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The Boating Magazine for Coastal New England Volume 14 Number 1 April 2011 F E AT U R E S

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A trip down Memory Lane

Maine Boatbuilders Show, News

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Tomorrow’s shipwrights,today

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Javelin restored, Yardwork

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Great Eastern Waterway, Last Word

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Cruising up the Connecticut River to this pristine tidal cul-de-sac with your father, in a 73year-old motor cruiser, is, well, simply delicious.

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Passage to paradise A wild, late-season passage from Rhode Island to Tortola aboard the 1926 Herreshoff staysail schooner Mary Rose spawns enough epiphanies to last a lifetime.

By Michael L. Martel

The new/old way of working wood Through the Composites Program at the International Yacht Restoration School, Rhode Island is looking to the past in an effort to revive the future.

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The Great Eastern Water Trail Is it now time to consider a Great Eastern Water Trail, one that would ultimately create a small boat waterway from the Canadian border to Florida?

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Castaway, Part II Did the father survive the swim out to Sara?

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North Haven and lobster-fried rice Islanders conspire to creater stir-fry sensation.

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The Blinding dream It can result in horrible, costly mistakes.

D E PA R T M E N T S News..........................................24 Networking at Maine Boatbuilders Show; Bill Cook winds Far Horizons Award; Hamilton, UM team for lobster habitat.

Yardwork ...................................50 Pond restores 108-year-old gaff cutter; Seal Cove yard revives eBay treasure; Concordia gives yawl Javelin a refit Fetching along ............................69 Of shoal water and secret places.

Letters..........................................7 Exception taken to Martel clam meals; Wind-power piece was balanced; Buckman’s “Blue Hill” hits mark.

Mystery Harbor...........................12 MacDougalls’ earmarks Falmouth, Mass.

New Mystery Harbor on page 73.

Media ........................................70 “Atlantic” by Simon Winchester.

Calendar.....................................74 Boat shows, seminars, open houses Tides ..........................................76

SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTIONS URLs ......................................66-67 Surf the Internet to these locations.

Marina listings ...........................97 Now’s the time to look for a spot for your boat.

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The Edey & Duff legacy lives on n the spring of 1972, the 23-foot, starting with the sudden death of four-inch Sam Crocker-deJohn Harding, and then the loss of signed, Edey & Duff-built Stone Dave Davignon, the yard manager,” Horse double-headsail sloop Arctic said David Foynes, who bought the Bear sailed unassumingly into molds for the Fatty Knees dinghies.

Camden Harbor. Stone Horse Hull “John was a boater’s boater, who No. 25, she’d been built the year becould always find the beauty in any fore for one Benjamin Guy of Washcraft that had a sail and in many ington, D.C., who’d sailed her to cases brought them home. His wife, Midcoast Maine.

Kathy Harding, said once that John Circling her in our skiff during Photo by Tom Kenney had more boats in the yard than lunch break, we recall being Tom Kenney’s Stone Horse Windfall (fore- some small countries have in their thrilled that this tiny, quite lovely, ground) beats in Buzzards Bay. To leenavy. He had a vision for Edey & flush-decked vessel with such a ca- ward is Phil McGlave’s Stone Horse Blue Duff that he never had the time to pacious cockpit (one-third of her Jay. A sistership reached Newfoundland. bring to life.” length overall), which was not selfFoynes hung out a shingle for the bailing when under way, should have sailed so far. Fatty Knees Boat Co. in Sagamore Beach, Mass., and After all, the builders themselves, in their brilliant since September has shipped a seven-footer to Florida, booklet, “The Stone Horse: A Superior Small Cruiser,” and eight-footers to New Zealand, California, and declared, “The Stone Horse began life as a coastwise Yarmouth, Mass. “With the closing of Edey & Duff, I cruiser . . . . The cockpit of such a boat must be spa- could not let the Fatty Knees die”, he said. cious. . . . There should be room for her entire crew to In addition to rescuing the Fatty Knees, Foynes has sit, sprawl, and move about without trodding on, or helped place in proper homes molds for other designs otherwise disrupting, one another. . . . She is not meant Edey & Duff built. Geoff Marshall of Marshall Marine, for long passages offshore, unless, perhaps, the water who build the Marshall Catboats, has acquired the is warm.” molds and rights to the Sakonnet 23, and one is under Thus, a year later, it was with great surprise and de- construction this winter. The rights to the Stuart light that we read in the passage reports of the Eng- Knockabout and the Doughdish belonged to Bill Hardlish magazine “Yachting Monthly” that Arctic Bear had ing, Sr., who, according to Foynes, sold them to Ballencontinued north and east to Newfoundland hardly the tine’s Boat Yard in Cataumet, Mass. This appears to tropical climate recommended in the booklet. be a good match: Ballentine’s maintains more than 45 As quiet, deliberate and seamanlike as Arctic Bear’s Doughdishes and has serviced more than 100 wooden voyage appeared to the casual onlooker, so was the Herreshoff 121⁄2s, completely rebuilding several.

