I don’t know about you guys, but after hearing the latest assessment about how the North polar ice cap is melting faster than even the most pessimistic experts predicted, we are glad we have boats! (cymbal crash) But seriously folks, we are proud to announce that Maine Adventure Sails has enrolled in Carbonfund.org. By committing [...]
Once again, the Schooner J&E Riggin will be hosting the 4th annual Riggin Work Week from Saturday April 26th to Sunday May 4th. We are excited to announce this year that the Association for Maritime Preservation, Inc will be sponsoring the education portion of Work Week in a restricted training grant. Work Week will still [...]
We were introduced to Lynnette Walthers when she wrote a glowing review of At Home, At Sea, the Riggin’s cookbook. We’ve been mutual fans ever since and it was a pleasure to talk with her again on a different topic – the green side of our business. As she mentions in the article, we consider [...]
Learn how to bring mind-body balance, health and nourishment into your life with PERFECT HEALTHTHE CHOPRA CENTER AYURVEDIC LIFESTYLE PROGRAM The Perfect Health Lifestyle Program is a program of daily wellness founded on the 5,000 year-old healing system of medicine known as Ayurveda. Ayurveda states that health is not just the absence of disease; it [...]
On October 15th, in the midst of all the hectic lay-up activities, Dawn flew to the Chopra Center in Carlsbad California to finish her teacher training. After six days of intensive testing, we are proud to announce that she is officially a Chopra Certified Perfect Health Instructor. What does that mean? It means she is [...]
She’s out of the water! We just got these pictures thanks to Joe Orchulli. How pretty is she?! The thermostat measures 52 degrees as I write this and it’s climbing. What a perfect day to haul the Riggin. In the wintertime, there is a danger to hauling wooden boats in very cold weather. In temperatures [...]
The lamb for our summer season has been safely stowed today in the barn freezer to await our summer season. This year Meadowsweet Farm, a 120 acre farm in Swanville, Maine, provided two large lambs, custom cut for our meals. The lamb and beef at Meadowsweet Farm are grassfed and grass finished and are available [...]
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 [...]
Who says August isn’t windy? We’ve always had incredible wind the last week of August and this week was no exception. The wind was a lovely, cool, Northwest breeze and we decided to head South for the first time all summer. When we left Rockland Monday morning and passed between the two sentries of the [...]
