Meet The Boat Shop Staff

Alicia Witham, Executive Director 

Alicia grew up on Munjoy Hill in Portland Maine and spent her youth exploring Portland’s waterfront and East End. In 1996 she started working for the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School and enjoyed an 18 year career there.  She held nearly every position during her tenure at HIOBS from a cook in the galley on Hurricane Island to Associate Program Director of the Florida and Bahamas programs. Alicia returned after a decade of living in San Francisco and serving as the General Manager of the Olympic Circle Sailing Center, OCSC, in Berkeley California. Alicia has been teaching adult sailing, managing yachts, and coaching the Yarmouth sailing team since May 2019. Alicia is delighted to join the Carpenter’s Boat Shop. She will be bringing her extensive maritime experience and leadership background to help extend programming, vision, and relevancy .If you cannot find her at the boat shop, you can find her exploring Maine rivers in search of trout, on a beach with her dog Hobie, or sailing in warm waters.

 

Chelsea Fisher, Program Director

Born in Texas and raised in rural Wisconsin, Chelsea did not discover sailing or wooden boats until 2007 when she happened upon a tall ship festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  After taking her first voyage down the coast on the Sloop Providence, there was no turning back.  In 2009, she began working on the Sloop Clearwater in the Hudson River Valley of New York as a winter maintenance apprentice and one year later, came to the Carpenter’s Boatshop as a boat building apprentice.  She has continued to work for both organizations periodically over the years teaching sailing, fixing and maintaining engines, building and restoring large and small wooden boats, and teaching basic woodworking classes. In January of 2022 she acquired a USCG 100 ton Inland Masters license and put it to work driving the Madaket, an old wooden ferry boat built in 1910, around Humboldt Bay on the Northern California coast.  After a year out west, she is pleased to be back east and at the Carpenter’s Boatshop in a new role on the beautiful Pemaquid Peninsula!

Thank You To Our Sponsors

Bath Savings Bank

Broad Arrow Farm

Clark Cove Farm and Inn

 Cuddledown

Pam Daley & Randy Phelps

Damariscotta Dental

Damariscotta Hardware

First National Bank

Hancock Lumber

Hardy Boat Cruises

HM Payson

Lincoln Health

Masters Machine

Mid-Coast Energy Systems

Mook Sea Farm

Round Pond Coffee

Schooner Cove

Strong-Hancock Funeral Home

Wicked Scoops

 

Board of Directors

  • Abby Rowe – President
  • Karen Filler – Vice-President
  • Peter McNaughton – Treasurer
  • Lisa Conway 
  • Matthew Filler
  • Todd Garth 
  • Ed Hamilton
  • Phyllis Ives
  • David Levesque
  • Rick Miller
  • Deb Mills-Scofield
  • Michael Putzel
  • James A. Rowan, Jr.
  • Brad Tannebring
  • Jennifer Thompson 

carved wooden door with text "hearts to god, hands to work"