Who remembers these Boat School scenes? In this winter Scuttlebutt, we’ll “take a sip of kindness yet for days of auld lang syne.” Greg Rossel, class of 1980, advised us that photos on the website of Searsport’s Penobscot Marine Museum (penobscotmarinemuseum.org) include the National Fisherman Collection’s archival 1970s images of The Boat School. From the […]
The Scuttlebutt
The Scuttlebutt – Fall 2022
Reunion featured food, friends, “Class of ’72” lobster boat At the edge of the water on a clear day in Brooklin, Maine, about 30 alumni, instructors, and friends of The Boat School gathered to reminisce and to celebrate what the Eastport facility means to them. The July 30 reunion on the campus of the WoodenBoat […]
The Scuttlebutt – Summer 2022
Welcome to the 21st-century Scuttlebutt. Hard to fathom that The Scuttlebutt first appeared in the 1970s with boatbuilding instructor Carl Felix at the helm, and was briefly revived by first-year boatbuilding student Matt Murphy, class of 1992 – now station manager of WERU-FM, Blue Hill. In true scuttlebutt fashion, he and a few mates cobbled […]
Boat School Receives Redevelopment Planning Grant
The Maine Community Foundation has recognized the mission of The Friends of the Boat School Marine Trades Development Corporation of Eastport, Maine, by the award of a $10,000 grant from its Washington County Fund for general support. Chartered in 2006 as a nonprofit organization with the purpose of promoting marine trades education and development, the […]
Community Notification: Friends of the Boat School preparing application for a U.S. EPA Brownfield Cleanup Grant
Friends of the Boat School is actively working to prepare an application for a United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) Brownfield Cleanup Grant for the Boat School Site located at 16 Deep Cove Road, Eastport Maine. The DRAFT Analysis of Brownfield Cleanup Alternatives (ABCA) is available for review at the link below and an […]