CAMDEN — Camden Harbor Cruises, which operates the lobsterboat Lively Lady, is closing its second season with Free Boat Tours for Locals. Owners, Alec and Erin Brainerd and Garth Wells…

NORTHPORT — For more than 20 years, local sailors have reserved early September for one of Penobscot Bay’s favorite low-key races, the Around Islesboro Race. This year, it took place Sept. 7,…

THOMASTON — Peter McCrea of Thomaston was chosen as the first winner of the Vertue Award.  This award is given to an Ocean Cruising Club member “in North America who best represents club founder,…

CAMDEN — For two days, the parking lot of Camden’s Public Landing was an open workshop of sawing, drilling and nailing as six teams worked furiously to construct their own boats to test in the…

CAMDEN — When word got out there was a band of pirates sailing on a stolen pirate ship and skulking around Penobscot Bay, the Pirates of the Dark Rose headed to Camden and set up an encampment,…

CAMDEN — Three competitors showed up Sunday morning for the annual remote control sailboat racing event, a long-standing tradition of the Camden Windjammer Festival.

Anyone can sign up to…

CAMDEN — The public landing Saturday morning, the second day of the 2014 Camden Windjammer Festival, was slowly beginning to come to life around 7:45. Camden Rotary Club had begun serving…

CAMDEN — Camden Harbormaster Steve Pixley and Lobster Crate Race Organizer Seth Silverton shared the microphone late Saturday morning to introduce each of the 34 racers and offer color commentary…

CAMDEN — Friday afternoon was one glorious weather day in the Midcoast, making for a seriously pleasant time to sit alongside the harbor and watch the action as schooners made their to the head of…

CAMDEN — Wood crates, and the bags of seaweed that will keep them floating during Saturday's lobster crate race, have arrived on the town landing, the talent show stage has been built in Harbor…

ISLESBORO — Northport Yacht Club is hosting its 28th annual Around Islesboro Race, Saturday, Sept. 6. Entry is open to all boats with skippers eager to enjoy a late summer sail. Racing is informal…

BELFAST — Not to be outdone by their more serious rowing counterparts, participants in this year's Cardboard Boat competition Aug. 16 battled intermittent showers and uncooperative creations to…

BELFAST — As summer in the Midcoast winds to an end, so too do the many summer events that have become ubiquitous with the region's summer season.

Last weekend brought the fifth annual…

ROCKLAND — The 4th annual Rockland Yacht Club and Rockland Community Sailing Youth Keelboat Regatta took place in Rockland Harbor in the early evening hours of Aug. 14 and was a great success. …

CASTINE — The discovery of a problem with the main mast of Maine Maritime Academy’s schooner, Bowdoin, earlier this summer put the National Historic Landmark on an abbreviated public…

CAMDEN — On Labor Day weekend, Camden throws a celebration on and around the harbor and everyone's invited. There is plenty to see at the annual Camden Windjammer Festival, but it’s even more fun…

BELFAST—Belfast is for boating enthusiasts this weekend for their annual Harborfest and The Belfast Rotary Club is sponsoring the Boatbuilder’s Challenge on Saturday, so the night before, Marshall…

CAMDEN — A new fishermen’s hoist in Camden Harbor is set for installation, but the project must beat a deadline of December 26, or risk…

When Mark Zambon was 18, he met up with a Marine recruiter who showed him a book of different jobs available in the Marine Corps. Zambon flipped through the pages until he came to an illustration…

ROCKPORT—The Goodridge sisters are the only four sisters in the U.S. to know what it was like to be raised in the same household as a harbor seal. Their father, Harry Goodridge, who lived with his…

ROCKLAND — Despite the gloomy weather, strong winds assisted sailors racing in the 11th annual Red Jacket Youth Sailing Regatta, hosted by Rockland Community Sailing in the Rockland Harbor July 27…

LINCOLNVILLE — The Lincolnville Selectmen and Harbor Committee agreed to pursue a Strategic Harbor Plan in an effort to update unreached goals set in 2006 for the town’s waterfront.

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Preparations for the 2014 Red Jacket Youth Sailing Regatta, co-hosted by Rockland Community Sailing at The Apprentice Shop, are under way. 

