Road Fotos 30

Trying to do a drive-through of maritime Maine in a few days is as futile as trying to tease town genealogy from its graffiti, but I’m a fool and I rush in.

It was 20-something years ago that I last saw this exhibit of generations of lobstering boats at Maine Maritime Museum.

Since then, MMM has installed this most effective display of a vessel built on the grounds, schooner Wyoming, the largest ever wooden ship, the last of 10 six-masters.   For scale, note the workmen and the black pickup truck and yellow lift at the bow.

And from this site, if I rotate a quarter turn to the right, it’s BIW and the emerging DDG-1000 Zumwalt.  Its namesake is this remarkable man.

Here’s the vessel and a fleet of Winslow tugs as seen from the Route 1 Bridge.

Prock Marine’s Marie hangs in the balance.

Rubbing shoulders with the brawn at the pier is the beauty Wagon Box.

Gimmick like the brass spheroids hanging from some pickups I’ve seen?

Hardly . . . it’s one of the few Amphicars.

Gladding & Hearn‘s 1980 academic tug Pentagoet heads back to the Castine.

Now if I can follow signs like these to reorient myself, I might get to Portland  . . .

All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who may go a few days before posting again.