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As predicted earlier in this thread, "the game is afoot" with Stupid Human ATV Tricks...
Penobscot county woman dies in ATV crash
pressherald.com/2020/08/02/penobscot-county-woman-dies-in-atv-crash/
By Rob WolfeStaff WriterAugust 2, 2020
A 40-year-old woman from Penobscot county was killed Saturday night in a crash in Lincoln, game wardens said Sunday.
Shannon Brewer, of Corinna, crashed while driving an ATV around 8:30 p.m. on Pierce Webber Road in Lincoln, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife said in a news release Sunday.
Brewer was driving a 2020 Can-Am Maverick 1000 side by side with the vehicle’s owner, Michael Martin, when she lost control near a 4-way intersection. The ATV skidded more than 50 feet before rolling against a tree.
Brewer was pinned between the tree and the vehicle, and Martin was unable to free her. She died at the scene, despite the efforts of the Maine Warden Service, Lincoln Ambulance, and Lincoln police.
The crash is still under investigation. Game wardens said that excessive speed, inexperience and “possibly alcohol” were factors in the crash. They did not specify how they knew or suspected alcohol was involved.
Game wardens responded to several other emergencies over the weekend.
• Olson Staples, 22, of Standish and Mariah Folsom, 22, of Steep Falls crashed and rolled on their ATV near the Milt Brown Road in Standish. Folsom was taken to Maine Medical Center with hip and leg injuries, wardens said.
• Sonya Oliver, 22, of Westport, Massachusetts, and Michael Menard, 25, of Tiverton, Rhode Island, sustained minor injuries in another ATV roll-over in Kingsbury Plantation, in Piscataquis County.
Penobscot county woman dies in ATV crash
By Rob WolfeStaff WriterAugust 2, 2020
A 40-year-old woman from Penobscot county was killed Saturday night in a crash in Lincoln, game wardens said Sunday.
Shannon Brewer, of Corinna, crashed while driving an ATV around 8:30 p.m. on Pierce Webber Road in Lincoln, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife said in a news release Sunday.
Brewer was driving a 2020 Can-Am Maverick 1000 side by side with the vehicle’s owner, Michael Martin, when she lost control near a 4-way intersection. The ATV skidded more than 50 feet before rolling against a tree.
Brewer was pinned between the tree and the vehicle, and Martin was unable to free her. She died at the scene, despite the efforts of the Maine Warden Service, Lincoln Ambulance, and Lincoln police.
The crash is still under investigation. Game wardens said that excessive speed, inexperience and “possibly alcohol” were factors in the crash. They did not specify how they knew or suspected alcohol was involved.
Game wardens responded to several other emergencies over the weekend.
• Olson Staples, 22, of Standish and Mariah Folsom, 22, of Steep Falls crashed and rolled on their ATV near the Milt Brown Road in Standish. Folsom was taken to Maine Medical Center with hip and leg injuries, wardens said.
• Sonya Oliver, 22, of Westport, Massachusetts, and Michael Menard, 25, of Tiverton, Rhode Island, sustained minor injuries in another ATV roll-over in Kingsbury Plantation, in Piscataquis County.
Mud is well-versed in all this, but bottom line around here for the past couple of years is that if you want a larger lobster boat, you're looking at a 2 year wait, so long that folks sell their place in line, and get on line again. It doesn't help that "Yah-chiting Crowd" has realized how seaworthy and well-built offshore lobster boats are and they have are ordering new builds for their cruising.
Lobstermen catch break on diesel engine standards
pressherald.com/2020/08/20/lobstermen-catch-break-on-diesel-engine-standards/
By Penelope OvertonStaff WriterAugust 20, 2020
Lobster fishermen are getting a temporary reprieve from federal diesel engine emissions standards because the cleaner running engines needed to power today’s bigger, faster fishing vessels farther and farther offshore have yet to hit the commercial market.
