A belated welcome here from me. This is a good place to get helpful advice.I had a good experience with a fairly new briar that smoked for 45 minutes without relegating.
The only problem was that when I knocked out the ashes I found that about 1/3 of the tobacco was unburned and no caje had formed in the lower heel area. I was in my car with the windows open on a somewhat windy day the pipe was hot to the touch but it did not create very much moisture, which is a good thing. It did burn my tongue a bit, something that I suffered a lit from pipe smoking 34 years ago. Gotta start smoking half bowls niw.
And Maine is an interesting state historically, with potential Viking visits, and the English and French colonies from the 16th-17th centuries.