Light Hearted ep 337 – Two special lighthouse cruises on the Maine coast

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You are listening to Lighthearted, the official podcast
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of the United States Lighthouse Society.
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My name is Jeremy Dontrement.
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Welcome.
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Today is 02/15/2026,
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and this is episode three thirty seven of
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Lighthearted.
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Usually, for a while now, we've been posting
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Lighthearted Light episodes,
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in those we revisit older interviews,
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in between new episodes.
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This week is different. This is an all
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new episode.
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Our subject is two different special lighthouse cruises
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that are happening this year on the Maine
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Coast.
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Shortly, we'll hear a conversation with Barry King,
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owner and captain of the schooner Mary Day
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out of Camden, Maine. But first, we'll hear
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about the special all day lighthouse cruise the
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Bar Harbor Whale Watch is offering on Saturday,
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September 5, starting at 9AM.
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I've been doing these all day lighthouse cruises
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with them as a narrator since 2013,
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and this year's cruise includes more lighthouses than
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ever with a total of 19.
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I'll read the list quickly.
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Egg Rock, Winter Harbor, Baker Island, Great Duck
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Island, Birdcoat Harbor, Isle Of Hoe, Saddleback, Monhegan,
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Marshall Point, 2 Bush, Tenants Harbor, Whitehead,
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Owls Head, Browns Head, Goose Rocks, Deer Island
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Thoroughfare, Blue Hill Bay, Bass Harbor Head, and
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Bear Island.
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That is a lot of really beautiful lighthouses
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and a lot of beautiful scenery along the
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way. Joining me as narrators on the cruise
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will be Bob Trapani, executive director of the
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American Lighthouse Foundation,
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conservationist
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Zach Cliver,
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and naturalist Julie Taylor. Julie and Zach will
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be pointing out some of the interesting wildlife,
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as well as the beautiful scenery in the
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Acadia region,
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and down about 70 miles to the Southwest.
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I had a chance to speak about the
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cruise with Julie, Zach, and Bob. Let's listen
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to that conversation now.
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I'm speaking today with my good friends,
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Julie Taylor,
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Zach Cliver, and Bob Trapani.
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Regular listeners to the podcast, certainly know Bob
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from Pasta Episodes,
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both as a guest and cohost. Bob is
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the executive director of the American Lighthouse Foundation
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and also a lighthouse technician for the Coast
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Guard Auxiliary.
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Julie Taylor is,
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the, naturalist and lead guide for Bar Harbor
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Whale Watch.
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And Zach Cliver is an ocean conservationist
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and a long time tour guide. I think
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it's,
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somewhere in the three decades plus range,
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for Bar Harbor Whale Watch. So all three
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of you, thank you so much for doing
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this today. Hey. Great to be here, Jeremy.
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Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. So, the
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three of us have worked together on lighthouse
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cruises, and I was trying to figure out
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when the first one was. I'm thinking at
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least 2013,
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if not a bit before that.
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The earliest reference I could find online was
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2013.
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Somebody correct me if you think it goes
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back farther than that. We missed a couple
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of years with COVID in there,
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but we have done, lighthouse cruises most of
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those years since 2013. In fact,
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there were some years when there were two
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or even three all day lighthouse cruises with
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Bar Harbor Whale Watch.
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All three of you and myself have been,
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involved in most of those cruises.
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The main thing I wanna talk about today
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is that, we're doing,
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another one of these all day lighthouse cruises
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with Bar Harbor Whale Watch on September 5,
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Saturday, September 5.
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So I don't know who wants to take
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this, probably Zach or or Julie, but could
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you tell our listeners about what they can
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expect,
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if they do that cruise on September 5?
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Yeah. We're super excited. We're do we're gonna
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be seeing, I think, 19 lighthouses that day.
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We have taken a trip that we've done
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in the past, and we've modified it so
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that we're adding a few additional lights that
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we have never gotten to
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on our tours. So we're going further west
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this year. And, you know, last year, we
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went
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back to Canada, and we did the, the
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Downeast
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tour all the way up to the Canadian
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border and did a bunch of the Canadian
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lighthouses.
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And this year, we're gonna go west, and
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we're gonna add
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some lighthouses to the west, including Monhegan Lighthouse,
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make it all the way to Monhegan. So
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that that's gonna be an amazing addition. I
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will I will have to say that,
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you know, the weather is always important. And
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and if the weather is not ideal that
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day, if there's a big storm for or
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something like that, then we can always,
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reroute and go up into Penobscot Bay and
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and see lighthouses there. So we're pretty confident
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the trip will go for sure, and we'll
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keep our fingers crossed that it's the the
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sea state is good so that we can
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make it all the way to Monhegan.
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Yeah. Well, I put in the order for
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for, sunny skies and calm seas that day,
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so we should we should be all set.
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Nice. Okay. Nice.
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And I I was looking at the the
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schedule, the itinerary.
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As you said,
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some lights have been added to what we
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would normally do on a cruise going south
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from Bar Harbor,
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Monhegan, as you said, which has never been
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included in these cruises before,
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Marshall Point. I I guess that none of
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these four have been included before in the
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cruises. Marshall Point, 2 Busch Island, and Tenants
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Harbor. They're all,
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very interesting, beautiful places. So what what a
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great addition. Monhegan's a pretty spectacular place, of
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course.
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So, again, I'll I'll be doing some of
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the narration about the history of these places,
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stories about keepers, what life was like, and
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so forth.
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But, Bob, you,
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you have a
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you kinda look at lighthouses from
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multiple angles, which is really neat, both as
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a historian. You've written about them certainly
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as a photographer also and as a technician,
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with the Coast Guard Auxiliary.
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So you've especially in that position as a
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technician, you've actually visited many of these places,
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including some of the very remote ones. So
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you always have some, interesting personal observations to
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add.
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Oh, every layer of lighthouses has their stories.
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So whether it's the preservation side, whether it's
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the history side, or the utilitarian side of
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the coast guard,
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there's always something cool to share with people
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and and actually add to their experience, add
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to their learning,
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and, hopefully, overall appreciation
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for why these lighthouses are important. Well, I
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think we have a great team. You know?
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We've had some of the you mentioned, Zach,
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some of the cruises have gone north,
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to as far as, you know, across into
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New Brunswick, Canada.
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And a couple of those times in the
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past, we had Chris Mills on board as
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well, who's a former Canadian light keeper and
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author and, good friend of ours.
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So he won't be on this one. We
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do miss him. But with the three of
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us and also Julie, you you've, certainly, you
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you will be on the cruise in September.
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Right? Am I right about that? And do
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something?
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I hope to be.
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They're always
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such a wonderful
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adventure. Yeah. They they are really truly
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unique experiences.
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I think it's quite impressive that we get
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to see so much in one day, and
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I've definitely been able to add to my
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light list year after year after year seeing
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all these incredible lighthouses. And like you said,
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I love the store I love to hear
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from all of you the stories, the background
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of the lights, and,
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I that's one of my favorite parts of
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the trip. But you also help out with,
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pointing out some of the wildlife and so
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forth,
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that we see on the cruises.
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Yeah. Zach and I will work on that.
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You know, we can potentially see all sorts
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of seabirds. You know, thinking at that time
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of year. You never know and where we
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go. You know, could see whales possibly.
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You never know. But certainly, porpoise, seals.
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Yeah. There's just such a variety of wildlife
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out there that makes the Gulf Of Maine
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special too. So that's another, like, extra
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highlight of the trip too. The wildlife and
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the scenery, it's just yeah. It's just spectacular.
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I love it. Yeah. Yeah. What a combination
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between the the natural environment, the lighthouses,
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the, just the the general scenery as you
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said. It's it's a spectacular area.
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So part of a big part of the
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reason we're able to see so many lighthouses
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in
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one day, 19 lighthouses in a day. I
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mean, where else can you can take a
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cruise where you can see that many? It's,
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because we're on a a beautiful big whale
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watch boat, that can travel really fast. And,
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I don't know if either any of you
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wanna say a little bit more about the
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boat we'll be on that day. Yeah. The
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the Friendship five,
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is a is a popular boat amongst the
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crew too. It's it's been a boat that's
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we've had since the mid like, mid late
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nineties. Right, Zach?
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Yep. Yeah. Mid night for weeks. Yeah.
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Yeah. Catamaran, jet powered.
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It's three three decks. So there's lots of
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viewing space outside, but it's very comfortable inside.
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We have a galley. So it's it it's
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a really comfortable
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ride throughout you know, especially a long day.
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It just has, you know, everything you need
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to be out on the water for most
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of the day. Yeah.
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Yeah. How fast does it go? I think
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it it usually goes, and correct me if
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I'm wrong, Zach,
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at the most, like, 28
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knots, maybe up to 30, depending on, you
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know, how much we have for people on
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board. But, yeah, generally about that. And usually
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between places we'll go, we'll we may go
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that fast depending on where we are. But,
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I mean, the boat can turn really easily.
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You know, if there's any, you know, gear
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in the water, you know, the captains are
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very aware of that. But with having jets,
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you know, we, you know, we don't have
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to worry about that so much.
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And the captains do a great job. They
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understand and see how special the lighthouses are
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to everyone on board, and they spin the
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boat. We can turn, you know, slow down,
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turn, and maneuver the boat so everyone gets
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a good look no matter where they are,
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especially, like, for pictures and for, you know,
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taking,
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for photography and things like that. So yeah.
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Matt. Yeah. Matt. There's Matt catching. Yeah. Sometimes,
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yeah, Chad. We've had some, a couple different
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captains.
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But usually, Matt tends to do them. Yeah.
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He he likes to do those trips. So
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to ten minutes, I think, at each lighthouse.
