouts, Hutchinson Composites 2 Webhannet River Bait 31 say about 14 feet. Not very good-looking Infab 28 West Marine Transport 5 boats.” Johanson Boatworks 11/28 York's Marine 19 During my visit I learned a couple of his Page 24. MAINE COASTAL NEWS December 2018

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28 July town, paying from $8 to $25 per thousand weather in the dry-house, by means of a Holden, stands on the highest point of land Page 474. for them. Monday he shipped a carload of circulation of hot or cold air, they are fried on the north side of the harbor. The new EASTERN INDUSTRIES. 25,000 to Hampden, near Bangor, where in oil. This oil is generally cotton-seed or hotel is a fine structure three stories high An idea of the amount of navigation there is a large cooper shop, 14 men being some cheaper kind. Then they are packed in and commands many of the finest views in upon the Kennebec at the present time may employed making fish barrels. The hoops cans by the girls, the smaller fish being put the section. We bespeak for it a generous be gathered from the following interesting which Mr. Whitehouse deals in are mostly up in oil and the larger in French mustard patronage. account, taken one day recently while sailing ash, 70,000 being eight feet long; a few are or in spices. The oil used in packing ought * * * * * up the river: 85 three-masted schooners, birch, 10 feet in length for hay hoops, and the to be pure olive, but it is found impossible The new hotel and cottage at Sea Wall, 1 four-masted schooner, 37 two-masted remainder 14 foot ash for sugar hogsheads. to use it, being so expensive and the price Southwest Harbor, erected and owned by D. schooners and 12 steamers; there are also 11 Most of the long hoops go to Cuba. Portland of sardines so low. Cotton-seed, peanut and S. Mooney, has become a general favorite, vessels building at Bath. This speaks well for is quite a hoop market, many thousands other kinds of oil are used in packing. After as expected. The locality is about three miles business on the river. [Kennebec Journal] being sold there every year, several dealers being packed in the cans, the covers are put south from Southwest Harbor. A new road is * * * * * being engaged in the hoop business exclu- on and sealed. Then they are put into a bath now being made from this hotel around the Messrs. C. A. Dyer & Company, at their sively. The hoop poles of black ash are cut in of boiling water and kept there two hours, shoreline to Bass Harbor, which will afford packing house on Custom House wharf, the swamps in the late fall or early winter and the water being kept boiling. At the end of a charming driveway. Portland, are doing a rushing business. One are hauled to the shops on the first snows and that time they are taken out and a small hole * * * * * day recently they canned 135 barrels of there made up. A pole will make more or less tapped in each can, to let the hot or expanded SUMMER BOARDING HOUSES AT mackerel. They employ 125 hands at this hoops according to its size, one an inch in air escape, and immediately closed. The DEER ISLE. — At North Deer Isle, and on factory alone. They are the largest canners diameter at the small end will make but two can then is air tight, and will keep good for the road leading thence to Northwest Harbor of mackerel in the country. Besides all their hoops, while many poles are cut six inches years in any climate. They are then cleaned, are several fine farm houses which have been sailing vessels they have two steamers en- through, making from 12 to 18 hoops apiece. packed in cases, and shipped to New York fitted up to receive summer boarders. G. H. gaged in catching mackerel. The firm have The poles cost from half a cent to a cent and or the west. The sardine industry has made Holden is full and will enlarge after haying orders for their canned mackerel much faster a half apiece on the stump. This is really an good time in this remote locality (Eastport by the addition of about 20 rooms, James than they can fill them. industry of quite respectable dimensions and and vicinity.) Any smart boy or girl, with H. Parker is well fitted up for the business, gives employment to many men during the steady work, can earn from $5 to $8 per and early next season William H. Reed, of Page 475. winter season who otherwise would be out week. The sealers make from $10 to $20 a Portland, will erect a fine summer boarding A Provincial exchange remarks that it of work. week. house on the vacant lot adjoining him on is astonishing how the sardine and lobster * * * * * the north. In the same neighborhood A. R. canning factories in Eastport have woke up FISH AND GAME. — Close time for Page 476. Haskell has a fine residence for boarders, that little town. These industries pay out in salmon commenced on the 15th. They may, RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP NOTES. which is well known by the sign of the eagle. wages from $1,500 to $1,800 a week and however, be taken with the rod and line until The new line of steamers to Yarmouth, He runs a free coach from the boat landings employ chiefly girls from 12 to 16 years. September 15; that is, if you can induce them Nova Scotia, is rapidly gaining public favor, to his house. Over fifty persons are now The amount of money they put in circulation to rise to the fly. Bass fishing at Pushaw is and its business, particularly from Boston, sojourning on Deer Isle from Washington, among the fishermen is also very large, the excellent this season. — Q. A. Atwood of constantly increasing. DC. payments being invariably cash. Between New York, and Leonard Dunkley, Jr., of * * * * * * * * * * the Campobello hotels and the sardine Brooklyn, New York, during a fishing trip The steamer STATE OF MAINE made The Goose Rocks House, situated fishery the farmers who till the soil and the of eight days at Little Kennebago, took a trial trip down Portland harbor on Monday about midway between Biddeford Pool and sailors who plow the water are prospering from 800 to 900 trout; all taken with flies. afternoon. The steamer made a splendid Kennebunkport, is one of the pleasantest beyond all precedent. They sent 100 of them home, estimated 30 appearance and gave thorough satisfaction. and most attractive resorts on the Atlantic * * * * * pounds total. Largest trout taken weighed * * * * * coast. It is only ten miles from the city of The Hallowell Granite Company has 3¾ pounds as taken from the water. E. H. The new steamer STATE OF MAINE Biddeford, and is reached by coaches which nearly completed the statue representing Gilman, of Saco, with a party of three, will go on her route between Boston, connect with every through train at the latter “Law” for the Pilgrims’ monument. It rep- fishing on Kennebago Lake, with Charles Portland and St. John August 1st. The FAL- place. The house is new and thoroughly resents a female figure, seated in a chair, Dustin for guide, were out three