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Set Sail Demonstration at Penobscot Marine Museum
During Set Sail demonstrations at Penobscot Marine Museum, visitors learn about how a square sail works plus assist with setting the sail, raising and lowering the yard, and pushing on the capstan bars.
On a visit to Penobscot Marine Museum, you will go through our exhibits and see many paintings, ship models, photographs, and artifacts and you will hear stories or read about what life at sea was like in the heyday of sailing. This area built a lot of ships and captains and sailors from Maine sailed all around the world. In the late 1800s, Maine shipbuilders developed the Downeaster. These merchant vessels were designed for maximum carrying capacity with minimal crew size. A Downeaster had a crew of twenty to thirty men. The Set Sail demonstration helps to bring their experience to life today!
Set Sail demonstrations run daily at noon and 2pm when the museum is open to the public. Demonstrations are also available for group visits and school field trips. Visit PenobscotMarineMuseum.org/about for more information.
Images included in this video:
Painting: “Ship CLARISSA B. CARVER” by Charles Rosner (PMM General Collection, 1966.31)
Painting: "YANKEE CLIPPER" by Philip von Saltza (PMM General Collection, 1955.15)
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Joanna Colcord: A Sailor's Life, A Collector's Legacy Presented by Lynn Noel
มุมมอง 373 หลายเดือนก่อน
This is a recording of a live hybrid presentation on June 20th, 2024. Joanna Colcord’s seminal collection Roll and Go: Songs of American Sailormen was deeply influenced by her seafaring life. She was born in the South Pacific to a captain from Searsport, Maine and attended high school by correspondence in Hong Kong before earning a degree in social work. This presentation explores Colcord’s rem...
Kevin Presents Joanna Colcord’s Searsport
มุมมอง 883 หลายเดือนก่อน
This is a recording of a live Zoom and in person program on June 13th, 2024. Searsport Maine was quite a happening place at the turn of the 20th Century. The town was prosperous with numerous shipyards and the related industries that supported them. Joanna Colcord, arguably Searsport's most notable woman, spent her formative years there. The daughter of famed sea captain Lincoln Colcord, Joanna...
Looking for Joanna Colcord in the Penobscot Marine Museum Archives
มุมมอง 363 หลายเดือนก่อน
This is a recording from a live Zoom and in person program on June 6th, 2024. Maybe you have read Joanna Colcord’s Roll and Go: Songs of American Sailormen (celebrating 100 years since it was first published in 1924!). Or perhaps you’re familiar with Joanna’s publications and professional career in social work. Maybe you’re wondering if she’s the sister of author and historian Lincoln Colcord o...
Kosti Update
มุมมอง 824 หลายเดือนก่อน
This selection of Kosti Ruohomaa's photos provides an overview as we near the end of the project.
Maritime & Maine Topics Author Series-Janna Smith
มุมมอง 877 หลายเดือนก่อน
This is a recording of a Zoom presentation on February 8th, 2024. Janna Smith will discuss When the Island Had Fish: The Remarkable Story of a Maine Fishing. Community Fishing has been a central part of life on the island of Vinalhaven for over 4,000 years. For her book, Janna interviewed many living fishermen and fishing families, and spent many hours in the island historical society reading d...
What Happens to the Boat?
มุมมอง 187 หลายเดือนก่อน
Participants in the Penobscot Marine Museum's April break Mini Camp, "Sea Monsters & Shadow Boxes," put together the stories in this video. They divided into two teams and each team received the same set of black and white images. They could color them, add to them, and put them in whatever order they wanted. Fun!
Maritime & Maine Topics Author Series-Penny West
มุมมอง 418 หลายเดือนก่อน
This is a recording of a live Zoom program presented on February 1, 2024. Penny West will discuss London Letters Home of an American Apprentice Preparing for the Far East Tea Trade, Gus Farley, Jr. (1844-1899). The talk will present a glimpse of the four years Gus spent in London apprenticing as a tea taster, preparing to join his cousins’ firm of Augustine Heard & Co. in China - 1861-1865. Gus...
Maritime & Maine Topics Author Series-Mark Borton & Moondoggle
มุมมอง 958 หลายเดือนก่อน
