Maine Maritime Academy! I have arrived!

[Truckmen]

Hello folks,

I have made it into Maine Maritime Academy and have gotten through the first phase of "boot camp" initiation. :rolleyes:

It's feels great to be in an environment that I have been searching for for so very long. I have joined the sailing team and yacht club. :D

This brings me one step closer to my preparations for sailing Audax home safely from Baltimore to Maine.

[Alan D. Hyde]

Congratulations, Ralph.

There are many here who'd like to be where you are now.

Fair winds and following seas to you, on the long and profitable voyage ahead.

Alan

[Ian McColgin]

Good job. Sail on.

[Scott Rosen]

Congratulations!

[nedL]

Congrats & best of luck!! smile.gif (We need a green with envy smiley)

[ 09-04-2003, 01:04 PM: Message edited by: nedL ]

[Bruce Hooke]

Congratulations!

I have family in Castine and so when I was a teenager I spent a lot of time in the MMA Library (I don't know if this is still true but at the time they allowed people with a local address to check out books). It has to be one of the best marine libraries around -- I learned an awful lot there...

[LisaS]

Congratulations!

Lisa

[Mike Vogdes]

Congratulations and good choice!

I visited Maine Maritime 4 years ago with my oldest son, what a great school and what a beautifull place Castine is. Your a lucky guy...

My son decieded to attend New York Maritime (Fort Skulyer) and is in his last year now. It was a hard decision for him but he likes where he is and he's doing very well.

Good luck and keep in touch..

[Bruce Hooke]

By the way Ralph, you probably have more than enough to keep you busy, but if you are looking for contacts in town outside the Academy let me know because I could put you in touch with my relatives in town (who, I should warn you, are mostly in their 70's & 80's).

[Ed Harrow]

Ask about for Al Foote or Charlie Briggs. Be prepared to duck, LOL.

Seriously, I have no idea of their reputation in Castine. Charlie I've not seen for years, and Al Foot died of a massive heart attack at 40... Bad family history and a devil-may-care approach to life got him in the middle of steam turbine rebuild for Boston Edison.

[huisjen]

Howdy, Neighbor!
I'm just across the Bagaduce and inland 1 1/2 miles. So far, I've been to Castine once, even though I've been here in Brooksville for 1 1/2 years. (I rowed across and brought home a box of donuts to prove I'd been.) I really should check out your library.

I remember my first week at college:

"Why weren't you at orientation?"
"What orientation?"
"Didn't you get our letter saying when it started and that all Midshipmen are requiered to be here?"
"What letter?"

Congradulations on doing what you want to be doing.

Dan

[Ralph M Bohm]

Originally posted by huisjen:
Howdy, Neighbor!
I'm just across the Bagaduce and inland 1 1/2 miles. So far, I've been to Castine once,...
...Congradulations on doing what you want to be doing.

DanThank you Dan, and everyone else who posted to this message. tongue.gif

Dan, we should get together some time and compare notes.
BTW, I've heard that I can go to the town of Brooksville and get permission to put in a mooring on your ide of the bagaduce at a reasonable yearly fee. Do you know anything about that? I will probably sneak away from here for an hour or 2 and o to your town hall to find out the "skinny". Please tell me when you will have coffee on. ;)

[Noah]

I spent a great night in Bah's bake house a few years ago. What a breakfast...

Have fun! How is Audax? Update time?

[huisjen]

I know that up until the day after we moved here, moorings were free, but they decided that there were getting to be too many of them, so now they're regulated some. (Moving to town the day before the annual town meeting was pure chance.) I think the problems were in Buck's Harbor, and you may have better luck getting a spot in the Bagaduce or in Smith Cove, which is probably what you'd be more interested in anyway. The 2002 Town Report says it's $25 annually for non-Buck's Harbor, Non-Resident. The report counts 102 moorings in Smith Cove and another 24 in the Bagaduce.

The Town Clerk has hours on Monday and Wednesday, 9-2, and on Thursday, 6-8 in the evening. The building is, for some reason, called the "Town House" (not "townhouse") rather than town hall. Look for "Town House Road" on a map to find it. 326-4518

Coffee is rare around here, but can be arranged on demand. :cool: We're often around, although sometime not.

Dan

[ishmael]

Hey, that's great. I don't know much about MMM. What are the possible courses of study and which do you plan to pursue?

Jack

[Ralph M Bohm]

Originally posted by huisjen:


The Town Clerk has hours on Monday and Wednesday, 9-2, and on Thursday, 6-8 in the evening. The building is, for some reason, called the "Town House" (not "townhouse") rather than town hall. Look for "Town House Road" on a map to find it. 326-4518

Coffee is rare around here, but can be arranged on demand. :cool: We're often around, although sometime not.

DanThank you again Dan.
I will run by between classes at approx 18:00. I have to be back for a business class at 19:00.

[Ralph M Bohm]

Originally posted by ishmael:
Hey, that's great. I don't know much about MMM. What are the possible courses of study and which do you plan to pursue?

JackHi Jack:

I am full time with 15 credit hours, Going for a BS in Marine Transportation Operations with a possibility of adding another year or 2 to attain a Masters in Intl. Business (but one step at a time). Sarabande is still alive and sits next to the barn up in West Glenburn (ME); and Audax is patiently awaiting my vacation time so that I may get down to Essex (Baltimore) to do some work on her.

Gotta jet off to another class...

Ralph

[JeffH]

Best of luck! smile.gif

Jeff
USCG 1600 ton master
100 ton aux sail master
2nd mate unlimited
MMA class of '98

[huisjen]

I didn't see you Ralph, but then I don't think you can get from Castine to Brooksville and back in one hour and still have time to visit (unless you have one of those 30 knot amphibs someone was talking about around here the other day).

Dan

[Ralph M Bohm]

Originally posted by huisjen:
I didn't see you Ralph, but then I don't think you can get from Castine to Brooksville and back in one hour and still have time to visit (unless you have one of those 30 knot amphibs someone was talking about around here the other day).

DanI started to head that way but realized 10 minutes on, that I would miss my evenign class, turned around. Next attempt...this coming wdnesday after lunch

Ralph

[Truckmen]

I quick note between my studies...

Still could not make it across the Bagaduce, but still trying.