days and MOUTH will then be taken off and remain furnished, and is kept in a first class manner with the hand resting on books, and a wreath caught 250 nice trout, 50 of which weighed in Portland as a spare boat. by Mr. Arthur S. Hamilton, its genial pro- of flowers encircling the head. The figure 24 pounds. The largest one taken by Mr. * * * * * prietor, assisted by Mr. J. Frank Hill, one of weighs twenty-one tons, and was hewn from Gilman weighed 3¾ pounds after having A private party of Bangor excursionists the most popular and obliging of clerks. The a block of granite weighing one hundred been kept in a pool three days. This was visited Cape Rosier on Wednesday last on locality possesses every possible facility for and ten tons, the design and finish being by pronounced by guides to be the largest trout the beautiful little steamer FLORENCE, fishing, gunning, boating, etc., and we speak a New York sculptor. A bas-relief of marble taken from Kennebago Lake this season. owned by the Bangor and Bar Harbor Steam- from experience when we state that a more has also been finished, representing the cab- Mr. Corliss, an old gentleman 75 years of boat Company. At the Cape an inspection delightful spot in which to spend the summer in of the Mayflower, with figures grouped, age, residing at Wade Plantation, Aroostook was made of the works of the Rosier Mining months is not to be found among eastern and shows the signing of the articles of county, recently hunted down and shot a Company and the party are under obliga- summer resorts. agreement relative to a future government. bear in Perham, whose skin measured 7½ tions for the many courtesies extended by the * * * * * The statues are to be exhibited at the Me- feet from snout to tail, 6½ feet across the officials connected with the mine. Landings The Belfast Age says that a project is chanics’ Fair, Boston, in the fall. shoulders and hips, and 5½ feet across were made at Fort Point, Castine and Little on foot to build a summer hotel in that city. * * * * * the narrowest part, and whose carcass was Deer Isle, and the return trip was made The purpose is to build it on the grounds of Ancient Kennebeckers have a saying larger than a good sized two year old heifer. during the evening. All were enthusiastic in the Crosby mansion, one of the most eligible that no man is worthy to be reckoned of their Mr. Corliss has hunted bears ever since he their praise of the little steamer, which they places in the city. Several of the leading men number until he has swallowed a herring, tail was seventeen years of age, and has killed found to be staunch, fast and comfortable and wealthy citizens are taking hold of it in foremost. Lewiston and Auburn consume over a hundred. Dr. Emery, of Biddeford, in all its appointments and conveniences, earnest, one of whom has engaged to run it about 100,000 Kennebec smoked herring, caught a fine tautog, weighing 10½ pounds, while her commander, Captain Arey, not the first year at least, if built. From $10,000 every year; but the proportion of them at Fortune’s Rocks on Monday inst. This is only handled the boat in a first-class manner, to $15,00 is already pledged there, and swallowed in the traditional way is probably a rare fish east of Cape Cod. The Governor but spared no pains to add to the pleasures encouragement is given abroad for more or small. Bowdoinham is the head and centre of General of Canada and her Royal Highness of the trip and enhance the comforts of the less subscription to the stock. The managers the herring fishery. Carloads upon carloads recently caught a large number of very fine excursionists. The FLORENCE should not of the Maine Central railroad are giving the are taken out of the river at that place in May fish in the Casapediac River. In ten days the be allowed to remain idle a single day during project warm encouragement, they being and June. Three or four men make a business distinguished party took seventy-six salmon the excursion season; nor would she, if the desirous of including Belfast in their list of of teaming herring from Bowdoinham to weighing from twenty-six to thirty-three delights of a day spent aboard this delightful summer resorts, and propose, in case the Lewiston and Auburn. One man has brought pounds each. little craft, down the bay, were fully appreci- hotel is built, to put on a night train from in 30,000 of the fish, this season. He came in ated, as they only can be after a trial trip. All Boston and thus establish a line by rail and with the last load Thursday morning, having Page 475-476. who have ever been once are most anxious steamer to Mount Desert. This enterprise cleaned out every smokehouse and taken The sardine trade in eastern Maine has to go again, and those who have never been has long been talked about, and it does seem the final herring. The fishery stopped on the the last few years grown very rapidly. From should take the advice of those who know now that it is assuming practicable shape. 25th of June. Herring are now wholesaled at 1876 until the present time the number of what they are talking about, and go “Down Summer tourists give Belfast the praise eighty-five cents a hundred. The catch was factories has increased from one to about River on the FLORENCE.” of being one of the most delightful places small this year. A few fish only, were taken twenty-five, of which seventeen or eighteen for summer resort on the coast of Maine, out of the seines, at a time, instead of the are in Eastport. The fish are hoisted from the HOTELS AND SUMMER RESORTS. and predict there would be a large influx of cartloads captured in some years. [Lewiston boats on to the wharf, where they are spread All the hotels at Southwest Harbor are summer tourists here, if suitable accommo- Journal] on long tables. There the heads and tails are having a good run of visitors this season. dations were provided. The enterprise is in * * * * * cut off by the “cutters,” after which they are * * * * * excellent hands and the citizens, one and all, The Kennebec Journal says a large busi- put into pickle for about an hour. Then they H. A. Allan, Boston Agent of the Al- should give it encouragement. ness is carried on in that vicinity, during the are taken out, washed in clean water, and laid lan Steamship Line, is at the Old Orchard winter and spring, in the manufacture of bar- on flakes to dry, it being found impossible House. Page 477. rel hoops. During the past winter and spring to fry them when wet, the fish all breaking * * * * * Patents issued to Maine inventors under Mr. E. S. Whitehouse of Palermo alone has up. After being dried, which on sunny days The new Hotel Dirigo, at Southwest date of July 18, 1882 reported for us by Wil- bought 100,000 hoops in the vicinity of that is done out of doors, and in damp or wet Harbor, owned and managed by C. M. liam Franklin Seavey, Solicitor of Patents December 2018 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 25.

