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CAMDEN — On Tuesday, April 16, at 6:30 p.m., Penobscot Marine Museum Digital Curator Matt Wheeler will present an illustrated talk at the Camden Public Library titled “Jim Moore: Midcoast Correspondent.” The presentation will explore Moore’s life...

CAMDEN — On Tuesday, April 16, at 6:30 p.m., Penobscot Marine Museum Digital Curator Matt Wheeler will present an illustrated talk at the Camden Public Library, 55 Main St., titled

ARAMINTA is L Francis Herreshoff’s clipper bow ketch (Design No. 89), often referred to as “Baby Ti”. Built in Maine in 1954, ARAMINTA has a LOA of 33′, beam of 8′6″, and a 5′ draft.

Boat plans for the Coquina.

Original 1954 Herreshoff ARAMINTA

When the boatbuilders on Maine’s Midcoast need a maritime carving, they call Reed Hayden.

The calendar for 2022 is a real milestone, as it's his 40th

Photograph from The Maynard Bray Collection. (Courtesy Penobscot Marine Museum) The Camden Public Library partners once again with the Penobscot Marine Museum on Thursday, April 22, at 6 p.m., for a special presentation during its celebration of Maritime Month, titled Maynard Brays Photography: An Aficionados Look at Waterfronts and Watercraft . This time, CPL will be welcoming the museum’s Digital Collections Curator, Matt Wheeler, for an online narrated slideshow featuring selections of o...

by Tim Clark ALISON LANGLEY BLACKJACK, a 33′ Friendship sloop built in 1900 by Wilbur Morse, sails in her home waters of Rockland, Maine. She was extensively restored by professionals and volunteers at the Sail, Power & Steam Museum, which is her new home. The Maine sloop-boat, the sailing predecessor to the modern lobsterboat, is an icon of Maine’s maritime heritage. As a professional boatbuilder living and working in Maine who has a particular interest in historic workboats, I had always ...