MaineBoats Blog

Boat raffle will benefit women boatbuilders
Rowboat Raffle will benefit The Apprenticeshop’s Mary Lacy Scholarship to support women in boatbuilding

Special Announcement
Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors is celebrating our 35 year of publishing at a low-key event in Rockland on August 13, 2022. But due to issues with boat inventories, we are postponing our boat and home show until 2023.

UMaine Composites Center prints 2 boats for Department of Defense
Details on the designs are classified, but the prototypes will be tested by the military.

Lobster landings hit record high value
2021 was the most valuable year in the history of the fishery

WoodenBoat Publications Acquired by Two Longtime Employees
Matt Murphy, longtime editor of WoodenBoat magazine, and Andrew Breece, publisher of the company’s magazine division, have bought the company from founder Jon Wilson

Maine shipyard partners with Silicon Valley start-up on all-electric hydrofoil boat
The Navier 27 is a 27-foot foiling performance vessel that will be capable of a range exceeding 75 nautical miles under electric propulsion, and will feature a highly advanced auto pilot.

Artisan tackles launch rebuild, Bugatti tender
During a recent visit to Artisan Boatworks in Rockport to check on my vintage Dark Harbor 17 Frolic, which is stored there, I was able to peek at some cool projects in progress.

MBH&H writers honored by magazine peers
The magazine and its writers were honored with awards in two national magazine contests

Pilot project will provide local tide data
The six-month program, a partnership between USHarbors and Divirod, will include five sites, with a primary focus on communities in Penobscot Bay: Camden, Rockport, Rockland, Tenants Harbor, and Belfast.

Poet and art critic Carl Little wins life time achievement award
Little, who has written about art for Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors for close to three decades, was honored by the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation for his work making art accessible to general audiences.