Ocean Edges
Snowman
Cottage
Southport,
Maine
on
Cape
Newagen in
Boothbay
Harbor Region
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Chamber of Commerce
APPLEDORE CRUISES
Schooner EASTWIND a 65-foot Windjammer
Herb and Doris Smith are back with their
newest traditional wooden schooner, Eastwind. This 65-foot windjammer was built
by the Smiths on their farm in central Maine and is a sister-ship of Appledore
III, which the family also built and sailed around the world via the Straits of
Magellan and Cape of Good Hope on their second world voyage.
"Herb
Smith shut down the engine of Appledore V off Spruce Point and aimed her for
Ram
Island on a starboard reach. I found a place to sit on the
windward side of the schooner so I could watch the white houses in the hills
above Boothbay Harbor sliding away behind us, and the sparse scattering of
islands growing closer and closer up ahead. Beyond those islands, there
was nothing but the open
Atlantic. I knew we were going to turn around and come back to
Fisherman's Wharf before the sun went down, but it was exciting to think that,
for the present, we were flying along towards
Gibraltar. We sailed past thousands of lobster buoys in the outer
harbor, tidily aligned like rows of corn for easy harvest. We glided through a
deep, narrow passage between Fisherman's
Island and
Ram
Island. I admired the Ram island lighthouse, and even more the
abandoned keeper's dwelling, with an outhouse on the point which must have
afforded the prettiest east-west view of any outhouse in
New England."
-Charles
Kuralt, sailing with Herb & Doris
Herb Smith
20 Commercial Street
Boothbay Harbor,
ME
04538
207-633-6598
Eastwind departs from Fisherman's Wharf
- Pier 6
2½ hour cruises to the
Outer
Islands
& Seal Rocks
9:30
AM - July 3 to September
5
12:00 PM - May 29 to October
11
3:00 PM - May 29 to October
11
6:00 PM - June 19 to September 19
$22 per person
The
interestingly named Cuckolds Lighthouse, at the entrance to
Newagen
Harbor, is still an active
lighthouse. It is said to be named after
a point of land on the
Thames
River in
England, granted to a
Londoner to sooth his anger after King John had an affair with his wife. The
lighthouse has many stories. One of which is that around the lighthouse the
ledges around it are called “collector ledges” as it has been the site of many
boating mishaps and marine rescues. It is a beacon to generations of fishermen,
and a chosen burial site for some, including our region's much beloved Leland
Snowman. Although Leland never lived in this “Snowman” cottage, family members
have owned it in the past, thus its name.
The Cuckolds Lightstation
"Perhaps the loveliest
time to observe The Cuckolds is at sunset from a boat close by to the eastward.
The white light against a glowing red and golden sky... the dark outline of the
trees on
Cape
Newagen,
and tired seagulls winging their way eastward... produce a scene and a sense
never to be forgotten."
-- Malcolm F. Willoughby,The Boothbay Register, 1962.
The
Cuckolds
Boothbay
Harbor Region
Southport
Swing
Bridge
Route 27 between
Boothbay
Harbor &
Southport Island,
Maine
This
swing bridge, one of five in the State of
Maine, was built in 1939. The bridge is manned twenty-four hours a day
and opens an average of 50 times a day at the request of mariners navigating
Townsend Gut at the east end of the back channel from Boothbay Harbor across
the Sheepscot River up the Sasnoa River to the Kennebec River in Bath.
For
forty-six years, the Head Tender was Norman Lewis. His sons, Duane and Dwight are two of the
three tenders today. Other children of
Norman have also served as
tenders on the bridge. The Lewis family
has served a total of 135 years between them.
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