The Stone Horse molds were offered to Steve launching of Mait Edey’s and Peter Duff ’s Mattapoisett, Mass., boatbuilding enterprise two years Crocker at Crockers Boatyard in Manchester, Mass. “I earlier. During the next four decades, Edey & Duff don’t know if Steve has made any decision on building crafted some of the saltiest, sauciest, and best-built lit- at this time,” said Foynes, “however, the molds are in tle vessels imaginable, including the Lyle Hess-de- Manchester, which is a great new home for the Stone signed Fatty Knees dinghies, Joel White’s Sakonnet Horse since Sam Crocker was the designer of this ex23, the 28-foot Stuart Knockabout from the board of L. citing little craft.”

Nearly 40 years ago, the glorified daysailer/coastal Francis Herreshoff, and the Doughdish, the fiberglass cruiser Arctic Bear dug down and showed her stuff – and teak version of the (Nat) Herreshoff 12½.

Roughly 150 Stone Horses were built by Edey & and the spirit of her skipper – by voyaging far beyond Duff as well as 540 Doughdishes and 76 Stuart Knock- her intended purpose. So why should we be surprised abouts for Bill Harding, Sr., but the deaths of Edey & that, a few months after the dissolution of the yard Duff’s two owners, John Harding and Dave Davignon, that built her, the boats that Edey & Duff once built in the past two years, coupled with a faltering econ- still have a pulse? Through the spirit of those who love omy, scuttled the company late last summer. Bill Hard- the designs, the molds for Arctic Bear’s sister ships, ing, Sr. had not received a single order for a Doughdish and those for her yard-mates, have defied the odds and fetched up on unanticipated, and most hospitable, or a Stuart Knockabout for two years.

“It seems that Edey & Duff could not catch a break, shores.

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Letters Thompson, was in the audience. So I had the opportunity to thank him and Points East generally for your incredible support over the years.

So many thanks from all of us at MITA. Hopefully we’ll see you at the Boatbuilders Show. And please know we are planning an evening open house in our offices that Saturday, March 19. Hope you can make it!

Doug Welch Maine Island Trail Association Portland, Maine Photo by David Buckman

Dinner is served aboard the Leight: Steak, home-fries, pickled beets, and a cheap Chilean red wine will certainly delight the crew.

Take a gander at a Leight repast I’m responding to Capt. Mike Martel, who ran on about his famous chowder and clam-cake recipes in the Midwinter issue. I mean, it’s bloody boiled fish.

Aboard the sloop Leight, we aspire to greater culinary heights, amply demonstrated by this photo of my home-fries, steak, pickled beets and red-wine dinner.

The home-fries are the pièce de résistance. A 60/40 mix of potatoes and onions, it requires constant tending in a hot, oiled pan to achieve that elusive sweet spot between well caramelized and badly burned. The steak, a sirloin, is aged at least four days in the Leight’s bilge, and slowly sautéed to the rare side of medium-rare, with a splash or two, or five, of wine.

The best wine for this is a cheap Chilean red. I recommend Santa Rita 120, priced at $5.82. It’s possessed of grape overtones, a gnarly finish, and aged at least a month. Aunt Nellie’s pickled beets provide an acidic counterpoint that melds all the flavors into a symphony of deliciousness.

Eat your heart out, Mike.

David Buckman s/v Leight Round Pond, Maine

Some MITA/Points East serendipity I wanted to thank you very sincerely for that excellent Dave Getchell piece in the Midwinter Points East (“A New Millennium MITA” by Dave Getchell, Sr.). I had the great fortune of first seeing it the day I was speaking to about 70 boaters at the Portland Yacht Club. Not only was the issue available for them all to take at the door, but your advertising sales rep, Gerry www.pointseast.com

Critic missed the mark on my book Thanks for publishing a review of my book, “The Sailor’s Book of Small Cruising Sailboats (Media, May 2010). However, while the book may have shortcomings, most, if not all, of those cited by your reviewer are not among them.

