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Hinckley Brings Service to Newport, Opens IYRS Office
Hinckley Yacht Services’ eight service facilities from Southwest Harbor, Maine, to Naples, Florida, has added Newport Harbor to the list. Beginning May 23, the company will provide maintenance or repairs at docks and moorings anywhere on the Newport waterfront. Hinckley has opened an office in the International Yacht Restoration School’s… SEE MORE
Spring in Rockport: Boat Launches, Rigging, and Paint
Springtime in my harbor is bittersweet. It’s exciting to see our small coastal village come to life after a long quiet winter. On the other hand, as each new spring arrives, our comfortable sleepy harbor seems a little busier. It’s plain to see Rockport Harbor becomes a bit more “discovered”… SEE MORE
America's Cup Announces Newport Marine Traffic Plan
Organizers of the America's Cup World Series Event in Newport have announced the marine traffic plans and restricted areas that will be in place while the teams are racing June 23-July 1. While recreational vessels will be allowed to enter and exit Narragansett Bay via a small waterway corridor on… SEE MORE
Newport Racing Crew Ready to Pounce on Podium
Newport's Kenny Read and the rest of the crew aboard Mar Mostro are ready to pounce upon the overall podium of the Volvo Ocean Race, with just one point separating them from third place and only fourteen points keeping them away from the top spot. The Puma- and BERG Propulsion-sponsored… SEE MORE
Historic Fife To Be On Display At Maine Show
Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors Show is thrilled to have Rockport Marine’s latest restoration, the 83’ Fife designed schooner, Adventuress, at the main dock for the 2012 Show in Rockland. This 1924 design is one of the largest Fifes in North America and is both historically significant and beautiful. It… SEE MORE
Spring Laser Regatta Offers Dose of Summer Sailing
Mother Nature provided midcoast Maine dinghy racers with a taste of things to come by delivering unseasonably warm temperatures and gentle breezes for the second running of the All Souls Regatta on May 20 in Thomaston. Fifteen sailors — including USHarbors' own John K. Hanson, Jr. — put their Lasers… SEE MORE
Launch Days at the Hinckley Yard
A blast of warm weather seems to have awoken boatyards across New England, but perhaps nowhere appears as ready for summer as the docks and service yard of the Hinckley Company in Southwest Harbor. Travelifts are humming, rigging is getting tuned, and already the docks are filling up with some… SEE MORE
Tall Ships Events Continue With NY Festival
Having left a huge public maritime festival in Savannah, Georgia, on Monday, May 7, seven tall ships have made it to Cape Fear, North Carolina, completing the first leg of Tall Ships America’s 2012 TALL SHIPS CHALLENGE. Three of those ships will continue on to join four others in Greenport,… SEE MORE
The World Through the Eyes of a Ship Master's Daughter
Ruth Montgomery was born in 1880 to a seafaring family (her father, both grandfathers, and many uncles were all deep water ship masters). Her father, Adelbert, assumed command of the bark Carrie Winslow (a bark has three or more masts; the aftermost is rigged fore and aft, while the rest… SEE MORE
Something to Go With the Red Corvette
Let's face it, at one point or another many gentlemen of a certain age find themselves eyeing a red convertible. Little did I know that Pirelli, maker of the go-fast tires on many of those same red sports cars, has been in the boat business for more than half a… SEE MORE
A Maine Tug, Bound for Baltimore
Built at Washburn & Doughty in East Boothbay, Maine, the latest Moran tractor tug Mark Moran leaves the Damaricotta River en route to Maryland. The powerful new tug will serve the Port of Baltimore. Another tug is scheduled for launch at the yard early this summer. SEE MORE
Spring in Northeast Harbor: Boats, Blooms, and Bays
As the month of May progresses, things are happening in Northeast Harbor, and it's all about boats, boats, and more boats! Launching boats, sanding hulls, rigging lines, checking equipment, and taking the boats out for the first runs of the season. Under a sparkling blue sky, on a lazy Friday… SEE MORE
