Boat Show News
The 2025 Maine Boat & Home Show poster features art by Stephen Florimbi
A plein air painter's perfect summer day sets the scene.
2025 Maine Boat & Home Show: Save the dates August 8-10
Preparations are underway for the 20th edition of the Maine Boat & Home Show, to be held on the Rockland waterfront August 8-10, 2025. Next summer’s show will feature in-the-water displays of a broad range of sail and power boats, both new and brokerage models, as well as a host of shoreside exhibitors that include regional craftspeople and artisans with their handcrafted bespoke wares.
2024 Show Poster Design
The producers of the 2024 Maine Boat & Home Show have unveiled the new poster design for the annual celebration of boats and life on the coast. The poster features a painting by downeast Maine artist Philip Frey, who is known for his colorful and light-filled images of the coast.
Maine Boat & Home Show to Showcase the State’s Best Boats
As the largest of its kind north of Newport, Rhode Island, the Boat & Home show presents a wide range of boats, ranging from large and small, luxurious and down-to-earth, power and sail, displayed both on land and in the water. The show also boasts a plethora of activities for children and adults. As well as a variety of art, clothing, jewelry, live music, marine gear, and food, most of which will be in the many exhibits around the grounds.
Special Events at the Maine Boat & Home Show
The Maine Boat & Home Show returns to the Rockland waterfront with boats, live music, food, art, fine furniture and jewelry, a Just for Kids area, and a series of special events.
Maine Boat & Home Show Unveils 2023 Poster
The 2023 Maine Boat & Home Show poster will feature a detail from a painting by Maine artist Brad Betts, who is known for his light-filled images featuring boats and historic scenes.
The barks have been tallied: this year’s champion boatyard dog is Huckleberry
This year’s world champion dog contest took a different a different form than in past years. Instead of a competition featuring live dog performances at the Maine Boat & Homes Show in Rockland, show visitors and online viewers voted for their favorite pooch featured in Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors’ Boatyard Dog column during the past year.
State's best boats on display at Maine Boat & Home Show in Rockland
As the largest of its kind north of Newport, Rhode Island, the Boat & Home show presents a wide range of boats, ranging from large and small, luxurious and down-to-earth, power and sail, displayed both on land and in the water. The show also boasts a plethora of activities for children and adults. As well as a variety of art, fine furniture, clothing, jewelery, live music, Marine gear, and food.
Special exhibit to showcase 200 years of small Maine boats
The exhibit will be located in Buoy Park, adjacent to the Maine Boat & Home Show grounds, and open free to the public. Discover the historic and the new, the unique and the familiar, including birch bark canoes, peapods, knockabouts, and modern designs built with cutting-edge materials, including the ultra-modern 3D-printed boat 3Dirigo from the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center.
