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May/June 2024
Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors, Issue
Issue | May/June 2024
Volume 37 | Number 3
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On the cover: Jim Hippler and nephew Charlie Hippler enjoy a high speed ride on Jim's 1957 Chris Craft Contintental 21' on a beautiful September morning on Cobbosseecontee Lake.

Photographs & text by Dave Conley

Alewives, dandelions, and pollen
A summer camp flotilla from the 1930s
A hard-working team of three watermen maintains aids to navigation in lakes statewide.
A survey of maritime spring news
As the allure of the Great Outdoors grew in prominence in the late 1800s, Maine’s sport camps and guides sprang up to cater to the new notion of vacationing.
Long a Central Maine summer retreat, Cobbosseecontee Lake has a growing year-round community.
A century-old Blue Hill boathouse has been home to an array of fine sailing and power yachts, and remains in use today as a haven for small craft.
Smitten by the idea of easy freshwater rowing and sailing adventures, a salty sailor ponders two small boat designs, and in the end settles on the light weight and fine lines of a Penobscot Wherry.
An artist and a snorkeler, Baker is also a snorkeling artist.
A seasoned angler is drawn to the small streams in Maine’s western woods, where he learns to keep things simple.
Spawned by necessity during the pandemic days, Fishermen Feeding Mainers has evolved into a statewide nutrition program that continues to feed hungry mouths and support local waterfronts.
Waterskiing, tubing, and commuting—a new Stephens Waring design will do it all for a longtime customer and island dweller.
300+ student sailors travel to the Atlantic Challenge 2024 event
A Great Lakes Boatyard Dog
Ten cents here, a few dollars there, Maine’s State Historian began to amass his collections as a boy, one antique shop at a time.
A Wilderness ranger recalls a typical working day’s encounters in Maine’s northern woods.
Born in Maine’s inland watersheds, an increasing alewife population leads to a cultural revival during their annual spawning run.
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