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This Hinckley Picnic boat is an example of the yachts on display at this year's Rhode Island Boat Show.

Multi-Venue RI Boat Show Returns for Second Year

4/26/2012

The Rhode Island Boat Show, a three-part event at Rhode Island marine centers in Warwick, Bristol, and Jamestown, will return to the Ocean State this weekend for the second year. The event takes place April 28-29 at Conanicut Marine Services inJamestown, Bassett Marine in Warwick, and Bristol Marine in Bristol.… SEE MORE

  • Boating
WINDCREST, built in 2006 by Hodgdon Yachts of East Boothbay, Maine.

For Superyachts, Wood is Still Good

4/25/2012

It's almost incredible to believe, but in the superyacht world a five-year-old boat can practically seem, well, old. Which is why it's nice when a yacht like Windcrest, launched less than a half-dozen years ago at Hodgdon Yachts in East Boothbay, Maine, keeps turning heads and winning awards. The 98'… SEE MORE

  • Boating
A nice, fat 28-inch striper that took a Zoom fluke on a small jighead.

Striper Bliss: Two Casts, Two Keepers

4/25/2012

You know the numbers of keepers are on the increase when you can hook two of them on back-to-back casts. It happened to me Tuesday night while fishing the Bay from shore with a Zoom fluke on a small jighead with light tackle. The two fish looked like clones. Both… SEE MORE

  • Fishing

North Atlantic Right Whales in Cape Cod Bay

4/24/2012

These are just a few of the thousands of images taken by the Provincetown Center for Coastal StudiesProvincetown Center for Coastal Studies Aerial Survey team. These surveys monitor the number and location of right whales in Cape Cod Bay so that researchers can determine the health of the population and… SEE MORE

  • Environment
Schooner Mary Day  ©Jane Kurko

Unwrapping the Schooners in Camden Harbor

4/24/2012

3 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, in Camden Harbor...it looks like the Mary Day is the first of the resident schooners to shed its winter skin. SEE MORE

  • Boating
Jamie Johnson, manager at Jess's Market in Rockland, filets some fresh fish

Fish Market Focus: Jess's Market, Rockland

4/24/2012

On a recent cloudy April afternoon, Jamie Johnson was up to his elbows in sole, black bass, and halibut. Johnson is a manager at Jess’s Market in Rockland, a busy seafood supplier to the Midcoast region. Johnson married into this family fish market business, but his knife skills and product… SEE MORE

  • Food
Matt Rutherford steers his boat, Saint Brendan, through a fleet of fans welcoming him home after his solo, non-stop voyage.

Solo, Nonstop Around the Americas — and Home

4/24/2012

Matt Rutherford, the bold young sailor who we covered a few weeks ago as he headed into the final leg of a remarkable odyssey around the Americas, has successfully returned home to Annapolis. Rutherford crossed the finish line at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel at 10:48 ET on Wednesday, April… SEE MORE

  • Boating
The rebuilt Beaver heads home to Boston after a significant rebuild in Gloucester.

Rebuilt Beaver Arrives at Fort Point Channel

4/23/2012

Fresh from a significant rebuild at the Gloucester Marine Railway, the rebuilt Beaver headed to its home at the Tea Party Ships and Museum in Boston Thursday. Here are some shots of the ship entering the Fort Point Channel. For more information about the Beaver and the Tea Party Ships… SEE MORE

  • Boating
  • Culture

A Summer Regatta in Blue Hill, circa 1934

4/23/2012

[embed]https://www.vimeo.com/40819216[/embed] Alida Donnell Milliken Camp filmed a 1934 sailing regatta and many other summertime activities, spending every summer of her life on the coast of Maine. The setting of this sunny, cloudless day is the yacht club started by her father in 1924 in Peters Cove, Blue Hill, to teach… SEE MORE

Frenchman Bay crashes into the jagged shoreline of Acadia National Park, on Mount Desert Island.

Exploring the Treasures of Maine's National Park

4/23/2012

Acadia National Park is considered by many to be the most impressive destination on the coast of Maine. Founded in 1919 as Lafayette National Park and given the official title of Acadia ten years later, the park has long been a mecca for visitors and coastal enthusiasts who come to… SEE MORE

  • Culture
  • Environment
  • Travel
April showers bring plenty of May flowers to Port Clyde.

Looking Forward to May Days in Port Clyde

4/22/2012

They say that April showers bring May flowers, and they are right, especially along the mid-coast of Maine. As I write this, rain is pelting the windows behind me, and the sky is a pale shade of gloomy. The temperatures are in the forties and the mercurial and downright unpredictable… SEE MORE

  • Environment
  • Fishing
  • Food
  • Travel
  • Homes
DORADE, the legendary S&S yawl, proving her stuff on the racecourse more than 80 years after she was launched.

Maine Sailors Look Good in Caribbean Races

4/21/2012

It can rain on Antigua, it can rain on the first day of the Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta, but no matter, because as one competitor said to the contrite race committee, "sailing is an outdoor sport." The practice day was everything one would want from a day of sailing classic… SEE MORE

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