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
Buoys, Boats, and Flying Cleats
News from the coast, Autumn 2025
Friendship School
School days long ago
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
Making It in St. George
Learning at The Grace Innovation Center in St. George
Nathaniel Meyer
Cumberland-based painter Nathaniel Meyer blends the personal and the mythic.
An Appleton Artist Knows the Ropes
An Appleton artist finds a purpose for bits of marine debris.
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.
Letter to the editor 197
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.
