Category: Boating

Top 5 Boat Shows for Fall 2018

9/2/2018 - With Labor Day Weekend behind us, summer is all but over. For boaters, that doesn't mean the end of the fun. Boat shows and other events around the country carry on through the fall and winter, and here is our pick of the biggest and best shows between now and… SEE MORE

Ida Lewis Distance Finds its Pace, Names Winners in Five Classes

Boating

8/20/2018 - NEWPORT, R.I. (August 19, 2018) – With its largest fleet ever, the 14th edition of the Ida Lewis Distance Race started Friday (August 17) at lunchtime south of Rose Island (in Narragansett Bay’s East Passage) and saw its first of 47 teams finish off Ida Lewis Yacht Club (in Newport… SEE MORE

Salem To Host Fleet Of Rare Vintage Boats August 25-26

8/15/2018 - The Antique & Classic Boat Festival is featured by Yankee Magazine this summer as its “favorite event” in all of Massachusetts! This is the Festival’s 36th year. It was founded in Boston in 1983 to celebrate that historic port and has since moved to another historic port – Salem, Massachusetts.… SEE MORE

NEWPORT, R.I. (August 13, 2018) - With 51 teams registered to compete, the 2018 Ida L

Ida Lewis Distance Race Goes Big on Friday August 17th

Boating

8/15/2018 - NEWPORT, R.I. (August 13, 2018) – With 51 teams registered to compete, the 2018 Ida Lewis Distance Race will create quite the spectacle of sail when it starts at 12:30 p.m. on Friday (August 17) between Fort Adams and Rose Island. Prior to the gun, Ida Lewis Yacht Club’s Race… SEE MORE

Growth at Great Island Boat Yard Creates New Opportunities

Boating

8/7/2018 - Great Island Boat Yard is in search of full-time, year-round Finishers. We currently have an excellent team of yacht finish technicians, but wish to expand our team as our business contintues to grow. Duties include both varnish and brush painting on boat interiors and exteriors. Successful candidates will be detail… SEE MORE

Women Sailors Heading to Austin for Sailing Championship

Boating

8/6/2018 - Austin Yacht Club to Host 2018 USSCA Women's North American Championship Sept. 28-30 Austin, TX: Women from around the country will be in Austin competing in the 2018 USSCA Women's North American Championship this September. Austin Yacht Club is hosting the event on Lake Travis. The Club is putting on… SEE MORE

Distinctive Dutch Yacht, sealed and finished with West System and Epifanes

7/25/2018 - An awesome photo from our counterparts at Epifanes in Aalsmeer, Holland including this beauty. This is a "boeier," a classic Friesland sailing barge with its signature apple-shaped bow. It's sealed with West System and finished with rolled Epifanes Poly-urethane Clear. Check out the swinging leeboard. These were designed specifically for… SEE MORE

2017 Annual Antique & Classic Boat Festival - photo courtesy Frank Conahan

36th Annual Antique & Classic Boat Festival – only one more month to go!

7/25/2018 - You won’t want to miss it! Yankee Magazine has featured the Antique & Classic Boat Festival as its favorite event in all of Massachusetts! More than 40 rare vintage sail and powerboats will be on display over the August 25-26 weekend at Brewer Hawthorne Cove Marina in Salem, Massachusetts. Come. … SEE MORE

Ghost sails Mystic Harbor with two other Barnegat Bay, NJ sailboats.Photo by Gretchen Coyle

New Jersey Maritime Museum’s A Cat ‘Ghost’ Featured at Mystic Seaport Wooden Boat Show

7/2/2018 - The New Jersey Maritime Museum’s A Cat Ghost, along with five other Barnegat Bay boats ranging in size from 12’ to the 28’ Ghost, were recent New Jersey ambassadors at Mystic Seaport’s Wooden Boat Show in Mystic, CT. How does a 28’ sailboat with no motor get north to Mystic,… SEE MORE

Get Your Groove on at the Small Boat Love-In

6/25/2018 - Are you a small-boat enthusiast? Do you love to show off your boat? If so, you'll want to trailer your beloved boat to Rockland for the 2018 Small-Boat Love-In – or SBLI for short. The SBLI is a groovy gathering of privately-owned power, sail, and human-powered boats under 22 feet… SEE MORE