Correspondents

Contributing Editor Peter Bass checks in with news from along the coast, including updates on lobster, scallop, and clam landings; ferry service between Maine and Canada; and great Maine festivals to add to your summer calendar.

Contributing Editor Peter Bass was last seen boarding a double-hulled amphibious UFO, with a healthy supply of seafood, Allen’s Coffee Flavored Brandy, and a book about dockline etiquette to share with the intergalactic community at large.

Contributing Editor Peter Bass surveys recent news events along the coast. He writes about shrimp, elvers, fishing fashionistas, and rat-infested ghost ships with his usual humorous slant.

The terrible and wonderful power of sea cooks.

Wind wars, global warming, and waterfront access

Mutant Lobsters, Aliens, and Broken Buoys

Big Fish, Little Fish and - brace yourself, folks - Frankenfish!

All Critters Great and Small, and a New Definition of Boat Shoes.

Ice, Booze, and News (and other interesting tidbits, not necessarily in that order).

Cold summer camps, torrefying developments, news from the sea, and other memorable matters.

A couple of headlines <em>avec les entendres doubles</em> and other memorable matters.

The Season of Guilty Pleasures

Boat driving, whale spotting, and thinking that ACFB should be declared the official Maine State Alcoholic Beverage.

Maine boatbuilders on display, mackerel economics, and “Honey, they shrank the shrimp season!”

A $12 Million “Camp,” a T-Boned Thumb, a Torpedoed Chief, and a Honeymoon That Is Now Over

Ghost Traps, Glass Eels, and Birds for the Boomers

Bill is Back, So is Reality on the Lobster Docks

Superyachting news, Winslow Homer’s hues, and a little ditty to kick off the spring season

Yacht spotting, dock walking, biathlon talking, casino knocking

<strong> By Melissa Waterman</strong> - We could all live in a private submarine...

Good News/Bad News, Bozos at Sea, and the Porchitzer Prize for Wicked Smartness

<strong> By Melissa Waterman</strong> - Is any prize worth risking grievous harm to oneself and others?

<strong> By Melissa Waterman</strong> - It’s hard work, unearthing delight.

Flora and fauna “from away,” the no-impact lobster trap, this sporting life, and gleanings from the state’s newspapers.

A closed cannery, a shameless parade in Portland, a thrash to windward at 16 knots in 8 knots of wind, and an artificial reef for the recently departed.