On The Town Dock

News and updates from around the state about life on the coast and boatbuilding.

View from the Porch - Issue 113

Yacht spotting, dock walking, biathlon talking, casino knocking

View from the Porch - Issue 112

Good News/Bad News, Bozos at Sea, and the Porchitzer Prize for Wicked Smartness

View from the Porch - Issue 111

Flora and fauna “from away,” the no-impact lobster trap, this sporting life, and gleanings from the state’s newspapers.

View from the Porch - Issue 110

A closed cannery, a shameless parade in Portland, a thrash to windward at 16 knots in 8 knots of wind, and an artificial reef for the recently departed.

View from the Porch - Issue 109

The trains in Maine are hard to explain, the best view in the Pine Tree State, and Herbie bites the (saw) dust.

View from the Porch - Issue 108

Friendship goes moist, the cost of boating, and the famous canoe-testing toss.

View from the Porch - Issue 106

More from Bill, the earth remains on its axis, and why we don’t annex Canada.

View from the Porch - Issue 105

Maine’s season of stolen days.

View from the Porch - Issue 104

Fitting Out Tips, Boat Show Dreams, Flying Footwear, and Topless Donuts

View from the Porch - Issue 103

Capt. Pete’s Rule of the Equinoxes and Answers to Baby Boomer Retirement Questions

View from the Porch - Issue 102

On life as an ovo-lacto-bovo-porco-pesco vegetarian and a question: must CSAs include beets?

View from the Porch - Issue 101

News and Notes from the Maine Coast: Our Style

In The Lee of the Boathouse - Issue 100

Winning at the mustard worlds, mucking around in a cold cellar with a hacksaw, and using a spring mousetrap for power.

In The Lee of the Boathouse - Issue 99

A bridge for flies, an ode to an outhouse, and encircling the Big Blue Marble.

In the Lee of the Boathouse - Issue 97

Issue 97 - Talking Boats, the Greenest College in the World, and the Orneriest, Nastiest, Most Fiercely Independent Gents on the Coast.

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