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"WE'RE SLIGHTLY OFF COURSE. BUT WE WANTED to let the trainee run the boat," jokes Chellie Pingree over the din of an outboard motor. It's a chilly, starlit September night off the coast of Rockland, Maine, and Pingree--a onetime farmer, divorced mother of three, former owner of a wool-knitting business and progressive Democratic Senate candidate--is providing navigation advice laced with good-natured jabs. Soon she pauses to explain some nautical terminology: A "gong" is a buoy equipped with a bell that rings when waves slap against it; a "spindle" is a tall metal pole with a reflector light that warns boaters about ledges of rock jutting out of the water. Along with the ...