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And as you said, turning the boat around
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and so forth so everybody gets a good
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view. Nobody has to fight for position to
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get good pictures, which is great. Yeah. Exactly.
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Yeah. Such a comfortable boat. And there's also,
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food available,
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as part of this as well. Right? Which
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is an important part when you're out on
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a boat all day.
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Yeah. I think I think as what we
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we've done recently is, like, we do have
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a galley on board, you know, snacks, beverages,
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you know, there's various options.
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on the dock that gives you a discount,
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the Sunrise Cafe. So if if folks wanna
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get, like, a like, a sandwich, like, do,
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like, box lunches and and grab something to
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eat for, like, for breakfast beforehand.
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That way you have something for the day.
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But we have usually enough to get people
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by for snack, like, items
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on the boat.
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But and folks are welcome to bring their
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own food.
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Just as long as it's not in a
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glass container or alcohol, you're good to go.
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So we serve the alcohol on board, so
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don't worry about that.
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Yep. Beer beer and wine on board? Yeah.
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Yeah. Well well yeah. Yeah. We got all
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that. So
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Everything you could possibly want.
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And I haven't mentioned one member of our
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team is Mike Leonard, photographer.
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Excellent photographer who's been on most of these
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cruises will be on it this year as
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I understand it.
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And he's available to give tips and so
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forth and usually has an extra lens or
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two to let people drive if they want,
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that sort of thing.
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He tries to do a a workshop
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prior to the trip. And we might be
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doing a different format this year
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in doing maybe virtually, or we can,
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well, I don't know the details, but he
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he likes to have something beforehand to
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to prep people for different ways of taking
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photos while and then on the boat, like
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you said, be available if anyone has any
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questions. You know, he's been really great.
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Also, you know, works with the guides to
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may then request to the captain if we
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can to turn the boat a certain way
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so we can get, like, a certain angle.
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But he's always been great in, and then
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he usually does an editing.
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This past year, he did an editing
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with Zoom workshop
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so folks could edit their images after.
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So that was nice. Yeah. I've learned a
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lot from Michael. Oh, Mike's great. I've had
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him on the podcast a couple of times.
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You wouldn't think,
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doing a a podcast episode on photo tips
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would be, you know, is is like a
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natural thing to do, you know, just audio,
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but he did a does a great job
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with it. I got a lot of feedback
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on on the episodes that he's been on.
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And, Zach, of course, again, you're doing a
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lot of narration of the, the the natural
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environment and the and the history of, Bar
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Harbor, Acadia National Park area, the whole whole
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region there, and you're so knowledgeable about it.
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And,
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what what's so what's what's so special about
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that part of the coast? And I know
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it's a hard question to answer in a
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couple of words, Zach, but
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what makes it so special?
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I see myself on the trips as trying
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to help, fill in the gaps and talk
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between lights and share,
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you know, historical information, cultural information, wildlife,
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sightings,
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and the natural history.
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And, yeah, they you know, there's a book,
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I think it was by Philip Conklin, Islands
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and Time, you know, and it's such a
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beautiful book about,
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the coast of Maine, and we are blessed
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with so many beautiful islands
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and history. And
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so these tours, more than any other tour,
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the the all day lighthouse tours that we
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do on the coast of Maine
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give you
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a a bit of everything. Right? You know,
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it's like the lighthouses, the islands, and you
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see all the fishing boats at work and
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and the fishing fleets, and you and you
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see all the tremendous wildlife
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and all of it. You know? It's just
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it's special because it's the it's the it's
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the whole package. It's all it's all there,
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you know, in those trips. Like, you come
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away at the end of the day, your
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your head is just full of all the
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tremendous beauty and that you've seen. And then,
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you know, the beautiful stories that you and
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Bob share,
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that bring the lights to life.
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And,
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I love the piece that Bob has been
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really focused on that reminding us all about
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how lighthouses
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are connected to the environment
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and the they're all one ecosystem. You know,
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lighthouses are part of the ecosystem.
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So now we have,
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the station keeper program where lighthouses are being
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used
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to alert the big ships about where right
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whales are because lighthouses are out on the
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ocean, so they can send AIS signals and
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radio signals to the ships to warn them
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about right whales.
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The lighthouses have a deep connection to the
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natural world. The keepers,
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around the world, lighthouse keepers have been involved
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in protecting wildlife, protecting seabirds,
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documenting the sea the birds. Even at Monhegan
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Light, the lighthouse keepers kept a record
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of the birds that would return,
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on migration and come through, and that has
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been taken by the Audubon Society and and
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put been put to use in the main
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bird records committee. So lighthouses have played such
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a,
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interesting role and still do today. And and
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I think one of the things that that
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Bob's very connected to now is, like, the
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the impact that climate change is having on
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the lighthouses and how
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we we have to consider that. And that's
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all part of the same ecosystem that we're
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dealing with with nature too. How do we
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how how is nature gonna respond to the
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changing climate?
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That's something Julie and I, talk about a
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lot. And in our
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naturalist association,
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are trying to always educate each other about
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what's going on out there, what's the big
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picture of what's unfolding. So You know, Jeremy,
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lighthouse, as we all know, this lighthouse is
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for they were special, but their people made
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them more special.
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And I think on this tour, I think
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that's exactly
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what tour patrons
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really receive. It's all about the people that
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make their experience.
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When you think about the the knowledge, the
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lived experience
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of people like yourself and Zach and Julie,
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and you think about how
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it's not just showing up in five minutes,
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I before I looked at some notes, these
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are people who know what is going on
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in their fields of expertise,
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and not just the past, but today and
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where are we going tomorrow.
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So I do think this is a lighthouse
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house tour like no other that I think
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people will find not only memorable, but one
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that will actually open
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new doors and opportunities to learning and how,
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as Zach said, lighthouse is so interconnected to
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what we're doing. Beautifully said. And that's exactly
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that's exactly what I love about what you
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add to these cruises, Bob, is your
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decades of experience
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from these various angles looking at lighthouses from
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a historical viewpoint, from a technical viewpoint,
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from the viewpoint of having visited some of
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these really remote places. Not a whole lot
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of people can say that. And what you
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were just talking before we started the call
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here, you've been involved in things like, bird
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count at, Petite Manhattan Island.
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So you've come at it from that direction
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too. I know you appreciate the the natural
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environment very much, the wildlife and so forth
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as well. And I love the adaptive reuses
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that we're so creatively finding for these sites,
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which makes them relevant because,
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their their age and their one time importance
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is not enough always in today's environment. We
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need to connect it to people today and
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to the initiatives that are important to people
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along our coastline. So, lighthouses are perfectly capable
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of doing it and are doing that. And
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that's what's I think that's another exciting element
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that people will, like I said, walk away
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from saying, wow. Yeah. Yeah.
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So we could talk about this cruise all
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day,
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and we're in danger of doing that here.
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But, the the thing is, hopefully, we've made
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people realize they need to experience this for
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themselves. I mean,
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you know, us talking about it is nice,
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but to experience it is a a whole
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another ballgame. So,
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I hope a lot a lot of our
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listeners will be on board. I just wanna
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add also,
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before we sign off here that, the US
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Lighthouse Society is doing a Downeast Maine tour
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in June, June,
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that I'll be helping to lead,
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with Tina and Rick Hans.
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And,
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we're gonna do two actually, three, really, cruises
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with Bar Harbor Whale Watch as part of
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that tour,
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two,
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basically, half day lighthouse cruises going different directions,
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and also a special,
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charter cruise to, Baker Island where we'll get
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off and explore that island, which is really
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neat that, park service, it's under the Acadia
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National Park, and the regular tours there have
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been discontinued, but we're gonna get to go
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there.
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So that's very exciting. And I just wanna
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thank you, Julie, for all your help as
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we,
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keep, trying to,
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nail down our itinerary, and I've probably changed
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it a 100 times since I've been in
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touch about it. And you've been been great
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about, being helpful and being a go between
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and all that. So So thank you, Julie.
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Yeah. Well, we're excited to do it, and
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we appreciate you wanting us to be a
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part of it. So we're happy to
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do whatever we can to make it work.
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Great. I I know you guys are such
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a a great partner on all of this.
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I've been,
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very happy to work with Bar Harbor Whale
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Watch for for quite a few years now.
534
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And you also do regularly scheduled lighthouse cruises.
535
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It's it's a daily cruise in season. Right?
536
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So in the beginning from the beginning of
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our season, early May to about
538
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early mid August, we'll do our Puffin and
539
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Lighthouse cruises. Those run daily, weather depending. But
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those are fantastic,
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to go out to Petite Venant,
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see, all the seabirds, puffins, razorbills,
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it's returns. It's,
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it's a really,
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really beautiful trip because we also see different
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parts of the shorelines of Acadia.
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We stop at Egg Rock.
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Usually, lots of seals and seabirds there.
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And then we stop in at, Winter Harbor
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Light. Mhmm. And then in the
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August,
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we swap over because the Pappan's head offshore.
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We start doing the
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lighthouse,
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wildlife and Acadia National Park cruise, and we've
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been doing that cruise for a number of
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years now.
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That goes daily
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as well,
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once those start.
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And that's a really great introduction to other
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lighthouses.
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We visit
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on the other side of, like, Mount Desert
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Island, the Cranberry Isles,
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and you really get to see quite a
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few you know, I think quite a few
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lighthouses anywhere from four to five. And then
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the lifesaving station, which
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I love talking about the history of a
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lifesaving service whenever I'm on those trips. But,
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yeah, that's another great opportunity to see wildlife
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as well.
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We see porpoise, various seabirds, like, the fall
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months bring in different wildlife. So, yeah, that's
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a really enjoyable
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trip. And similar to these all day trips,
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you know, we we stop at the islands
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or we and we slow the boat down.
