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Messing Around in Boats

Emptying the Harbor

Posted on October 1, 2013 by trn1956 • Leave a comment

Emptying the Harbor On Friday, right on schedule, the floating town docks were hoisted out of the water with a crane and stacked in the municipal parking lot for the winter. Our platform for mackerel fishing is gone; the red and white “20 minute tie up” sign is sentinel to nothing. The harbor seals venture … Continue reading →

Messing Around in Boats

Aural Postcards from a Maine Lake

Posted on July 7, 2013 by trn1956 • Leave a comment

  Its name alone sounds like whispering wind and the waves lapping at rocky shores: West Grand Lake. No wonder then that after three days of paddling its coves and bays in August, sleeping on a slender island where blueberries grew in bunches like grapes, it is sounds which best carry my memories of this … Continue reading →

Messing Around in Boats / Miscellany

Manual Boating Bliss

Posted on June 29, 2013 by trn1956 • Leave a comment

A Paean to paddling….  I decided not to buy the 5 horsepower outboard motor for my canoe, thanks to Paul. As we sat on the bake house porch Sunday, surveying the early morning harbor, he offered well-reasoned dissent from my notion. Boating perfection, he stated, consists of a canoe, the paddle and nothing involving internal … Continue reading →

Messing Around in Boats / The Streams and Coves

Setting Sail for Long-Ago Shores

Posted on October 20, 2012 by trn1956 • Leave a comment

Last week, I spent a morning in the 19th century. I shipped out on a wooden schooner named The Bowdoin, as if entering a time machine, sailing across Penobscot Bay from Searsport to Castine, Maine, with 15 high-school juniors from Belfast. They were students in an American Studies course who were learning about the Age … Continue reading →

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