Category: Culture

The Camden Windjammer Festival is a great opportunity to mingle with schooner crews and tour the visiting and local ships.

Fleets, Fireworks and Fun: Windjammer Weekend in Camden

8/30/2013 - Maine is fortunate to have more than its fair share of traditional sailing ships, but gathering them all together in one harbor can be quite a chore (many of this historic vessels do not have inboard power). For the past several years, the folks in Camden have managed to do… SEE MORE

From afar, North Haven Island is a distant patch of greens floating in a field of blues.

Savoring Midsummer Dawns in North Haven Harbor

8/28/2013 - North Haven Island, dead ahead, is a distant patch of greens floating in a field of blues. It’s not until we approach the Sugar Loaves, two plump rising islands in the Fox Islands Thorofare, that other colors bleed into the scene ahead. An ocre ring of rockweed glistens along the… SEE MORE

Ladies Racing Series - Beverly Yacht Club

Sailing Style: Beverly Yacht Club’s Ladies Racing Series

8/23/2013 - The Beverly Yacht Club (BYC) in Marion has hosted a Ladies' Racing Series during the summer months of June, July, and August since 1946. A recent revival has grown the fleet to 14 Twelves, each skippered and crewed by ladies. Every Thursday afternoon, the fleet meets for lunch and then… SEE MORE

A young man demonstating a soundless electric drive at the 2013 Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors Show in Rockland.

Rain or Shine, It’s Always a Fine Day at a Boat Show

8/9/2013 - If the 2013 Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors Show was this much fun in the rain on August 9, in the perfect weather forecast for Saturday and Sunday, it's bound to be over the moon. There's always a nice mix at this boat show in Rockland. This year they've added… SEE MORE

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SEMINOLE, a classic 1916 Lawley yawl, preparing for the start.

Eggemoggin Reach Regatta Gathers the Classics

8/7/2013 - Every summer, the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta draws classic wooden yachts from near and far to Center Harbor, home to WoodenBoat, Brooklin Boatyard, and a variety of other marine craftsmen who have made Brooklin the (self-proclaimed) "boatbuilding capital of the world." The 2013 event delivered a little bit of everything: light… SEE MORE

H-Class Nationals Deliver Fun on Martha’s Vineyard

8/6/2013 - The H-Class Nationals were hosted in Edgartown on August 3-4 by Edgartown Yacht Club. The weekend was excellent, with Saturday providing plenty of wind and spray and Sunday serving up calm with blue skies and light winds. A fleet of 27 boats met to compete. Some traveling sailors rented local… SEE MORE

Why are these dogs smiling? They're sailing in a Joel White Nutshell Pram.

Circumnavigation of Pulpit Harbor, In a Tiny Boat

7/29/2013 - What could be finer than sailing a Joel White Nutshell Pram through Pulpit Harbor beneath an expansive Maine blueberry on whipped cream sky? Taking the dogs along! Call me crazy, but I think our dogs love sailing. Eve, our Nutshell Pram that delighted our two tiny kids nearly 20 years… SEE MORE

Herreshoff Designs Enjoy Breezy Day on Buzzards Bay

7/22/2013 - During the weekend of July 20-21, the Buzzards Bay Yacht Club's H-Class fleet's race series was held in very exciting conditions. The fleet is made up of original Herreshoff 12 1/2s and the Doughdish, an exact fiberglass replication of Captain Nat's design. Buzzards Bay lived up to its notorious reputation… SEE MORE

Stuart Knockabout Regatta 2013 Delivers Winds & Thrills

7/22/2013 - The Third Annual Stuart Knockabout Regatta was held on Buzzards Bay on July 20, 2013. Buzzards Bay lived up to her notorious reputation for this year's event, as a strong fleet of seven competed in very breezy and exciting conditions. The Bay's southwest winds filled in during the late afternoon,… SEE MORE

After a complete restoration at Arey's Pond Boat Yard, CONJURER floats once more.

Historic Catboat to Sail Cape Cod Once More

7/13/2013 - Conjurer, the 1909 H. Manley Crosby-built catboat that Arey's Pond Boat Yard has been restoring, floated without any issues at 3:30 p.m. on July 12 after four years out of the water. She seems very happy, taking on some water but not much. We had an intermittent sprinkler system on… SEE MORE