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Bangor: Walter R. Close and Assgr., Bangor, fattening food. The demand at present is Page 490. of about 500 tons for Portland and Cape Fog signal. principally from English restaurant keepers, RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP NOTES. Elizabeth parties. She will be commanded especially in the city of London. The present The International Steamship Company by Captain A. J. York, now in the schooner 4 August mode of curing is simple, that of allowing the and the Portland Steam Packet Company EDWARD WAIT. She is to be a centerboard Page 487. fish to remain in salt for a short time and then have both declared dividends of six per cent. vessel and will be the first one of that kind CAPTAIN CLEMENT P. BLETHEN, laid out in the sun to dry. It may be said that * * * * * built there for a number of years. a prominent merchant and capitalist, and a caplin preserved in this way are sun cooked. Hon. John Boyd of St. John, New native of Phippsburg in this State, died in We can vouch for this, as they formed a Brunswick, has been appointed to fill the Page 492. California recently, aged about 50 years. delicious morsel with a biscuit and coffee vacancy in the board of directors of the Inter- FISH AND GAME. — Trout and black Captain Blethen was a ship carpenter by at breakfast daily for three weeks on our national Steamship Company, occasioned flies are biting gloriously at Rangeley Lakes trade, and was for a long time in the employ second trip to Labrador. One pail full for 25 by the death of A. McL. Seely of the same this season. Moses Dyer, while hauling in of Donald McKay, at East Boston, where he cents, served to give a relish to the morning city. seine, recently at Quohang Bay, discovered aided in the construction of the ship GREAT meal during the latter time. In these times, * * * * * a fish, upon the head of which a flat rubber REPUBLIC. He moved to San Francisco when all kinds of human food are dear, it The new steamer STATE OF MAINE ring had been placed, probably last season. in 1860, and later took up his residence in is necessary that some attention should be of the International line made her trial trip The flesh had grown around the ring, causing Shanghai, China, where he built and oper- directed to neglected material which could a few days since. She is the largest steamer a queer looking fish. — Bears and wolves ated a dry dock and did extensive work as be converted into good, strengthening, eas- east of Long Island Sound, and was built are reported as becoming very plenty in a government contractor. He also built a ily digested food for mankind. Now that we by Goss, Sawyer and Packard of Bath. The Bingham, Somerset County. steamer and ran her along the China coast have made important remarks regarding the Portland Company put in the machinery, and * * * * * for several years, in the capacity of captain. above species of marine food fishes, we wish the decoration is from designs by Charles The barkentine WOLVERTON now While in Shanghai he held many important to bring before our readers two species of I. Schumacher. She is splendidly furnished building at Yarmouth, by Messrs. Hutchins public offices, such as Chief Engineer of the freshwater fishes, which, by some persons, throughout, and on the hurricane deck are & Stubbs, is fast nearing completion, and Fire Department, President of the Temper- are considered excellent human food, when eight metallic lifeboats, and two Raymond will be one of the best vessels ever built in ance Union Society, etc. About a year since properly cooked. The common catfish and liferafts. Her engines worked splendidly, that vicinity. The excellence of her materials he returned to San Francisco and became large channel catfish are found throughout and she moved through the waters very and workmanship, and the beauty of her identified with prominent mining interests in the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec, the smoothly. She will doubtless be the fastest model is attracting much attention. The own- Arizona, in which business he was engaged former common throughout Ontario and steamer in these waters. She will run be- ers are Messrs. W. S. Jordan & Company, of at the time of his death. Captain Blethen was the latter uncommon in Quebec. It seems tween Boston, Portland, Eastport and St. Portland; she will be commanded by Captain twice married, and leaves a wife and eight that delicate and refined people have a prej- John. James Dyer of Harpswell, formerly master children residing at Santa Rosa. udice against eating these fishes, but we can of schooner ARIADNE. Her dimensions are dispel such notions from the fact that some HOTELS AND SUMMER RESORTS. as follows: length of keel, 140 feet, breadth Page 489. scientists have classed them the genus Sal- A party of Penobscot Indians have of beam 34 feet, depth of hold 17 feet. She CANADIAN FOOD FISHES. — NE- monidae. The catfish being forms occurring pitched eight tents near Hamor’s wharf, Bar will register about 650 tons; the frame is GLECTED SPECIES. on this continent, approaching the latter by Harbor. oak, hackmatack and hard wood; planking, [Canadian Sportsman and Naturalist] having the lateral and posterior portions of ceiling and deck frame hard pine. She has Large quantities of preserved fish their bodies resembling salmon. They have Page 491. Manson’s patent iron windlass and iron commonly called sardines are sent to this the adipose fin, the tail portion certainly EASTERN INDUSTRIES. hanging knees. She reflects great credit upon Dominion from Europe. The Canadian con- resembles some species of Salmonidae. The barkentine MARY JENNESS is the builders and compares favorably with sumption of the article must be enormous, With regard to our own experience, we have loading ice in this port for Aspinwall. any vessels ever constructed in that district. while the purchasers are ignorant of what cooked catfish in various ways, but the per- * * * * * they are buying, and we may as well tell fect mode of obtaining the flavor of the com- E. Dyer, of Milbridge, launched from NUGGETS. them that in many cases they are not eating mon catfish is to pot them; they constitute his yard the 28th ult., a centreboard schooner Notice is given by the Lighthouse Board the genuine sardine, but the posterior portion the best freshwater fish on this continent for of 136 tons. that on or about August 1st, a whistling sig- of herring (Clupea.) Years back there was a potting, and their flavor is not far removed * * * * * nal buoy will be moored near Kitts Rock, possibility of obtaining the true sardine, but from salmon. We rely therefore on the gist of The steamer EVERETT of Castine ar- Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in place of today few fish of the kind are packed for our our remarks being looked into; that we may rived in port yesterday and cleared the same the second class red can buoy now