To refute every one of his criticisms, though possible, would take more space than you would allow, and more time than I wish to devote to the process. I’ll settle for a chance to correct a few of the most egregiously misleading comments by your reviewer, paragraph by paragraph, as follows: Paragraph 1: In the review, the book is called “a bare-bones listing.” It is actually a fact-filled compendium. This should be self-evident to any reader even after a casual browse. The reviewer himself cites many details in the book, which make it obviously far more than “a bare-bones listing.”

Paragraph two: It is not true that “little of use is offered that would not be available from the various manufacturer’s [sic] own brochures.” If your reviewer took the time to look – and had magical access to sales brochures for all 360 boats – he would find that only in rare cases are all the parameters in the book included. For just two examples, bridge clearance and tankage capacities are seldom listed in sales brochures.

Paragraphs four through seven: Your reviewer in Paragraph four calls it “odd” that the Marshall Sanderling 18 is not included as a “comp” to the Herreshoff America, but ends up in Paragraph seven saying that “the difference between these two boats is not slight; it is considerable” – as if the book says something to the contrary, which it doesn’t.

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book fails to mention . . . that a Golif was a successful finisher in one of the early . . . transatlantic races, and that several others have made Atlantic crossings,” and even though the Golif is mentioned in the book as one of the best “Blue Water Cruisers,” that’s “not as clear an endorsement as a simple statement of her record would be.”

Your reviewer mentions that he owned and lived aboard a Golif for quite some time, and may feel therefore that the boat demands more space in the book than others because of his sentiment that “this little craft might be the best choice available anywhere, period.” What he may be forgetting is that with 360 boats to write up, limited space must be allocated to each boat, in this case a single page. On that page must appear stats, sailplan, inboard profile (when available), accommodations plan, and a maximum of 20 or so lines of well-chosen words to characterize the boat’s history, notable features, and good and bad points.

If some mention is deserved regarding long-distance cruises, perhaps he would agree that the West Wight Potter 15’s journeys from California to Hawaii and Seattle to Alaska are more noteworthy to include, which they were.

Paragraph 12: The review states that “trailability and headroom are qualities given great weight by the author, with windward performance and seaworthiness perhaps coming in somewhere down the line.”

There is absolutely no basis for this statement – with or without the potentially mitigating “perhaps.”

Despite my objection to your reviewer’s ill-considered criticisms, I do agree with most of his last paragraph, especially when he admits that “in spite of [my review], this book remains a useful reference [and] many of us will want to own a copy.... Perhaps I cavil too much.” “Cavil,” for the benefit of any verbally challenged readers, means “to raise trivial and frivolous objections.”

Steve Henkel Sarasota, Fla. Reviewer W.R. Cheney responds: I can only suggest that readers should read the book, read my review, read Mr. Henkel’s comments, apply what knowledge they have of the subjects covered, and draw their own conclusions.

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A warm note from the arctic Saco Not much nautical happening around here. With all this deep snow, we’re beginning to feel like Inuits. I read once where the Inuit had 20 or 30 terms to describe different types and stages of snow. I suppose if you live in it, you get to know the substance extremely well.

Reading helps remind me of the summer and the joys of boating. I enjoyed “Airborne” by William F. www.pointseast.com

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Buckley, Jr. Although I must admit Bill Buckley lived and moved in a world I can only imagine. His chapter on how to take sights and determine your position by using the H.O. 249 tables is probably as good a description of the process as you can find. Also re-read “Afloat and Ashore” by Roger Duncan (now sadly missed). And I just finished the excellent book about Ralph Stanley, “Ralph Stanley, Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder,” co-written with Craig Milner.

We are busy these days accepting reservations for the summer, and, of course, there’s a pile of paperwork on the desk that does not grow smaller. The woodpile is holding up. Looks like we’ll have enough to get through to March. With all this snow around, we’re anticipating one heck of a runoff from the White Mountains.

Randy Randall Marston’s Marina Saco, Maine

Wind-power piece was balanced I’m not up-to-the-minute informed on the Vinalhaven wind-turbines controversy (Last Word, “The Sounds of Wind Power,” Midwinter 2011), but I have listened to them up close and at a distance, by land and water. Steve Cartwright’s piece struck me as informed and well balanced. It kept to a minimum outspoken quotes from both sides. You’ll never sell Points East copies that way. Oh, yeah, I know, you don’t sell copies, you just sling’em around for free.

Herb Parsons North Haven/Vinalhaven, Maine

Buckman’s Blue Hill on the money Congratulations to Points East for providing readers with the technicals to getting around the magazine on

the computer. You have done a brilliant job. I got to Page 61 and read David Buckman’s “Blue Hill, Maine, and the Art of Cruising,” and he did capture the delights of being stuck in Blue Hill. It’s not just the shops and the old buildings, it’s the people and the way they treat everyone who comes there. And yes, that is true of many places in Maine.

