Peter Neill

Director, World Ocean Observatory

Peter Neill Peter Neill serves as Director of the World Ocean Observatory and Ocean Classroom Foundation and as trustee of the Penobscot Marine Museum. He is former President (1985-2005) of the South Street Seaport Museum, past President of the Council of American Maritime Museums and International Congress of Maritime Museums, and is an author and contributor to books, magazines, and media projects on maritime art, history, literature and culture.

Guide Posts

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Life in a Drop: Recently via social media, the World Ocean Observatory received an astonishing photograph taken of a single drop of ocea...
Musings While Whalewatching at Kauai, by Peter Neill: Kauai Thoughts I recently visited Kauai, the smallest of the Hawaiian Islands, a palpable metaphor for living with and b...
Good Reads: Recommendations by Peter Neill: OffCenterHarbor.com asked our guides to share their favorite books that should be in every boater’s library... We, the...
Three Tricks of the Trade That Others Should Know About, by Peter Neill: Three tricks of the trade that have served me well: 1. Never accept a waterfront rumor as the whole truth. 2. Trust the...
Whatever Floats: I was on vacation, suspended in the supportive water of the ocean, and thinking of what it means to float—or to displa...
Learning from Experience; My Biggest Disaster and What it Taught Me.: I sail a desk. For more than thirty years I have presided over organizations that own vessels and use them to provide tr...
Thoughts About Islands: If you assume a satellite perspective, you look down upon the earth and view an ocean world in which float islands—be...
The Influence of a Boat and Ben: His name was Ben Massey, and he dates from my childhood. African-American, he worked for my grandfather – as driver, j...
Three Boats I Lust After (and Why), by Peter Neill: To know the boat is to see into and beyond the boat herself. My three examples are real to me as much as metaphors; they...