This is a recording of a live Zoom program presented on January 18th, 2023. Author Mark Borton will reveal the full story that is documented in his new book, Moondoggle: Franklin Roosevelt and the Fight for Tidal-Electric Power at Passamaquoddy Bay. “Quoddy” was to be built off the coast of Maine and New Brunswick and would generate enough electricity to power much of New England. It was part o...
A Mr. Ropes Tall Tale
มุมมอง 1718 หลายเดือนก่อน
This is a recording created during the February 2024 Tall Tales & Fish Stories Camp at Penobscot Marine Museum. For information on upcoming children's camps and other programming, visit penobscotmarinemuseum.org. Campers started with a true story about Mr. Ropes the cat who sailed from Boston, Massachusetts to Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1892. They then re-wrote the story using their imagination...
Stories from the Spirits of Sea-Goers IV
มุมมอง 33ปีที่แล้ว
The people of Searsport and Penobscot Bay have a long history of going to sea. In letters, diaries, logbooks, photos, newspaper articles, and stories passed down through generations, they recorded their experiences. Quiet days, adventure, tragedy, and heroism each take their turn. This fourth installment of “Stories from the Spirits of Sea-Goers” features tales based on true experiences and rec...
Ripped from the Headlines: Tales of Life on the Bay & Summer People (recorded version)
มุมมอง 45ปีที่แล้ว
For those that live here and for those that visit, daily life on Penobscot Bay is unique. Over the years, newspaper articles have recorded some of the ups and downs. The following portrayals by Penobscot Marine Museum staff and volunteers are based on true stories in newspaper accounts. These are recorded from the in-person event on June 29th, 2023. Take a deep dive into the sea-goers life with...
Photographer Sam Murfitt looks at his portrait of Maine boatbuilder Peter Kass
มุมมอง 175ปีที่แล้ว
Photographer Sam Murfitt looks at his portrait of Maine boatbuilder Peter Kass
From the Archives - Did the ship's log record the birth of the Captain's son?
มุมมอง 169ปีที่แล้ว
From the Archives - Did the ship's log record the birth of the Captain's son?
Artist Talk: Pim Van Hemmen Discusses In Extremis | Historic Ships in America
มุมมอง 112ปีที่แล้ว
Artist Talk: Pim Van Hemmen Discusses In Extremis | Historic Ships in America
Maine Fisheries 101
มุมมอง 49ปีที่แล้ว
Maine Fisheries 101
Close up of Tatted Bonnet
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Close up of Tatted Bonnet
Wealthy P Nichols Tatting and Life at Sea
มุมมอง 262ปีที่แล้ว
Wealthy P Nichols Tatting and Life at Sea
Fog & Ice Speaker Series - Fog In The Penobscot Marine Museum Photo Archives
มุมมอง 104ปีที่แล้ว
Fog & Ice Speaker Series - Fog In The Penobscot Marine Museum Photo Archives
Fog & Ice Speaker Series - Fog Along The Maine Coast With Meteorologist Mike Clair
มุมมอง 79ปีที่แล้ว
Fog & Ice Speaker Series - Fog Along The Maine Coast With Meteorologist Mike Clair
Fog & Ice Speaker Series - Mainers on the Titanic
มุมมอง 33ปีที่แล้ว
Fog & Ice Speaker Series - Mainers on the Titanic
Ripped from the Headlines: Tales of Bravery, Shipwrecks, & Courage at Sea Round 2 (recorded version)
มุมมอง 1022 ปีที่แล้ว
Ripped from the Headlines: Tales of Bravery, Shipwrecks, & Courage at Sea Round 2 (recorded version)
Stories from the Spirits of Sea Goers III
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Stories from the Spirits of Sea Goers III
Up Close Look at a Victorian Hair Wreath
มุมมอง 612 ปีที่แล้ว
Up Close Look at a Victorian Hair Wreath
Picturing Penobscot Bay Artist Panel
มุมมอง 662 ปีที่แล้ว
Picturing Penobscot Bay Artist Panel
Peek into Paintings - AUGUSTINE KOBBE - Part 4 The captain and his family
มุมมอง 852 ปีที่แล้ว
Peek into Paintings - AUGUSTINE KOBBE - Part 4 The captain and his family
Peek into Paintings - AUGUSTINE KOBBE - Part 3 Voyages Across the Atlantic
มุมมอง 472 ปีที่แล้ว
Peek into Paintings - AUGUSTINE KOBBE - Part 3 Voyages Across the Atlantic
The Chart Collections at Penobscot Marine Museum
มุมมอง 1422 ปีที่แล้ว
The Chart Collections at Penobscot Marine Museum
Peek into Paintings - AUGUSTINE KOBBE - Part 2 Let’s take a look
มุมมอง 472 ปีที่แล้ว
Peek into Paintings - AUGUSTINE KOBBE - Part 2 Let’s take a look
Peek into Paintings - AUGUSTINE KOBBE - Part I What do you see in this painting?
มุมมอง 292 ปีที่แล้ว
Peek into Paintings - AUGUSTINE KOBBE - Part I What do you see in this painting?