The event, in its 11th year, will be held Sunday,…

MONTREAL, CANADA — During the first week of August, Montreal will host the world Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA) championship in swimming, diving, water polo and synchronized swimming…

LINCOLNVILLE — Before a book finds a home in Nanette H. Gionfriddo’s beachfront bookshop Beyond The Sea…

CAMDEN — The Camden Windjammer Festival is the Midcoast's annual celebration of its maritime heritage. It is all free to visitors and exhibitors, but it takes a community to bring it to life.

ROCKPORT — Pollution at Goodies Beach in Rockport has been isolated to a human source; however, the culprit remains elusive and those investigating are running out of options.

Bob Kennedy,…

Stampede, a 115-foot motor yacht, will spend the week at Wayfarer Marine in Camden. Stampede is registered to…

PORTLAND — The Maine Lobster Marketing Collaborative Thursday afternoon announced the appointment of Matt Jacobson as its new executive director.

Marianne LaCroix, who has served as acting…

I thought I was coming to the party with a big two-person flotation device with a built-in cooler. But, when I got to Warren’s boat landing this past Saturday for a loosely organized rafting/…

ROCKLAND HARBOR — A steady breeze kept the sails full on the schooners and smaller sailboats that showed up for the annual Parade of Sail, July 11, off the Rockland Breakwater. The event showcases…

So far this season, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens has welcomed visitors from 47 of the 50 states, all the Canadian provinces, most of Europe, and…

CASTINE –- Maine Maritime Academy training ship, State of Maine, returns to its home port of Castine following the annual 68…

ROCKLAND — "Oh crap, they're already underway," said one of the passengers on the Penobscot Ferry and Transport charter boat as we came into Islesboro's harbor.

We were there to meet up with…

AUGUSTA — With increased boater traffic during the summer season, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection reminds boaters to remove invasive plants and animals from their boats before and…

SEARSPORT —Camp and Create! Artist in Residence Angelika Paul will bed serving up Recipes for Disaster July 6 through July 12 at the Searsport Shores Ocean Campground.…

PENOBSCOT BAY — Friday was a glorious sailing day aboard the schooner Mary Day, with bright sun and fair winds, the latter of which brought the boat to Warren Island and…

EAST PENOBSCOT BAY — The guests, crew and captain aboard the schooner Mary Day Thursday morning awoke to downpours, but the fore and aft deck awnings allowed everyone to enjoy hot coffee…

JERICHO BAY — Wednesday's ocean sail ultimately took the schooner Mary Day to the head of Jericho Bay, where the boat dropped anchor off Brooklin and the Wooden Boat School. It was a day…

BOOTHBAY HARBOR — Maine Maritime Academy has canceled upcoming visits of the schooner Bowdoin to Portland and Provincetown due to a potential compromise in the vessel's main mast, discovered…

CAMDEN — Columbus’s Nina and Pinta will spend the week in Camden Harbor as a fully functional floating museum. Stationed at the public landing…

TOOTHACHER BAY — Tuesday aboard Mary Day was welcomed with blueberry pancakes and crispy bacon, and word that a saw-whet owl had called nearly all night Monday from the shore of Marshall…

PENOBSCOT BAY — The June 23 cruising sail aboard the schooner Mary Day got off to a sunny start out of Camden Harbor Monday morning, with 27 passengers and six crewmembers and Capt. Barry…

Looks like the Appledore has some die-hard fans. Pennsylvania resident Lisa Kelley had been standing around the Camden wharf waiting all day for the schooner Appledore to finally arrive…

BROOKLIN —  Brooklin Boat Yard launched Dreadnought, a cold-molded custom sailboat, Monday, June 9. Designed by Jim Taylor, the yacht is a lightweight, performance-oriented sloop with a…

BELFAST - On Monday afternoon Deborah Walters parked at the west end of the Armistice Bridge and unloaded a modestly-sized sea kayak. Her husband Chris Percival wheeled it down to the pier at…

CAMDEN — At the height of summer, Camden’s downtown and waterfront are bustling places. Especially during the tourist season there’s plenty of great shopping and dining choices, and there’s always…

ROCKLAND — With the distinctive rake of the masts, the replica Baltimore clipper ship Amistad is in Rockland Harbor through the weekend and open to visitors who want to climb aboard to…

MONROE - When he was in college, Josh Moody went with a friend to a skateboard shop in southern Maine. In the back of the store, there were a handful of surfboards. Moody thought it was joke.

ROCKLAND - Lime, granite, lumber and ice were the cargos of the schooners at the turn of the century. They plied the waters from Maine to Boston and New York to take the state’s resources to the…