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Hummer (2006)

Philippians 3:10

MATURE • MENTOR • MINISTER • MAINTAIN • INVESTING IN BLACK FUTURES THRU STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

"Hummer" is the German and Norwegian word for "lobster"

Hummer's up on YouTube.

Click here for the original "Hummer" blog

Click here for Hummer's Voyages (nautical charts and notes)

Video of Hummer's genesis and a few of its voyages

Click here for photos of the initial phase of construction

Click here for photos of the sail kit phase of construction

In 2006 Hummer debuted as a motoring and rowing boat.

In 2007 she returned to the Maine coast as a sailing boat.

For the truth is that I already know as much about my fate as I need to know.  The day will come when I will die.  So the only matter of consequence before me is what I will do with my allotted time.  I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze. — Richard Bode

Hummer (a Passagemaker Dinghy from CLC Boats) car-topped — rarin' to go to Maine

Philly to Kittery in about 7 hours — car-topping the Passagemaker Dinghy worked out surprisingly well

Nubble Light at dusk

Arrived at the Visitor Center on Mt. Desert Island around 6:30 a.m. the next day, and found that
many a Maine mosquito met their Maker mashin' up against the Passagemaker's bow.

Hummer in its Southwest Harbor context

Hummer moored off the Manset Dock in Southwest Harbor, ME

Hummer moored in the harbor, weighed down by rain water from a bombastic thunderstorm the night before

A lobsterboat off the port bow skirts the edge of a fog bank near Greening Island in Southwest Harbor

. . . a tiller extension on the motor handle so I could sit on the middle seat and bring the bow down

Hummer takes to the beach in Valley Cove on the western shore of Somes Sound . . .

. . . portside view . . .

 . . . again . . .

. . . aft view

Hep in Southwest Harbor on Mount Desert Island, ME - July 24, 2006
Photo by C .B. Hepburn

Dad takes on Eggemoggin Reach as we headed out to and around the Pumpkin Island Light

Grant H. guides Hummer down the Delaware near the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge — September 3, 2006

Passagemaker with sails — Spring 2007
Photo courtesy of CLC Boats

Click here for the original "Hummer" blog

Click here for Hummer's Voyages (nautical charts and notes)

Click here for photos of the initial phase of construction

Click here for photos of the sail kit phase of construction

Click here for 2007 photos of Hummer's 2nd summer off the Maine coast (as a sailboat)

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