Maine passenger schooner runs aground twice within eight weeks

摘要

The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating two separate groundings this past summer involving a commercial sailing schooner near Portland, Maine. The 88-foot Wendameen, a two-masted wooden vessel owned by Portland Schooner Co., was carrying 23 passengers and four crew when it ran up onto a charted shipwreck on June 4 in Casco Bay, said Lt. Nick Barrow of Coast Guard Sector Northern New England.