The 62nd annual Boothbay Harbor Windjammer Days will take place on Sunday, June 23 through Saturday, June 29. This year we will celebrate our local boatbuilders and shipwrights. Please visit boothbayharborwindjammerdays.org for the full schedule.
Thursday afternoon, the harbors in the Midcoast were getting cleared of dinghies and sailboats, in anticipation of rolling oceans and heavy winds. The path of Hurricane Lee shifted again slightly eastward, after shifting westward Wednesday, and.
GARY GALLAGHER For 20 years, the K. Aage Nielsen–designed ELSKOV cruised to rugged and remote northern regions. Here, the 46′ sloop is anchored in Raudefjord, Spitsbergen, in 2003. Spitsbergen, which is part of Norway, lies at one of the highest-latitude destinations that can be reached by a cruising yacht. “There’s something about north…something that sets it apart from
A good day, says Front Street Shipyard President JB Turner, is when he's working on “some kind of fun project with a good group of people. Everything goes well, there are no stumbling blocks and the employees are not unhappy.”By that definition, Turner's days as the managing partner of the six-acre shipyard on Belfast's waterfront have been decidedly “good.”