A look back: A boat that's also a shoe
The May 1998 issue of Mainebiz featured a short article on the 18-foot “Dockside Shoe Boat,” which was commissioned by Sebago Inc., manufacturer of the Dockside boat shoe. The boat, which looks very much like a giant floating shoe, was built by Walter Greene of Greene Marine in Yarmouth. It was launched on the Royal River and was equipped with both a sail and a four-horsepower engine. One thing Greene said he learned from the project, which involved scaling up a Size 8 shoe to an 18-foot-by-7-foot boot: A shoe isn’t the same on both sides.
Fun Fact: A display ad in the May 1998 issue of Mainebiz listed the spring offerings in the University of Southern Maine’s continuing education program. Of the 10 computer courses that were listed, ranging from “Developing an effective web page” to “The internet — Your gateway to worldwide communications for seniors," all but one were for Microsoft computer systems.
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