BoatTalk 6/9/20: loopers end, local boatyard news, interview with greg latimer, author

Producers/Hosts: Mike Joyce & Alan Sprague

a) dave and stacey end their great loop trip and recount the experience
b) interview with greg latimer, author of a new book on maine pirates
d) jon johnansen has been carefully visiting a few boatyards

guests:
Dave Rowe by zoom
Greg Latimer by zoom
Jon Johansen roving reporter

About the hosts:

Alan Sprague a.k.a. Flounder of the Soul Show, has been a programmer at WERU since the glaciers receded. For thirty years at community radio he has worked his way from being an unpaid volunteer to being an unpaid volunteer today, and he says he’s worth every cent of it. In 2003 he and Mike Joyce started the monthly call-in show Boattalk which has become a boating related show without piers (pi). Mike and Alan met many years ago while both were working at the Hinckley Company. Alan was the head service carpenter at the Hinckley skunkworks called Bass Harbor Marine or sometimes Kibbee’s Kennels. He worked there for nearly thirty years and saw yachts of stories to tell yawl. As part of Boattalk they organize the annual WERU Boattalk Cruise in late June for a fun pot-luck trip up Somes Sound, America’s former fiord. Quite cunning Mike and Alan are to work a free scenic boat trip with fine food for themselves.

Mike Joyce bio to follow