there. market. We have to take an inferior article see the sardine of the Lower St. Lawrence day with a cargo of box shooks from James The buoy will be painted red with the letter — a fish densely covered with large scales put up in genuine olive oil; the pretty caplin Walker & Company. P in white on the side. It is surmounted by a and with only a remote flavor of the sardine. sold by our grocers, as sun-cooked fish; and * * * * * whistle operated by a motion of the sea, and We know of a better fish in the Gulf of St. the catfishes of our freshwaters potted in The schooner HERALD has arrived in giving blasts at short intervals. Lawrence, occurring abundantly during the such style that the strong prejudice formerly port from New York with a cargo of 110 tons months of May, June and July, as far up the held against them may be forever removed. of Spanish iron ore bound for the Katahdin 11 August river as Bale Mille Vaches and Bic. The ha- [Commenting upon the above, the St. Iron Works. Page 506. bitants take them in large quantities, which John Daily Sun says: The Sportsman and * * * * * EASTERN INDUSTRIES. they generally salt in tinnets for the Quebec naturalist appears to be under the impres- A Portland paper states that 2,000 bales The proprietors of the Tuthil Oil Works market, but unfortunately this Canadian sar- sion that no Canadian fish are utilized as of rags from Calcutta, consigned to the Cum- at North Bristol are running the factory on dine is extremely delicate and the primitive sardines. The article quoted speaks of a berland Paper Mills, are arriving via the New dogfish. mode of preserving makes the fish too salt; small fish, now caught in the St. Lawrence, York boats. * * * * * they are therefore not generally relished. which might be passe off for the “sardine,” * * * * * Four thousand barrels of live lobster If, however, the sardine of the St Lawrence and prove as palatable as the article which Goss, Sawyer & Packard, of Bath, will valued at $16,000, have been shipped this could be put up in oil in fair-sized tins, there is sent from France or sunny Italy under that build at once a schooner in their new south season from Eastport to Boston. is reason to think it would be equal, possibly name. The “sardine” of Europe is said to be end yard, and probably an auxiliary steamer * * * * * superior to the supposed Italian fish sent to a herring, and the sportsman and naturalist for the West India trade. The Hallowell Granite Company fur- us by the name of Sardines a la huile. We thinks that the Americans are being imposed * * * * * nish the columns and cornices of red pol- have an advantage size of claiming this fish upon by having this inferior fish foisted upon William Rogers, of Bath, has launched ished Jonesboro granite, to be used in the as local to our marine fauna — that is to us. If this is true, it is gratifying to know that a schooner of 470 tons, named the MARTIN front of the new Adams House in Boston. say, they occur in great schools in the Lower we are returning Europe the compliment. VAN BUREN CHASE. She is owned by * * * * * St. Lawrence, while they are scarcely ever In the Passamaquoddy Bay of the Province James B. Drake and others. Captain Fred L. Snow & Townsend burned 175,000 seen in the saltwaters bordering the United hundreds of tons of small herring are caught Blair commands her. brick at their yard, situated on the Harpswell States. This is an advantage. Doubtless the by the fishermen, sold to “the Yankees” at * * * * * road, Brunswick, last week, and across the presence of this delicate fish in the Gulf is to Eastport, Maine, and there turned into first A fine schooner of 104 tons burden was way they have another kiln to burn which a great extent the cause for the appearance of class “sardines”. The little tin boxes in which launched at Cherryfield, from Campbell’s contains 200,000. numbers of whales and seals in these waters these delicate fish are sent to Europe are shipyard, July 31. The new vessel is named * * * * * during the summer. Here then is plenty of excellent imitations of the French boxes, HATTIE GODFREY and is to be command- The Jewell Granite Company are con- material to open a new industry, which in even to the French lettering, and we have ed by Captain Albert Strout, recently of the ducting active operations at their Lincoln our opinion would be remunerative, if a few no doubt that in France and England, as well schooner IDA of that port. quarry. They have secured a contract to energetic men take it to hand. We are aston- as in the United States, our Passamaquoddy * * * * * furnish window caps and sills for the pulp ished that this pretty, delicate fish has been herring are relished as a superior kind of Goss & Sawyer, the Bath shipbuilders, mill now building at West Great Works. so long neglected, and the subject is now “sardines.” Our New Brunswick fishermen have recently purchased additional land, * * * * * brought before the Canadian public for the have realized many thousands of dollars upon which the Maine Central Railroad will J. F. & Albion Gray, of Sedgwick, have first time, to show that there are disregarded by this “sardine” enterprise in the past few build a track to their lower yard. The firm started a new industry in that town — that though available industries in the Dominion. years, while it has created a “hum” in East- also intends to build a large machine shop, of breaking paving, which promises to be a There is another little fish, also extreme- port, where thousands of young people have and within a year or two will probably be success. They have been working but a short ly prolific in the same water — e. e., the ca- been employed in the “sardine factories.”] building ships. time and have made about 20,000 blocks. plin. When the fish is properly cured — and * * * * * * * * * * of late the Gulf fishermen have paid some at- Master Russell, of East Deering, has Schooner WILLIAM L. WALKER, tention in curing them — it forms a healthy, contracted to build a three-masted schooner Captain Kelsey, sailed from Russell & Page 26. MAINE COASTAL NEWS December 2018 HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Maine Industrial Journal - 1882