You have a delightful publication.

Ben Pleasants Los Angeles, Calif.

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A fine book review is a rare gift Sandy Marsters’ review of Geoffrey Wolff ’s “The Hard Way Around” (“Slocum a Complicated Man, Adrift in His later Years,” Midwinter 2011) is one of the smartest and wisest reviews I have ever read.

From a compulsive reader and sometime sailor, thank you. Such a fine review is a rare gift.

John Casteen Castine, Maine/Keswick, Va.

Well, Pete, check out page 18 I picked up a copy of Points East at the Boston Boat Show. I enjoyed reading “Castaway Part I” by David Roper and was wondering when Castaway Part II might be out/available?

Pete Balkus Acton, Mass.

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LETTERS, continued from Page 10 Newsletter, I saw the reference to Points East as a presentation sponsor, and I was happy to see your magazine’s name within the newsletter. Halsey and Nat [Halsey’s brother Nathanael G. Herreshoff III] were friends at the former Bristol Yacht Club back in the late 1940s, and we still can reminisce about the old days racing Beetle Cats and 121⁄2s out of that club. At the time, I owned neither but crewed with several of the club members who did.

The Herreshoff people built PT boats at the time, and my dad worked there installing the boats’ electric wiring. I also remember the old Ranger defender sitting off to the side, slowly being disassembled. Much of its bronze sheathing was used for military purposes, and some very valuable pieces were lost. Some were not. Happy to hear the association with the Herreshoff Museum. They are fine people.

Vin Dugas Portsmouth, R.I.

MYSTERY HARBOR/And th e win ner is...

That red building downwind is MacDougall’s Marine The Mystery Harbor in your Midwinter issue is the delightful little inlet of Falmouth on Cape Cod’s south coast. My late wife, Mary Jane, and I spent many a happy overnight aboard our GB36 SeaStory II, on a MacDougalls’ Marine Services mooring or slip (the big, red building to starboard is their beautiful new facility), or across the way at the Town of Falmouth slips overseen by the efficient Harbormaster crew.

It is an easy approach from Vineyard Sound between the lighted long breakwaters, and the harbor is so narrow and snug it is protected from winds in all directions. Great restaurants, shops, and a sandy swimming beach on the sound are all within easy walking distance. Ferries leave from there to Oak Bluffs and Edgartown.

There’s no place to anchor inside the harbor, but

plenty of slips and moorings are available. It’s wise to call ahead due to the popularity of this super harbor.

Warren Hayes Hanover, Mass.

Went ice fishing for eels in harbor The recent Mystery Harbor is Falmouth Harbor, once known as Deacon’s Pond. It offers great protection from winds from nearly any angle. The town offers excellent slips at decent prices and with very friendly and helpful assistant harbormasters.

The Falmouth Yacht Club is near the mouth of the harbor, and it has excellent views of the harbor, Nobska Point, and Vineyard and Nantucket sounds. There are wonderful services for visiting yachtsmen, and an excellent bar and grill. A handful of good boatyards are available toward the head of the harbor, and Falmouth’s Main Street is less than a quarter of a mile from the head of the harbor.

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hopping, but you can also find an excellent meal and generous drinks at on-the-harbor establishments such as the Flying Bridge, the Boat House, and the Raw Bar. A large West Marine is across the street from the harbor, and it is right next door to Windfall Market, a fairly complete supermarket. Falmouth is a great stopover for those on their way to or from Nantucket, Chatham, or Edgartown.

One of my most unusual memories, among my thousands on that harbor, is of eel fishing through the ice during February 1970 with some local pals. We had a great day of fishing on the frozen harbor, but our parents were furious!

Both my wife and I were born here, grew up here, went our separate ways, went away to school, worked overseas and in the big cities, returned to town 14 years ago, got married, restored an old Tartan 27 named Bandwagon, and have a six-year-old daughter named Hadley, after Hadley Harbor.

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4) spent a great week here onboard our Mainship 34 trawler.

The photo was taken from the area around The Tides Motel, which is to starboard as you enter the harbor. MacDougalls’ Marine is to starboard as you enter, opposite the Flying Bridge Restaurant. Farther down the harbor, the Island Queen sails to Martha’s Vineyard, and Pier 37 is available for rack storage. The harbormaster has numerous slips available for rent, and there is a West Marine nearby. Hope we are right; if so, can we get a hat in a child’s size? My 3.8-year-old daughter wants one.

Damon Pignato Marblehead, Mass.

