MaineBoats Blog

Electric news from Hodgdon Tenders
The Maine builder of luxury limo-tenders for super yachts has announced plans for an all-electric version.

Brooklin Boat Yard starts work on Taylor 44
The client owns a Taylor-designed, BBY-built racer that lives in Maine; he wants a second version to sail at his winter home in California.

MBH&H honored by magazine peers
Folio’s annual awards program—spanning all corners of the magazine publishing industry—recognizes the very best in editorial and design. It’s the most comprehensive and prestigious awards program of its kind in the industry. Each year the contest draws close to 2,000 entries in about 50 categories.


Summer of the superyachts
Kept from the Mediterranean by COVID 19 restrictions, dozens of mega yachts cruised the Maine coast instead.

Youtube sailing stars explore Maine
SV Delos is a YouTube channel featuring the lives of Brian and Karin Trautman and their one-year-old daughter, Sierra. The Trautmans have been cruising the world in their 53 foot Amel Super Maramu ketch (built in 2000 in La Rochelle France) for a decade, covering 75,000 nautical miles during that time

Ice boaters start racing early; compete on land, instead of a frozen lake
Twenty competitors tested their wheels in three days of sailing races on the runway at Loring Airforce Base
Capts. Doug and Linda Lee honored by windjammer association
Helping honor the Lees were the Schooner Heritage’s new owners Ben Welzenbach and Sean Grimes, long-time crew members, licensed captains and fellow mates abord the schooner for the past seven years.

Fatal shark attack in Harspwell
The death of a 63-year old woman is the first ever recorded shark fatality in the Maine

Lyman Morse's newest launch? A wind tunnel
This tunnel is destined for a major academic research facility on the East coast of the United States.