During a visit to Maine on Thursday, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler is expected to announce that lobster and pilot boat builders will have another two to four years to meet low particulate, low nitrogen oxide emissions standards written into the national marine diesel program in 2008. The cleanest engines were to be used in all new large lobster boats by 2017.
Ed Jacobs of Nonesuch Oysters in Scarborough motors past lobster boats in the Nonesuch River in 2019. Lobster fishermen are getting a temporary reprieve from federal diesel engine emissions standards. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer
“This relief gives boat builders and operators flexibility to meet EPA standards during the next several years,” Wheeler said in a prepared statement. “The larger market for diesel engines can’t build new models quickly enough for marine users – putting these operators in potential violation of pollution rules through no fault of their own.”
Wheeler will talk about the emissions reprieve at a Kennebunkport resort Thursday afternoon following a tour of a local lobster pound. In the morning, he will tour some of Portland’s old contaminated industrial areas, also called brownfields, to underscore the $12.2 million in clean-up grants that Maine has received under President Trump.
The diesel engine standards controversy, and the possibility of a reprieve from Wheeler, has been building slowly for years, overshadowed by lobster bait shortages, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the U.S.-China trade war on lobster exports, and the possibility that saving the North Atlantic right whale from extinction could mean an end to lobster fishing as it currently exists.
Trump has reached out to Maine’s lobster industry several times, meeting with fishermen in Bangor this year to discuss the impact of the trade war. He promised both financial relief for fishermen and retaliation for China if it didn’t live up to its January promise to buy more U.S. lobster. So far, however, U.S. lobster sales to China in 2020 are down, not up.
But he did reintroduce commercial fishing to the Northeast Canyon and Seamounts Marine National Monument, an administrative rebuke of government regulation that holds big political appeal among Maine fishermen but little practical value because the 4,900-square mile area is in southern New England and lobstering had never been banned.
The emissions reprieve is a tangible political spoil for those unable to buy the big, powerful new lobster boat they have coveted.
A dozen years after the diesel standards were set, manufacturers have yet to build a low-emission engine that can give lobstermen the speed and power they need to haul a deck full of lobster traps 40 miles or more to sea and a tank full of chilled lobsters home in a single day. Law enforcement boats and pilot boats fall into the same category.
The operator’s grim choice: build a new boat with a weaker but greener engine, or stay with their old boat and its old, dirty engine.
But the waiver that Wheeler announced Thursday will give manufacturers more time to bring greener engines to market that will meet the performance needs of lobstermen, pilot boat operators and law enforcement agencies. Once the engines are available, builders also will need time to redesign their fiberglass hulls to hold the bigger engines and their emissions-reducing technology.
If manufacturers can’t produce greener engines that boat builders can fit into redesigned lobster, pilot and law enforcement vessels by the newly extended deadline, builders of these commercial vessels and their operators can seek a diesel engine exemption from EPA until the technology is available for commercial use, the EPA said.
Lobster boat builder Steve Wessel of Wesmac Custom Boats in Surry, one of the few builders making fiberglass boats longer than 50 feet, told the Ellsworth American he can’t start designing new lobster boats around compliant engines until they come to market. Without a waiver, the state’s lobster fleet and the $1.4 billion industry as a whole can’t grow.
“This is creating havoc among customers and builders,” Wessel said.
Lobstermen catch break on diesel engine standards
By Penelope OvertonStaff WriterAugust 20, 2020
Lobster fishermen are getting a temporary reprieve from federal diesel engine emissions standards because the cleaner running engines needed to power today’s bigger, faster fishing vessels farther and farther offshore have yet to hit the commercial market.
During a visit to Maine on Thursday, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler is expected to announce that lobster and pilot boat builders will have another two to four years to meet low particulate, low nitrogen oxide emissions standards written into the national marine diesel program in 2008. The cleanest engines were to be used in all new large lobster boats by 2017.