A great place to be in the summer Sitting on the couch breezing through the new edition of Points East I came across the Mystery Harbor page. The harbor is most definitely Falmouth Harbor in Falmouth, Mass., on Cape Cod. The large red building is MacDougalls’ boat yard and marina.

I have lived on the Cape since 2001, stationed with the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Field Office as a vessel inspector. I have spent many an hour inspecting passenger vessels on both sides of the harbor. This is a great place to be in the summer. Hope to see you there.

Glenn Barton Sandwich, Mas

Love sailing Solace into Falmouth I immediately recognized the Mystery Harbor shown in the Midwinter issue. My wife, Bev, and I love sailing into Falmouth Harbor from Martha’s Vineyard or Nantucket on our Tartan 31 Solace. MacDougalls’ Marine, the big red building on the east side of the harbor is a welcome sight (and a great landmark) whenever we come in, tired from a blustery passage back from Nantucket.

We’ve stayed on both sides of the harbor but have really enjoyed staying at MacDougalls’ Marina. They have very clean bathrooms (a big plus for my wife), laundry facilities, TV, and even free computer use – a definite plus when bad weather sets in for a couple of days. Our only complaint with staying on the east side is the long walk into town from there.

We’ve also stayed on the west side at the town-maintained slips. I hate pilings, but the slips have very easy access to a marine chandlery and a grocery store, and it’s an easy walk to the business district. Once on the main drag, there is also a free shuttle that will take you to Woods Hole and Eel Pond with all its charm.

There is a bandstand near the slips, and we’ve been fortunate on occasion to listen to some good old “Americana” band on a warm summer day.

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Jim Vernon s/v Solace Hingham, Mass.

I sold Cape Dories in this harbor The mystery harbor in the Midwinter issue is Falmouth Inner Harbor, Falmouth, Mass. My wife, Susie, and I spent many years around the harbor where I started selling Cape Dory boats at Gun and Tackle at the end of the harbor. Susie’s family has houses on the harbor on either side of MacDougalls’ Cape Cod Marine in the picture. Many great times sailing in the Falmouth area.

Dave Perry Georgetown, Maine

Bring your bicycles to Falmouth The mystery harbor is Falmouth Harbor on Cape Cod. My wife grew up on the eastern shore of this narrow harbor, and we still visit annually. The large red building on the right side of the photograph is MacDougalls’ Marine, a full-service marina and repair facility. As you enter the harbor, the Flying Bridge Restaurant and many fine yachts are on the port side, and the Falmouth Yacht Club is on the starboard side.

Many ferry passengers will also recognize the view if they are on the Island Queen passenger ferry returning from Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard, about six miles to the south of Falmouth Harbor. The ferry dock is just to the north of MacDougalls’. There is no public anchoring in the main area of the harbor for vessels of draft, but you can rent a slip or mooring.

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mouth is a 10-minute walk from the northern end of the harbor, where one can find many restaurants, shops and grocery stores. Bring your bicycles on your vessel for shore transportation and exercise.

To the west of the harbor, through some residential streets, one can pick up the Shining Sea Bike Path.

This trail follows an old railroad bed from Woods Hole to North Falmouth for nearly 20 miles. Car traffic is heavy during high season here, so travel by sea and by bicycle.

Peter Shosho Guilford, Conn.

Colin MacDougall was my friend I’m probably too late to pick up my designer hat (although correctly picking two mystery harbors in a row should qualify me), but the Mystery Harbor is definitely Falmouth Harbor. The MacDougalls’ sign on the right side of the harbor is the telltale sign that gave it away. Also, at the head of the harbor I can see one of the Innseason Resorts that are located throughout that area.

My wife and I have sailed into this harbor many times in the past. Colin MacDougall (now deceased), the owner of this well-known yachting facility, was a good friend of mine as well as one of my customers during my working years. His firm was one of my marine electronics dealers and sold many of my Alden Marinefax recorders and Satfind 406 EPIRBs through the years.

Armand Bouchard s/v Chaser Harpswell, Maine

Island Queen and tiny Tinkerbelle Falmouth (Mass.) Inner Harbor is the Mystery Harbor. I recognize the new shed at MacDougalls’ Marine and the condo development, “The Boatyard,” next door.

I haven’t been into this harbor on my own boat yet; it’s too far from my home port of Wareham, Mass. But I have made many trips in/out of there riding on the Island Queen to visit Martha’s Vineyard. I also visited there once with my Dad’s cousin and her husband on their 18’ Whaler, which provided a very different view than that from the deck of the Island Queen.