Company’s Richmond ice house Saturday, granite is superb in quality and well located Ice shipments for the past week has north of San Francisco, had its mouth en- having on board 1,046 tons of ice, said to be to run down by rail to furnish the fine gran- been nine cargoes. One barkentine and eight tirely closed by the waves during a storm. the largest cargo of ice by 100 tons that has ite wanted in building up our water power schooners. 3,500 tons aggregate capacity. The colony of salmon made their yearly been shipped from Richmond. district. One of these cargoes went to Aspinwall, migration from the deep waters toward the * * * * * Central America, one to Jacksonville, Flor- mouth of the river, and many of them raced Steam tug POPHAM, Colby, is engaged Page 507-508. ida, and seven to New York. Several cargoes through the surf, and landed high and dry in towing rafts of logs from Hallowell to A Vinalhaven correspondent of an are now loading. on the sand that walled them out from their Wiscasset. She towed yesterday a raft of exchange writes: Business is good on the native river. 1,100 from Hallowell to Wiscasset in some- island, and everybody can get all the work 18 August The migration of the salmon into some thing short of a day. She towed last week, they can do at good wages. The leading Page 520-521. of the Pacific rivers is a frenzied advance over the same route 4,000 logs laying by two interest is the Bodwell Granite Company, HOW FISH FIND THEIR over shoals, rapids and cascades, far into nights. of Vinalhaven, which employs about 300 OWN RIVERS. thin streams and brooks, where they arrive * * * * * men. Many splendid and immense polished The long held and only recently reject- battered and weary, to accomplish their C. J. Hall, of Belfast, is making a very pillars nearly four feet in diameter, and other ed theory, that the shoals of fishes move exhaustive reproductive labors, and drop handsome monument to be erected in mem- beautiful stones are being got out for a large in a vast mass along the coast, sending off back, the sport of the current, dead and dying ory of the late Dr. Manter, of Winterport. It public building in Chicago. Stone is also detachments into each river as they passed toward the sea. [Harper’s Magazine] is of red granite on a gray granite base and being quarried for Washington’s monument. its mouth, is to be attributed to John Gilpin stands fifteen feet in height. It is all polished The fishing business has been good, thus and some other authors, who have written Page 521. and when completed will be a very hand- far, this season, and on this and the north flowingly on the subject. The recent careful EASTERN INDUSTRIES. some piece of workmanship. island about 300 persons are employed in investigations of naturalists, indicate that Haggett & Company are stretching the it. Mackerel canning is getting to be an the fishes, entering the rivers and bodies keel of a schooner of 400 tons or more at Page 507. industry. While people in other places have of freshwater from the sea, do not have an their yard in Newcastle. From all quarters come reports of a great been sweltering in extreme heat, the weath- extended range in the ocean, and that each * * * * * scarcity of codfish in their usual haunts. er, here has been cool and comfortable, the river’s colony remains, after returning, in the William Beazley & Company, have laid A number of the Georges fleet, recently thermometer having scarcely risen above deep waters opposite their river. the keel for a three-masted schooner at their returned, report a catch of 4,000 to 7,000 80 degrees. The three hotels have been well The motive for the movement of these shipyards in Bucksport. pounds each, and the average of the fares patronized with summer tourists, who come shoals of such fishes, or rather how it is in- * * * * * received the past week has been only about here to obtain good board at fair prices. A cited, has scarcely been explained. The life The steam schooner which Packard is 11,000 pounds. The Grand Bank fleet is large fish building has recently been drawn of the fishes has always been a mystery. It building in the old Moses shipyard, Bath, is beginning to arrive with broken fares. The the whole length of Main Street, complete- is not a search for food, as they do not eat being rapidly pushed and is already half in receipts from the Western Bank are nominal, ly blocking it for several days. A pontoon while in freshwater; the opening of hundreds frame. She has a 177-foot keel. and all along the Maine and Nova Scotia bridge and a back street were constructed, of stomachs will fail to find food present. * * * * * coasts codfish are reported scarce. The re- temporarily to accommodate the public. It is an easy disposal of the question as to The Boothbay dogfish factories con- ceipts at Gloucester last month were only a how each colony recognizes its native river, tinue to work successfully, and the industry little over half as large as in July last year. Page 508. to say that “it is instinctive.” So it is, also, looks like a permanent one. The factory at The other New England fishing ports have HOTELS AND SUMMER RESORTS. when the butcher’s horse recognizes the fa- Muscongus is running night and day. done but little in this line, and in Halifax the The new Tyn-y-coed pier now building miliar gates; but we have some evidence as * * * * * receipts do not keep up with the demand, and at Campobello will be 600 feet long. It is to what senses he uses. The fishes, probably, Dogfish are very plenty and more than there is not a quintal in the market. expected to be completed this week. prompted by functional disturbance, from twenty thousand were taken at the two fac- * * * * * * * * * * the tumid ovaries and spermaries, are incited tories in South Bristol last week. Some of FISH AND GAME. — The sardine The frame for Fred G. Benner’s hotel at to movement. the fishermen have recently been making as factories are about all lying idle, waiting for Northport, near the campground, is now up The courses of the sea, unmarked as high as $5 per day. the fish to strike in. The fish are unusually and work is being pushed. It will be two sto- they are, are within each colony’s limit, their * * * * * scarce for this season of the year, not enough ries with basement and Lutheran windows habitual pathways. An unerring capacity in The Bulletin says the Sullivan granite having been taken during the past six weeks in roof, making it virtually four stories in the fish for finding its own river may be more quarries are doing a large business, judging to run on factory steadily. The Government height, and there will be a large ell. that that which guides the hermit crab to the from the number of vessels that are con- is now building in Delaware a fine new shell of the nautica. The latter goes to hide stantly leaving this port loaded with paving iron steamship for the special use of the RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP NOTES. its sensitive body, with an apparent nervous blocks and other granite. Fish Commission. It looks now as though The Portland Company has just fin- trepidation at its unprotected condition. The * * * * * the mackerel catch in Belfast bay will be a ished two fine observation cars for the Old former, with an uneasiness of body from The Bodwell Granite Company at failure, as the fish are exceedingly scarce. Orchard Beach railroad. the functional changes it is undergoing, is Vinalhaven are getting out some splendid Fishermen say that the mackerel food is all * * * * * impelled to activity. The transmitted habit of polished stone for a magnificent Chicago offshore and it is predicted that the fish will The new steamer