Category: Boattalk

Producers/hosts: Mike Joyce and Alan Sprague
This edition dedicated to Gladys Butler, former first mate to Mount Desert Yacht Yard owner and Controversy designer Farnham Butler.

The talk was about the nature of doing work from “quick and dirty” to perfect, and choices and reasons as they relate to boat building.

Calls were about best boat designs, things to worry about when sailing around the world, seamanship, and appropriate boatbuilding materials and workmanship.

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Hosts: Mike Joyce and Alan Sprague
Guests: Buzz Pinkham — Pinkham’s Nursery and Greenhouse; Peter Neil–World Ocean Observatory
Topics: The Great Pumpkin Regatta ’06, Interview with guest Peter Neil
How do you make a boat out of an 800 lb. pumpkin? Issues affecting maritime museums and programs. What is the mission/focus of the World Ocean Observatory?

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Hosts: Alan Sprague and Mike Joyce
Topic: Open lines – Flotsam and Jetsom Edition. Comments on recent marine news. What is being done with “Raw Faith”? How to share a boat that may be under
used?
Call in show. No studio guests

Hosts: Alan Sprague and Mike Joyce
Topics: Eastport Boat School, Maine Boats and Harbors show, Rawfaith update, cars on water
What’s happening at the Maine Boats and Harbors show next weekend?
Talk with the author of “The Main Beam” about Rockland built boats
Concerns about deepwater oil/gas drilling
Guest: Maine Senator Denis Damon
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Hosts: Alan Sprague and Mike Joyce
Guests: Capt. Giffy Full, Howard Whitten
Topics: What to do in lightening; the world’s longest canoe and handicapped boating;
Have you ever seen St. Elmo’s Fire? Are kayaks the best boats?

Hosts: Alan Sprague and Mike Joyce
Topic: “Raw Faith”, cement boats
What about cement boats? Ever heard of a cattail boat? Is it fun to sail in the fog with a lot of barges around?
Guest: Captain Giffy Full
Call in show

Boat Talk 05/09/06 Hour long call in show Hosts: Alan Sprague and Mike Joyce Guests: Wes Shaw, MDI Water Taxi, Mark Rohrig, Wheelsea School Bus, and Mark Jackson, Vinalhave Marine Tech. Ed. Topics: Wheelsea school bus circumnavigation, ethanol and biodiesel marine use, Vinalhaven marine tech boat project, water taxi stories What are the implications of alternative marine fuels? What is going on with the Vinalhaven school program that’s fixing up a steel boat they will sail to Florida? What is Elizabeth Taylor like without makeup?

Topics included: Port Security, “Come Boating”, Kenduskeag Stream Race, Atlantic Challenge, LNG and International passage, moonlight, Dorado’s

Phone Guest: Joanne Moesswilde of “Come Boating” in Belfast, Maine

Hosts: Alan Sprague and Mike Joyce