I still remember a time back in the mid-1970s when I rented an R/C sailboat at the clam-shack restaurant out at the mouth of the harbor (I forget the actual name of the restaurant). It cost $.50 for about five minutes of sailing, and there was not much wind that evening, but it kept me busy while we waited for our supper Falmouth is a very beautiful harbor, but it can be rough in a hurricane or other strong storm from the south. Next door to that clam shack was the old Fal16 Points East April 2011

mouth location of the Regatta Restaurant, which I guess never really did recover from the washout during Hurricane Bob. The Falmouth Yacht Club, on the east side of the entrance, has a good-sized fleet of 210s on moorings. Besides the Island Queen, the Pied Piper runs from Falmouth Marine out to Edgartown, and there is another vessel running from near the clam shack that serves as a small commuter ferry to the Vineyard.

In the mid-1960s, Falmouth Inner Harbor was the departure point for Robert Manry in his 13.5-foot sailboat Tinkerbelle. He took about 78 days to reach Falmouth, England, from there. I bet it felt good to finally be able to stand up and stretch out when he arrived on the other side of the pond!

Rodney Johnson Plainville, Mass.

MacDougalls’ yard is known by all The mystery harbor in the Midwinter Points East 2011 is the harbor of Falmouth, Mass. The red building is MacDougalls’ boatyard’s new building.

Paul Ketchum Falmouth, Mass.

That shed is a terrific landmark The midwinter harbor is Falmouth (Mass.) Harbor.

It is interesting that the half-page ad just below it is for Falmouth, Maine. Is this a clue??

The picture shows the fairly recently built red shed at MacDougalls’ boatyard. For some reason, the color has bothered some residents. For boaters, however, it has become a wonderful landmark for Falmouth Harbor as it can be seen well out into Vineyard Sound.

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Joel Peterson m/v After You Falmouth, Mass.

Yard is savior when Figawi-bound The large red, metal building and slips/dockage to the right is MacDougalls’ Marine in Falmouth. We have been saved more than once by manager Thomas Stainton and their fantastic crew with emergency repairs late, even after hours, while under way to make the start of Figawi. From the harbor, all amenities are within a short walking distance including West Marine, Gourmet groceries, every style/taste of restaurant food, and even Falmouth Hospital isn't more than two miles away if your luck is really bad.

Shawn Mills and family, Sabre 386 Twilight South Dartmouth, Mass.

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Perspectives Castaway: Part II In Part I, while cruising along the Maine coast, the father and son had left their boat, Sara, at anchor off a remote island ripe for exploring and had dinghied in to the rocky shore. An unexpected wind shift has caused Sara to drag her anchor and the dinghy to become swamped with the loss of the oars.

Both castaways were very cold and hungry, and the father knew he had to reach Sara and get warm clothes and food before hypothermia set in. He walked into the frigid water and swam out to Sara, then sank into the sea . . . .

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ut his dad popped up again and began to swim along the lee side of Sara toward the bow. When he got to the anchor line, the boy saw the red sleeve of his wool shirt connect to it, and watched as his dad hung there, being pulled up and down by the changing tension of the line as Sara’s bow rose and fell to the seas.

Sara had a bowsprit, which stuck out ahead of the bow and was connected by a wire, which the boy’s dad called a “bobstay,” running from its tip down to a bolt on the waterline part of the stem. In addition to parting the seas and guiding them, the boy knew it was another of the stem’s jobs to hold tight to this wire which kept the bowsprit from being pulled up and broken from the

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pressure on the headstay when the forward sail was up.

The boy’s dad had explained the simple physics of this to him one summer, and on one calm and hot day, when they were sailing lightly but in a big ocean swell, he’d let him “ride the bobstay.” Wearing his life jacket, and with a line tied to his waist, he’d climbed out to the tip of the bowsprit and then slid down the bobstay until he was sitting in the nook of where the stay connected to the stem at the waterline. As Sara rose and fell in the huge swell, he would dip with her, sometimes submerging but always riding back up with the bow as Sara lifted. It was, to a young boy, the ultimate carnival ride.

Today, though, he realized it was having another use.

His dad was somehow trying to use the wire as a way to get himself aboard. He hooked one leg over the bobstay and rested there, his hands hanging farther up the wire toward the tip of the bowsprit. The boy watched, frozen now by the beach’s edge, as his dad clung suspended like one of those zoo animals he’d seen hanging upside down from a branch.

He just hung there until it seemed certain he would have to let go. Then, when a larger rolling sea came and lifted Sara’s bow, he put one foot in the crook where the

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bobstay was bolted to the stem and hung on while lifted out of the water as she rose up with the sea. As the roller passed and Sara descended, burying her bow, he let the sea lift him up, giving him enough buoyancy to roll and hook himself over the top of the bowsprit. Then he crawled aft and disappeared into the cabin.