STATE OF MAINE of ascending the stream is, as it were, blended edifice; also granite for the Washington take an early departure this fall. The bay is the International Steamship Line made her and alloyed with the substance of the nerves, monument, and a large amount of paving said to be full of young herring. The Senate first trip from Portland to Eastport in about and aroused by its condition, carries it, with- for New York. has directed the appointment of a committee fourteen hours. out conscious purpose, into the river of its * * * * * of five to act in conjunction with the fish * * * * * progenitors and its own. The impulses of the At Camden, Captain F. G. Kelley, of commission, to consider the question of A fast and powerful steamer to run daily fish are only in a slightly more complicated Dennisport, and U. B. Fish, of West Dennis, the alleged injury to food fisheries of the making round trips between Augusta and series than those of the crab. That it should be have contracted to have built a three-masted seining of fish for oil and fertilizers. This is Boothbay, will be put on next summer by the instinct for a specific stream, established schooner of 1,100 tons, to be commanded by a question of special interest to our Maine the Delta Collins Company. through inheritance of many generations, is Captain Kelley. The vessel will be complet- fishermen, and the increasing scarcity of * * * * * easier to understand than that it is a sort of ed by November 1, and will cost $40,000. fish, makes it a question of vital interest to The Portland Company has just finished memory of the place of its immature life, as the people at large. a locomotive for the Maine Central railroad. the theory of fish culture makes it, and as Page 522. * * * * * The Portland & Ogdensburg road, however, observation seems to sustain. Captain Goss is at the head of a new I. A. Crockett & Company have re- have purchased it from the Maine Central. In the waters of the Delaware, where enterprise which may do a great deal for the cently removed their granite works to land there were no salmon originally, the young business interest of Bath. It is the forming bordering on Maine street opposite the Page 509. salmon placed in Bushkill creek, returned of a company with a capital of $100,000 in Maine Central Railroad depot. In their new NUGGETS. after five years, and were taken, not only in which each subscriber is asked to place no location they have plenty of room and are The oldest American vessel in the car- the Delaware river, but the larger number in more than $5000, to build wooden and iron finely fitted up for business, having erected rying trade is a bark the AMETHYST now the Bushkill creek. It is not essential that all steamers and marine engines. a new polishing building, blacksmith shop in San Francisco harbor. She was launched the fishes should have this impelling influ- * * * * * and shed. They have three polishing ma- in 1822. ence, whatever it may be, as like gregarious Schooner ABRAHAM RICHARD- chines now running, one of which is a new * * * * * mammals and the birds they flock together, SON of Belfast, loaded last week at Frank- machine called the “Nillson,” invented by C. So extensive are the shipbuilding in- following the leadership of whichever for fort with dressed stone for New York. The J. Hall of Belfast, with the working qualities terest of Bath that in its transactions with the time takes it. The idea is suggested that stone is for a church in New York and the of which they are much pleased. They have Baring Brothers, it is said to stand third only the senses may be the guiding agent, that a workmen are waiting for the cargo. The now granite in their yards from Lincoln, Oak in comparison with other American cities, fish goes nosing along the coast, or tasting captain has orders in case of foggy weather, Hill, Belfast, Hallowell, Frankfort, Lincoln- ranking above Boston and Baltimore. the streams, until it recognizes its own. The if he is west of Portland to telegraph and a ville, Vinalhaven and the red granites from * * * * * convexity of the cornea must afford the tug will be sent to tow him to New York. Red Beach, Calais, Otter Creek, Mount The new river and harbor bill makes fishes a very limited range of vision. The * * * * * Desert and Jonesport. Mr. Crockett owns the following appropriations for Maine: For supposed dullness of the sense of smell and FISH AND GAME. — Mackerel are a half interest in the property of the Jewell improving the harbor of Portland, $35,000; taste in fishes might alone dispose of the more plentiful in Belfast bay, but they will Granite Company at Lincoln who have the harbor of Richmond, $10,000; harbor of suggestion that these are employed. not take the hook. Fair catches are made contract for furnishing the granite required Rockland, $40,000; improving Cathance The following occurrence, however, now and then. Horse mackerel are plentiful. in the new fibre mill now building at West river, $5,000; Royal river, $10,000. would seem to decide to the contrary. The The great whale which was washed ashore Great Works. The character of the Lincoln * * * * * Russian river, emptying into the Pacific, at Fortune’s Rock’s seems to have become December 2018 MAINE COASTAL NEWS Page 27. HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Maine Industry Journal - 1882 an unfailing source of amusement to the spring has severely affected the catch of 25 August of the State limits the packing from April people of that vicinity. They ignite the oily codfish. Prices, however, of both are better Page 534. 1st to July 31st, as a protection both in the portion of the whale and it burns with a great than for some years past, and it is thought, on Hon. Edward Cushing, the popular growth and supply — there being no danger blaze. Cape Breton has had the best salmon the whole, that the result of the year’s work manager of the Portland, Bangor & Machias of extermination as effectually as is now fishing known for years. Two men killed will be more remunerative to the fishermen Steamship Company, has been in the city reported is threatening the salmon in the 80 salmon, and three others caught 60 in a than of late years. this week looking after the interests of this rivers of Oregon. short fishing tour. Two eagles were shot at company. Another great drain upon the lobster is Salmon river, Colchester County, Nova Sco- HOTELS AND SUMMER RESORTS. the “wet smack,” having wells constructed tia, on Wednesday, which measured 6 feet 6 Dr. L. J. Crooker has purchased the Page 537. filled with seawater. The best and largest inches and 6 feet 2 inches, and weighed 25 whole of Ocean Point near the mouth of the THE LOBSTER CANNING lobsters are taken alive to the markets of pounds and 8 pound respectively. Glouces- Kennebec, eighty-five acres, and, in con- BUSINESS. New York and Boston, leaving but the ter fishermen report a streak of white water nection with Boston