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Issue 159 Headlines at a Glance

July/August 2019

A Boat with Purpose
A dory for dulse fishing in Canada

An Early Call to the Sea
Like many young boys, he dreamed of owning a Boston Whaler. Then the dream came true.

Awanadjo Almanack - Issue 159
Independence Day, the monarch effect, and the rare unicorn root

Dirigo Custom Boatworks: Big Jack 24 Grand Laker
A customized canoe for adaptive outdoor experiences

East Coast Yacht Sales: Axopar
A sports cruiser from Finland with a distinct narrow hull

Front Street Shipyard: Defiant
A Hinckley Sou'wester 70 gains a new lease on sailing life

Hewes & Company: Pedestrian Bridge
A luxury high-rise walkway has maritime origins.

Hinckley Company: Sport Boat 40c
A new center-console outboard-powered boat

Letters to the Editor - Issue 159
Readers write about seaweed, bottom painters, magnetic gyrations and more

Lyman-Morse: Scout
Refit of a 1930 Eldredge-McInnis cruiser

Maine Maritime Museum: Mary E
Bath-built 1906 schooner returns home

Marine Boat Builders: Pumpout Boat
Keeping the water clean with Friends of Casco Bay

Meet the Makers
2019 Maine Boat & Home Show primer

Never too many boats!
Never too many boats!
(aka Plures Naves Quam Mentes)

Ogunquit
A trip to Ogunquit on Maine’s southern coast.

O’Connor Racing: Wooden Hydroplane Built for Speed
Small and fast wooden racers that mean business

Risky Business
Castine's square-rigged ships and salted fish

Sailing to Canada’s St. John River
Canada’s St. John River makes for a delightful cruising destination.

Six River Marine: Custom West Pointer
A West Pointer adapted for lake cruising.

Slab City Rendezvous
In the 1950s, a group of big-city artists established a creative enclave in Lincolnville for cohabitation and collaboration.

SW Boatworks: Star
A Calvin Beal 38 Special Edition goes green

The Maine I Love – John E. Kachmar
Maine images by John E. Kachmar

The Moses Perkins House
An “extreme makeover” of a historic 19th century house focused on one section of the home’s interior, but left the original exterior and elegant gardens essentially untouched.

The Places We Aren’t
There are a few places around the world, some iconic, some enigmatic, some less than glamorous, that resemble Maine’s Matinicus Isle Plantation. We learn about a few.

In Print. Online. In Person.
Issue 159 | July/August 2019 | Volume 32 | Number 4
This issue can be purchased online or at newsstands. Select content will be posted at a later date.
On the cover: A worker at Dark Harbor Boat Yard checks on a project in the yard's woodworking shed. The wooden boat in the background was used as a workboat in earlier days. See Boatyard Profile on page 26.