Our Board of Directors
Captain Ken Barnes of Rockland, ME, is a 6-year veteran of the US Air Force. From there, his education and career took a turn to Theatre Design, winning awards and working at universities such as Washington & Lee University in Lexington, VA and Florida State University. From there, Ken's love of history and design gave vent in the form of the art of blacksmithing where he worked with museums and historic restorations. In 1976, Ken and his wife Ellen discovered historic schooners in Maine. One week of sailing, and they were hooked, purchasing the Schooner Stephen Taber, America's oldest merchant sailing vessel in continuous service. Under the Barnes's watch, the Taber was restored to her original pristine condition and was recognized as a National Historic Landmark vessel.
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Jim Bowditch of Camden, ME, is a graduate of Yale University with an MA from Western Michigan U and a PhD from Purdue U in Industrial/Organizational Psychology). He is the great, great grandson of Nathaniel Bowditch, James Russell Lowell and Joseph Burnett. He is married with three children and 6 grand children. He cooks, sails, polishes floors & plays golf badly. Now retired, his diverse professional background has included: adjunct professor, U of ME, Hutchinson Ctr, Belfast; Education for Ministry Mentor; Missioner for Stewardship & Planned Giving, Episcopal Diocese of Maine; Director of Development at Episcopal Divinity School; 31 years total Dean & Professor, Saint Joseph’s University, Haub School of Business, and Boston College, Carroll School of Management in organizational behavior. He has co-authored five books in multiple editions. Has served as a consultant to several banks, and rector search and conflict resolution consultant for the Diocese of Massachusetts. As n active community volunteer, he has served as: Former board member Coastal Family Hospice, past president of the YMCA Penobscot Bay Rockport, Former Chair of Trustees of Meadowbrook School, Weston, MA; Former Board of Trustees, Episcopal Divinity School; Former Executive Committee, Urban Bridges at St. Gabriel’s Church, Philadelphia, an urban ministry, former co-chair, Commissions on (ordained) ministry, Episcopal Dioceses of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, former vestry person at Church of the Holy Spirit, Wayland, MA, Church of the Good Shepherd, West Lafayette, IN, and Episcopal Church at Yale. He currently volunteers with MCH--Knox County Meals on Wheels (Secretary), Retiring co-senior warden & vestry person of St. Peter’s Church, Rockland, ME; Member, Camden Rotary (past president). .
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Dick Crossman grew up on Vinalhaven and is a graduate of the University of Maine with a Bachelor of Science degree in Education. He attended the US Army Artillery Officer branch school in Lawton, OK, and served 12 years in the US Army Reserves with the 76th Training Division In Lewiston, Me. He taught High School (History) for 5 years before entering the insurance business in 1979. His career started with W.C. Ladd & Sons in Rockland, and he retired in 2019 from Allen Insurance in Camden. During those years his client portfolio included some of Maine’s most highly recognized boat builders, custom and specialty boat yards, marine contractors and shipyards; and he developed a unique understanding of the craftsmanship & competency unique to these firms as well as the multi-generational legacy many of these businesses represent. His past board service includes the Rockland/Thomaston Chamber of Commerce, Northeast Health/PBMC, Mid Coast Development Corp and Eastern Maine Development Corporaton in Bangor. From the period 1996 – 2006 he volunteered as Assistant Girls Basketball Coach at Camden Hills HS. He currently resides with his wife in Camden.
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David Doub of Camden, ME, grew up in Baltimore and learned how to sail on his family’s Lightning. He raced at Cornell and served as Captain of the sailing team. He continues to race out of Marblehead on his brother’s Swan 38, Blue Pigeon, competing in the 2019 Camden Classic. In the prior year, Dave helmed Valiant, a wooden 12 Meter that took top position in the regatta. He is a retired Professional Engineer having spent his career developing medical equipment for HP and Philips Medical in Andover, Massachusetts. Dave’s non-profit participation has been ten years as an officer of the AMC Andover Chapter and eighteen years as a Board member of the Andover Village Improvement Society, a land conservancy. He also coached in the town’s boys’ lacrosse program for fourteen years. Dave has Bachelor and Masters of Electrical Engineering degrees from Cornell and an MBA from Boston University. He currently resides in Camden, Maine with his wife Kate. They enjoy hiking, gardening and exploring Penobscot Bay on their Wesmac 38, Actaea.
