Good morning everyone. The idea of being an insider this time of year is appealing especially to those of us who happen to have a wood stove to wrap ourselves around. The temperatures this past week have been a tad bit chilly. I don't believe the thermometer here at the global headquarters broke the single digits all week long. The chickens stayed huddled under cover.

About Capt. Barry
Barry King and Jennifer Martin own and operate the schooner Mary Day. They are both U.S. Coast Guard licensed masters and have extensive sailing and educational backgrounds. Barry has voyaged to Bermuda, the Bahamas, the Caribbean, and along the Canadian maritimes to Newfoundland. Barry is a registered Maine Guide, and a nationally registered Wilderness EMT. Barry also sails as an officer aboard the 1877 barque Elissa. Jen's sailing career took her to Florida and the Bahamas before becoming captain of Figaro IV, a classic ocean racing yacht here on the Maine coast. Jen is a nationally certified Wilderness First Responder. Jen and Barry met as students with the Audubon Society's Expedition Institute while earning master's degrees in experiential environmental education. This program gave them in-depth experience in a diversity of human and natural communities ranging from a sub-artic fishing village in Labrador to the Native American desert southwest. Barry and Jen were married aboard Mary Day and live year-round in Maine with their children, Sawyer and Courtney. Combining their enthusiasm for people, wilderness and beautiful traditional sailing vessels, Barry, Jen, Sawyer and Courtney are living their dream. When not sailing they live in an old timber frame in the woods of Appleton.

It was so cold....how cold was it??? It was so cold that when the rooster crowed the steam from its warm breath froze instantly to its beak and fell to the ground . The sound never actually reached the house only a few yards away as it was frozen inside that pile of ice. Come spring all those sounds laying around the dooryard are going to defrost and the best hearing protectors around will do little to dampen the forthcoming cacophony.

But that isn't the kind of "insider" I was trying to tell you about. An insider is also someone who is in "the know" about what ever it is they think they know about. Last spring I was accidentally mistaken as an insider by the Maine Department of Tourism. They came down to Camden to take some video footage during which Colby stole the show, which is why so much footage of other folks is spliced in there. At any rate, because the phone is starting to jangle with people wanting to reserve space for next summer I thought I better, in the spirit of full disclosure, let folks see what they might get stuck with (me that is).

Hope you enjoy this video. And really I am not as big a blabber mouth as the video makes me out to be. Probably worse. You'll notice the Maine Office of Tourism has pretty well buried this thing on the Internet so that mothers and their children are safe from any harmful effects.

Have a great day. Be well. Do good.