06/06/2010
Acadia BoatTalk Cruise coming right up…
Like Boats? Like to talk about them even better? 
Everything is discussed on boattalk: a call in show about all things nautical with Alan Sprague and Mike Joyce on WERU FM every 2nd Tuesday from 10-11am. You can access the radio station from anywhere – on line go to weru.org and if you are within listening distance on the radio tune in at 89.9 FM. If you are driving to Maine, I can generally get this station on I-95 in between Augusta and Waterville. Once a month they get on the air and gab about all kinds of nautical topics, like the plas-tiki, or the latest cruise of the local marine college, or someone’s new boat design. Working around boats is a part of the world around here. Both of these lads have dredged up lots of salty old wizards of the boat world that call in and offer their opinion on matters big and small just for the halibut. Listen in on porpoise, just to hear their colorful yarns of the sea-life. All kinds of boats draw a lot of folks here, and some of them stick around, others flounder away. The last three years the two anchors of the radio show have sponsored a fund-raising event for WERU community radio.
The third annual Boattalk Semi-dinner Cruise is on for Saturday ,June 26, 6-9 PM leaving from the Northeast Harbor town dock for “a three hour cruise” around the great harbor of Mount Desert and up into Somes Sound. Once again this year we will be aboard the Sea Princess, thanks to our good friends at Bar Harbor Cruises. Tickets for alleged grownups are only $15, with proceeds to benefit WERU-FM.
Each spring the boat talk guys arrange a fund-raising, more friend-raising cruise around Somes Sound on MDI. Good company, incredible scenery and food, plus some funny puns are available for those attracted to that kind of thing.
follow this link to the show’s archives. http://archives.weru.org/boattalk/boattalk-51110
The best part is that you can listen to the last 59 shows right now if you want. Tune in anytime or have the show podcast to your device every 2nd Tuesday of the month. 
May’s show includes the just retired president of Maine Maritime Academy – Lyn Tyler. The almost Caribbean voyages of folks that left too late in the season and got snowed in in Virginia, calls from a boat surveyor from Kentucky of all places. Check out that fancy second home pictured above, it’s in the other boat capital of the world, the Netherlands. Which is the second home I wonder?
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