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We turn around. Everyone get good photos and
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get a good view at all the lighthouses
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we see.
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And Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah. So people can't make the September
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5 cruise if they go to Bar Harbor
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anytime from around Memorial Day weekend,
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into maybe, like, mid October. There's probably, some
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kind of a lighthouse cruise
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they can take part in. Yeah. We'll have
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something we'll have a lighthouse going a cruise
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going until the end pretty much almost the
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October this year. We're extending it out a
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little bit later. So Yeah. Not to we
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haven't even mentioned, of course, obviously, it's Bar
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Harbor Whale Watch, so people might guess there's
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whale whale watch cruises
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as well and other naturalist type type cruises.
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There's a a wide array of things really,
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offered by the company.
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And people can go to barharborwhales.com.
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Is that do I have the right Yeah.
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URL for that? You know? Yep. That's correct.
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Yeah. They can visit,
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our website anytime.
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They can reach out to us via phone
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or email if they have any questions. But,
607
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yeah, any anytime, we can head over to
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the website.
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I just wanna finish with one, bonus point
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question. I'm gonna aim it at you, Julie,
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because the Bob and and Zach kind of
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kind of answered this question already. But for
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you, Julie, what do you what do you
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love most about the Maine Coast?
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Oh, gosh.
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Oh, that is
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a oh,
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good question. There I mean, there's so much.
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I mean, I I grew up in Massachusetts,
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and I've always loved we used to come
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to Maine when I was a kid.
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It was always something about the Maine Coast
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that I knew,
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you know, I wanted to live here,
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which I have for over twenty years now.
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I
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I think that there's there's just so much
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in in which you can see and enjoy,
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like, the cultural history that as well as
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the natural history
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and just all the different yeah. And I
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think up I mean, the entire coast, but
633
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up this way, all the different islands,
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you know, and over time, I've really grown
635
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to appreciate, like, the lighthouses and lighthouse history.
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There's just so many aspects of the coast
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that I I love, and I think that's
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what all of these trips as we've talked
639
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about really and everyone's highlighted here so perfectly.
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It highlights all those different wonderful aspects of
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the Maine Coast. You know, the peep you
642
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know, that we talk about the people, like
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our communities here,
644
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how that's connected to the lighthouses, why the
645
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lighthouses here, you know, the wildlife and how
646
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we're connected to the natural world. There's, you
647
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know, there's so much here that the Maine
648
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that the Maine Coast highlights with those connections,
649
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that are so wonderful
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all year round.
651
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Yeah. Again, I know it's a question that
652
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can't be answered in a word or two.
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And,
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Zach or Bob, you wanna add any add
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anything before we sign off? Anything you wanna
656
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say? Any people who might be wondering whether
657
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or not they should sign up for that
658
00:24:00,974 --> 00:24:02,115
September 5 cruise?
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I will say September 5, this group,
660
00:24:05,535 --> 00:24:08,015
Mike Leonard and the crew of the, Bar
661
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Harbor Whale Watch,
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We're gonna have the fun meter maxed, and
663
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we want everybody to come and join us.
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Definitely. Well, all three of you, I I
665
00:24:17,420 --> 00:24:19,840
thank you so much for, doing this today.
666
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And I think, people can tell by by
667
00:24:22,634 --> 00:24:24,875
listening that it's something we all enjoy very,
668
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very much.
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We enjoy,
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being around each other,
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having so much fun in these cruises as
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Bob just said, and the Maine Coast is
673
00:24:33,674 --> 00:24:35,275
just such a special place to all of
674
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us. So I'm really now I've I've really,
675
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you know, it's like, you talk about food
676
00:24:40,759 --> 00:24:42,519
and you get hungry. I'm I'm hungry for
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this cruise at this point.
678
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I'm really looking forward to September 5.
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So, Julie and Zach and Bob, thank you
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all so much. You're welcome. Thank you so
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00:24:52,734 --> 00:24:56,158
much. I wanna add a couple of things
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before I move on. Bar Harbor Whale Watch
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will have the US Lighthouse Society stamps on
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board, passport stamps,
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00:25:04,769 --> 00:25:06,850
for the vast majority of the lighthouses we'll
686
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be seeing. I also wanna mention that September
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5 will be during Labor Day weekend, so
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you wanna make your cruise reservation and your
689
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hotel reservations early because the hotels will be
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00:25:17,170 --> 00:25:19,464
filling up. Again, all the info about the
691
00:25:19,464 --> 00:25:22,204
cruise is available at barharborwhales.com.
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You can also read about all the other,
693
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cruises the company offers.
694
00:25:26,265 --> 00:25:28,184
Next, we're gonna hear a conversation I had
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with Barry King. Barry is the owner and
696
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captain of one of the most beautiful boats
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in one of the most beautiful harbors in
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Maine, the schooner Mary Day, which is home
699
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ported in Camden. For those who might not
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know, a schooner is a type of sailing
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vessel that was designed to be highly maneuverable
702
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,894
and efficient in shifting coastal winds. They were
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00:25:47,894 --> 00:25:51,115
widely used for fishing, carrying cargo, and racing.
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Unlike its predecessors, the Merry Day was constructed
705
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in 1962
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to carry passengers.
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The Merry Day reflects centuries of traditional design,
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construction, and rigging evolution.
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The Merry Day offers several different multi day
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00:26:05,849 --> 00:26:08,009
cruises in the warmer months. I will be
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00:26:08,009 --> 00:26:10,250
on board for a six day lighthouse cruise
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this July 26 to August 1. I did
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it last year and I loved it, and
714
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I'm really looking forward to this year's. I
715
00:26:17,305 --> 00:26:19,465
spoke with captain Barry King about the lighthouse
716
00:26:19,465 --> 00:26:22,125
cruise and all about the merry day recently.
717
00:26:22,265 --> 00:26:23,884
So let's listen to that now.
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00:26:27,625 --> 00:26:30,009
I'm speaking with Barry King, or I should
719
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say captain Barry King, who is the owner
720
00:26:32,250 --> 00:26:34,410
and captain of the schooner Mary Day out
721
00:26:34,410 --> 00:26:36,329
of beautiful Camden, Maine, one of my favorite
722
00:26:36,329 --> 00:26:37,390
places in the world.
723
00:26:38,009 --> 00:26:39,369
And well, first of all, thank you so
724
00:26:39,369 --> 00:26:41,609
much for doing this today, Barry. I really
725
00:26:41,609 --> 00:26:43,549
appreciate it. Yeah. You're very welcome.
726
00:26:43,924 --> 00:26:46,404
So let me well, I wanna talk about
727
00:26:46,404 --> 00:26:48,565
the lighthouse sale or cruise that I'll be
728
00:26:48,565 --> 00:26:50,884
doing with you coming up, the July.
729
00:26:50,884 --> 00:26:52,724
We'll talk about that in a minute. But
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00:26:52,724 --> 00:26:55,444
let me ask you a a big question
731
00:26:55,444 --> 00:26:57,589
here. How did you come to be the
732
00:26:57,589 --> 00:27:00,630
owner of an historic schooner on the Maine
733
00:27:00,630 --> 00:27:02,389
coast? You know, I came to work on
734
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the schooner as the mate. And,
735
00:27:05,190 --> 00:27:08,649
yeah, after six years, we had the opportunity
736
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to buy into the boat.
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We had a dear friend who was willing
738
00:27:12,835 --> 00:27:14,295
to give us a hand, and
739
00:27:14,595 --> 00:27:15,335
that was
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00:27:15,795 --> 00:27:17,494
twenty seven years ago now.
741
00:27:17,795 --> 00:27:19,875
Wow. And I imagine you had a lot
742
00:27:19,875 --> 00:27:21,974
of sailing experience before that.
743
00:27:22,399 --> 00:27:26,179
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I had run boats before,
744
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:28,880
you know, before I'd come aboard Mary Day,
745
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:30,500
I had run some other boats,
746
00:27:31,839 --> 00:27:34,399
been captain on a bunch of different boats.
747
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So,
748
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you know, I kinda
749
00:27:37,005 --> 00:27:39,325
I kinda knew how the captain gig worked,
750
00:27:39,325 --> 00:27:39,825
but,
751
00:27:41,085 --> 00:27:43,424
but I'm still learning how the schooner works.
752
00:27:44,045 --> 00:27:46,125
Mhmm. And, well, yeah, I looked at your
753
00:27:46,125 --> 00:27:48,045
bio on on the Mary Day website, and
754
00:27:48,045 --> 00:27:50,650
it's pretty extensive, your your sailing experience. I
755
00:27:50,650 --> 00:27:52,730
also saw something about how you were involved
756
00:27:52,730 --> 00:27:53,470
with environmental
757
00:27:53,769 --> 00:27:54,269
education.
758
00:27:54,809 --> 00:27:57,789
Is that right? So my background yeah. My
759
00:27:57,849 --> 00:27:58,349
my
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00:27:58,890 --> 00:28:00,670
my master's degree is in
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experiential environmental education,
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00:28:04,035 --> 00:28:05,795
which is really what we're doing with the
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00:28:05,795 --> 00:28:09,075
schooner. I mean, it's, you know, we're we're
764
00:28:09,075 --> 00:28:11,315
out there in the natural world. We're seeing
765
00:28:11,315 --> 00:28:11,815
stuff.
766
00:28:12,835 --> 00:28:14,855
There's tons of teachable moments.
767
00:28:15,235 --> 00:28:15,735
And,
768
00:28:16,115 --> 00:28:18,375
you know, the Maine Coast, of course, is,
769
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you know, we're we're pretty rich with wildlife,
770
00:28:22,019 --> 00:28:25,240
and we're also pretty rich with cultural history,
771
00:28:26,019 --> 00:28:26,680
which is
772
00:28:27,460 --> 00:28:30,119
tied to the environmental history of the coast.
