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Time and Tide, Frozen in Rockport Harbor
During last week's bitterly cold weather, I checked the USHarbors.com tide charts, grabbed my camera, and headed down to watch the sun set on the falling tide in frozen Rockport Harbor. SEE MORE
Ending The Season In Port Clyde
For John Hall, longtime Port Clyde fisherman, it's about time to take a vacation. "Taking four weeks off," he says while piloting his boat past Hupper Island and out into Muscongus Bay. "Going back down to Florida, gonna play golf, cruise around, just relax." Hall fishes 800 traps, and on… SEE MORE
No. 1 Sabre Dealership for 2012: DiMillo's Yacht Sales
Sabre Yachts is proud to announce that DiMillo’s Yacht Sales, based in Portland, Maine, and Glen Cove, New York, is the #1 Sabre Dealership of 2012. Chris DiMillo and his team have won this honor for the sixth consecutive year. “Our relationship with DiMillo’s Yacht Sales has been very good… SEE MORE
Winter: A Time for Doodling Fine Yachts
While we love the sun and sailing of the summer season, here in Maine there’s a lot of pressure to pack in as much as possible in a few short weeks. It’s in the off season that we get the chance to catch up with our friends and clients, and… SEE MORE
Winter's Bite On Spruce Head Island
January means very cold temperatures on the coast of Maine, as evidenced by this past week's windchill values, which hovered between 0 and 25 below. This weather, while loathsome to some, excites me greatly! We are afforded an opportunity to see the extremes of mother nature. Ice and sea smoke… SEE MORE
Sea Smoke — Zero Degrees on the Maine Coast
So it's zero degrees in Maine...isn't that why we live here? This morning we were treated to sea smoke and ice in both Rockport and Camden harbors. Breathtaking in more ways than one! SEE MORE
Foggy Meadows Farm, a North Haven Work in Progress
Foggy Meadows Farm lies in an often misty hollow on North Haven Island. We stumbled on the small island farm while on a long walk last fall from our anchored boat in Pulpit Harbor . A handful of compact barns and a few small pastures surround Foggy Meadows Farm on… SEE MORE
Last Light At Marshall Point
Marshall Point Lighthouse sits at the very southern end of the St. George Peninsula. It is surrounded by jagged rocks and windswept fields. Dense thickets of spruce and balsam fir provide a stunning green background, while neighboring Hupper Island guards the entrance to Port Clyde Harbor. Monhegan looms in the… SEE MORE
Behind the Scenes: Assembly Line at Back Cove Yachts
What takes place on the assembly line at Back Cove Yachts? Here’s the scoop…. Over fifty boats get built at Back Cove Yachts, based in Rockland, on an annual basis. The shop floor has two assembly lines. The Back Cove 37 occupies Line One, and the Back Cove 30 and… SEE MORE
Meet the Italian Gill Netters of Portland, circa 1920s
Italian immigrants living in Portland during the 1920s pretty much cornered the market on gill netting. In 1926, about 100 fishermen operated twelve vessels from 30' to 50' in length. At the height of the season, it was not uncommon to see children out on the docks mending nets. This… SEE MORE
Maine Marinas in Winter: Part II
Behind the auto repair shop on the Fore River in South Portland, a stone’s throw from busy stop-and-go traffic, Barrow’s goldeneyes, teals, pintails, and other ducks dive for snails and worms in the mud. Canada geese forage in the thin strip of browned marsh along the bank. But at low… SEE MORE
Maine Marinas in Winter: Part I
On a recent visit to Mount Desert Island, I stopped by the marina at Northeast Harbor to see what it looked like in winter. The roads and parking lots were plowed, the walkway cleared. I heard the engine of one of the fishing boats, but I could not tell which… SEE MORE