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Clyde B. “Chip” Holmes III A native of Belfast, ME, Chip and his wife, Mena, now reside in Camden. After a post college stint in the U.S. Army, he returned to Belfast and his family’s business, Eastern Maine Towage Co. Upon the company’s sale, he worked in marine construction in FL, then returned to U Mass for a BA in economics. His diverse career continued in the Boston real estate market and then to manufacturing as he began Prime Vinyl in Woburn, a window manufacturer and building products distribution company. From there he worked for Michel Assoc, a Boston based national affordable housing equity provider. In 2017, he moved back to Maine and established Marshall Wharf, LLC, in Belfast while continuing a consulting relationship with Michel Associates. Active in local nonprofits and a member of numerous Yacht Clubs over the years, Chip and Mena are avid boaters with a keen interest in the restoration and maintenance of classic boats.
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Marti Mayne of Cousins Island, ME, has a master’s degree in Counseling from the University of Bridgeport and an undergraduate degree from Middlebury College in Psychology and Sociology. Marti has decades of experience providing services for the tourism industry with her company Maynely Marketing. Specializing in public relations, content management, social media campaigns, destination marketing and educational workshops, Marti was a regular contributor at tourism conferences and workshops. Her tenure in Rockland goes back nearly twenty years, starting as the publicist for the Historic Inns of Rockland and helping them conceive and promote their famous Pie Tour for over a decade. Marti helped local innkeepers expand to form the “Inns Along the Coast.” She spent three years as the PR and Marketing Manager for the Maine Windjammer Association. She lives on Cousins Island with her husband and two daughters adopted from China and is an avid sailor.
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George Orestis of Camden, a board certified and licensed Occupational Therapy Assistant, has lifelong experiences in boating and waterfront management. With over 20 years of voluntary non-profit Board participation, Orestis was a Trustee of the Kennebec Valley Community College (KVCC), Kennebec Valley Foundation Board of Trustees, has served as the Alumni Board Chair, and was a member of the OTA Program Board. He has held multiple offices and positions in the US Coast Guard Auxiliary, including: Flotilla Commander and seamanship instructor. He formerly served as Assistant Harbormaster for the Town of Camden.
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Jesse Rutter is an attorney at the law firm of Hanscom & Collins, P.A. in Rockland. Jesse graduated from the College of Holy Cross with Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics. He graduated cum laude from St. John’s University School of Law in 2005 where he was on the executive board of the Moot Court Honor Society and a member of the school’s national moot court team. Upon graduating from law school, Jesse worked as an Assistant District Attorney with the Queens County District Attorney’s Office He went into private practice in 2009 and was eventually named partner in a prestigious insurance defense firm on Long Island. A resident of the South End of Rockland where he lives with his wife, a native Mainer and graduate of Rockland District High School, and his four children, his ties to the area extend beyond his residence. His father-in-law, the late George Marks, ran a launch and mooring service called “Two Toots” in Rockland Harbor for many years. He also lives in the home built by Captain Ira B. Ellems, an important figure in Rockland’s maritime history.
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Mark Siegenthaler relocated to Camden Maine in the 80's from Central New York State where he grew up in the marine industry. The family marine business was one of the first Chris Craft dealers in New York State. His first commercial captains licence was at the age of 16 for the operation of tour boats and water ski boats in the Adirondacks. Since living in Maine he has owned and operated several business and worked in real estate as an investor, renovator and agent (in this capacity, he represented Captain Jim in the purchase of the SPS Museum property!) He has also spent many years using his commercial captains licence operating vessels from southern Florida to Maine. Currently he serves the town of Camden sitting on the Planning Board and Budget Committee and serves as Chair of the Harbor Committee.
