Three years ago Stonington, Connecticut fish market owner Michael Pugliese, then 49, bought a house on the water in Steuben, Maine, that came with a tidal lobster pound. At the time, he considered the property a summer place for his family. In the past three years, though, as he continued to see the waters of
The Man Behind Maine Compass Services
Navigating a boat in all sorts of unpredictable conditions means depending on the equipment you’ve installed onboard. Whether you’re operating an hourly, year-round ferry service or a family boat on summer weekends, your investment might include GPS, autopilot, radar, depth finders, speed indicators and plotting and computer systems. One item that will definitely be on
An Inside Look at the Workings of the Royal Navy
There are 18 novels in the Ramage series, featuring the exploits of Lord Nicholas Ramage, an intrepid British Sea captain during the Napoleonic Wars. The novels cover the years 1796-1806, when England was locked in a brutal struggle with Napoleon’s France. Our first meeting with Ramage is in the middle of a naval battle off
A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity
Chelsea Green Publishing, 2002 Crafting Our Lives with Our Own Hands Coperthwaite, a Maine native, has traveled the globe extensively over the years, but still calls Maine home, with his handsome hand-built 3-story yurt on Dickinson Reach in Machiasport. Yurts are what Coperthwaite is best known for, that circular shelter originally used like tents by
The Long View: Houston, We have a problem
The New England Fisheries Management Council is meeting in Portland this month to vote on whether to consider a different approach to managing cod and haddock fishing in the Gulf of Maine. The management of these species has been a disaster since at least 1991 when the first lawsuit was filed to halt overfishing. The
New ship joins Maine’s summer cruise fleet
On June 15, Maine Gov. John Baldacci will smash a bottle of champagne to officially christen a new 100-passenger ship, American Star (a sister ship is pictured here) – after which the cruise ship will sail from its home port in Bangor and begin a 20-week season of seven-night cruises along Maine’s coast. Ports of
“A murder mystery was a good place to start”
As we pull up to the town dock at Isle au Haut, Linda Greenlaw steps out onto the float to greet us in true islander fashion. For someone who has led a life of big adventure, including a swordfishing career made famous in Sebastian Junger’s book The Perfect Storm and the subsequent blockbuster film of
Bar Harbor approves Mount Desert’s first skate park
Bar Harbor police Officer Soren Sundberg often deals with skateboarding teenagers on the town’s village green. Skateboarding isn’t legal there and it can be especially hazardous during tourist season. “There isn’t space for all the foot traffic and the skateboarders,” Sundberg said. But he said he never has a good answer when skaters ask where
SCARCE WHARFAGE – Historic schooners seek a permanent home in Rockland
Once Camden held the title, but now Rockland is the windjammer capital of the world. But Rockland could lose the title along with the historic sailing vessels that bestow it, if a group of historic schooners fails to find a permanent home in the harbor, soon. The owners of four of the city’s eight schooners
Island fellow uses trails, other projects to promote “positive change”
It’s no surprise that David Steckler, the Island Institute’s Fellow on North Haven, finds himself drawn to place-based education as a powerful teaching tool. “Growing up, I was always attracted to being outdoors — and my learning style has always been to learn by doing,” he says. As the Place-Based Education Fellow at the North