Becky Sigwright did not grow up on the water.

I grew up in New Hampshire. My mom is a commercial janitor. My dad is a forester. So very not boat-related.

But every year, growing up, she would visit the coast. And something would happen to her.

I'd come up for about a week in the summer to visit my grandmother in Bufthay, right on the water.

And just something just always felt right about being in Maine.

We'd open the windows as far as they would go as we were going by the clam flats and just soak it in.

Because just the salt air, the feeling, the people here, it just feels right.

Becky loved coming to Maine.

And over time, what she realized she really loved was boats.

When I was a teenager, I started reading a lot of books about sailing and sailing history.

I read the books, devoured them.

And then, when I was 17, I got my first job on a boat.

I remember the first moment that I stepped on board, and I wrote down in my journal that night, like, I'm on a ship. I'm on a ship. I'm on a ship.

I'm Kelly McEvers, and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange,

incredible, and wondrous places.

This episode was produced in partnership with the Maine Office of Tourism.

It's Maine Week on the show, so each day we are introducing you to a person from that great state,

people who live and work in Maine and who fuel their creativity with its rugged beauty.

Today, it's Becky Sigwright,

who now captains a wind-powered boat

that has been sailing around Maine

since before the invention of the telephone.

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