773
00:28:30,980 --> 00:28:33,674
Yeah, you can't can't really separate the two,
774
00:28:34,075 --> 00:28:35,134
which is why
775
00:28:35,755 --> 00:28:36,735
lighthouse cruises
776
00:28:37,755 --> 00:28:40,975
and natural history cruises and photography cruises,
777
00:28:41,515 --> 00:28:43,035
you know, those are all a part of
778
00:28:43,035 --> 00:28:44,955
what we do. Yeah. Like you said, it
779
00:28:45,035 --> 00:28:46,494
it's all part of the same
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00:28:46,795 --> 00:28:47,295
package.
781
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:49,400
You know? Yes. I think most of us
782
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:51,420
lighthouse nuts also appreciate
783
00:28:51,799 --> 00:28:53,880
the natural environment and wildlife. I know there's
784
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:55,420
a lot of lighthouse
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00:28:56,039 --> 00:28:58,599
nuts like myself who are also birders. That's
786
00:28:58,599 --> 00:28:59,420
quite common.
787
00:28:59,960 --> 00:29:02,920
Yeah. So Yeah. Exactly. And Mhmm. You know,
788
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:03,079
the
789
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you can't separate
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the environment
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from,
792
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you know, from the fact that there are
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00:29:09,134 --> 00:29:09,634
lighthouses
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00:29:10,174 --> 00:29:11,714
out there. I mean, it's just
795
00:29:12,095 --> 00:29:13,394
yeah. The Maine Coast,
796
00:29:14,015 --> 00:29:15,694
you know, is built in such a way
797
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that
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we,
799
00:29:18,269 --> 00:29:20,990
yeah, we're fortunate to have lighthouses. We're fortunate
800
00:29:20,990 --> 00:29:21,970
to need lighthouses.
801
00:29:22,509 --> 00:29:23,409
Yeah. And,
802
00:29:24,190 --> 00:29:25,409
really, they're,
803
00:29:25,789 --> 00:29:27,809
you know, they're a result of
804
00:29:28,109 --> 00:29:29,250
of this,
805
00:29:30,055 --> 00:29:32,455
you know, whole environmental package that the Maine
806
00:29:32,455 --> 00:29:33,674
Coast has to offer.
807
00:29:34,295 --> 00:29:36,455
Absolutely. And that's one of the nice things
808
00:29:36,455 --> 00:29:37,335
about getting,
809
00:29:37,654 --> 00:29:39,815
into lighthouses is that it that's an excuse
810
00:29:39,815 --> 00:29:41,914
to get you to some incredible places,
811
00:29:42,839 --> 00:29:45,740
including the beautiful rocky Maine Coast that's
812
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:47,960
one of my favorite parts of the world
813
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:48,700
for sure.
814
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:50,440
So let's talk a little bit about the
815
00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:51,900
history of the Merry Day.
816
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,099
When and why was it built?
817
00:29:55,555 --> 00:29:57,474
So Merry Day was built in,
818
00:29:57,955 --> 00:30:00,244
she was launched in January
819
00:30:00,244 --> 00:30:01,255
1962,
820
00:30:01,715 --> 00:30:03,474
and the 1962
821
00:30:03,474 --> 00:30:04,615
was her first season.
822
00:30:04,914 --> 00:30:07,335
She was the very first schooner built specifically
823
00:30:07,474 --> 00:30:09,494
for the windjammer passenger trade.
824
00:30:09,809 --> 00:30:11,669
You know, as a result, she's,
825
00:30:12,130 --> 00:30:13,669
you know, she's pretty spacious
826
00:30:14,369 --> 00:30:15,909
compared to a lot of other
827
00:30:16,369 --> 00:30:19,269
old timey schooners that weren't purpose built for
828
00:30:19,649 --> 00:30:20,389
for people.
829
00:30:21,250 --> 00:30:23,714
Yeah. You know, we, you know, we have
830
00:30:23,714 --> 00:30:26,295
cabins with nine feet of headroom and skylights
831
00:30:26,994 --> 00:30:27,734
and windows.
832
00:30:29,154 --> 00:30:30,755
You know, we have a galley that can
833
00:30:30,755 --> 00:30:32,535
seat, you know, all the guests
834
00:30:33,075 --> 00:30:35,335
so that we can eat together family style.
835
00:30:35,954 --> 00:30:37,575
We don't have to eat on deck,
836
00:30:38,690 --> 00:30:39,190
necessarily.
837
00:30:40,130 --> 00:30:41,970
Yeah. So she was built for the first
838
00:30:41,970 --> 00:30:44,289
ten years of her life or thirteen years
839
00:30:44,289 --> 00:30:45,029
of her life.
840
00:30:45,330 --> 00:30:47,029
She was what we call bald headed.
841
00:30:47,970 --> 00:30:49,109
She didn't have topmast.
842
00:30:49,809 --> 00:30:54,674
And then in the 7677,
843
00:30:55,134 --> 00:30:56,894
the family who had the boat at the
844
00:30:56,894 --> 00:30:58,835
time decided to rig her with topmast.
845
00:31:00,174 --> 00:31:02,914
So that was a pretty monumental leap forward
846
00:31:03,535 --> 00:31:04,434
for the schooner.
847
00:31:05,455 --> 00:31:07,475
When we bought the schooner in
848
00:31:08,174 --> 00:31:09,059
'98,
849
00:31:09,220 --> 00:31:11,620
she was in really good shape, but but
850
00:31:11,620 --> 00:31:13,779
there was enough question marks going on that
851
00:31:13,779 --> 00:31:15,480
we decided we'd do a
852
00:31:15,860 --> 00:31:17,080
pretty thorough restoration
853
00:31:17,539 --> 00:31:18,360
of the schooner.
854
00:31:18,900 --> 00:31:21,220
So we hauled the boat out in October
855
00:31:21,220 --> 00:31:22,360
of the year and,
856
00:31:23,125 --> 00:31:24,904
in October '99,
857
00:31:25,444 --> 00:31:27,765
and we launched 04/01/2000,
858
00:31:27,765 --> 00:31:28,265
and
859
00:31:28,804 --> 00:31:30,404
we did about 11,000
860
00:31:30,404 --> 00:31:33,125
people hours of work. We replaced the stem.
861
00:31:33,125 --> 00:31:33,785
We replaced,
862
00:31:34,579 --> 00:31:36,019
oh, about a 120
863
00:31:36,019 --> 00:31:38,420
planks around the boat. We replaced the entire
864
00:31:38,420 --> 00:31:38,920
stern.
865
00:31:39,619 --> 00:31:41,720
We refastened the ballast keel.
866
00:31:42,259 --> 00:31:44,359
Yeah. We rebuilt what are called the bulwarks,
867
00:31:44,500 --> 00:31:45,480
the waste planking,
868
00:31:46,180 --> 00:31:48,759
all new, bulwarks stanchions and
869
00:31:49,335 --> 00:31:50,954
all new bullwerk. So,
870
00:31:52,134 --> 00:31:54,714
yeah, it was a pretty extensive rebuild, and
871
00:31:55,174 --> 00:31:57,015
and we just keep picking away at it
872
00:31:57,015 --> 00:31:57,994
year after year.
873
00:31:58,534 --> 00:32:00,454
Yeah. There's always something that needs to be
874
00:32:00,454 --> 00:32:00,954
done.
875
00:32:01,460 --> 00:32:03,299
Yeah. So It's like a lighthouse. It's like
876
00:32:03,299 --> 00:32:05,160
taking care of a lighthouse that's never finished.
877
00:32:05,779 --> 00:32:07,539
No. No. No. And it's
878
00:32:08,180 --> 00:32:10,420
you know, you really gotta stay on top
879
00:32:10,420 --> 00:32:11,000
of it,
880
00:32:11,940 --> 00:32:13,875
like a lighthouse. You know, if you let
881
00:32:14,035 --> 00:32:15,954
if you let the maintenance go too far,
882
00:32:15,954 --> 00:32:18,134
it starts to get away from you. So
883
00:32:18,595 --> 00:32:20,694
you really gotta stay on top of it.
884
00:32:21,075 --> 00:32:21,575
Absolutely.
885
00:32:22,035 --> 00:32:24,115
So what's the sailing season for the Merry
886
00:32:24,115 --> 00:32:27,174
Day? And I know you do, several different
887
00:32:27,394 --> 00:32:27,894
offerings,
888
00:32:29,130 --> 00:32:31,549
that, are multi day offerings.
889
00:32:32,090 --> 00:32:34,410
Can you besides the lighthouse sale we're gonna
890
00:32:34,410 --> 00:32:35,570
talk about in a minute, what are some
891
00:32:35,570 --> 00:32:36,590
of the other offerings?
892
00:32:36,970 --> 00:32:39,690
Well, we start the season uniquely with,
893
00:32:40,330 --> 00:32:42,910
with school groups that charter the boat.
894
00:32:43,835 --> 00:32:45,674
So we do a couple of sail training
895
00:32:45,674 --> 00:32:47,535
cruises with groups of eighth graders
896
00:32:48,154 --> 00:32:50,474
who are transitioning from middle school to high
897
00:32:50,474 --> 00:32:50,974
school.
898
00:32:51,434 --> 00:32:52,734
Those cruises are
899
00:32:53,275 --> 00:32:55,775
are pretty busy. The kids are active doing,
900
00:32:56,380 --> 00:32:57,359
you know, the navigation.
901
00:32:57,740 --> 00:32:58,880
They're pretty active
902
00:32:59,419 --> 00:33:01,740
steering the boat and taking care of the
903
00:33:01,740 --> 00:33:02,720
lines and
904
00:33:03,019 --> 00:33:05,500
keeping a lookout up on the bow. Yeah.
