Category: Coastal Travel

Eastport Prams also are offered in a build-your-own class, along with its larger cousin, the Passagemaker Dinghy

CLC Offers Build-Your-Own-Boat Classes in Port Townsend

3/3/2014 - Chesapeake Light Craft, the boat kit experts, will be running dozens of their popular Build-Your-Own-Boat classes at locations around the country in 2014, including four sponsored by the Wooden Boat Foundation at the Northwest Maritime Center in Port Townsend. Over the last 19 years, CLC boatbuilding classes have launched more… SEE MORE

Large or small, sail or power, there's plenty of boats to ogle over at the Providence Boat Show, Jan. 31-Feb. 2.

Reinvigorated Boat Show Opens in Providence

1/31/2014 - The Providence Boat Show opened at the Rhode Island Convention Center on January 31 with new management, more boats, and new attractions to help boaters survive what is proving to be a long, challenging winter. The 20-year-old show was taken over this year by the Rhode Island Marine Trades Association,… SEE MORE

The Coast Guard icebreaker THUNDER BAY sits amid the sea smoke at Tilson's Wharf in Rockland.

Winter on the Waterfront in Rockland

1/3/2014 - It's been quite a winter already, with temps barely breaking zero over the past several days. Here are some shots of the 140' Coast Guard icebreaker Thunder Bay tied up at the station on Tilson's Wharf in Rockland, waiting for a break in the weather. Most Maine harbors are pretty… SEE MORE

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Cold Day at Station Maine in Rockland’s South End

Coastal Travel

1/3/2014 - Sea smoke fills Rockland Harbor as the temperature barely hits 0F. SEE MORE

Hound - like new and ready for Caribbean racing!

A Range of New Projects at Lyman-Morse

12/10/2013 - The owners of Hound, a 60' aluminum sloop designed by Aage Nielsen and built by Abeking & Rasmussen in 1970, searched us out at Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding Company for our metal fabrication capabilities. It was not a big surprise that this 43-year-old-boat needed some aluminum hull plates replaced. In order to… SEE MORE

After some TLC at Lyman-Morse, COOKIELICIOUS is off!

Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding: Getting Boats Ready for Fun in the Sun!

11/25/2013 - The hive that is Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding has been humming this fall. New projects both in and out of the marine world are in the works, a host of good sized powerboats are in for winter refit work, and we turned around a bunch of boats that are escaping the New… SEE MORE

Gloucester Dories are still a staple of the waterfront in this lively, unique harbor. For boaters, it's a great stopover.

Gloucester, the Original Working Waterfront

11/4/2013 - “It’s pronounced ‘GLOSS-tah’, not,…’gl-OW-stir’”, our friend Julia corrected as she swiped through my iPad and reviewed my destinations, including Gloucester, on Cape Ann just north of Boston. Like a second daughter to us, Julia is from nearby Scituate (pronounced, “SIT-chew-it”), and joined us for a few days of sailing on… SEE MORE

Every other slip appears empty as marinas suffer in the year since Superstorm Sandy.

Where Are the Boats? NJ Slowdown Persists Long After Sandy

11/3/2013 - A beautiful weekend day, and instead of a steady stream of Snowbirds heading south, I've seen just two boats — one of them under tow by my friend Rich at Tow Boat US. Much has changed along the Jersey Shore in the year since Superstorm Sandy paid us a visit, and… SEE MORE

Georgetown, a Welcoming Stopover on the ICW

10/13/2013 - Snowbirds on the Intracoastal Waterway look forward to several idyllic stopovers on their way south — Beaufort, North Carolina, and St. Augustine, Florida, are just two that spring instantly to mind — but boaters looking for one of the warmest welcomes in the South know to set a course for Georgetown, South… SEE MORE

A mini-boat under sail in Belfast Harbor.

Message in a Boat: Unmanned Vessels Crisscross Atlantic

10/11/2013 - Most people love the idea of sending off a message in a bottle, seeing where it goes and hearing back from the finders. But most of the time, the bottle goes off into the ocean and it’s gone forever. Maine-based Educational Passages has come up with a much better idea:… SEE MORE