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  • @ChimeraActual
    @ChimeraActual 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I don't have a lobster boat, wouldn't make sense in Austin TX, but I've admired them from close and afar. Brad Storey and my brother built what I suppose is one of the last wooden Lobster boats in the Storey yard in Essex MA, ca. 1995 (?). I've admired the structure and the design of wooden boats since I was a child, so long ago. Particularly those from New England and Nova Scotia. Even spent about 20 years building such things, but way down south where the shipworms congregate. Perhaps that's due to epigenetics from my great grandfather who was a ship captain up in Hantsport NS, until the turn of the century, did the New York to China route. His last ship, which he purchased, probably to his regret, was the Hamburg, the largest Bark built in Canada. Ah yes, the point. I did well here in the godawful state of Texas, made some bucks, built a nice house, but had to educate the architect on the difference between a lobster boat and a yacht, or a McMansion. Went broke, so I now live in a cottage that I'm trying to turn into something like a boat.

  • @olivei2484
    @olivei2484 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Neat training aide interactive exhibit.

  • @Joseph-jq8ve
    @Joseph-jq8ve 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is absolutely amazing history of how the red jacket is remembered and it's interesting how the white star line didn't always have ships with their names ending in ic

  • @joeswampdawghenry
    @joeswampdawghenry 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cheers!!💐💐💐💐😁🎈🎈🎈🎈⛵⛵⛵🚤🚤🚤🚣🚣🚣🚣

  • @Prevailingbucket
    @Prevailingbucket 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Unfortunately, the “Hero” is no longer with us. Sank at its mooring in Washington state after considerable neglect and was dismantled and disposed of. 😔

  • @nhaynguyenminh6272
    @nhaynguyenminh6272 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    hola

  • @jeremydow1432
    @jeremydow1432 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Had one of his " Instant Boat" books for years : nice to see him " live". Another great old boatman gone to greater waters.....

  • @Justhings332
    @Justhings332 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    “Orca” The boat from Jaws was a Novi Cape islander converted originally from when it was called the warlock. I don’t know who the builder was but it was used in 1974 for the filming of Jaws.

  • @americanrambler4972
    @americanrambler4972 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very interesting and entertaining.

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  • @PaulDeOrsay
    @PaulDeOrsay 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I don't think that's a gaff. More likely for handling timber / logs.

  • @leecarlson9713
    @leecarlson9713 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    And it most likely was a man who designed the clothing and bustles (think the French couturier Worth during the Regency Period)! You can’t tell me that any woman willingly designed such an instrument of torture called the corset!

    • @TheSewphisticate
      @TheSewphisticate 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      While popular media certainly sensationalized corsets and corset-wearing, creating a plethora of myths ranging from regular fainting beauties to rib-removal, we assure you the intended purpose of corsets was much more practical. As boned support garments, corsets were much like the modern brassiere and intended to support the bust and back for a full day’s work. When fashions required wearing multiple, heavy skirts, corsets also distributed the weight and kept waistbands from digging into a woman’s side. They could provide gentle shaping to the figure as well, again like our modern elastic shapewear, but the reduction was minimal and additional padding was employed to create the illusion of smaller waists. When custom-fit to the wearer, corsets should be comfortable! Occasionally, women could have tight-laced, but that was reserved for special occasions, (think like wearing stilettos today), and only reduced the figure by a few inches - too much strain on a corset would break the garment, before it harmed the wearer!

