SEAPORT & MUSEUM NEWS Maine State Museum staff helped move the Maine Maritime Academy's Allie Ryan Maritime Collection into the newly renovated Quick Hall on Academy grounds. This collection of New England steam navigation includes a replica of the pilot house of the steamer Goldenrod, which is open to the public. Funds were provided by National Endowment for the Humanities. Museum, State House, Augusta ME 04333; Academy, Castine ME 04421. The Wooden Boatbuilding Apprenticeship Program of Enterprise Marine Corp. in Newcastle is a private, profit-sharing enterprise that concentrates on the skills necessary to build small (8-17 ')boats. Tuition is based on length of stay in program. Speculation building and customer contract work make a profit-sharing income available. Enterprise, Box 33, Newcastle ME 04553 . The 68' schooner Stephen Taber, built 1871 at Glenhead, Long Island (New York), traded in Long Island Sound until sold Down East in the 1920s, where she carted cordwood, coal and similar supplies until going into the passenger trade in 1946. The oldest documented sailing vessel in continuous service in the US, she has undergone thorough rebuilding this winter, her first in ha! f a century. Taber, 70 Elm St., Camden ME 04843 . Sherman Zwicker, last of the Grand Banks fishing schooners, is undergoing extensive restora-
tion at Samples Shipyard. Built by Smith & Rhuland in Lunenberg, Nova Scotia in 1942, she sailed for a quarter century in the Grand Banks fishery, and has served as a museum ship in Boothbay, Maine, these last 14 years. Museum Trust, 100 Commercial St., Box 123, Boothbay Harbor ME 04537. "A Century of Maine Steamers," major new exhibit at the Maine Maritime Museum, opens June 26. It includes stories and design evolution studies of day boats and night boats, introduces the people who built and sailed the boats ... . Researcher Steve Bailey is compiling data on coastal fishing methods under a grant from the Endowment for the Arts . . . . A benefit auction, including a 12 ' cedar skiff built by the Apprenticeshop, will be held at the Museum July 10. Museum, 963 Washington St., Bath ME 04530. Sea Education Association's oceanographic programs aboard the RIV Westward celebrated their 10th yearofoperation last year . Over 1300 students have completed the Sea Semester program for which they received a full semester of
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college credit. The program includes a 6-week shore component and a 6-week sea component aboard Westward. SEA, PO Box 6, Woods Hole MA 02543. The Kingston Boat Yard on the Jones River has been in business since launching the brig Kingston, built in 1717 by Stephen Drew. It was recently sold to Marjorie and Neale LaPlante, whose home, a 1780 sail loft, is adjacent to the yard. After cleaning up and selling derelict boats, they plan to rebuild the old marine railway. Yard , Town Landing Road, Kingston MA02364. Pledges to Mystic Seaport Museum's Preservation Fund put the drive over halfway toward its $7,715,000 goal as of January. The volunteer Gung Ho squad, meeting Saturdays, has lightened the task by building 9 new finger piers for visiting craft .... A new tide house now sits on Bartram Dock to accommodate the recently acquired "Standard Automatic Time Gate" which records tides . ... Redecking continues on whaleship Charles W. Morgan at Museum's DuPont Restoration Shipyard .... Summer events include centennial celebrations for ship Joseph Conrad which Alan Villiers sailed round the world in the 1930s; Sea Music Festival, June 11-13; Windjammer Weekend, June 19-21; Independence Day 1880s re-enactment, July 4; Antique & Classic Boat Rendezvous, July 24-5 . .... Museum's Munson Institute offers graduate courses in American Maritime Studies, June 28-August 6; applications due June 11 .... Museum's distinguished journal The Log offers a $500 prize and publication for the best scholarly article submitted by December I-entry rules sent on application . Seaport, Mystic CT 06355 . Traditional Great South Bay oyster sloops Modesty and Priscilla alternate their sailings from Suffolk Marine Museum, so that one is always at dockside for visitors , while the other carries news of the Museum to nearby ports .... Retired baymen now serve as interpreters for exhibit on oystering and the old Dutch community in Randolph Oyster House . ... An oral history group meets every other Wednesday. All are welcome! Museum, Box 144, W. Sayville NY 11796. Full Sea, Inc. has moved its wood shop and office into the old post office in Sea Cliff. Their growing fleet of historic vessels, including the recently donated yawl-rigged 1905 New York 30 Ibis are kept at Brewer's Marina in Glen Cove. Volunteers helped in setting up shop, refinishing spars and refastening old hulls. Courses offered this season include marine biology, literature, seamanship and boatbuilding. Volunteers sought to lend a hand or teach . Full Sea, 256 Sea Cliff Ave., Sea Cliff NY 11579. The 1885 iron fullrigger Wavertree at South Street Seaport Museum has undergone extensive cleanout, painting, restowing of ballast, etc., with some 2000 hours of volunteer labor put in by The Wavertree Gang. Volunteers, donations are sought for this National Society Ship Trust project .... A major exhibit on restoration work in the Seaport area opened in the Museum Gallery on Water Street in April. Museum, 203 Front St., New York NY 10038.
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