Every now and again you come across something that can make you feel really good inside, asI did today. While enjoying the company of Eric, Andrew, and Aja, during an impromptu lunch at our house, Aja told me about a YouTube video he had seen, knowing of my fondness for Luciano Pavarotti. Anyone who sailed [...]
This is an engineering feat that we boat folks just all marveled at. Seeing this lock goes on my "Bucket List." Click here to see for yourself. And for more information on the Falkirk Wheel, this is the website. AnnieIf we can create this amazing contraption, why can’t we live in peace?
Frank M. Chillemi, the Riggin ships photographer and instructor, will be presenting a discussion on cold water paddling and survival on March 30th. The material is for kayakers, sailboat racers or commercial fisherman who brave the cold waters of the North East Coast in winter. If you are in the New York Metropolitan area, come [...]
In this month’s e-newsletter for the Riggin, we thanked everyone again for all of their letters, emails, checks, pirate Band Aids, support and of course, chocolate and flowers. Oh, except no one had sent chocolate and flowers, BUT THEY COULD HAVE. And they did! We received two packages of yummy chocolate in the mail yesterday. [...]
We posted back in August that Elizabeth, our Shore Coordinator, had gotten married. She has finally gotten around to writing the wedding announcement and we wanted to share it with you all as part of the extended family. The photo here is one made by Frank M. Chillemi, a friend of the bride and the [...]
Burt’s Bees was a small, local skin care and cosmetic company that started right here in Maine. It’s always been a values-based company that produced excellent, natural products; grew it’s profits and did so without harming the environment or the community in which it did business. A few years ago it was sold and moved [...]
The story below was written by passenger Nan Gruby who sailed with us this July. Thank you Nan for allowing us to share this! Voices plunged through the tiny rectangular window of my sleeping quarters far earlier than any decent person would desire on the first day of holiday. I was one of the last [...]
While Jon and I and Bob and Dawn love owning Maine windjammers, love working together and love sailing with our families, there are days when we are awash in bills, broken heads, nasty weather and spilled paint (all over the deck). But our worst day has never been as bad as this guy’s day. It’s [...]
After the challenge of the first day, our second day went really well. I stuffed all the holes in the hay with more hay, we all helped put on the roof, supported it with braces and then we fit the door. I still need to put up a fence and maybe bird netting, but it [...]
This was written by a fellow board member of MEBSR. It’s perfect and so I didn’t change a thing. If you’re like me, you want your business to succeed over the long run. You’d like to be more profitable, but you also want to run a business that is environmentally sound and socially responsible. [...]