905
00:33:05,500 --> 00:33:07,659
So they're they're pretty busy all day long,
906
00:33:07,659 --> 00:33:08,159
and
907
00:33:08,474 --> 00:33:10,795
and that rolls us into the beginning of
908
00:33:10,795 --> 00:33:12,174
our adult cruises.
909
00:33:12,875 --> 00:33:14,394
The first of which this year is a
910
00:33:14,394 --> 00:33:14,894
gam.
911
00:33:15,595 --> 00:33:17,454
A gam is a gathering of schooners.
912
00:33:18,234 --> 00:33:19,694
That's a four day cruise.
913
00:33:20,075 --> 00:33:21,755
That's a pretty exciting it's kind of the
914
00:33:21,755 --> 00:33:24,380
first rendezvous of the fleet for the
915
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,080
season. Towards the June, we do our nature
916
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:28,460
and photography cruise.
917
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:30,779
That's a six day cruise,
918
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,400
and it is, you know, pretty much as
919
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:35,960
I describe, it's you know, we have a
920
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:37,180
resident naturalist
921
00:33:37,875 --> 00:33:39,255
and a resident photographer
922
00:33:39,555 --> 00:33:42,615
who guide us towards making better images
923
00:33:43,795 --> 00:33:46,755
and towards a better understanding of the ecology
924
00:33:46,755 --> 00:33:47,815
of the Maine Coast.
925
00:33:48,275 --> 00:33:50,195
Mhmm. The week after that, we have the
926
00:33:50,195 --> 00:33:51,494
great schooner race.
927
00:33:51,795 --> 00:33:53,414
That's an annual event.
928
00:33:53,929 --> 00:33:56,329
That's, that usually happens the Friday of that
929
00:33:56,329 --> 00:33:56,829
week.
930
00:33:57,690 --> 00:33:59,609
As we like to say, it's the it's
931
00:33:59,609 --> 00:34:01,150
the largest gathering of,
932
00:34:01,849 --> 00:34:04,109
commercial working tall ships that week
933
00:34:04,490 --> 00:34:06,009
of the year, so it's,
934
00:34:06,569 --> 00:34:08,190
it's a pretty unique event.
935
00:34:08,885 --> 00:34:10,984
Yeah. And then we go into
936
00:34:12,405 --> 00:34:14,585
a series of three and four day cruises
937
00:34:14,724 --> 00:34:16,425
that lead us up to our
938
00:34:16,964 --> 00:34:19,204
the first of two lighthouse cruises that we
939
00:34:19,204 --> 00:34:20,340
do during the summer.
940
00:34:20,820 --> 00:34:21,400
And then
941
00:34:21,780 --> 00:34:23,480
we have a cruise that runs,
942
00:34:24,099 --> 00:34:26,739
into Labor Day weekend, which is our Camden
943
00:34:26,739 --> 00:34:29,539
Windjammer Festival cruise. It's a celebration of the
944
00:34:29,539 --> 00:34:30,039
fleet.
945
00:34:30,340 --> 00:34:32,599
The whole fleet comes into Camden. It's
946
00:34:33,454 --> 00:34:36,034
it's pretty wild to see all those masts,
947
00:34:37,215 --> 00:34:39,295
towering above Camden Harbor. It's,
948
00:34:39,855 --> 00:34:41,155
it's really extraordinary.
949
00:34:42,735 --> 00:34:44,994
And then we finish the season with,
950
00:34:45,775 --> 00:34:47,775
what we call a wooden boat rendezvous. It's
951
00:34:47,775 --> 00:34:49,980
the it's the last gathering of the fleet
952
00:34:50,119 --> 00:34:52,440
for the season, and that's usually the second
953
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:53,420
week in September.
954
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,039
And that's a six day cruise, and we
955
00:34:56,039 --> 00:34:58,599
gather up at a at a place called
956
00:34:58,599 --> 00:34:59,820
the Wooden Boat School.
957
00:35:00,119 --> 00:35:02,200
It's the home of Wooden Boat Magazine as
958
00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:02,700
well.
959
00:35:03,625 --> 00:35:06,345
So it's a it's a fantastic place to,
960
00:35:07,144 --> 00:35:08,985
to anchor up and get a chance to
961
00:35:08,985 --> 00:35:10,525
see stuff for sure,
962
00:35:10,825 --> 00:35:12,585
see what's going on at the Wooden Boat
963
00:35:12,585 --> 00:35:13,485
School, and,
964
00:35:13,945 --> 00:35:16,105
and again, another chance to see the entire
965
00:35:16,105 --> 00:35:18,960
fleet gathered together. After that, we finished the
966
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,059
season with a couple of four day cruises
967
00:35:21,599 --> 00:35:24,500
and a three day cruise kinda celebrating foliage,
968
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:27,599
as we see it coming down the Camden
969
00:35:27,599 --> 00:35:28,099
Hills.
970
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:31,619
So we finished with our foliage cruises,
971
00:35:32,304 --> 00:35:34,405
and that takes us right into the September.
972
00:35:34,784 --> 00:35:37,184
Yeah. Those all sound great. I'm very impressed
973
00:35:37,184 --> 00:35:38,945
that you have that, like, all stored in
974
00:35:38,945 --> 00:35:40,864
your brain. You just go right through the
975
00:35:40,864 --> 00:35:43,045
whole season. That's that's pretty impressive.
976
00:35:43,344 --> 00:35:45,050
Remind me the the Is
977
00:35:47,030 --> 00:35:49,590
it Yep. The website is merryday.com.
978
00:35:49,590 --> 00:35:52,630
That's pretty easy. Yeah? Yep. Merryday.com.
979
00:35:53,030 --> 00:35:55,349
So let's talk about the lighthouse cruises. As
980
00:35:55,349 --> 00:35:57,190
you said, you're doing two of them this
981
00:35:57,190 --> 00:35:57,690
year.
982
00:35:58,005 --> 00:35:59,924
I'll be on the first one, which is
983
00:35:59,924 --> 00:36:01,864
July
984
00:36:01,924 --> 00:36:04,164
to August 1. I think I have that
985
00:36:04,164 --> 00:36:05,204
right. Yeah.
986
00:36:05,844 --> 00:36:08,244
So can of course, I did it last
987
00:36:08,244 --> 00:36:09,605
year. I have a pretty good idea what's
988
00:36:09,605 --> 00:36:12,150
gonna happen. But for if I was a
989
00:36:12,150 --> 00:36:13,909
a person who called and said, what's this
990
00:36:13,909 --> 00:36:15,589
lighthouse cruise all about? What would you tell
991
00:36:15,589 --> 00:36:17,929
them? Well, I would tell them we have
992
00:36:18,309 --> 00:36:20,809
the world's foremost authority on lighthouses.
993
00:36:21,510 --> 00:36:22,010
Really?
994
00:36:23,269 --> 00:36:23,769
Wow.
995
00:36:24,135 --> 00:36:24,875
That's you.
996
00:36:25,255 --> 00:36:26,855
Oh, oh, okay. I was gonna say, gee.
997
00:36:26,855 --> 00:36:27,914
I gotta go on that.
998
00:36:28,614 --> 00:36:29,114
Yeah.
999
00:36:29,494 --> 00:36:30,235
No. We,
1000
00:36:31,015 --> 00:36:33,675
now we're very excited to share the lighthouses
1001
00:36:33,735 --> 00:36:35,114
of the main coast, sir.
1002
00:36:35,574 --> 00:36:38,469
There are approximately 22 lighthouses in our cruising
1003
00:36:38,469 --> 00:36:40,329
area. We don't get to see them all,
1004
00:36:40,869 --> 00:36:42,889
but we'll at least see half of them.
1005
00:36:43,190 --> 00:36:45,109
It's really kind of just a laid back
1006
00:36:45,109 --> 00:36:45,609
time
1007
00:36:46,150 --> 00:36:49,049
to go sailing with a special emphasis on
1008
00:36:49,614 --> 00:36:51,875
scouting out as many lighthouses as we can.
1009
00:36:52,255 --> 00:36:54,015
We try to make a stop somewhere where
1010
00:36:54,015 --> 00:36:55,474
we can get up into a lighthouse,
1011
00:36:56,255 --> 00:36:58,175
and actually see a lighthouse and see the
1012
00:36:58,175 --> 00:36:59,155
keeper's quarters.
1013
00:36:59,614 --> 00:37:02,815
Yeah. That's a real draw for me. That's
1014
00:37:02,815 --> 00:37:04,515
an exciting part of the cruise.
1015
00:37:05,039 --> 00:37:07,300
Thankfully, Jeremy, you're along to do
1016
00:37:07,599 --> 00:37:09,679
a a couple of evening presentations about the
1017
00:37:09,679 --> 00:37:10,660
history of lighthouses
1018
00:37:11,679 --> 00:37:12,160
and,
1019
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,500
lighthouses of the Maine coast in particular.
1020
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:17,860
So the I think the cool thing about
1021
00:37:18,454 --> 00:37:20,635
a lighthouse cruise on a schooner is
1022
00:37:20,934 --> 00:37:23,355
you're seeing lighthouses in real time,
1023
00:37:23,735 --> 00:37:25,735
you know, just as you would have a
1024
00:37:25,735 --> 00:37:26,795
hundred years ago.
1025
00:37:27,175 --> 00:37:29,494
It's cool to be able to, you know,
1026
00:37:29,494 --> 00:37:31,409
to get on a motorboat and go motor
1027
00:37:31,409 --> 00:37:33,010
up to every lighthouse you can find in
1028
00:37:33,010 --> 00:37:33,989
a given day.
