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18.05.12

Typically when Maine women in the 1800s went to sea with their husbands, they packed their knitting. These days, knitting is still done aboard ship, but now it’s not a way of life, it’s a knitting cruise aboard the schooner J and E Riggin, owned these past 15 years by Capt. Jon Finger and his wife, Annie Mahle, known as Capt. Annie, who does duty as chef aboard the vessel.

“It’s very congenial,” said Donna Hauge of Holden, who booked passage on the three-day knitting cruise last summer. “I never met a shy knitter. I made some really good friends.”

The 20 knitting passengers, Hauge said, came from all over, but only one other besides Hauge was from Maine.

Hauge said she taught herself to knit in 2002 using a book she purchased at a yarn shop in Bangor.

“I learned to cast on while my husband read me one word at a time,” she said, laughing.

Since then, she has moved on to knitting hats and sweaters, as well as baby things for her grandchildren.

Source: Bangor Daily News

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