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CW Hood Expands to Include Custom Accents
For the first time, CW Hood is offering yacht owners, as well as homeowners, across New England the opportunity to have some of the custom wooden accents that make CW Hood yachts so distinctive (and enviable). The new services from the Custom by Hood team include everything from specialized consoles,… SEE MORE
Lighthouse Volunteers Rewarded with Whale Show
Cape Cod Chapter volunteers took a moment from their work at Race Point Light Station on Sunday, April 1, to do a little whale watching. A few whales were really putting on an incredible show just a couple of hundred yards offshore! SEE MORE
A Trove of Historic Marblehead Images
Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, we're constantly discovering, and sharing, new wonderful collections of historic coastal images. This collection, from the Boston Public Library's collection of images by Leslie Jones (1886-1967) has some of the most stunning shots we've ever seen from in and around Marblehead. To see… SEE MORE
Provincetown Lobsterboat Gets a Drop-Down Tailgate
Nauset Marine recently installed an aluminum transom tailgate on a customer’s 36-foot lobsterboat, Susan Lynn. The boat, a Calvin Beal design built two years ago by Sargent’s Custom Boats in Milbridge, Maine, was in the Nauset shop for about a month while crews completed the modification and performed other significant… SEE MORE
Right Whales Reappear in Massachusetts Bay
What a sight! NOAA researchers off Race Point, MA, among 30+ right whales, photographing for identification. SEE MORE
Discovering Restorations in Our Own Backyard
All documentary films are journeys of discovery. Our film, "Wood/Sails/Dreams," has taken us off our island of Nantucket, across to Vineyard Haven, along the coast from Newport to Bristol to Wareham, and eventually up to Maine. Recently, though, we took our cameras to a little workshop on Nantucket. We met… SEE MORE
Working Ships from Maine to New Bedford and New York
Midcoast Maine is (or was) home to all three yards responsible for the vessels in this collection of historic images, all part of the Penobscot Marine Museum's collections. ACT I was built at Harvey F. Gamage in South Bristol; that yard closed in 1981. Washburn & Doughty moved its operation… SEE MORE
The Sights and Smells of the Boatbuilders Show on Cape Cod
It's a fact: You can tell how good something is by how it smells. And the Boatbuilders Show at Cape Cod smelled like boatbuilding at its best when it opened its doors on February 10, with the essence of fresh varnish, paint, and clean fiberglass greeting people as they walked… SEE MORE
The Bygone Days of the Wellfleet Life Saving Station
This series of photographs was taken at the former U.S. Lifesaving Service station at Wellfleet, Massachusetts. The personnel manning these stations, which were located at many sites but primarily along the eastern seaboard, were sometimes referred to as “storm warriors.” Their careers sprang from an earlier volunteer effort organized by… SEE MORE
Enjoying Knockabouts and Evening in Hadley Harbor
Woods Hole, the infamous current-ripped passage between Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay, gives me the willies. The combination of the racing current in the channel and rocks not far out of the channel is a bit too thrilling for me. But by timing our passage correctly, paying close attention to… SEE MORE
Lake Tashmoo: Part Hurricane Hole, Part Boater's Playground
Dodging Hurricane Earl wasn’t our plan for visiting Lake Tashmoo in September 2010. We’d have preferred to enjoy this picturesque lake-like anchorage leisurely, as we had in the past. It’s a beautiful spot, one we like to linger in. Alas, on this trip we were headed into Lake Tashmoo for… SEE MORE
Savoring the Beat of Provincetown on Cape Cod
Last fall I rode the tidal flow north out of the Cape Cod Canal heading for Maine. Exiting the north inlet, the swift current stacked up against the fifteen to twenty knots of northwesterly wind blowing across Cape Cod Bay. I had optimistically hoped that I might “pinch up” just… SEE MORE