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While vacationing in Bar Harbor in August 2011, I went whale watching in the Gulf of Maine aboard the 140-foot, jet-powered catamaran Atlanticat. The cat is equipped with a galley, two climate-controlled cabins and a sun deck and can carry more than 400 passengers. The Bar Harbor Whale Watch Co. operates it. Strong winds and choppy seas didn't deter two humpback whales from approaching and checking us out.