FRIENDSHIP — Phil Pratt representing the Friendship Memorial Scholarship Fund accepts two checks totaling $1100 from Heidi Thibodeau on behalf of the Friendship's Lobster Boat Race Committee on…
On the Water
BENEFITS GRADUATING SENIORS AND COLLEGE STUDENTS
PENOBSCOT BAY — A stretch of hot, humid weather has driven locals and tourists alike to hit the water, and if one has the chance to glide out a few miles across Penobscot Bay, set a course for…
LOBSTER SUP CUP
ROCKPORT — The third annual Lobster SUP Cup was held over the weekend, organized by Thor Emery and Amy Gertner, with the help of…
An afternoon in August
ROCKPORT — It was pure August in Maine Sunday afternoon at Marine Park in Rockport, where racers with the annual stand-up paddle board Lobster Cup blended with children rounding — and sinking —…
BOATBUILDING AND REGATTA
BELFAST — The Belfast Rotary Club invites you to celebrate the boating traditions of Belfast, Maine with an array of events including bands, boat building, and barbeque.
Below is a schedule…
cardboard boat races, live music, food, games — Sunday afternoon low-key fun
Head to Rockport Harbor, Sunday, Aug. 9 for an afternoon of live music, cardboard boat races and picnicking, as the community…
On Sunday, July 26, Rockland Community Sailing hosted the Rockland Red Jacket Regatta, a competitive yet low-key day…
2015 USA Junior Olympics Sailing Regatta - Northeast Youth Championship
CAMDEN — Camden Harbor last week was awash in what many would simply describe as “tiny sailboats,” but don’t think for a moment there was any less skill, fortitude, bravery and killer instinct…
Right place at the Right Time...
YORK — Maine Marine Patrol Officer Benjamin Burnes, who graduated from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy in May, has already put his training to good use, saving the life of a man whose canoe…
Music, dancing, cultural events July 14-15, public tours July 15
CASTINE — In April, the 18th century replica French frigate Hermione set sail from the River Charente in France for the United States. The transatlantic crossing, following the same route…
One of the best places to be in summer is Midcoast Maine at Maine Windjammer Association events. For the past 12 years, people from everywhere have thrilled to these events, which include the "…
A parade of sail on a gorgeous July afternoon
ROCKLAND HARBOR, and beyond — The breeze was out of the north, Friday afternoon, July 10, perfect for tacking back and forth by the Rockland Breakwater for the annual Windjammer Parade. There was…
Hundreds join 2nd Annual St. George Tubing Flotilla
WARREN—The party that floats on! The 2nd annual St. George Tubing Flotilla, a random group of several hundred Midcoasters with floatation devices, got a spectacular 90-degree day on the St. George…
July 3, a day of sun, wind, high spirits, and then little wind on Penobscot Bay
ROCKLAND — Small boats carrying upwards of four crew members from schooners gathered off Islesboro Thursday, July 2, circumventing the perimeter of the windjammers anchored there before the…
North America’s oldest annual schooner…
Historic French ship on her way up the East Coast to Canada and back to France
The Hermione, a replica 32-gun French frigate, will be sailing up East Penobscot Bay from Boston to make an historic visit to Castine, July 14-16. The visit will coincide with several…
CAMDEN — Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding Company, of Thomaston, has purchased Wayfarer Marine, in Camden.
“With this purchase, Lyman-Morse at Wayfarer Marine will now have the advantage…
BELFAST — The waterfront was filled with a wide array of both visitors and vendors taking part in Belfast's annual Maine Fare. …
“Elegant.” That was a word that kept making its way into a conversation during an event at The World is Mine Oyster in Boothbay Harbor one recent June evening.
Chef Stephen Richards, the…
Dusting on the cobwebs and getting out on Penobscot Bay early in the season
Not many folks were out and about cruising in Penobscot Bay over Memorial Day Weekend. With forecasts of air temperatures in the…
Rockland Community Sailing
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND — Local high school sailors traveled to Mount Desert Island last weekend and took second place overall in the…
Junior rowers from Megunticook Rowing excelled in their two regattas this spring and can call themselves the state’s champion…
Belfast-based organization excels at second major race this season
ESSEX, Mass. — Come Boating!, Belfast's community boating organization, sent two teams to the Essex River Race in Essex, Massachusetts and came in first and second place, respectively.
The…
SPRUCE HEAD — Every once in a while, a guy just gets lucky. To catch a whopper of a halibut — fun. To catch two such whoppers a day apart — great. To catch one of those exceptional creatures as…
CAMDEN — The Knox Mill pond in the spring of 2014 hosted a family of seven mallard ducklings, two females and five males, and this spring, it looks like the five males have returned, one of them…
Youth Sailing
ROCKLAND and PORTLAND — On Saturday, May 2, Rockland…
PENOBSCOT BAY — Maine Maritime Academy’s training vessel, the State of Maine, embarked yesterday on her annual training cruise, leaving Castine for the open Atlantic waters.…
Trout Unlimited: A cold water conservation organization
Over the last 40 or so years, I've fished and canoed the North, South, East and West branches of the Penobscot River, searching for brook trout and landlocked salmon. It didn't take long to figure…
Maine Department of Marine Resources...
