Kathe Newman Walton

Newman Marine Southwest Harbor United States

Kathe grew up in the village of Manset, Southwest Harbor, Maine, in and out of her father, Jarvis Newman's and grandfather, Raymond Bunker and Ralph Ellis's Bunker & Ellis, boat shops and on the water in various vessels. Sailing lessons and racing at camps and on the family boats sailing and picnicking were a large part of summers with family and friends. From the late '60s through early '80s, the family summer vacation was going to the Friendship Sloop Races on the 1904 sloop, Dictator. Kathe and her husband, Dan, live on Mount Desert Island and have five grown children and several grandchildren. They both are USCG Master Captains and enjoy working and recreating on the water aboard their wooden Friendship Sloop and power boat.