The Northeaster Dory is comfortable and stable, with payload room for camp cruising and passengers.

The Ultimate Vacation: Boatbuilding in Sausalito

3/6/2014 - Some people might think it’s the perfect vacation. Chesapeake Light Craft, the boat kit experts, has a long history of offering aficionados of elegant small wooden boats the opportunity to bring home more than a tan and some photographs from a week away from the office. With the addition of… SEE MORE
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
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
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
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