1029
00:37:34,449 --> 00:37:36,289
You know, that is, you know, that's a
1030
00:37:36,289 --> 00:37:37,670
beautiful way to see lighthouses,
1031
00:37:38,130 --> 00:37:40,130
but I kinda think the authentic way to
1032
00:37:40,130 --> 00:37:42,050
see him is on a sailing ship. Do
1033
00:37:42,050 --> 00:37:44,130
we still actually use the lighthouses for what
1034
00:37:44,130 --> 00:37:46,835
they were intended for? So we're kinda moving
1035
00:37:46,835 --> 00:37:48,054
at a slower pace,
1036
00:37:49,074 --> 00:37:50,694
when you're under sale, but
1037
00:37:50,994 --> 00:37:53,014
you see the lighthouses in real time,
1038
00:37:53,394 --> 00:37:55,315
you know, just just like you would have
1039
00:37:55,315 --> 00:37:57,315
seen them, like I say, a hundred years
1040
00:37:57,315 --> 00:37:57,815
ago.
1041
00:37:58,275 --> 00:38:00,694
It's a it's a different pace. It's also
1042
00:38:01,849 --> 00:38:03,869
a a more, I'd say, more peaceful,
1043
00:38:04,329 --> 00:38:04,989
kind of,
1044
00:38:05,369 --> 00:38:08,250
you know, experience without the the the engine
1045
00:38:08,250 --> 00:38:10,570
noise and that kind of thing. Yeah. Just
1046
00:38:10,570 --> 00:38:12,250
the, the peace of being out there and
1047
00:38:12,250 --> 00:38:15,164
the and the breeze and the, you know,
1048
00:38:15,244 --> 00:38:17,405
hopefully, blue sky, etcetera. It's just a it's
1049
00:38:17,405 --> 00:38:19,824
just a a beautiful experience. It really is.
1050
00:38:20,125 --> 00:38:21,664
It's, it's pretty special.
1051
00:38:21,965 --> 00:38:22,364
So,
1052
00:38:22,844 --> 00:38:25,565
you mentioned landing at at one lighthouse, probably
1053
00:38:25,565 --> 00:38:27,324
one lighthouse during the tour. Last year, we
1054
00:38:27,324 --> 00:38:27,485
did,
1055
00:38:28,204 --> 00:38:30,625
Burntcoat Harbor Lighthouse on Swan's Island.
1056
00:38:30,950 --> 00:38:32,630
That's right. Yeah. That's a really great place
1057
00:38:32,630 --> 00:38:35,510
to be. Really that's a unique opportunity. Just,
1058
00:38:35,510 --> 00:38:37,750
you know, a, we're we're anchoring in a
1059
00:38:37,750 --> 00:38:39,769
small little fishing village, and b,
1060
00:38:40,230 --> 00:38:41,910
you know, we get to go up and
1061
00:38:41,910 --> 00:38:42,410
see
1062
00:38:42,950 --> 00:38:43,610
what has
1063
00:38:43,994 --> 00:38:45,454
been lovingly restored,
1064
00:38:45,755 --> 00:38:46,894
the keeper's house,
1065
00:38:47,355 --> 00:38:47,855
and,
1066
00:38:48,634 --> 00:38:50,154
and we actually get up to get up
1067
00:38:50,154 --> 00:38:51,134
into the tower.
1068
00:38:51,514 --> 00:38:53,594
So it's a u it's a pretty unique
1069
00:38:53,594 --> 00:38:54,815
opportunity to,
1070
00:38:55,835 --> 00:38:57,835
you know, to see a lighthouse up close
1071
00:38:57,835 --> 00:38:59,134
and and personal.
1072
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:01,360
Yeah. Absolutely. It's a great it's one of
1073
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:03,760
my favorites. It's a great place. And there's
1074
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:05,440
other stops along the way. You mentioned the
1075
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,920
wooden boat school. We stopped there last year.
1076
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,880
Yep. Pretty neat. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. That's another
1077
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:11,380
place.
1078
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:14,159
They don't have a lighthouse, but it's another
1079
00:39:14,159 --> 00:39:15,059
place where,
1080
00:39:16,105 --> 00:39:17,244
I think it's unique,
1081
00:39:17,704 --> 00:39:19,704
the fact that they keep wooden boat building
1082
00:39:19,704 --> 00:39:21,644
alive. It's not too different than lighthouses.
1083
00:39:22,265 --> 00:39:25,164
You know, they're keeping they're keeping alive this
1084
00:39:25,625 --> 00:39:26,285
the skills
1085
00:39:26,664 --> 00:39:29,065
that, you know, surround keeping a wooden boat
1086
00:39:29,065 --> 00:39:31,164
maintained and or building them,
1087
00:39:31,910 --> 00:39:32,809
from scratch,
1088
00:39:33,349 --> 00:39:34,410
with hand tools
1089
00:39:35,030 --> 00:39:36,010
like a schooner.
1090
00:39:36,390 --> 00:39:39,210
Lighthouses take a tremendous amount of care
1091
00:39:39,829 --> 00:39:40,489
and maintenance
1092
00:39:41,030 --> 00:39:42,730
and phenomenal dedication
1093
00:39:43,590 --> 00:39:45,989
for the reward of, you know, seeing the
1094
00:39:45,989 --> 00:39:47,210
sentinel of the coast
1095
00:39:47,804 --> 00:39:50,304
kept up and, you know, and maintained.
1096
00:39:51,324 --> 00:39:53,505
Last winter, the Maine Windjammer Association,
1097
00:39:54,844 --> 00:39:56,385
which we're a member of,
1098
00:39:56,844 --> 00:39:57,664
did a fundraiser
1099
00:39:58,045 --> 00:39:58,784
for the
1100
00:39:59,164 --> 00:40:00,704
Rockland Breakwater Light.
1101
00:40:01,199 --> 00:40:04,159
So I know that light is anticipated to
1102
00:40:04,159 --> 00:40:06,480
get a tremendous amount of work in the
1103
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:07,539
next few years.
1104
00:40:08,079 --> 00:40:10,239
She's been she was really battered by the
1105
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:12,339
storms we had a couple of winters ago.
1106
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,139
We love that lighthouse just because there's,
1107
00:40:15,635 --> 00:40:17,234
you know, a half a dozen schooners that
1108
00:40:17,234 --> 00:40:19,335
leave Rockland and go right past that lighthouse,
1109
00:40:19,875 --> 00:40:21,714
you know, every year. And then, of course,
1110
00:40:21,714 --> 00:40:23,795
we got the Curtis Island Lighthouse right there
1111
00:40:23,795 --> 00:40:26,454
at the at the entrance to Camden Harbor.
1112
00:40:26,594 --> 00:40:29,474
They're currently making plans to help restore the
1113
00:40:29,474 --> 00:40:32,179
keeper's house. That's a town park,
1114
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:34,500
which is very unique
1115
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:36,179
that the town of Camden
1116
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:38,500
really has an investment in,
1117
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:40,960
you know, in its own lighthouse. Yeah. I
1118
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,359
featured, Curtis Island on the podcast not long
1119
00:40:43,359 --> 00:40:46,065
ago. In fact, the day I got off
1120
00:40:46,065 --> 00:40:48,625
the merry day last year, I went right
1121
00:40:48,625 --> 00:40:51,105
over to the library across the street from
1122
00:40:51,105 --> 00:40:53,585
the harbor Yeah. And interviewed a man named
1123
00:40:53,585 --> 00:40:55,585
Michael Scaling, who's maybe you know him, who's
1124
00:40:55,585 --> 00:40:57,664
very involved with the the restoration of Curtis
1125
00:40:57,664 --> 00:41:00,739
Island lighthouse. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. So that
1126
00:41:00,739 --> 00:41:01,639
has been featured.
1127
00:41:02,099 --> 00:41:03,940
You know, I said it before, but Camden
1128
00:41:03,940 --> 00:41:05,859
Harbor is one of my favorite places that,
1129
00:41:05,859 --> 00:41:07,859
you know, how can you be coming into
1130
00:41:07,859 --> 00:41:10,420
that harbor with a really pretty lighthouse at
1131
00:41:10,420 --> 00:41:12,264
the entrance to the harbor? And as you
1132
00:41:12,264 --> 00:41:13,784
come into the harbor, you got the Camden
1133
00:41:13,784 --> 00:41:16,824
Hills rising up behind the harbor and the
1134
00:41:16,824 --> 00:41:19,304
beautiful schooners and other vessels that are there.
1135
00:41:19,304 --> 00:41:21,005
It's it's pretty hard to beat.
1136
00:41:21,385 --> 00:41:23,724
I agree. Yeah. Camden is
1137
00:41:24,105 --> 00:41:26,045
you know, they they call it a storybook
1138
00:41:26,105 --> 00:41:28,619
town, and it it, you know, in in
1139
00:41:28,619 --> 00:41:30,400
many respects, it really is.
1140
00:41:31,500 --> 00:41:33,420
Yeah, we're blessed to to be where the
1141
00:41:33,420 --> 00:41:34,799
mountains meet the sea.
1142
00:41:35,179 --> 00:41:35,679
Yeah.
1143
00:41:36,139 --> 00:41:38,000
Yeah. It's quite a unique harbor.
1144
00:41:38,380 --> 00:41:40,940
Mhmm. And, I'll just mention one other place
1145
00:41:40,940 --> 00:41:42,719
that that I think is a pretty regular
1146
00:41:42,824 --> 00:41:45,464
stop on these cruises is a stop on
1147
00:41:45,464 --> 00:41:47,864
an island to do a lobster bake, like
1148
00:41:47,864 --> 00:41:50,905
a evening lobster bake. Yeah. That's pretty special.
1149
00:41:50,905 --> 00:41:52,664
Yeah. Every cruise, we do a all you
1150
00:41:52,664 --> 00:41:53,964
can eat lobster picnic.