FRIENDSHIP — James Simmons, a 40-year old lobsterman from Friendship who had all of his commercial fishing licenses suspended in February for two years by the state Department of Marine Resources…
U.S. Coast Guard: Homeport Rockland news...
ROCKLAND — U.S. Coast Guard cutter Thunder Bay is proud to announce that Machinery Technician First Class Jason Moran was selected as the ship's Sailor of the Year for his outstanding…
Trout Unlimited: A cold water conservation organization
So, which do I prefer, fly-fishing or fly-tying? The truth is that I love them equally. The real thrill of catching a fish on a fly is to make a wary trout believe that the fly you are fishing is…
Trout Unlimited: A cold water conservation organization
I slowly approached the narrow stream, with the sun at my back. A large pod of trout was gathered in the only pool in the stream that seemed to hold fish. I watched for any movement that might…
Youth Swimming
The following story is by Hodding Carter, head coach of the Penobscot Bay YMCA Sailfish swim team. The team recently competed in the YMCA National competition in Greensboro, North Carolina.…
Trout Unlimited: A cold water conservation organization
Once in the spring and once in the fall, this has been my ritual for the past 12 years. Touted as one of the top 50 places to fish before you die, Grand Lake Stream is a treasured gem in the state…
Industrial Arts
April vacation is coming up, and with that, a very special and much-beloved gaggle of part-time island children will be around, weather permitting of course.
These are not "summer kids" in…
Trout Unlimited: A cold water conservation organization
It seems like it is human nature to kill the fish that we catch. Yet, as Jacques-Yves Cousteau said, "People protect what they love."
I love to fish, catch fish (especially large ones) and…
First race of the season
BELFAST — Come Boating!, Belfast's community rowing organization, sent all three of its Cornish Pilot gigs down to the first race of the season, Hull Lifesaving Museum's 36th Annual Snow Row,…
High School teams launch boats April 7
ROCKLAND — Tori Willauer is looking forward to filling the sails at the Rockland Community Sailing Program as early as…
Trout Unlimited: A cold water conservation organization
When fly-fishermen think of Maine they probably think of brook trout. A beautiful fish, especially in their fall spawning regalia, it prefers our cool weather and small streams and ponds. Brook…
youth sailing
ROCKLAND — After an extended search, the Rockland Community Sailing committee and the Apprenticeshop have welcomed Tori Willauer as the new RCS Director. Of the new appointment…
Samoset Resort Buzzes With People
ROCKPORT — The Samoset Resort Saturday was packed with people, all turned out for the 40th annual Maine Fishermen’s Forum. Today was the last day of the three-day forum. The day’s activities…
Maine Department of Marine Resources...
AUGUSTA — For the third year in a row and only the third time ever, Maine lobster fishermen landed more than 120 million pounds with a record overall value of $456,935,346, according to…
CAMDEN — If this had not been a school vacation week, there is little doubt school would have been called off once again with the snow falling at such a quick clip around bus pickup time this…
Boardwalk improvement phase on hold until funded
CAMDEN — The Camden Select Board Tuesday night unanimously approved moving the initial phase of the town's public landing improvement project forward, to include purchasing and installing a new…
Ex-husband saves the day!
Perhaps English setters Helen and Ingrid were doing a practice run for the annual St. George River Race or cosplaying a scene from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but last weekend, their…
An Atlantic adventure with marine mammals, near an island threatened by casino development
BIMINI — Swim with wild dolphins somewhere near the Atlantic Gulf Stream, and there are no fences as you drift in the blue-green waters. But then, to the left, to the right, and up from depths…
ROCKPORT — The Penobscot Bay YMCA Sailfish youth swim team has started off the 2014 campaign with a bang, one that saw the team easily defeat the Portland YMCA Polar Bears Saturday, Dec. 6.
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Ernestina-Morrissey
A Massachusetts landmark is coming to Maine.
Make that a Massachusetts sea legend.
The schooner …
Noah Barnes: ‘When we get done, she’s going to be smoking hot!’
THOMASTON — By mid-summer 2015, Noah and Jane Barnes hope to have the historic schooner Nathaniel Bowditch back in the water, plying Maine's Penobscot Bay with guests aboard once again.…
CAMDEN — The Camden Select Board Tuesday night gave a group nod to the idea of bringing the Camden Windjammer Festival under the auspices of the town, but they asked festival spokesman John…
