Researchers Find Cannibalized Victim of 19th-Century Arctic Voyage - The New York Times

Researchers Find Cannibalized Victim of 19th-Century Arctic Voyage - The New York Times A new study offers clues to a 179-year-old mystery that killed more than 100 explorers on the Franklin expedition in the Canadian Arctic.

Wharves - Friendship, Maine

 

Carter's Wharf, Hatchet Cove

The old fuel dock from the Town Landing

Wallace's - evening

Town Landing, winter

Clara -boatyard dog

Redfish heads - from Iceland

BrAvery

Local bait - pogies

Traps, shed, clouds

Traps, bait shed

No picnicking

Salt

A good day's haul

Monhegan skiff

Blueberry muffins

Ulysses race, Jesse's ride

Ticonderoga

Ticonderoga is the masterpiece of L. Francis Herreshoff who designed my little boat 

Here it is at the dock of its HomePort, Indian Harbor Yacht Club, Greenwich, CT.

At the Tom Verlaine Book Sale - Alex Abramovich - LRBlog

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Why did Bayesian sink? >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News: Providing sailing news for sailors

Why did Bayesian sink? >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News: Providing sailing news for sailors

Why did it sink?

Bayesian was a massive sailing yacht with one of the tallest masts in yachting history, a 246-foot pole that would have commanded attention even if it hadn’t been illuminated at a peaceful anchorage just north of Sicily on Sunday night.

Mike Lynch, the owner, a British tech billionaire who had been compared to both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, was onboard, celebrating his acquittal on fraud charges that could have sent him to prison for 20 years. He was joined by members of his family, two of the lawyers who defended him, and an investment banker who had provided helpful testimony.

Felicity - a steel staysail sloop

 

West Boothbay Harbor

 

Hatchet Cove - my homeport

The memorial cross at Georges Harbor 

five miles south of my mooring at Hatchet Cove, Friendship,

Maine

When we first came to Friendship thirty years ago, this was Brian Reed's wharf. It's the Carter family's now.

The Reeds and the Carters had fishing camps on Benner Island about five miles south.

Betsy Wyeth then bought two islands - Allen and Benner -   of the four that make up Georges Harbor where English explorer George Waymouth first landed on the coast of Maine in 1605.  In 1905 the State of Maine  erected a granite cross on Allen and claimed it as the founding of Maine.  

The Carters swung a deal with Betsy Wyeth who had a big wharf built on Allen Island and a house for her family on the south side of Benner.  The Carters still have traps stored there.  They are buyers as well as fishermen now.   Below are shots of Carter's wharf at Hatchet  Cove, Friendship now.

BrAvery's haul today - about 1,000 lbs.

@$7lb - before fuel, boat, crew, truck

It isn't easy

Salt 

dinghy dock

Bait - redfish heads from iceland

Diesel oil

Some bait is local - menhaden (pogies or bunker)

netted in the Cove or the St. George River

Product of Iceland

Clara - boatyard dog

A monhegan skiff

"Do not expect a warning shot"

Harvester wharf (fka Brian's wharf) 

Hatchet Cove, Friendship, ME

                                                                Storage shed

                                                                                The wharf

                                                                            Refrigerated bait shed