Captain Jim Sharp, skipper of a whole fleet of vessels on the Maine coast including four windjammers, tugs and freight boats, sail and power…..an avid reader of a bevy of historic sea stories….mariner….raconteur....has crowded into his library some hair-raising, spellbinding volumes for your consideration:  

  “If you look for anything you can find on the  schooner Adventure, either in her hey-day fishing out of Gloucester or when sailing the coast of Maine - or the old Boston schooner, pilot boat, Roseway - both windjammers owned at one time by this hopeless addict - you will find an ‘on-the-edge-of-your-chair’, ‘page-turning’ kind of a read.  Now, look at the action on this site and don't miss the news at Sharp's Point South!"

                                                             Captain Jim

  Hit on "New, from Captain Jim's log book" and peruse the book "With Reckless Abandon" It's our latest and hot off the press. 'Tis a bedazzling mix of memories of schoonering, tug-boating, and life's undertakings on the sometimes harsh conditions of the Maine Coast...A chronicle-- a memoir of an exciting life by Captain Jim Sharp .........
Click the DVD on Captain Jack Crowell. It is an astounding, cliffhanger. A unique presentation and is narrated by Captain Jack himself.  A true piece of history that brings the Arctic into your living room....  Hang onto your cap - soak up the Cape Horn book - only one of its kind I’ve seen---and, now the latest from Spencer: "Lands that Hold One Spellbound....You'll be held spellbound!  Then try the little cookbook for a big smile...  Check it out...check them out!

Now, talk about Reckless Abandon, Captain Jim and his wife Meg have just purchased a piece of the old Snow Shipyard in Rockland, Maine and they intend to create a marina, museum, commercial rental offices, restaurant and who knows what else.... all of this on two and a half acres of prime waterfront. He has just flunked out of retirement, named the property "Sharp's Point South", retrieved the old 1914 wooden freight boat "Rekord" from a near death situation... and ...well click on the picture of Rekord and read how, without slowing down, he is reaching for the last "brass ring".

       Drop www.sharpspointsouth.com on your favorites…we will soon have more fascinating
 publications for your pleasure.
                   

Email for info: ssmuseum@midcoast.com
 

For more fascinating sites to explore, try:

www.virginiathorndike.com   Virginia Thorndike, author of many maritime books,
has to her credit, The Arctic Schooner Bowdoin, Maine Lobsterboats, Windjammer Watching
on the Coast of Maine,  and, with an intimate view of their operation, On Tugboats.

For Maine coast artistry with a feel for the mood and true ambience of our islands,
www.csebold.com

For the essence of art with the wind in the rigging and salt spray in your face,

http://www.lindanortonstudio.com

also

http://www.cr.nps.gov/maritime/nhl/advennhl.htm
http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/adventur/schooner/building/adventur.htm
www.amschooner.org/node/142
http://news.mainemaritime.edu/articles.php?id=26
www.volunteersolutions.org/boston/org/217557.html
 

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