For most of the summer an empty container vessel has been riding at anchor in Portland harbor. In July, U.S. Marshals arrested SHAMROCK for defaulting to its creditors. SHAMROCK was the only container ship to service Portland. Container cargo shipments in and out of the port stopped with its impoundment, a blow to Portland’s International
RAWFAITH readies herself for southbound voyage
RAWFAITH, the 100-foot, three-masted galleon built in Jonesport by dedicated volunteers (WWF Oct 04), reached Rockland in September, and her owners now plan to sail her south to New Jersey and eventually to Jacksonville, Florida. RAWFAITH was designed to be the first wheelchair accessible large sailing vessel. She was launched Aug. 2. Since then, executive
New management structure empowers Vinalhaven’s teachers
For 20 years the door to the principal’s office at Vinalhaven School has been a revolving one. This year however, students, parents and staff alike began the 2004-05 school year with a great feeling of hope that the revolving door will be stopped once and for all. The school staff is trying out a new
Vinalhaven school’s boatbuilding project forges ahead
For nearly a year now, the Vinalhaven High School marine technology classes have been refurbishing a 30-foot Al Mason-designed steel sloop. To help the classes stay on track for a May launching, teacher Mark Jackson enlisted the help of Island Institute Fellow Kurt Lynch. Lynch, who hails from Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, was just finishing a
Lifetime Accomplishment
To the editor: As a member of the USLHS and long familiar with Ken Black’s major lifetime accomplishment, I read with much interest and growing concern your fine article in your current issue about the Maine Lighthouse Museum. How could you possibly omit any mention of Ken Black in that article? Please explain? Georgia Lee
Museum reflects an island’s quirky persona
You might think you’re entering an austere space as you approach the front door to the Vinalhaven Historical Society on High Street. After all, the building served as a church when it was built in 1838 in Rockland. The building was transported in 1875 to Vinalhaven, and islanders converted it to a multitude of secular
“Not a Promotional Brochure” -Downeast towns confront “tension” between newcomers and working residents
Most of the scenes are foggy. The people pictured are hard at work. The text is straightforward: “this is not a promotional brochure … like songbirds, diesel engines all have their own unique sounds … a working waterfront … is not a place of manicured lawns and carefully landscaped gardens…” In eight color pages, the
Statistics and Politics
To the editor: Please note that the article by Nancy Griffin that mentions a 77 percent figure for pink salmon hatchery production is only for Prince William Sound. Statewide it is mostly wild production… As with any statistic or number used in the fishing industry, there are political ramifications. It is important to be accurate
Home on the Web
To the editor: I’m at college in Costa Rica right now and I just wanted to let you all know how much I love being able to check up on the Working Waterfront from all over the world. I just found my mom’s article [Karen Roberts Jackson on Vinalhaven’s old fire hall, Oct. 2004] and
Corrected
To the editor: …most of Alaska’s salmon are not caught by small gillnet boats [WWF Sept. 2004]. The limit on Bristol Bay gillnetters is 32 feet. Purse seiners catch most of the salmon, and a troller is not a longliner. There is no longline fishery for salmon. Salmon trollers pull bait and artificial lures through