Soon the boy saw a puff of exhaust, and he knew he had Sara’s engine running. His dad came right back on deck, this time wearing a heavy white sweater. Sara began to turn toward the seas as he put the engine in forward and took the strain of the dragging anchor. “All right Dad!” the boy cheered, now hopping up and down rather than running back and forth on the beach.

Over the next 10 minutes he watched his dad move Sara ahead for short stretches, then run forward and take in the excess anchor line, then repeat the process until he was able to get the old Herreshoff anchor free of the sea’s bottom and hanging over the tip of the bowsprit. Then he motored Sara farther out in the cove

and reset the anchor. He waited in the cockpit to make sure she didn’t drag. Then he went into the cabin.

The boy waited. He began to shiver uncontrollably and started to yell for his dad. The wind was still strong and he realized he didn’t know the next part of the plan.

His dad hadn’t told him. He must have one, the boy thought. His dad always had a plan for everything.

Then he saw him emerge with something big and yellow. He realized it was the dry bag he’d shown him several times.

It was one of the first ones made, and his dad had bought it from an outfitter who led Grand Canyon rafting expeditions. It became their abandon ship waterproof bag, stuffed with a whistle, a signaling mirror, flares, a water jug, waterproof matches, dry clothes, and a blanket. His dad reached into the bag, pulled out the whistle and blew it and waved. He had the boy’s full attention.

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waved his arms, and pointed to the bag. The boy waved back. Then his dad blew the whistle again and made a gesture as if he was throwing the bag into the water. He waved his arms a second time. The boy waved back.

Then he blew the whistle a fourth time, loud and long, and heaved the bag towards shore. The boy waved back.

And then he waited anxiously while the waves in the cove slowly carried the rescue bag ashore.

He ran to it as it grounded, as if it was his “big present� for Christmas, and pulled it up the beach and into the high grass between the boulders. It yielded a pair of corduroy pants, his thick red wool sweater and a blue wool watch cap. He put on the cap, laid out the sweater and pants on the grass, quickly stripped down and climbed into the dry clothes. He dug back into the bag, found a wool red and white striped blanket and wrapped it around himself. Then he walked out from between the big boulders and looked for his dad and Sara.

The old sloop wasn’t rocking as much and the choppy waves in the cove had begun to flatten. Sara’s anchor appeared to be holding, and he could just make out his dad huddled in the cockpit under another of their redand-white-striped blankets. It was then that he spied the swamped dinghy, which had washed ashore and was now visible on the beach to his right, its bow and stern just poking the surface of the calming seas. He jumped up and down, running to the water’s edge and

yelling to his dad while pointing at it with one hand and holding the blanket around him with the other.

The oars couldn’t be far away, he thought. But first he waded in a few feet, leaving the blanket dry on the beach, and pulled the bow up as far as he could on shore. It wasn’t far, but it would be enough. He could tell by the seaweed and wet rocks on the beach that the tide was going out, and the dinghy would soon be high and dry. Then he began his search for the oars. It didn’t take long; one was washed ashore not far away. He never found the other, but he knew one would be enough.

The hardest part of the process was now emptying the dinghy, but by rocking it back and forth, he sloshed enough water out to be able to roll it over and empty it fully. And now the wind was dying quickly; he’d soon be able to paddle out to his dad and Sara. It would be a great reunion. And after giving his dad a hug, patting old Sara, and getting one big cup of hot chocolate, he’d be headed forward, up into the chain locker, to his favorite secret spot near his friend, the ancient oak wizard that was called the stem. There, as always, he would listen carefully; for between the gurgling sounds, the subtle whispers of the stem always gave him strength.

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North Haven, friendship and lobster-fried rice ast summer, my husband Billy and I spent two weeks harbor-hopping on our Catalina 380 Bonnie Christine. We were in the Midcoast area of Maine and had no set agenda, so we spent the afternoon sailing in Penobscot Bay on a flat sea with light winds, under blue skies with fluffy clouds.

We were close to North Haven and headed toward the Fox Islands Thorofare. We anchored on the eastern end of the mooring field, ate a lobster dinner, and decided to go see what North Haven had to offer. We were also in dire need of replenishing our wine supply.

Not seeing any pubs or a market, we began following the road that led out of town. As we were walking, a man unloading groceries in front of his house asked where we were headed. When we told him we were shopping for wine, he replied, “The store is a two-mile walk, and I’d give you a ride but my dinner is ready.

And he reached into his grocery sack and handed us a bottle of wine. “Just return it tomorrow.”