capitalists, intends to The Portland correspondent of the smaller fish for the use of the packer, which sixty miles long and thirty wide off Monhe- make it a noted summer resort. The plans are “Trade,” of Baltimore, furnishes that paper with competition in securing a supply often gan. Line of separation between the white already drawn for a large hotel to be erected the following interesting letter in relation to causes the cost of manufacture to exceed the and blue water perfect. The white water next season. the lobster canning business: price realized. semi-transparent. Mackerel look red in it The State of Maine has long been recog- A great product of the Lower Provinces and are peculiarly affected, rushing about Page 524. nized as producing the finest of sweet corn, is principally exported. A duty of 18 cents in a frantic fashion. Bears have been killing RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP NOTES. in flavor and sweetness unrivaled, derived per dozen on tin cans, the fish being free, sheep in the vicinity of Dennysville. The International Steamship Company, from the properties of its soil. The waters tends to check many being sent to the United and Portland Steam Packet Company, as of the Atlantic, either in the great gulfs or States. An improvement in the demand and Page 522-523. before stated, have declared a six percent the innumerable inlets and bays along our price is noted in the English market, owing Mr. E. H. Chase, the well-known fish dividend. coasts, contribute an unfailing supply to the perhaps to the advance in salmon. packer on Long wharf, Portland, has just fisheries that furnish nearly the entire coun- Quotations for this market are $1.40 a completed his new packing house on the NUGGETS. try, as well as extensive export trade. In this $1.50 for 1-pound tins; $2.40 a $2.50 for wharf, which is admirably adapted to all the On July 31, there were 22 large vessels letter we will refer only to the lobster. 2-pound tins; $1.05 a $1.15 for Halifax requirements of the business. The Press says with a tonnage of 31,682 tons, loading wheat This crustacean — truly a delicacy, and delivery, and $1.15 a $1.25 in bond, Port- the building is two stories in height, and, on in San Francisco, for European ports. Three of the order decapods and the genus homarus land or Boston. The purchaser is entitled to the ground floor, Mr. Chase has the finest of the above were State of Maine ships. Americanus — is found native only in quan- 15½ ounces of meat and ½ ounce of sauce office of any one engaged in the trade in * * * * * tities sufficient for packing along the line of in 1 pound tins. Care should be taken with Portland. It is 25 x 9 feet in size, is finished The navigation of Penobscot bay in fog- coast extending from Portland, east to the all brands offered to the trade to ascertain in chestnut and well lighted. Off from it is gy weather has been rendered much easier southern and northern coasts of Nova Scotia whether the quantity of meat is lessened and a private office, handsomely carpeted, and and safer by the mooring of an automatic and adjacent islands; also on the shores of the weight made up with water. If the latter, provided with all the modern conveniences. bell buoy about 150 feet southwest by south New Brunswick to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. such goods are worthless for export — the Adjoining these offices is the packing room from the spindle on Mark Island. The spar It may be safe to say that, along this constant motion of the voyage dissolving the 100 x 50 feet in size, and about 12 feet high. buoy at that point has been removed. great extent of shoreline, it will average fish into what might be termed lobster soup. Here the firm pack, on average days, 200 * * * * * a lobster factory for every twenty miles. barrels of mackerel, but when rushed the Dr. W. H. True, Portland, in digging The Dominion Government entertained or Page 538. amount rises to 500 barrels. Ample scuttles a well upon his premises at the corner of adopted a law defining a specified distance, EASTERN INDUSTRIES. are provided in the floor to carry off the Congress and Smith streets, has found, in a right and left, to each factory, within which Last week there were shipped 1748 refuse pickle and floor washings. The main bed of blue clay, 9 feet below the surface, limit no other can encroach. casks of lime from Camden. floor when occupied holds 2,000 barrels of a great variety of deep sea shells, including Aside from commercial value, the lob- * * * * * fish. The floor is very carefully laid, and the scallops with barnacles on them, clams and ster has been an interesting study to the natu- The mackerel have suddenly appeared supports to the second story, which is used quahogs. ralist. It is classed amongst the highest of the in Penobscot Bay in large numbers, and the as a store room in part, are as massive as on macrouan decapod crustaceans. The shell fishermen are very busy. the between decks of a man-of-war. There Page 525. which is olive or blackish green, becomes * * * * * is a large force pump on this floor, worked Mackerel fishermen from the east report red by the action of the heat in boiling. The The Miramichi salmon catch this year by a windmill on the roof of the building, that for the past ten or twelve days the waters many-jointed external covering is changed is calculated at 50 percent above the average to supply the water for the packing and off Monhegan have presented a singular periodically, splitting in two on the head and of the last few years. washing. On the second floor, which is as appearance, being about the color of milk body, and a new one forming underneath in * * * * * large as the one underneath, is the great and water. The white streak is about thirty two equal halves Frozen salmon from the north are now storeroom, and the bins containing the salt. miles in width and extends from Monhegan - the tail being shed without splitting. The being forwarded by the All Rail Line at the There is also a great tank containing 28,000 in a northeasterly direction 65 or 70 miles. change takes place in August, leaving the rate of three carloads per week. gallons of water for use below. A portion The line of demarkation between the blue covering of the fish as thin as paper. A law * * * * * of the floor is devoted to the boneless fish waters and the white streak is very distinct business. Here Mr. Chase employs eleven and as regular as a wall. The white waters persons who cut and box 650 boxes weekly are semi-transparent, and mackerel seen Shipyard Brokerage and send them to Mr. Chase’s brother at beneath the surface present a reddish ap- St. Paul, Minnesota, who has established pearance. The fishermen notice that mack- at Jonesport Shipyard a large trade in that city and where the fish erel passing from blue to white waters are (207) 497-2701 www.jonesportshipyard.com are in great demand. There is also a large peculiarly affected by the change, becoming [email protected] open hatchway with a run connected with wild and rushing wildly to and fro. Power: the roof. On the roof large frames are laid, * * * * * 41' Libby w/Offshore Permit, 2005. $275,000. and, by the run, the fish will be taken from Patents issued to Maine inventors un- the vessel, hoisted though the hatch to the der date of August l, 1882, reported for the Sail: roof and spread on the frames to dry. Farther MINING JOURNAL by William Franklin 17' Herreshoff Buzzards Bay 14 Sloop, 1977. 