Peter Bass - Articles

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

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    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.

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    The trains in Maine are hard to explain, the best view in the Pine Tree State, and Herbie bites the (saw) dust.

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    Friendship goes moist, the cost of boating, and the famous canoe-testing toss.

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    More from Bill, the earth remains on its axis, and why we don’t annex Canada.

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    Maine’s season of stolen days.

Contributing Editor: Peter Bass

Peter Bass, sleeping on watch.

Peter Bass is a Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors Contributing Editor who readily acknowledges that without Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors he would only be published in small metal stalls throughout America. While at Dartmouth College, he received two citations for outstanding work from the English Department while failing to get an A in either course, a Dartmouth record. One wonders what his grade was prior to those particular efforts.

A lifelong boat nut who has held serious jobs in the boatbuilding, footwear, and furniture industries, he dreams of writing full time, in spite of our recommendation that he keep his day job. He is currently employed as President of Maine Cottage Furniture and he and his lovely wife Gail split their time between a porch in Boothbay Harbor and another at Mile Zero of the Intracoastal Waterway.

His work appears regularly in Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors, principally in his column View From the Porch, in which he expresses his views with stunning clarity on events around our state and beyond. He enjoys boating in all its forms and is pictured here, asleep on watch offshore in his former boat, a Bristol 41.1 named Skylark. In recent years Gail & Peter have been observed in a 1988 Dyer 29 named Etchemin.

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