Category: Culture

The A.J. Meerwald Came To Beach Haven

9/10/2018 - For the first time since Hurricane Sandy filled up Little Egg Inlet, New Jersey’s tall oyster schooner from Bivalve, NJ, maneuvered the newly dredged inlet from the Atlantic Ocean into the ICW leading to Beach Haven. Credit goes to our favorite Tow Boat US driver, Rick Ellenburg, our guiding light… SEE MORE

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

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

Artwork from the cover of TIDES by Jonathan White

Jonathan White, Author of TIDES: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, to attend Maine Boat & Home Show

8/2/2018 - The regular rise and fall of the seas is a phenomenon we are all familiar with. In fact, US Harbors is so intimately connected to the tides through our popular tide charts, it could be described as a website powered by the moon! The author Jonathan White explores humanity's connection… 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

How is your summer so far? – Take our Survey

6/18/2018 - Summer is finally here, and everyone is heading back out on the water. We want to be able to provide you with all the coastal information you need, and to do so, we've a few questions for you. If you have a spare 3 minutes we'd love you to tell… SEE MORE

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New Bedford Harbor. Benjamin Russell and Caleb Purrington. Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage ‚ÄòRound the World (detail) 1848

A Spectacle in Motion: The New Bedford Whaling Museum resurrects America’s longest painting.

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6/8/2018 - The New Bedford Whaling Museum resurrects America’s longest painting. See it this summer in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Before the age of cinema brought the world to life on film for audiences everywhere, curious people without the means or inclination to travel could be transported to exotic locales via a… SEE MORE

US Harbors adds Alaska to its network of harbors

5/31/2018 - Our harbors now run from Aberdeen, WA to Zachar Bay, AK. That's right, we've added to our family of harbors with nearly 100 new harbors in Alaska Our Alaskan harbors at present have only Tide and Weather information. We, like our users, value the accuracy of our data, and so… SEE MORE

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