Jeremy Ames

"With all of our love we'd like to ask our dearest friends and family of ours to save the date of August 11 at 6:00pm for my husband's, Capt. Jeremy Ames, Burial at Sea. Come by boat to the hook (side of bar will depend on the weather) or stay ashore at the hook to watch the sunset in memory of Jeremy Ames.
In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation to our childrens' college fund found at Five County CU. Hope to see you there. We'll send out a reminder and further details as the date draws near. We'll try to make enough boats or a taxi ferry to be available if you need to jump on one or another. Thank you all!

Captain Jeremy Weston Ames from Chebeague Island was a very strong, loving and affectionate family man who had charismatic charm, quick wit, and an infectious, yet gentle smile. Captain Jeremy Ames, 51, was born May 23, 1972 and passed away suddenly from a cardiac related event on November 26, 2023. Jeremy is survived by his loving wife, Tracy A Ames, two beautiful daughters, Alissa S. and Sophia E. Ames, his adoring parents, John S. Ames II and Pamela C. Ames, his endearing sister and brother in law, Jennifer and Todd Kimball and niece, Diana, sister in law and brother in law, Vicki and Steve White and nieces, Zoe and Averi, brother in law and sister in law, Craig and Jennie Miner and nephew, Kaesyn, Grandfather, Thornton (Choppy) Candage, his daughters Patti Mikkelson and Paula Candage and her life partner, Kat Marissal and Uncle Bill and Aunt Helen Ames. He was also loved and respected by many close fishing friends, Rusty Pamenter, Craig Stewart, Chris Hole, best friends, Chris Beaudoin, Greg Arthur and Ralph Monroe and many other friends and colleagues from Chebeague Transportation Company, CI Rescue, CI Fire Department and from Chebeague Island and the North Yarmouth area.

With a love for adventure and adverse weather, Captain Jeremy was a true mariner. He had both a deep passion for “being on the water” with over 6,500 commercial days at sea and being “deep in the Northern Maine Woods” with his loving and devoted father who was equally up for finding “trouble” wherever they could travel. Jeremy had many entrepreneurial interests and some he pursued to the professional level. He was a commercial fisherman for 36 years, often as a “One Man Show” fishing for lobsters, sea scallops, hagfish and pogies. He knew his boat the “Foxy Lady” and Casco Bay like the back of his hand. He was highly respected on the water because he was a very considerate man and tended to stay out of the “thick of it.” He also was very conservation-minded and took part in an Atlantic sea scallop research project with the DMR.

In 2016 Captain Jeremy moved his family out to Chebeague Island where he took a job as a full time Chebeague Transportation Company Ferry and Barge Captain. He contributed greatly by providing safe and reliable transport to the CI community and therefore, was loved by many Chebeaguers. Chebeaguers always knew who was behind the wheel each trip. In addition Jeremy was a commercial maple sugarer for 6 years and quickly family

became a professional wood sculpturist with just 1 year of self training and with the use of only a chainsaw for his cuts. With a love for learning, being self taught and doing everything to the extreme, he had many jobs, hobbies and passions in which he pursued prestigious certifications. Recently, Jeremy completed the Maine Guide Course and was planning to be a Maine Guide in northern Maine for his retirement. He was most proud of his recent EMT certifications, EMT and Fire Department work as well as fishing and sea captain employment. Most notable actions in Jeremy’s short and important life included, but not limited to; inspiring and supporting others pursuing fishing and aquaculture careers, saving the lives of several individuals in distress on the water and kindly offering his helping hand to so many.

Throughout his life, Jeremy was also a self trained, talented athlete and musician. As a youth he played hockey on the Maine State Travel Team and on the Greely Varsity Hockey Team. He also enjoyed tele skiing, skateboarding, sailing, mountain biking, snowboarding and nordic skiing with his family on Saddleback Mountain. In addition he was a very skilled drummer in the GHS Marching Band and in local music bands. As an adult he spent his free time hiking, winter camping, antler shed hunting, skijoring, dog sledding, bikejoring, drumming, biking, surf kayaking, archery, deer hunting, bee keeping, gourmet cooking, scuba diving and snorkeling in the Caribbean with his adoring family. Yet… humorously, from a very young age, he longed to be a Vegas Singer.

Above all Jeremy was a fun, loving and caring father and husband. He pursued island living for his family and picked out a lovely log cabin that was built by the Amish. He provided for “his girls” and contributed greatly to their love for the outdoors with instilling fishing values and how to be safe whether on the ocean, in life or on an extreme adventure. Over the years Jeremy and his family took many wonderful trips together with some of his favorites being over the last year. Although a seemingly short life, Jeremy had a very full life with dear friends and family that truly loved him. He will be greatly missed by so many far and wide. In the spring there will be a Celebration of Life and a Burial at Sea. Details will be included in a Spring PPH Announcement. In lieu of flowers please make a donation to college funds set up at Five County CU for Captain Jeremy Ames’ children, Alissa and Sophia Ames.

With a very very broken heart I am reaching out to you all to tell you that my loving husband, so committed to community safety and well being has passed away this past Sunday. As we all know he was the life of the party, a loving father and sexy loving husband. He is in a better world that will give him mountains to climb, oceans to steam, back woods to camp by, and so much more than what he could have here. He knew he was our hero and that we loved him the day he passed from what looks like a cardiac arrest. I tried so hard to help save him. I told him in the past he did not want me on his rescue squad.... nonetheless we are in hell and may never find our way without him by our side. He was that guy that did so well in taking care of us all in his way. We will look for him each day as we do my mom and dad and so many others. Thank you to the rescue team that showed up in intensity and with great professionalism and care and to our loving community that have reached out above and beyond and to family and friends that keep us going and have called and/or have come here. It was a shining moment in hell, flying away on Life flight and looking down from way up high and seeing the love and affection and unforgettable support from the large large rescue team present, hugging and feeling our pain with their own pain yet exhausted I suspect from giving everything they could muster. Jeremy thought the world of you. You all brightened his day, Rescue, Fire department, CTC ferry service folks and the small yet large in love island community.