{"id":20174,"date":"2021-04-29T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=20174"},"modified":"2021-04-29T12:11:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T16:11:36","slug":"launching-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/launching-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Launching Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 400px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23efefef&amp;d=may21&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=16&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Eat, Pray, Swing<\/p>\n<p>Why, in the hoary lore and legend of the sea, is it bad luck to have a woman on board ship but highly desirable to have a lucky lady christen a new vessel with a magnum of champagne at launch?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Big Send-off, Small Fry<\/strong><br \/>\nEven a tiny-fish-cargo workhorse is in party mode on the day she debuts. <em>Mary Anne<\/em> was the first refrigerated sardine carrier, bubbling chilled salt water and air up through the hundred-ton load of baby herring in the hold. Here, Mary Pike (photo above) christens her in 1947 at the Newbert and Wallace shipyard in Thomaston as envious sister Anne Sleight Pike looks on. It doesn\u2019t hurt when your dad, Lubec \u201csardine millionaire\u201d Moses Bernard Pike, owns the new ship.<br \/>\nNo word on how many wharf cats watched the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20176\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/launching_summer.jpg\" alt=\"launching_summer\" width=\"1200\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/launching_summer.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/launching_summer-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/launching_summer-768x397.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/launching_summer-1024x529.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/launching_summer-200x103.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/launching_summer-620x320.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<article id=\"post-20120\" class=\"post-20120 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-featured clearfix\">\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">See the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer clearfix\"><\/footer>\n<\/article>\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yare they are! Maine\u2019s legendary yachts know how to party when they\u2019re christened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20177,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20174\/revisions\/20177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}