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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
Sail Newport Blows Its Mortgage to Bits
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6YcJrbedI4[/embed] After fifteen years, Sail Newport is delighted to retire the mortgage on its building at Fort Adams in Newport. But instead of the usual mortgage-burning ceremony that many homeowners perform when they finish paying off their home, our Executive Director Brad Read decided to put a maritime spin on… SEE MORE
As Far Down East As You Can Get: Lubec
East of anywhere, the town of Lubec has a frontier-like quality to it, especially in the middle of a Maine winter. Standing on the town dock, you can look right across to Campobello Island and up the mouth of Cobscook Bay to Canada and the islands of New Brunswick. On… SEE MORE
NOAA Doubles Gulf of Maine Winter Flounder Catch Limits
NOAA announced today that it is doubling the amount of Gulf of Maine winter flounder commercial fishermen can catch from almost 510,000 pounds to more than 1.1 million pounds for the current fishing season, which ends April 30. New scientific information shows that overfishing is no longer occurring on this… SEE MORE
Wooden Boats: Celebrating a Magnificent Obsession
[embed]https://www.vimeo.com/35427396[/embed] “If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.” - E. B. White This brand-new trailer for our latest film "Wood/Sails/Dreams" explores the resurgence of wooden boats and traditional wooden boat building that began… SEE MORE
A Sail Through History Along the Fox Island Thorofare
Someone planning to move their boat southward through Maine once asked me, “I won’t have much time to spend in Penobscot Bay, what is the one thing I shouldn’t miss?” That’s such a dismal thought, but my answer came quickly: “Sail through the Fox Island Thorofare”. The Fox Island Thoroughfare… SEE MORE
Oyster Farm, Oyster Bar: A Delectable RI Destination
At Matunuck Oyster Farm & Bar near Point Judith Harbor, veteran oysterman Perry Raso grows Eastern oysters in a saltwater lagoon behind the barrier of East Matunuck State Beach and the waves of Block Island Sound. A relentless educator who likes to share his story, Raso is also a determined,… SEE MORE
Hinckley Heats Up the Coast With Launch of New T48
Never mind that silly groundhog and his shadow, the real signal that winter will come to an end eventually is when the first boat of the year hits the water. The Hinckley Company gave us all hope for boating days ahead with the launch on February 1 of the first… SEE MORE
Modern-day Treasure Hunters Strike Platinum off Cape Cod
Love them or hate them, we're all intrigued by the modern-day treasure hunters who are using tiny submarines and remote vehicles to look for shipwrecks that might have been carrying precious cargo when they went down. And a team based in Portland, Maine, says that it's located one of the… SEE MORE
Safety, Hardware Updates Transform an 80' Sailing Yacht
We recently completed a refit on the 80' sailing yacht Coconut. She's well known in the charter world and was built in 1991 by Dynamique Yachts of New Zealand. Coconut and her crew are not strangers to Camden or Wayfarer Marine, as they've completed several yard periods here throughout the… SEE MORE
A Festival of Smelt, Ice, and Fun in Bowdoinham
Anyone who has lived through a Maine winter knows that you need to find your fun outdoors or you'll go stir crazy waiting for spring and, eventually, summer. Luckily there are a bunch of great festivals that actually celebrate freezing your butt off outside, and surely one of the quirkiest… SEE MORE
Weatherly: Preserving a Piece of Maritime History
https://www.vimeo.com/31676990 We met George Hill at the party following the 2009 Opera House Cup, on Nantucket. He told us the story of how he found Weatherly in disrepair in Seattle. What it took to sail her back to Newport and restore the America’s Cup winner to her former glory was… SEE MORE