Peter H. Spectre - Articles | Maine Boats Homes & Harbors

Peter H. Spectre - Articles

In The Lee of the Boathouse

A bridge for flies, an ode to an outhouse, and encircling the Big Blue Marble.
In The Lee of the Boathouse

Issue 97 - Talking Boats, the Greenest College in the World, and the Orneriest, Nastiest, Most Fiercely Independent Gents on the Coast.
In The Lee of the Boathouse

Issue 96 - Fund-raising as a competitive sport, talking like a pirate, and the Brazen Theft Division, Caught in the Act Section.
Compass Rose Review: Boat Names

By Peter H. Spectre - Boat Names: Superstitions about the names of vessels
In the Lee of the Boathouse

Issue 95 - Recycling with a vengeance, an acronymological report, and the Miscalculation Department, Please Don’t Make Me Eat Those Words Division
Compass Rose Review

Small Boats on Green Waters: A Treasury of Good Reading on Coastal and Inland Cruising, edited by Brian Anderson and published by Breakaway Books.
Rowboat

Childhood memories and a love of rowboats
In the Lee of the Boathouse

Real Mainers, mutant lobsters, and the internationally acclaimed Chronicles of Crime, Downeast Division.
In The Lee of the Boathouse

Issue 93 - The ten-year-old lobsterman, the Sic Transit Gloria Mundi Dept., and life after toilet paper.

Maine Boats Homes and Harbors Editor, Peter H. Spectre

Peter H. Spectre has been editor of Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors magazine since 1999. He is also former editor of WoodenBoat magazine and of International Marine Publishing Company. He is the author of the annual Mariner's Book of Days, A Mariner's Miscellany, and several other books. He lives and writes in Spruce Head.