1151
00:41:54,344 --> 00:41:55,885
You know, we find a beach,
1152
00:41:56,824 --> 00:41:57,324
remote
1153
00:41:57,890 --> 00:42:00,930
deserted beach, and we pull the schooner up,
1154
00:42:00,930 --> 00:42:02,869
roll folks ashore, build a fire
1155
00:42:03,489 --> 00:42:05,809
right there on the rocks. And, you know,
1156
00:42:05,809 --> 00:42:08,050
again, it's one of those experiences you have
1157
00:42:08,050 --> 00:42:08,210
to
1158
00:42:09,090 --> 00:42:10,849
yeah. You know, you kinda have to see
1159
00:42:10,849 --> 00:42:12,675
it to believe it. Yeah. We do that
1160
00:42:12,675 --> 00:42:14,275
with every cruise. We do that,
1161
00:42:15,474 --> 00:42:18,035
same kind of lobster picnic, and they're always
1162
00:42:18,035 --> 00:42:19,094
at different islands.
1163
00:42:19,635 --> 00:42:21,715
Mhmm. I never know where we're gonna end
1164
00:42:21,715 --> 00:42:22,215
up.
1165
00:42:22,515 --> 00:42:23,894
Yeah. It's anyone's guess.
1166
00:42:24,195 --> 00:42:26,035
Yeah. That was great. I I enjoyed that
1167
00:42:26,035 --> 00:42:27,750
so much, and I I I got some
1168
00:42:27,750 --> 00:42:30,309
nice pictures. The the schooner was anchored maybe
1169
00:42:30,309 --> 00:42:32,010
a few 100 feet off the island
1170
00:42:32,550 --> 00:42:35,110
with the sunset behind it, and it was
1171
00:42:35,110 --> 00:42:37,429
absolutely gorgeous. You know, you couldn't have created
1172
00:42:37,429 --> 00:42:38,570
a a more pretty picture
1173
00:42:38,869 --> 00:42:40,815
than that. So, yeah, it was it was
1174
00:42:40,815 --> 00:42:41,954
great. It really was.
1175
00:42:42,414 --> 00:42:44,414
Before we wind things down here, just you
1176
00:42:44,414 --> 00:42:44,914
mentioned,
1177
00:42:45,215 --> 00:42:47,934
the galley and everything and, room for the
1178
00:42:47,934 --> 00:42:49,155
passengers to sit,
1179
00:42:49,614 --> 00:42:51,635
below deck to have their meals.
1180
00:42:52,099 --> 00:42:53,619
One one of the things I was most
1181
00:42:53,619 --> 00:42:56,579
impressed by was the the quality and quantity
1182
00:42:56,579 --> 00:42:57,400
of the food
1183
00:42:57,780 --> 00:43:01,059
on board. You have a a great chef
1184
00:43:01,059 --> 00:43:03,140
on board, and, and she had a a
1185
00:43:03,140 --> 00:43:04,840
little help, but she was she was fantastic.
1186
00:43:05,380 --> 00:43:06,744
Can you say a little bit about that,
1187
00:43:07,144 --> 00:43:09,085
how that how that all works and how
1188
00:43:09,144 --> 00:43:10,985
how Yeah. You managed to have such great
1189
00:43:10,985 --> 00:43:12,605
food in such a limited space?
1190
00:43:13,385 --> 00:43:15,465
Yeah. I think part of it is magic.
1191
00:43:15,465 --> 00:43:17,164
You know, everything is baked from
1192
00:43:17,465 --> 00:43:17,965
scratch.
1193
00:43:18,585 --> 00:43:21,840
Everything's prepared from scratch. There's no, you know,
1194
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:23,380
there's no Hobart Mixmaster,
1195
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:24,900
no Cuisinart.
1196
00:43:25,599 --> 00:43:28,739
Everything's really, you know, lovingly prepared by hand
1197
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:29,460
and
1198
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:30,820
cooked on our
1199
00:43:31,119 --> 00:43:32,500
100 year old antique
1200
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:34,579
cast iron wood cook stove.
1201
00:43:34,894 --> 00:43:36,894
We light the stove at about 04:30 in
1202
00:43:36,894 --> 00:43:37,875
the morning, and
1203
00:43:38,494 --> 00:43:41,315
and usually there's coffee at seven and breakfast
1204
00:43:41,375 --> 00:43:42,355
at eight. And
1205
00:43:42,894 --> 00:43:45,394
and that stove doesn't stop going till,
1206
00:43:46,094 --> 00:43:48,900
you know, 06:30, 07:00 in the evening. You
1207
00:43:48,900 --> 00:43:50,280
know, the baking is
1208
00:43:50,819 --> 00:43:52,980
is really the hallmark of, you know, of
1209
00:43:52,980 --> 00:43:53,880
what we do,
1210
00:43:54,260 --> 00:43:55,480
you know, fresh breads,
1211
00:43:56,500 --> 00:43:58,280
desserts, cookies, cakes.
1212
00:43:58,739 --> 00:44:01,059
Yeah. I'm gaining weight just talking about it.
1213
00:44:01,059 --> 00:44:02,945
I'm getting hungry thinking about it. Yeah. You
1214
00:44:02,945 --> 00:44:04,625
know, I you you remember I was in
1215
00:44:04,625 --> 00:44:06,784
one of the crew cabins right there next
1216
00:44:06,784 --> 00:44:08,784
to where they're preparing the food. So that
1217
00:44:08,784 --> 00:44:11,045
would start super early as you're saying.
1218
00:44:11,585 --> 00:44:14,065
So, you know, I'm not an early morning
1219
00:44:14,065 --> 00:44:15,985
person normally when I'm at home, but it's
1220
00:44:15,985 --> 00:44:17,989
different when I travel. And there's not a
1221
00:44:17,989 --> 00:44:19,829
better way to wake up than to smell
1222
00:44:19,829 --> 00:44:21,849
that that, food that was being prepared.
1223
00:44:22,309 --> 00:44:23,609
Yeah. Guests
1224
00:44:24,069 --> 00:44:26,309
have a chance to be involved in in
1225
00:44:26,309 --> 00:44:29,210
all parts of the schooner, setting sails,
1226
00:44:29,670 --> 00:44:31,690
furling sails, steering the schooner,
1227
00:44:32,465 --> 00:44:34,704
and, you know, helping in the galley, which
1228
00:44:34,704 --> 00:44:35,344
is, you know
1229
00:44:35,985 --> 00:44:38,324
when I'm not up on deck, I I,
1230
00:44:39,184 --> 00:44:40,625
you know, I'll go down and give a
1231
00:44:40,625 --> 00:44:43,105
hand and and the guests you know, some
1232
00:44:43,105 --> 00:44:45,585
guests really find themselves in their element in
1233
00:44:45,585 --> 00:44:46,644
the galley and,
1234
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:48,719
you know, they learn a lot about cooking
1235
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:49,940
on a wood cook stove.
1236
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:51,119
Yeah. It's,
1237
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:54,079
I like to think of these cruises as
1238
00:44:54,079 --> 00:44:55,380
being, you know, intimate
1239
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:56,260
and,
1240
00:44:56,559 --> 00:44:58,880
you know, and you get to really rub
1241
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:01,534
elbows with the chef. So it's,
1242
00:45:02,315 --> 00:45:03,914
yeah, you get to see how it's all
1243
00:45:03,914 --> 00:45:04,414
done.
1244
00:45:04,795 --> 00:45:06,394
Yeah. I I find that a a lot
1245
00:45:06,394 --> 00:45:07,755
of the passengers were almost,
1246
00:45:08,394 --> 00:45:09,994
fighting for the chance to help out in
1247
00:45:09,994 --> 00:45:11,434
some way in the in the kitchen. Yeah.
1248
00:45:11,434 --> 00:45:12,875
You know, they wanted to to help because
1249
00:45:12,875 --> 00:45:14,014
it was actually fun.
1250
00:45:14,650 --> 00:45:17,130
Yeah. Yeah. So you're not only sailing like
1251
00:45:17,130 --> 00:45:19,130
people did a 100 years ago, but preparing
1252
00:45:19,130 --> 00:45:21,050
food, the way they did a 100 or
1253
00:45:21,050 --> 00:45:22,670
more years ago. Yeah. Absolutely.
1254
00:45:23,050 --> 00:45:25,449
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We like to think of
1255
00:45:25,449 --> 00:45:27,389
this as a real throwback in time.
1256
00:45:28,489 --> 00:45:29,789
You know, it's like,
1257
00:45:30,305 --> 00:45:32,144
you know, living on a schooner is kinda
1258
00:45:32,144 --> 00:45:32,644
like
1259
00:45:33,025 --> 00:45:34,485
it's kinda like camping,
1260
00:45:35,265 --> 00:45:37,105
but it's got a whole lot more amenities
1261
00:45:37,105 --> 00:45:39,425
and no ants in the picnic. Yeah. We
1262
00:45:39,425 --> 00:45:41,345
like to think of these as, you know,
1263
00:45:41,345 --> 00:45:42,085
an intimate
1264
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:43,219
kind of vacation.
1265
00:45:44,079 --> 00:45:45,679
You know, for me, the guests are what
1266
00:45:45,679 --> 00:45:46,420
make it
1267
00:45:47,039 --> 00:45:48,099
possible and,
1268
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:50,880
they're what make the cruise for me, just
1269
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:52,019
getting to know people.
1270
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:54,480
It's always fun to see someone who's never
1271
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:56,855
sailed before take the wheel. You know, all
1272
00:45:56,855 --> 00:45:59,094
of a sudden, they're there driving this 96
1273
00:45:59,094 --> 00:46:01,815
ton schooner, and, yeah, it's it's tough to
1274
00:46:01,815 --> 00:46:03,974
to wipe the grins off their faces. They're,
1275
00:46:04,934 --> 00:46:05,994
it's pretty exciting.