    • @issness_god
      @issness_god 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Fumin at the patriarchy threw me Gregg's at pet pigeon ralfie

  • @sandrajones2184
    @sandrajones2184 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I own a Osmond Beal designed boat built by H&H. Owned one wooden boat before that built on Orrs Island. The hulls built today wood or fiberglass as lobster/ fishing boats are capable, seaworthy,money making vessels. I love mine. Thank you to all the builders,designers and finishers for these vessel and also the ones that unfortunately have passed, I am partial to Beals Island designs just wished I could met Osmond Paul J. Cundys Harbor

  • @jensschroder8214
    @jensschroder8214 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I know the capstan of tape recorders and cassette players. The capstan is the shaft that determines the speed of the tape.

  • @gregoneil2036
    @gregoneil2036 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fair enough.

  • @mikepierce1724
    @mikepierce1724 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Danny backmen built his own boats he was best wood worker on The planet!!!!

  • @davidgrim5990
    @davidgrim5990 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think the culture was different then. They had a very professional idea of what should or should not be in the log book. I'm sure marriages would also not be in the log book. Only thing I think they might have included was the death of a passenger.

    • @PenobscotMarineMsm
      @PenobscotMarineMsm ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, the logbook was the official record of the voyage and many stick to professional observations. However, some logs (and charts!) in our collection do include personal experiences, such as the leather-bound logbook of the ship STATE OF MAINE from September 6, 1896-April 17, 1898 kept by Henry Griffin Curtis. It includes the ship leaking badly in a gale, not making progress across the equator, son George is on board and catching fish, has purple stamp "* Opened. Crew. Beef *", celebrating his 46th birthday, Manila stowaways, sending mail ashore by bumboatmen, steward confronted mate with a knife, adventures of daughter Hope and Miss Gordon (may be Grace Gordon, his second wife) making desserts and being seasick, and Hope's 16th birthday.

  • @toddlong8672
    @toddlong8672 ปีที่แล้ว

    I sure miss Phil, and Harold. The world's not the same without them

  • @novicehistorian4006
    @novicehistorian4006 ปีที่แล้ว

    One of my great grandfathers helped build this ship. I found him on ancestry. 👍😃

  • @assateaguecottage8378
    @assateaguecottage8378 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was great, thank you

  • @robertbamford8266
    @robertbamford8266 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fabulous lecture. Fabulous lecturer. What a treat! And I suspect he is just scratching the surface.

  • @devenjudd6411
    @devenjudd6411 ปีที่แล้ว

    That’s my grandmas brother ! Jimmy.

  • @brinkee7674
    @brinkee7674 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think John's Bay built a wooden boat for I guy I was renovating a couple homes for on Greening Island at Southwest Harbor back in the late 80's. It was a beautiful lobster style boat but decked out inside, powered with a Volvo IB. It was never to be used as a lobster boat when this guy owned it except for the few traps I pulled. I thought he paid to much @ $200k but she was something special that is for sure.

  • @dc-wp8oc
    @dc-wp8oc ปีที่แล้ว

    Stand and row. Who would have thought.

  • @rideswithscissors
    @rideswithscissors ปีที่แล้ว

    I lived on a boat in the 70s-80s that was built in '46 at the Sample yard in Boothbay. While it had more cabin space and headroom, it had lines similar to some of these boats. It was built for a family named Bradley, and they were tall.

  • @cwenzel6950
    @cwenzel6950 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for providing this recording of your presentation. My internet service is not the best in the rural area where I live, so Zoom is often very frustrating. Your voice is clear and easy to understand. The enlarging of the photographs was especially appreciated. My husband and I travel to Maine often and find it to be one of our favorite vacation areas. Hope to have the opportunity to participate in some of the Fiber College events soon now that I'm retired. Looking forward to the presentation on March 2nd.

    • @PenobscotMarineMsm
      @PenobscotMarineMsm ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you for your kind words! We totally understand unreliable internet, which is one of the reasons we love being able to record presentations and put them on TH-cam! We hope you stop by Penobscot Marine Museum next time you find yourself in the area.

  • @ryheartrainbow540
    @ryheartrainbow540 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love Hiroshige

  • @shauneaton5365
    @shauneaton5365 ปีที่แล้ว

    Terminator was run by Sid Eaton from stonington hell yea aj 28 boat he’s had them for a long time.

