That’s the new word in the lobster business – breakaways. That’s the new law now, too, breakaway gear. Right now it’s breakaway swivels on the pot buoys. The purpose of this is to stop the entrapment of right whales by having gear that will break away when pressure is brought to bear on the warp.
The Long View The Power of Faith
The morning ferry ride across Penobscot Bay to North Haven was clear but cold. Skim ice had formed overnight in the ferry pen on the island where the wake from the CAPTAIN NEIL BURGESS spilled out across solid water. Just a few weeks prior, several brave souls had walked across the Fox Island Thorofare to
Building things
Something’s right in East Boothbay, the little community on the banks of the Sheepscot River where shipbuilders survive and thrive. Year after year the welders, mechanics, riggers and joiners at two yards there turn out an impressive tugs, ferries and yachts – in an age when America’s small manufacturers struggle against foreign competition, an uninterested
Small schools
Politicians and policy-makers, often far removed from the classroom, must take note of the benefits offered by small schools and the challenges small schools face. Federal and state mandates may bankrupt and destroy small schools, taking many small communities with them. In today’s economic climate, this message is especially relevant. A growing educational reform movement
Ten Years
Ten years ago this month – in April 1983 -we published our first issue of Working Waterfront. Since then we’ve grown from a quarterly to a monthly, from 16 to (sometimes) 32 pages, from a paper that ended up in Post Office recycling bins to one that’s read everywhere on the Maine coast. So if
Affordable housing for cats
Ptld.Condo Wtrfrnt w/View; low rent, free food. If you can read this, don’t bother applying. It’s not meant for humans. Down on Portland’s Union and Widgery wharves, Paul and Kim Fischer take care of their feline neighbors. They’ve set up insulated shelters, which they call condos. They feed the cats, and know which flavors and
Flying oatmeal
To the editor: The essay by Phil Crossman [WWF March 03] was a source of GREAT amusement to me. Unfortunately I was working on a mouthful of oatmeal when I got to the part about “local rednecks whose narrow range of understanding could be understood, even forgiven, with only a cursory consideration of their ancestry.”
Let us break bread together
To the editor: Having been brought up in Maine, built with my hands a house on great Cranberry, but having to live “away” due to health insurance needs, I applaud Phil Crossman’s comments [letter, March 03]. He could not have said it better. We all no matter where we reside have similar crosses to bear.
Provincial and hostile
To the editor: I received your membership solicitation in the mail this week. I also received my Feb. 3 issue of The Working Waterfront. Assuming that the article by Rusty Warren represents the attitude of the Island Institute towards those of us from away, why would I want to be a member of your organization?
A suggestion
To the editor: Pursuant to Pete Crooker’s comments [letter, March 03] about “That Maine Attitude,” I think it might help if vacationers from out of state left the attitude of authoritative familiarity behind. I have never encountered anyone who has been less than friendly, helpful and polite when I have visited the islands in the