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.
The Maine I Love—Kat Woodworth
Ocean views from the magazine's designer
10th Annual Salty Quill Writers’ Retreat
Women writers retreat to the Midcoast’s McGee Island.
A Catamaran of Hope
Using hand tools and ingenuity, Sweet Tree students launch a catamaran in Hope.
A Reward for Virtue
Brooklin Boat Yard launches Kiandra, a sloop built to go places
Big Jim’s New Lease on Life
Historic Maine fisherman billboard should soon be standing tall again
Courtney Olivia: Albert Hutchinson’s last Mussel Ridge
AR Kennedy Customs finished the last Hutchinson Composites Mussel Ridge 42
Cruise in Style Aboard Back Cove’s 412
Back Cove’s New 412 Flagship Is Ready for Cruising
Four Times Charmed
Dana’s Boat Shop launches the smart-looking Shelly Marie
Front Street, Charger, Lobsters and Mud
Hauling Logs, Saving Horses
Hinckley Picnic Boat 39: Master of the Swoop
Hinckley Yachts debuts another classic, the Picnic Boat 39
Illuminating the Past
Enjoy an urban escape and catch a glimpse of Maine history at Portland Head Light and Fort Williams Park.
J. Rae Pictou: Remember Who You Are
The artist, storyteller, entrepreneur, and activist J. Rae Pictou draws on her Mi’kmaq heritage.
Jericho Bay Skiff’s a Class Act
Letters to the editor
Medora Atwood and Portland’s Waterfront
Artist Medora Atwood captured the bustling Porland waterfront in her watercolors.
Moments in Time Caught on the Fly
A Maine nature photographer finds capturing stunning wildlife images to be a matter of time.
Ouzel
Maine artisans collaborate on a 95-foot world-girding pilothouse cutter built at Rockport Marine.
Ready! Aim! Fire Boat!
A Lyman-Morse-built fireboat, its call sign Clinton Marine 9-2, is now on station patrolling Long Island Sound.
Riptide
Solar Sailing in a Refit Powerboat
A Hylan & Brown refit will cruise at the speed of the sun
A Falmouth, Maine, sailor, Peter Willauer, was among nine mariners recognized for their accomplishments by the Cruising Club of America, whose annual awards were announced shortly after the new year.
Photo by Kat Woodworth
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
Carving Out Scenes from the Sea
Talented Camden woodcarver Lloyd Hansen Thomas brought ships, eagles, and the sea to life.
Friendship
The quiet fishing village of Friendship put out a warm welcome to a summer visitor.
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.
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.
Simplicity, Performance, and Affordability
When it comes to making sailing fun and affordable again, the newly launched J/7 rings all the right bells.
An Appleton Artist Knows the Ropes
An Appleton artist finds a purpose for bits of marine debris.
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.
Letter to the editor 197
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.
The Bridge Brothers of Southport
For multiple generations, it was the Lewis family that ruled the Southport Island Bridge.