Ed Jacobs of Nonesuch Oysters in Scarborough motors past lobster boats in the Nonesuch River in 2019. Lobster fishermen are getting a temporary reprieve from federal diesel engine emissions standards. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer
“This relief gives boat builders and operators flexibility to meet EPA standards during the next several years,” Wheeler said in a prepared statement. “The larger market for diesel engines can’t build new models quickly enough for marine users – putting these operators in potential violation of pollution rules through no fault of their own.”
Wheeler will talk about the emissions reprieve at a Kennebunkport resort Thursday afternoon following a tour of a local lobster pound. In the morning, he will tour some of Portland’s old contaminated industrial areas, also called brownfields, to underscore the $12.2 million in clean-up grants that Maine has received under President Trump.
The diesel engine standards controversy, and the possibility of a reprieve from Wheeler, has been building slowly for years, overshadowed by lobster bait shortages, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the U.S.-China trade war on lobster exports, and the possibility that saving the North Atlantic right whale from extinction could mean an end to lobster fishing as it currently exists.
Trump has reached out to Maine’s lobster industry several times, meeting with fishermen in Bangor this year to discuss the impact of the trade war. He promised both financial relief for fishermen and retaliation for China if it didn’t live up to its January promise to buy more U.S. lobster. So far, however, U.S. lobster sales to China in 2020 are down, not up.
But he did reintroduce commercial fishing to the Northeast Canyon and Seamounts Marine National Monument, an administrative rebuke of government regulation that holds big political appeal among Maine fishermen but little practical value because the 4,900-square mile area is in southern New England and lobstering had never been banned.
The emissions reprieve is a tangible political spoil for those unable to buy the big, powerful new lobster boat they have coveted.
A dozen years after the diesel standards were set, manufacturers have yet to build a low-emission engine that can give lobstermen the speed and power they need to haul a deck full of lobster traps 40 miles or more to sea and a tank full of chilled lobsters home in a single day. Law enforcement boats and pilot boats fall into the same category.
The operator’s grim choice: build a new boat with a weaker but greener engine, or stay with their old boat and its old, dirty engine.
But the waiver that Wheeler announced Thursday will give manufacturers more time to bring greener engines to market that will meet the performance needs of lobstermen, pilot boat operators and law enforcement agencies. Once the engines are available, builders also will need time to redesign their fiberglass hulls to hold the bigger engines and their emissions-reducing technology.
If manufacturers can’t produce greener engines that boat builders can fit into redesigned lobster, pilot and law enforcement vessels by the newly extended deadline, builders of these commercial vessels and their operators can seek a diesel engine exemption from EPA until the technology is available for commercial use, the EPA said.
Lobster boat builder Steve Wessel of Wesmac Custom Boats in Surry, one of the few builders making fiberglass boats longer than 50 feet, told the Ellsworth American he can’t start designing new lobster boats around compliant engines until they come to market. Without a waiver, the state’s lobster fleet and the $1.4 billion industry as a whole can’t grow.
“This is creating havoc among customers and builders,” Wessel said.
Interesting read from NY Times...
One Family Has Delivered the Mail by Boat for 115 Years. Is This the Last?
Since 1905, four generations of Quinns have delivered letters, packages and passengers to the islands of Penobscot Bay. A lost summer could sink the tradition. By Ben Ryder Howe Sept. 3, 2020 Updated 3:05 p.m. ET
HANCOCK COUNTY, MAINE — In blinding fog, an aging boat called the TM 2 zigzagged through the Cricket Hole, a shallow reef in Maine’s Penobscot Bay. The ocean’s calm surface concealed a maze of unseen ledges, around which the TM 2’s captain, Karl Osterby, cut a tight course. The boat soon approached an aluminum dock on Great Spruce Head Island, where a man in shorts and rubber boots awaited.
