Captains' Quarters Schedule - Winter 2024-2025
Join us online for fascinating conversations with Captains. Registration is free. Please  register for each talk that you will be viewing live. Recordings will be made available following each event.
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Captains' Quarters are held Tuesdays at 6:30pm. Attendance is always free!

April 8: History of Snow Marine Shipyard (Part 2)
With Capt Jim Sharp

​Registration required (attendance is free):  To Register, Click Here 

Join us for an evening with museum co-founder, Captain Jim Sharp, as he tells the story of Rockland's Snow Marine Shipyard.  The Sail, Power, and Steam Museum now sits on the site of the former shipyard.

In operation for 140 years and owned by generations of the Snow family, the yard was the hub of Rockland shipbuilding back in the 19th century, building more vessels than anywhere else in Rockland, Maine, and most of New England!  Rockland itself was the 4th largest seaport in the United States in the late 1800's (only Boston, New York, and Philadelphia were busier).

April 15: Mapping Ocean Stories

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​Mapping Ocean Stories is a collaboration between The First Coast, Maine Sea Grant, College of the Atlantic (COA), and the Island Institute. The goal of the Mapping Ocean Stories project is to find, collect, archive and share oral histories from coastal community members in Maine.

​The project seeks to document the voices of Maine fishermen and fishing community members so that the stories of our past are remembered and celebrated. The knowledge of fishermen and fishing community members, aggregated from oral history interviews and historical documents, can help illustrate important issues faced by these industries and the communities they call home.

Captains' Quarters from earlier this year:

Master Shipwright, Rob Stevens, and the Virginia - Maine's First Ship
​A captivating history of  what it took to build a replica of the Virginia, as told by the Master Shipwright who completed it.
Missed it?  Click HERE to see the show on our YouTube channel.

Captain Alexander Peacock - Sailing Schooner Bowdoin to the Arctic (2024)
Travel to the Arctic with Capt Alex Peacock aboard the historic Schooner Bowdoin, with an introduction of the ship's history by Capt Jim Sharp.
Missed it?  Click HERE to see the show on our YouTube channel
Women on the Water - Harbormasters' Roundtable
​An engaging conversation with three of our local harbormasters: Kathy Givens (Belfast), Abbie Leonard (Rockport), and Molly Eddy (Rockland). 
Missed it? Click HERE to see the show on our YouTube Channel.
History of Snow Marine Shipyard (Part 1)
​An intriguing look at the history of the legendary Snow Marine Shipyard with museum founder Capt Jim Sharp.
Missed it? Click HERE to see the show on our YouTube Channel.
Battle of Ink and Ice - With Author Darrell Hartman
A sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news that follows the no-holds-barred battle between two legendary explorers to reach the North Pole, and the newspapers which stopped at nothing to get–and sell–the story.
​Missed it? Recording coming soon!
In Slocum's Wake - With Author Nat Warren-White
Written for sailors and non-sailors alike, In Slocum’s Wake is an autobiographical tale of a hard-won circumnavigation aboard a 43-foot cutter. Nat Warren-White's five-year journey follows many of the same passages and roughly traces much of the route followed by Joshua Slocum who, in the late 1800s, became the first person to sail alone around the world. 
​Missed it? Recording coming soon!

​For links to previous talks on our YouTube channel, click here!.  We guarantee you'll find something you like!