What a fun way to support MFS! Our friends at the Bath Brunswick Topsham Regional Chamber of Commerce have "paid volunteer" opportunities as part of the Merrymeeting Tree Fest. This means you can have the hands-on fun of helping make this festive community event happen AND earn a monetary donation for Maine's First Ship. Learn more and register for your volunteer shift here: app.seemylegacy.com/community/2890/campaign/10826/overview.
We think it's a tree-mendous idea!🌲🌲🌲
Bath Brunswick Topsham Regional Chamber #merrymeetingtreefest #supportmainesfirstship #communitysupport #historyingenuitycommunity
In honor of all veterans, including the many MFS volunteers we have representing multiple branches of the armed forces, thank you for your service. #thankyouforyourservice
While some were readying for the trip to Freeport, others were at work in the yard. A little shifting took place to relocate some of the blocks into position for pulling the dock on Thursday. As of this writing we have a pair of volunteers at work on the dock and a pair at work on the topmast. Unphotographed, but still productive, we also have one installing window inserts inside the Freight Shed.
#busyday #pullingthedock #readyingforwinter #thankyouvolunteers #historyingenuitycommunity
With 90% of her rig stowed in and around the Freight Shed, Virginia left her home dock here in Bath about 11am headed for South Freeport. Dana, today's captain for the transit, hopes to arrive by dark, docking at Strouts Point Wharf for the winter. It's a beautiful day to be on the coast of Maine.
#1607pinnacevirginia #bathfreightshed Strouts Point Wharf #coastofmaine #fallinmaine #winterberth #kennebecriver
So tell me, why would you be going to sea with no rig?
Stow the fenders!
Beautiful
Beautiful! A great day to travel!
It may not be Alexander Skarsgård, but we think our traditional Eastern Abenaki style ash eel/fish trap is pretty hot too…
#wickermovie
#AlexanderSkarsgard
#WabanakiHistory
#historyingenuitycommunity
#nativeamericanhistorymonth
I thought they would be made from seagrass/bamboo
Im a Penobscot basket maker!
Our weavers don't use wicker as a weaving material nor are their Wabanaki(group of 4 tribes) weavers as we belong to individual tribes making our baskets from that specific tribe such as mine being Passamaquoddy.
That thing wouldnt even hold an eel you fake ass mfrs. Wrong wood.
How is this a "ttaditional Eastern Abenaki" ell basket? Ironic coming from people who pretend to be the people who came to this place, killed, removed and colonized the tribes. You fucks should never be allowed to utter A THING about tribes. Dress up in your little outfits and play on your little shity boat and shut the fuck up about tribal cultures. We went in your toy boat and you spewed so much fasle uneducated uninformed "facts" to guests on board about Abenaki culture. You should be sued by the Wabanaki Alliance for defamation and gross misappropriation. Stick to talking about facts.... how the english failed, couldn't feed themselves and lost to the native people of this land to the point you had to pack up and run away. Take your skinny poorly made basket and get bent. Remember when your boat flipped over in the kennebec? We all do. You guys are clowns and your boat should be sank for teaching the public false facts about the tribes. We recorded you on that cruise, we have the proof.
Folks pitching in, shifting and storing items, re-finishing spars, inventorying rigging elements... the autumn transformation of Virginia and the interior of the Freight Shed continues.
#1607pinnacevirginia #downrigging #bathfreightshed #woodenboatmaintenance #historyingenuitycommunity