1276
00:46:06,534 --> 00:46:08,295
Yeah. You know, I've been on a lot
1277
00:46:08,295 --> 00:46:10,359
of sail vessels over the years. I've been
1278
00:46:10,359 --> 00:46:12,199
doing lighthouse stuff for, like, forty years and
1279
00:46:12,199 --> 00:46:14,519
even before that, but I had never been
1280
00:46:14,519 --> 00:46:16,280
on a multi day sail like that before.
1281
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:17,960
That was a first for me. Really? So
1282
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:19,800
I wasn't sure what to expect, but, you
1283
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:21,320
know, I'm coming back this year, so I
1284
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:23,320
must have enjoyed it last year. Yeah. I
1285
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:24,539
really I really did.
1286
00:46:25,574 --> 00:46:27,255
So, you know, for all the reasons you've
1287
00:46:27,255 --> 00:46:29,735
been talking about. I have one final question
1288
00:46:29,735 --> 00:46:33,094
for you for bonus points. Okay? Yeah. Okay.
1289
00:46:33,094 --> 00:46:35,974
That question is, what for you is your
1290
00:46:35,974 --> 00:46:38,235
favorite part of sailing on the Maine Coast?
1291
00:46:38,769 --> 00:46:40,550
Well, I just mentioned the people,
1292
00:46:40,930 --> 00:46:43,329
you know, who come sailing with us. That's
1293
00:46:43,329 --> 00:46:45,010
a huge part of it for me. I
1294
00:46:45,010 --> 00:46:47,430
mean, this is this is a pretty extraordinary
1295
00:46:47,570 --> 00:46:49,730
chance for me to broaden my horizons, just
1296
00:46:49,730 --> 00:46:52,070
getting to know new people. And and
1297
00:46:52,805 --> 00:46:54,485
we have, you know, quite a number of
1298
00:46:54,485 --> 00:46:55,465
returning guests.
1299
00:46:56,085 --> 00:46:57,625
Those people are like family.
1300
00:46:58,005 --> 00:46:59,525
After a while, you know, we have people
1301
00:46:59,525 --> 00:47:01,945
who've been coming twenty, thirty years with us.
1302
00:47:02,325 --> 00:47:04,485
I think as far as the coast itself
1303
00:47:04,485 --> 00:47:04,985
goes,
1304
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:07,980
again, the cultural and natural history
1305
00:47:08,599 --> 00:47:10,219
of the coast are so intertwined
1306
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:12,940
that, you know, that I really,
1307
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:15,339
yeah, I really get excited,
1308
00:47:15,639 --> 00:47:17,099
you know, to see,
1309
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:18,940
you know, to see lighthouses
1310
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:19,980
that are
1311
00:47:20,494 --> 00:47:22,815
still there and still going and well taken
1312
00:47:22,815 --> 00:47:23,375
care of,
1313
00:47:24,335 --> 00:47:25,875
you know, that's pretty exciting.
1314
00:47:26,414 --> 00:47:28,594
We actually do still use those lighthouses.
1315
00:47:28,974 --> 00:47:30,335
Once in a while, we get fog, and
1316
00:47:30,335 --> 00:47:32,195
it's really nice to have a fog signal
1317
00:47:32,559 --> 00:47:33,299
at a lighthouse.
1318
00:47:34,559 --> 00:47:36,659
And then, you know, to see,
1319
00:47:37,119 --> 00:47:39,279
you know, to see the people who still
1320
00:47:39,279 --> 00:47:40,179
work the coast,
1321
00:47:41,199 --> 00:47:44,000
you know, besides us working schooners out there,
1322
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,400
there's, you know, there's a tremendous number of
1323
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:47,619
lobstermen and fishermen
1324
00:47:48,454 --> 00:47:50,454
who are out there, and that part of
1325
00:47:50,454 --> 00:47:51,434
the culture history
1326
00:47:52,135 --> 00:47:53,355
is is really exciting.
1327
00:47:53,894 --> 00:47:56,215
You know, second to lighthouses, I love taking
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images of
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of fishermen,
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lobstermen doing their thing.
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Yeah. That's pretty exciting to me.
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And then, of course, the natural history. You
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know, it's hard to go a day without
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seeing an eagle or a seal
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or a porpoise.
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I still get giddy when I see, you
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know, when I see seals.
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You know, that part of things never grows
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old for me.
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Me too. So I lied. I have one
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more question for you. Yeah.
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Your wife is part of the operation as
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well. Right? And you have Yeah. Jen is
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my business partner.
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Okay. And you have, two kids who, according
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to the website, kinda grew up on the
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schooner.
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That's right.
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Yeah. Yeah. Our kids,
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for better or worse,
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yeah, grew up from
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from the very first that they could get
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on the boat.
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They grew up, you know, sailing and
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being part of the schooner family.
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Yeah. When they were really little, they would
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always try to find guests who would read
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to them.
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So when Harry Potter was
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you know, when our kids were just discovering
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Harry Potter,
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you know, that gave quite a few opportunities
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for
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for our kids to curl up with with
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guests who would read to them.
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And so, you know, it really was like
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a family that way. You know, interestingly,
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our kids have stayed in the business.
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Our son is
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our son and daughter both went to the
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Maine Maritime Academy.
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Our daughter works on one of the other
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schooners as a mate.
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And our son works as a marine engineer
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for Woods Hole Oceanographic
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Institute. So Oh. He just transited that Panama
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Canal last night.
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Really? Wow.
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Wow.
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So yeah. Fantastic. Wow. I didn't realize all
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that. That that is so great.
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Yeah. Following on Yeah. Following in, dad's footsteps.
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00:49:48,945 --> 00:49:51,425
Yeah. Well, Barry captain Barry King, this is
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00:49:51,425 --> 00:49:53,425
great. Nice to have the chance to chat
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with you a little more. We, you know,
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you're pretty busy when you're actually, running the
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boat. So I don't know if we got
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to have too extensive a conversation last year,
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so it's nice to to learn more about
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you and your family and everything.
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Your love for the the Maine coast and
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for the schooner and for for sailing on
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the coast was very apparent the whole time
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I was on there last year. So,
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Yeah. We're we're blessed,
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to have such a beautiful
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place right in our backyard and just a
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stone's throw from,
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you know, from pretty much anywhere.
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You know, Maine is a place you can
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drive to, and
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so it's not,
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you know, it's not too hard to get
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to us. And,
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00:50:32,829 --> 00:50:35,650
yeah, we're blessed to have all of Penobscot
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Bay and Blue Hill Bay and Frenchman Bay,
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00:50:38,110 --> 00:50:38,610
and,
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00:50:38,989 --> 00:50:39,570
you know,
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00:50:40,349 --> 00:50:42,690
there's thousands of islands to explore, and
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it's, yeah, we really are blessed.
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Yeah.
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Don't tell the states of Massachusetts and New
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Hampshire because that's where I've lived all my
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life, but Maine is my favorite state.
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So, you know, I always feel at home
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when I'm in Maine on the Maine coast.
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00:50:58,224 --> 00:51:01,000
So Yeah. Really looking forward to this, the
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lighthouse cruise coming up, July 26 to August
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00:51:04,369 --> 00:51:04,859
1.
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00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:06,760
And, again, maryday.com
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00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:08,760
if people wanna get more information. Maybe we'll
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00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:11,019
see some of the the listeners on board.
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00:51:11,159 --> 00:51:13,559
So, again, thank you so much, Barry. Great
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00:51:13,559 --> 00:51:14,414
talking with you.
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00:51:14,815 --> 00:51:16,035
Well, thank you, Jeremy.
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Go to merryday.com
1427
00:51:25,135 --> 00:51:27,135
to learn more about the lighthouse cruise and
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00:51:27,135 --> 00:51:28,815
all the other cruises you can do aboard
1429
00:51:28,815 --> 00:51:29,699
the Merry Day.
1430
00:51:30,099 --> 00:51:31,719
It's a really special experience
1431
00:51:32,019 --> 00:51:34,260
and so are the lighthouse cruises and other
1432
00:51:34,260 --> 00:51:36,199
offerings with Bar Harbor Whale Watch.
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00:51:36,500 --> 00:51:40,280
Again, check them out online at barharborwhales.com.
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00:51:40,659 --> 00:51:43,059
And of course, visit uslhs.org
1435
00:51:43,059 --> 00:51:45,300
to learn about everything the US Lighthouse Society
1436
00:51:45,300 --> 00:51:46,175
offers, including
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00:51:46,954 --> 00:51:48,635
the Down East Maine tour that I'll be
1438
00:51:48,635 --> 00:51:50,795
helping to lead in June. We will be
1439
00:51:50,795 --> 00:51:53,114
back next week with a new episode with
1440
00:51:53,114 --> 00:51:55,914
poet, Not Brooke Taylor, reading from his book
1441
00:51:55,914 --> 00:51:57,535
of Scottish lighthouse poems.
1442
00:51:57,940 --> 00:51:59,940
Also, keep an eye out for announcements about
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00:51:59,940 --> 00:52:01,559
our new Lighthearted Live
1444
00:52:01,860 --> 00:52:02,760
streaming episodes.
1445
00:52:03,219 --> 00:52:05,799
The first one will be February 26.
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00:52:06,099 --> 00:52:07,800
Watch for announcements at USLHS
1447
00:52:08,179 --> 00:52:10,420
dot org. For now, to all our regular
1448
00:52:10,420 --> 00:52:12,765
listeners and our new ones, thanks so much
1449
00:52:12,765 --> 00:52:15,385
for listening and keep a good light.