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Captain Jim Sharp, Chairman and Founder, Camden, Maine
Born in Philadelphia in 1933, Captain Jim Sharp has spent a lifetime afloat. From “going down to the boat” with his father, he migrated from chartering in the Bahamas to becoming addicted to Maine traditional schooners as well as antique tugboats, freight vessels and European barges. He has owned more than thirty elderly commercial marine conveyances including four of the largest of the schooner fleet of Maine and possesses an unquenchable bent for maritime preservation. His book of memoirs "With Reckless Abandon" tells the tale. Now, in questionable retirement, he is director and founder of the Sail Power and Steam museum of Sharp’s Point South in Rockland. |
Meg Sharp, Co-Founder, Camden, Maine, was raised in Pennsylvania.
Meg migrated to Maine in the 70s to complete a Master's program in Special Education at the University of Maine at Orono. With that degree she taught in the resource room at the South School in Rockland for 15 years. The introduction to a Maine Sea Captain ended her teaching career and Meg traveled extensively all over the world with her husband, Captain Jim and is, of course, ironically back in the South End of Rockland, now one of the principals of the Sail Power & Steam Museum. |
Robert D. Williams, Jr. of Vero Beach, FL, and Christmas Cove, ME, is an active member of the board of the Youth Sailing Foundation of Indian River County. His career started at the Martha’s Vineyard Shipyard, and he spent 40 years at the Dwight S. Williams Co., Inc, 22 of those years as President. He served from 1974-1990 as the Chairman of the board of trustees of The Storm King School. Sailing/racing since he was 15 and with 18 years of ocean racing behind him, he is also past president of the CCIA Club in Christmas Cove, Maine. Bob was instrumental in the founding of the Midcoast Sailing Center at the SPSM and was the inspiration for our free youth sailing program.
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Board Emeritus
Tom Goettel, is originally from Rochester, N.Y. After graduating from Cornell University with a degree in wildlife biology, he started his career with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He worked at several national wildlife refuges in the northeast and in 1984, he became the first refuge manager of what is now the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge, where he initiated many of the seabird management and habitat protection and management programs that form the core of the Refuge’s mission today. After serving as refuge manager at Eastern Neck NWR in Maryland, he transferred to the Regional Office in Hadley, MA and became the first Regional Chief of the Office of Refuge Law Enforcement. He then retired from that position in 2008 when his wife, Beth, became the refuge manager of the Maine Coastal Islands NWR. Tom was a volunteer at the Sail Power and Steam museum for 10 years, working on both Persistence and Blackjack, as well as a member of the Board of Directors. He was also treasurer of the Friends of Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge for nine years. Tom lives in Bar Harbor, Maine.
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Staff
Robin McIntosh, Associate Director, is a long-time Midcoast resident. She has worked as Development Director at the Penobscot Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Island Institute, worked in membership development at Hurricane Island Outward Bound School, served as Marketing Manager at Portsmouth Regional Hospital in Portsmouth, NH; and is Program Facilitator for Midcoast Leadership Academy. She is a graduate of the University of Maine, Leadership Maine, Leadership Seacoast, and Midcoast Leadership Academy. An active community volunteer, she has served on Camden’s Budget Committee, Camden’s Economic and Community Development Advisory Board, Rockland’s Economic Development Advisory Board, Rockland Maine Street, Inc.’s Economic Restructuring Committee, as well as a number of local boards and committees. A longtime owner of the a 60' wooden schooner, Appledore, she and her husband, Capt. Rick Bates, and their two Doodles (Bosun and Riggin), now cruise the waters of Penobscot Bay and beyond in their Albin Trawler, Sun Dog.
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