Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors is located in a historic building overlooking Rockland Harbor. We’ve gotten to know the harbor well, watching the ferries, fishing boats and sailors come and go. But there is a part of the view that we cannot see, underwater Rockland. We partnered with our friends at Compass Light Productions in Camden to produce this really cool short video about our harbor and its unexpectedly vibrant underwater life.
Mariners in the northeast can breathe a sigh of relief—at least for now—because the U.S. Coast Guard has signaled it will suspend plans to remove a lengthy list of aids to navigation from coastal waters.
Photo by Rex Burgamy
A Maine Sea Captain’s Adventures in Paradise
Come winter, a Rockport captain boards a solar- and sail-powered cargo ship that supports a remote Pacific archipelago
Historic Class of Racing Dinghies
North Haven summer residents have brought new life to a venerable class of sailing dinghies.
Maine I Love — Rex Burgamy
A selection of ocean and wildlife images
An Appleton Artist Knows the Ropes
An Appleton artist finds a purpose for bits of marine debris.
Buoys, Boats, and Flying Cleats
Carving Out Scenes from the Sea
Talented Camden woodcarver Lloyd Hansen Thomas brought ships, eagles, and the sea to life.
Close Call on the Cape Cod Canal
A swift current and lowered railroad bridge over the Cape Cod Canal leads to a few tense minutes for a skipper from Maine.
Friendship
The quiet fishing village of Friendship put out a warm welcome to a summer visitor.
Friendship School
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Making It in St. George
Nathaniel Meyer
Cumberland-based painter Nathaniel Meyer blends the personal and the mythic.
Of Oil Lamps and Seaweed
A gardener finds oil lamps and seaweed still have a place in this modern world.
On the Beat as a Summer Reporter
The buzz of the newsroom at Portland’s newspapers in the 1960s laid the foundation for a high school summer reporter to one day become Maine’s State Historian.
Phineas Frump, A Team Player
Second Time Around
His boat dismasted and forced to drop out of a round-the-world race, solo skipper Ronnie Simpson is back, ready to sail, and vowing to win this time around.
Simplicity, Performance, and Affordability
When it comes to making sailing fun and affordable again, the newly launched J/7 rings all the right bells.
The Bridge Brothers of Southport
For multiple generations, it was the Lewis family that ruled the Southport Island Bridge.
Photograph by David Gillespie
Ciao, Archer
An Italian water dog stands watch
Diana Roper McDowell’s Geometric Inventions
Working in watercolor, Lamoine-based artist Diana Roper McDowell blends the abstract and the real.
Maine I Love — David Gillespie
A cruise to Port Clyde
Rat Rods of Spruce Head
A self-professed midcoast gearhead loves tearing up the roads with his rat rods.
Sandhill Cranes Flock to Maine
Majestic sandhill cranes are appearing in increasing numbers in central Maine locations such as Smithfield and Norridgewock each fall.
Sizing Up Small Boats
A Rockport couple creates 3D imagery to document vessels and assess how boats were built.
Some Boat!
Brooklin Boat Yard’s Ripsnorter is a workboat with some giddy-up-and-go
Stewart Workman’s Alice Frances is the Pick of the Litter
A veteran Lamoine boatbuilder and lobsterman chooses a Calvin Beal 36 for himself.
To Islands, and those who get us there
An island lover reflects on the lure of offshore living and the vessels and captains that make it possible.
A Boatbuilder’s Start, A Friendship Launched
A Maine boatbuilder’s daughter recalls how her father finished off a boat and launched a lifelong friendship between two families.
Ah, Boats
A longer-than-anticipated installation process of new radar equipment
Buoys, Floating Camps, E-boats & Elvers
Josephine Davis Townsend’s Postcards from Monhegan
Josephine Davis Townsend’s real photo postcards captured life on Monhegan Island in the 1930s.
Potato Digging at Van Buren, Maine
Harvesting an agriculture mainstay
Surry: A Quiet Charmer
A town hidden away on the northeastern edge of Blue Hill Peninsula.
The Seed Sowers of Three Bird Farm
Ducks, seedlings, and peppers abound just steps from downtown Rockland.
Just in time for Labor Day and the fall boat hauling season, Kennebunkport Marina has acquired Southern Maine Marine Services, a family owned company that’s been in business for more than 40 years.