  • @dspondike
    @dspondike 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks! One of my very favorite boats. I got to sail on the Endeavor out of Nantucket for several summer vacations back in the 90s.

  • @haisamjab
    @haisamjab 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    So wise people

  • @mikelewis6629
    @mikelewis6629 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    As I watch the video, I'm looking around at all the models on his workbench, each one a work of art, and an investment of many, many hours of very careful, meticulous craftsmanship. And I expect he took up model making after a lot of years of building full-sized boats. Quite a man.

    • @PenobscotMarineMsm
      @PenobscotMarineMsm 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks, Mike. Many of Dynamite's models are now at the Penobscot Marine Museum. You can find them in our database and also see them on exhibit! penobscotmarinemuseum.pastperfectonline.com/bycreator?keyword=Payson%2C%20Harold

  • @rileybeal4151
    @rileybeal4151 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    That Riley Beal is who I'm named after

  • @orig66Super
    @orig66Super 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Not a bad gig.

  • @joebrouillard565
    @joebrouillard565 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Extordanary project, testament to the people of Maine and the volunteer’s character!

  • @faithcampbell5331
    @faithcampbell5331 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am trying to envision a bird's eye view of the deck with the geographical markers noted by the Captain. There might be the basis for a "children's activity". An outline might be provided and various locations mentioned could be labelled and then discussed.

  • @MommaPoet1
    @MommaPoet1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks! That was a fascinating presentation!

  • @robertbamford8266
    @robertbamford8266 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Interesting. The photo of the ship in dry dock puts an interesting perspective on the size of the ship. Makes me wonder about the size of the Hesper and Luther Little beached in Wiscasset as I remember them from the 1950s. We would see them over the years as we drove over the Highway 1 bridge.

  • @orig66Super
    @orig66Super 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    And going to the DMV to register that boat was a pain in the @&! back in those days. It took two weeks by horse and buggy to get to the DMV office in Boston.

  • @orig66Super
    @orig66Super 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nowadays it’s just easier to watch ‘Inside Edition’ on TV.

  • @orig66Super
    @orig66Super 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nowadays it’s just easier to watch ‘Inside Edition’ on TV.

  • @robertbamford8266
    @robertbamford8266 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Some interesting discussions elsewhere on pennant (pendant) and flag direction in paintings of sailing ships underway.

  • @mikepierce1724
    @mikepierce1724 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You talk about Backman well Danny Backman built 2 of his own 39 and 44 . His son Freddy used his uncles boat the plumestella. For a long time .Danny had 5000 dollars of lumber in the yard for awhile then he started that pile is 44 foot beautiful boat got windshield wipers

  • @Theoriginalbigbrillo
    @Theoriginalbigbrillo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you Tootsie and Alan Beal Senior , for looking after me and giving me shelter during that lovely summer of 1988 , I'm my heart forever ♥ ❤ ❤❤

  • @boomerdepp1456
    @boomerdepp1456 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great presentation by the legendary master boat builder. The highest mark of 4 in the US Navy is defined as outstanding - and that's how I'd rate this video.

  • @robertbamford8266
    @robertbamford8266 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Priceless stories. Pile of cedar. Time on his hands. What better than to build another peapod? Thanks for the wonderful videos.

  • @robertbamford8266
    @robertbamford8266 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Didn’t have to carry fish home. But relatives in Tenants Harbor who were lobsterman would drop off a few lobster on their way home. I didn’t know lobster was an expensive delicacy until I was a teenager and went to buy a lobster at the market in Boston.

  • @charlestosi5199
    @charlestosi5199 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Visited his shop years ago while at Wooden Boat School. Brilliant, innovative man.

  • @PenobscotMarineMsm
    @PenobscotMarineMsm 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    NOTE: **Please visit **th-cam.com/video/eyF-YOacLpw/w-d-xo.html** for an updated video with good graphics.**

  • @robertbamford8266
    @robertbamford8266 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great repurposed (or invented) tools. Hope one of the future clips (or the assembled film) shows the process of bending the frames in place - and riveting them.

  • @robertbamford8266
    @robertbamford8266 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Years of work condensed into 40 minutes. Quite an undertaking! Thanks for the video.