“Another busy day?” the man said, his sarcasm as evident — this being Maine — as the invisible bottom of the Cricket Hole. Mr. Osterby said nothing and held out an all but empty canvas bag of U.S. mail with one hand, as the TM 2 glided past the dock without stopping. There was a single passenger aboard (me). In the state that calls itself Vacationland, high season had just begun. Normally, by July, the mail boat that serves six of the small and rugged islands of northern Penobscot Bay — Barred, Butter, Eagle, Bear, Scrag and Great Spruce Head — would be weighed down with letters and packages, plus a dozen or so passengers at $25 per ride. Some riders would have been sightseers scanning the reef-laden harbors for porpoises and harbor seals, and some would have been seasonal residents of the islands.
Many in the latter group would be stranded without the mail boat — a lifeline delivering essentials like prescriptions, groceries and, this year, ballots.
Full article here: One Family Has Delivered the Mail by Boat for 115 Years. Is This the Last?
One Family Has Delivered the Mail by Boat for 115 Years. Is This the Last?
Since 1905, four generations of Quinns have delivered letters, packages and passengers to the islands of Penobscot Bay. A lost summer could sink the tradition. By Ben Ryder Howe Sept. 3, 2020 Updated 3:05 p.m. ET
HANCOCK COUNTY, MAINE — In blinding fog, an aging boat called the TM 2 zigzagged through the Cricket Hole, a shallow reef in Maine’s Penobscot Bay. The ocean’s calm surface concealed a maze of unseen ledges, around which the TM 2’s captain, Karl Osterby, cut a tight course. The boat soon approached an aluminum dock on Great Spruce Head Island, where a man in shorts and rubber boots awaited.
“Another busy day?” the man said, his sarcasm as evident — this being Maine — as the invisible bottom of the Cricket Hole. Mr. Osterby said nothing and held out an all but empty canvas bag of U.S. mail with one hand, as the TM 2 glided past the dock without stopping. There was a single passenger aboard (me). In the state that calls itself Vacationland, high season had just begun. Normally, by July, the mail boat that serves six of the small and rugged islands of northern Penobscot Bay — Barred, Butter, Eagle, Bear, Scrag and Great Spruce Head — would be weighed down with letters and packages, plus a dozen or so passengers at $25 per ride. Some riders would have been sightseers scanning the reef-laden harbors for porpoises and harbor seals, and some would have been seasonal residents of the islands.
Many in the latter group would be stranded without the mail boat — a lifeline delivering essentials like prescriptions, groceries and, this year, ballots.
Full article here: One Family Has Delivered the Mail by Boat for 115 Years. Is This the Last?
WhatKnot
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Looks ok to me.
CELLFISH
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Thanks W, found da problem. the top tool bar took me to some website settings, needed to be checked... cellie...
JoeBfishing
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Clear the browser after porn N fishing sites... then come in here!!?
Old Mud
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JoeBfishing
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Regrettably I was unable to go tuna fishing with my brother and our "third brother", his childhood friend who has a summer place on a Casco Bay Island, yesterday. The tuna were the usual, NOTHING, until they hauled up the lines and a giant shot out of the water to say, "Look at me SUCKERS!!"
However, they did have one hell of a whale tale!! This minke whale must have thought my 2nd brother's boat was a mother figure. Minkes are usually very skittish, steering wide of boats, but this sucker was having a great time coming alongside to see what was happening...
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However, they did have one hell of a whale tale!! This minke whale must have thought my 2nd brother's boat was a mother figure. Minkes are usually very skittish, steering wide of boats, but this sucker was having a great time coming alongside to see what was happening...
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JoeBfishing
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So cool... did you get him on the finder at all? Would have love to seen what that would of look like!?
I wasn't there, but they reported it looked like a "big blob"' on the machine...
Old Mud
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Were they on the nub ?
Kona
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We’re here in Lincolnville for a week for our anniversary and to spend time with my younger brother n family. Not bad at all. Maine folks are great! They can’t stand obnoxious tourists as much we do either.
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Beautiful area there! I never knew there was a lake up there since I usually drive along the coast along Rt-1 and thought that was the "center" of Lincolnville until "The Admiral" went to visit the Lincolnville General Store and told me about the lake and the "real" center of Lincolnville.
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