The L. C. Morton treasure conspiracy: Casco Bay has two 'Halfway Rocks.' What are they halfway to?
Posted 19th Apr 2026r/Maine
[OC] The British Navy lost 329 significant warships during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, mostly due to navigation errors and storms. In actual combat involving large warships, ~18 enemy vessels were taken or destroyed for each British ship lost.
Posted 15th Mar 2026r/dataisbeautiful
Photos of the historic church and housing that BIW will demolish, to build another parking lot
Posted 12th Mar 2026r/Maine
Ice goes up, ice goes down
Posted 25th Feb 2026r/Maine
[OC] In 1434 AD, ten Spanish knights blockaded a bridge and challenged all noble passersby to joust with sharp lances, fighting hundreds of duels over 17 days, until all were too wounded to carry on. These were the results:
Posted 18th Feb 2026r/dataisbeautiful
Does anyone actually use locking turns when making fast to a pin?
Posted 16th Feb 2026r/Tallships
Sebago says:
Posted 31st Jan 2026r/Maine
The courthouse is just happy to see you...
Posted 29th Jan 2026r/portlandme
I thought this sub could use something else to be mad about, so I found you this
Posted 23rd Jan 2026r/Maine
The sounds of Cobbosseecontee making new ice. (Headphones on and volume up)
Posted 13th Jan 2026r/Maine
DREG Reactor Parameter Data from the Skala Computer
Posted 1st Jan 2026r/chernobyl
"Baltic Glory, J. Marr" - Anyone been around the waterfront long enough to know what the story is with this equipment?
Posted 25th Dec 2025r/portlandme
As of December 9th you can see the CMP corridor on LANDSAT imagery. Accompanied by a web of logging roads the whole way, before diving under the Kennebec.
Posted 16th Dec 2025r/Maine
Getting priced out? Apparently the affordable condo development on Douglas St still has lots of available units. Priced at $265k-$325k with annual household income limit of $90k-$130k.
Posted 4th Dec 2025r/portlandme
Seals on Saturday, Moose on Sunday
Posted 24th Sep 2025r/kayakmaine
250th anniversary of the bombardment of Falmouth. The crew of Lynx were presented with a list of hotels and yachts to target with live ammunition, but apparently this was against fire safety code
Posted 20th Sep 2025r/portlandme
The 316 least-creative island names in Maine: All the islands with at least 10 'duplicates'
Posted 28th Aug 2025r/Maine
Meanwhile at Cape Neddick...
Posted 23rd Aug 2025r/Maine
BDN: Out-of-state couple builds seasonal waterfront dwelling without permits
Posted 3rd Aug 2025r/Maine
Apparently a firetruck (van) from Southern Germany drove into a wormhole and ended up on Presumpscot Street?
Posted 16th Mar 2025r/portlandme
Just your daily reminder that DOT doesn't give a fuck about pedestrians and cyclists: This is the only paved access to Tukey's bridge. Years of complaints ignored as the retaining wall crumbles and the sidewalk turns into a deeper mud puddle with permanently clogged drain
Posted 4th Mar 2025r/portlandme
Right in time for the Oscars, I present this year's entry for Most Aggressively Stupid and Wrong Chernobyl Explainer Video by a Big Name Youtuber
Posted 19th Feb 2025r/chernobyl
Correction: The hole in the NSC is not being repaired (yet). Its jagged edges are circled in red. The workers in this shot are cutting *new* holes to access the smoldering insulation.
The Van der Linde gang's curious route to Guarma on a freighter (thanks to the strange geography of RDR's America)
Posted 8th Feb 2025r/RDR2
Why on earth do no canoes spawn here? This is the killjoy equivalent of not putting a parachute at the top of the tallest building in GTA!
Posted 2nd Feb 2025r/RDR2
End of an era at B&M: wharf building is coming down
Posted 23rd Jan 2025r/portlandme
Various sources are almost comically inconsistent on the dimensions of the control rod elements (and therefore the magnitude of the positive scram effect). This chart visualizes various configurations, including three hypothetical layouts which could have existed before being updated in 1979.
Posted 10th Jan 2025r/chernobyl
Can yeast do this, or are we cooked? White powder floating on the surface and climbing the walls of the carboy after a month
Posted 1st Jan 2025r/winemaking
[OC] Damage inflicted on HMS Shannon by cannonfire from USS Chesapeake on June 1, 1813. More than seventy men killed or wounded in 11 minutes.
Posted 26th Dec 2024r/dataisbeautiful
The sound the pond makes when a skater stamps their foot
Posted 17th Dec 2024r/Maine
Hub Furniture has such an interesting post-industrial interior, it's worth pretending that you want to buy a couch, and walking through just to for the architecture
Posted 8th Dec 2024r/portlandme
Today's moment of Zen: tide running over the bar at Hog Island Ledge
Posted 20th Oct 2024r/portlandme
Everyone realizes that these signs are totally invalid and unenforceable, right?
Posted 15th Sep 2024r/Maine
Where the lobster buoys have a wake...
Posted 14th Sep 2024r/sailing
Polars modelling for a 32-gun frigate (by R. Braithwaite)
Posted 14th Sep 2024r/Tallships
Anyone ever revisit a childhood swimming hole and be amazed that you ever went in the water there? Certainly no danger of Google Maps routing hoards of tourists to this spot...
Posted 23rd Aug 2024r/Maine
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