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Herring Gut aquaculture students learn biology and business
“The world is our classroom,” reads a sign on a bus used by St. George area schools for its alternative education students. Part of that world is the study of aquaculture at Herring Gut Learning Center in Port Clyde, where middle school students raise and sell seed oysters, Atlantic salmon and brook trout. These kids
McCloskey sisters oppose Pen Bay salmon project
Sal and Jane McCloskey – of One Morning in Maine fame – want to save their Penobscot Bay island from commercial salmon farming, a business they assert will irreparably damage the beauty, health and economy of the Little Deer Isle area. An application to the Maine Department of Marine Resources to locate salmon pens near
Old schooner is given to new sailing school
Two college friends launching international sailing school have been given a boat beyond their wildest dreams. The 137-foot schooner ROSEWAY, for years part of the commercial Camden windjammer fleet, has been donated outright to Abby Kidder and Dwight Deckelmann, both 31 and former classmates at Principia College. Their Camden-based World Ocean School has yet to
Restoring the Wendy
Cranberry Isles’ parking project moves ahead
The purchase of a former boatyard in Southwest Harbor will give the Cranberry Isles inshore parking, and one town official hopes it will help maintain the two islands’ way of life. First Selectman Richard Beal predicted the three-acre parcel, the former Jarvis Newman yard in the Manset area of Southwest Harbor, will ease the lives
Schooner ROSEWAY awaits her fate
Ever dreamed of owning your own Grand Banks schooner? A Damariscotta bank is offering something different than you’d expect: the 137-foot former yacht ROSEWAY. First National Bank doesn’t name its price, but it foreclosed on a $215,000 loan to a previous owner. The wooden schooner’s brightwork still shines, and she retains her graceful lines. Built
An offshore island calls lobsterman Ryan Post
The 28-year-old lobsterman lives part time in Rockland, but the home that calls to him is an offshore place that seems like another world: the family compound on Metinic Island, where Post family ownership goes back to a deal made with Indians. Each spring he steers his boat for the half-wooded, rugged island four miles
More-than-you-can-eat restaurant survives and thrives
Many coastwise sailors have discovered Rockland is worth visiting after all, with its museums, shops, marinas, sailmakers and marine hardware. It’s a far cry from the old days, when earlier editions of Roger Duncan’s Cruising Guide to the New England Coast recommended skipping Rockland unless you were desperate. The place was pretty industrial — as
Maine Cat on the move
The cats in Muscongus Bay are bigger and faster these days, and may soon move to Rockland or Thomaston. These aren’t felines. These are catamarans, built by Maine Cat in sizes up to 38 feet long. Dick and Lynn Vermeulen started the business in their Jefferson garage, building 22 foot fiberglass catamarans, in 1993. A
Farming Oysters: Where diplomacy is a valued skill
If you want a cushy job and some easy money, you’d better not raise oysters. Take it from Tim Dowling, who with son Jesse has launched Port Clyde Oyster Company, farming oysters on a nearby lease. This winter, the Dowlings were building a porch on a summer resident’s bungalow to bring in a few extra