19,500. down the wharf Mr. Chase has another large Seavey, Solicitor of Patents, Bangor, Maine. packing establishment, 75 x 50, where 1,500 George W. Rich, Portland, fire ladder; H. 23' San Francisco Super Pelican, 2010, $7,500. barrels of mackerel are accommodated and A. Tribou, Machias, carriage fastening; J. almost an equal number of barrels of fish H. Baxter Portland, apparatus for packing packed daily as in the other building. He dried fish; A. H. Cobb, Rockland, stool. also makes frozen herring a specialty in the Trademark, Henry Holt & Company, East season. Mr. Chase employs sixteen vessels Wilton, hay knives — the word “Lightning.” constantly in the business, some of them Whole number for the week 412. making two trips per week. Under date of August 8, 1882, J. K. Brown, Lewiston, drying cylinder for yarn Page 523. spooling machines; A. J. and E. G. Sawyer, BRITISH PROVINCES Old Town, thill coupling; C. M. and L. Bak- Lobsters are reported very scarce from er, Bingham, cattle tie; E. K. Dean, Bangor, nearly all the factories. At some of the fac- automatic device for watering pot plants; tories the falling off has been at the rate of W. L. Longley, Westbrook, apparatus for re- over 400 per day for some time. At the above claiming soda from the spent liquors of pulp rate the season will soon close off itself. mill digesters; G. W. Nutter, Corinna, furrow * * * * * opener; O. S. Trussell, Rockland, automatic A dispatch from Halifax, Nova Scotia, advertising device. Whole number for the of the 14th inst., states that the Cape Breton week 391. herring fishery has been fairly up to the average this season, but backwardness of Page 28. MAINE COASTAL NEWS June 2013

HISTORY FROM THE PAST - Maine Industry Journal - 1882

The firm of Herrick & Byard, have Blueberry Packing Company have one of employed in the putting up and twenty-five the wood burning locomotives of the Og- opened a quarry for breaking paving at the best arranged factory buildings in the sailing vessels and three steamers employed denburg road to coal burners, are building Sargentville, and will employ from 15 to 20 country. They made the building for the in the catching of the fish. one hundred 8 wheel platform cars for the men. work and have specially fitted and furnished * * * * * Maine Central and twenty locomotives for * * * * * it in each department with such facilities Charles B. Harrington, Esq., the noted the Northern Pacific. Dyer & Libby of Portland, have invent- and improvements as years of experience yacht builder in Bath, has built within the ed a fish-cleaning machine. The invention suggested. The factory affords all the room last twelve months three steam yachts and HOTELS AND SUMMER RESORTS. is a set of Russian bristle brushes set in a and conveniences needed for packing beans, one sailing yacht, and has commenced on Prout’s Neck has been sold to a New peculiar position and rotated by steam. With corn, pumpkins or any goods that the com- another for Boston parties. He commenced York man, who proposes to erect a large one of these simple machines the work of pany may ever desire to place in the market. business on the Patten wharf where he still hotel there next season. five hands in the old way is done in the same They can pack 400 to 500 bushels of berries remains, twenty-two years ago, and has * * * * * length of time, and done much better. About daily provided so many are brought to the turned out, he judges, from eight hundred to Nautilus island, near Castine, has been fifty mackerel per minute can be dressed by factory. one thousand ship’s boats, including some purchased by Mr. H. C. Williams, of New this machine. * * * * * one hundred or more porgie boats of large York, who is to convert it into a summer * * * * * Some idea of the magnitude which the size, some of them forty feet long, fourteen resort. The Times reports a large meeting at mackerel canning business has reached in feet wide and five feet deep. He has also built * * * * * Bath, Monday night, in the interest of the Portland may be obtained from the follow- fifteen steam yachts and about thirty-five The Kennebunkport Seashore Com- proposed Bath shipbuilding company. The ing: C. A. Dyer & Company, are the largest sailing yachts, some of them the fastest pany, at Kennebunkport, Maine, owners of project is for the establishment in Bath of packers and employ 125 hands, men, boys, sailing yachts in the country. One year a the celebrated Ocean Bluff Hotel, sundry new engine and boiler shops and a new and girls. They also use improved machin- sloop yacht of his building took the first prize cottages and seaside building lots, is now in shipyard for either wood or iron. Hon. G. C. ery never before used which saves the labor racing with the Boston Yacht Company. At a flourishing condition, several enterprising Goss, Hon. T. W. Hyde, Hon. W. W. Rogers, of many hands. They put up 125 barrels of another time his schooner yacht FEARLESS gentlemen having recently become stock- Charles Davenport, Esq., and others spoke mackerel per day, filling 15,750 cans. Next took the first prize with the same company holders. At the annual meeting last Saturday in favor of the plan. The Treat and Lang and comes George E. Deering & Company who and still is considered one of the very fastest a new board of directors was elected as Rice property is proposed as a location. The employ about 75 hands, putting up from 90 yachts in the country. Mr. Harrington, has a follows: William E. Blunt, Haverhill, Mas- original subscription paper now has $44,000 to 100 barrels of mackerel per day. Then large amount of mechanical genius in his sachusetts, S. G. Damon and R. L. Hodgden, on it, an increase of $7,000, and another Burnham & Morrill and the Portland Pack- line of business. of Arlington, Massachusetts, George S. Lord paper is out. ing Company each put up one hundred thou- and Hartley Lord of Boston, S. W. Lugues of sand cans this season. This industry is almost Page 540 Biddeford, and Charles E. Perkins of Kenne- Page 539. new there, the first factory being started last RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP NOTES. bunkport, Mr. Blunt was chosen President, The Union says the Columbia Falls year. There are at least three hundred hands The Portland Company are changing and Mr. Perkins, Clerk and Treasurer. CLASSIFIED POWER POWER POWER POWER POWER

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