The next day we were on a mission: We had to replace that bottle of wine. Taking a different route out of town, we passed a soccer game, and a spectator offered to give us a ride. She ended up giving us a tour of the northwest side of the island, including a spectacular view of pristine Pulpit Harbor. Along the way, we saw three other cruisers walking. Sensing that they, too, were market-bound, she insisted on giving them a ride.

Our kind driver dropped us all off at the market, where we purchased wine, some munchies, and islandgrown vegetables. Weighed down with our provisions, we started the hike back to the dinghy, and it was indeed a long walk. Along the way, we picked wild blueberries and raspberries, which helped to quench our thirst. We located the wine donor’s house and delivered the replacement bottle.

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The blinding dream e’ve all been there. We have all had our eyes and reason clouded by THE DREAM: Owning a boat, and sailing away from reality.

After a beautiful day sailing on a continuous broad reach to be lounging in the cockpit at sunset, with a libation of choice in a soft breeze as the subtle motion of the water lulls us into that nirvana we have spent our lives dreaming about.

Well here is a tale of reality where one man’s dream and failure to see truth resulted in a horrible, costly mistake.

We were moored in the Georgetown Basin on Maryland’s Sassafras River. The boat on the next mooring was a sorry looking 48-foot ferro-cement ketch with blue plastic tarps as cockpit covers and a tremendous amount of boxes and crates on deck. After a couple of days of waiting out strong winds, I noticed an older man on deck busy with a project. I waved hello, and he yelled over that he had just taken ownership of this vessel and that he was totally and completely overwhelmed. He asked if I could row over and give him my opinion of some of the issues he believed he had.

I dinghied over, and what I saw was unlike anything I had ever seen in my life. The gentleman told me that he had just purchased the boat on eBay, that he now thought that he’d made the biggest mistake of his life.

He said that he’d always had a dream of buying a sailboat and sailing to the Caribbean. Recently he had just completed a horrible divorce and with what little money he had left he decided to try and realize his dream and bring some happiness and adventure back into his life after such a dark chapter.

He told me that he had never owned a sailboat before and that after a few days of cleaning out a dumpster full of trash, he now was concerned that he was way over his head.

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I told the owner not to try and start the engine and then asked if he had checked the tankage. He gave me a puzzled look and said he did not know where to look.

We pulled up a warped plywood floorboard, and what I saw still gives me the willies. The tank hatch was missing, and floating in some unknown chemical liquid were rusted paint cans and some type of solidus material. The unholy smell of toxic chemical was overwhelming.

Everywhere I looked the fixtures were either disconnected or beyond repair. Nothing, and I mean nothing, looked functional or sound. I then noticed that the whole starboard side of the hull was covered in what appeared to be mud, while the port side showed no evidence of mud, just a layer of dirt and grime. This clearly indicated to me that the vessel had been submerged and had lain on its starboard side for some time. I told this poor gentleman that he should immediately tow the boat to a marina, haul the boat, empty all tanks, and get a marine surveyor to evaluate the extent of the repairs necessary to allow for re-launching of the boat.

The poor owner nearly began sobbing in his frustration and feeling of hopelessness. He again reiterated that he was so overcome by his dream of sailing away and recapturing the adventure and lust for life that his vision and reason had been completely blinded. He told me that not only did he not have the funds to even begin the repairs necessary but that he also had none

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of the skill sets or physical stamina to do any of the costly repairs himself. He kept saying that this purchase was the biggest mistake of his life and that he had no idea what he was going to do.

I suggested he do nothing with any of the systems until the boat was out of the water; only then should he strip everything off the boat and start over. I told him that I would start at the engine and tankage, and then, if the hull checked out to be sound (by a licensed marine surveyor), maybe once the engine was functional and the tankage and wiring were either replaced or repaired, he might see light at the end of the long dark tunnel.

After a long pause, he said that he would probably clean the boat up a bit and then relist it on eBay. He said he’d take a loss since he did not have the wherewithal to take on this huge project.

I had restored four sailboats, cruised extensively, and lived aboard, and nothing I had ever seen compared to the deplorable condition of this derelict. As I motored back to my boat, I had an epiphany about the ease with which one can be deluded by “The Dream,” and how anyone at anytime can step off the edge of reason and sanity and chase the sailing fantasy down the wrong rabbit hole. This experience reminded me of my first foray into purchasing a sailboat. I found a McGregor 25 I was convinced was my ticket into boating. I brought a good friend with boating experience to

look at it, and the first thing he noticed were the dozens of holes drilled into the outboard engine cover.

The broker told us that it was done to improve the ventilation for the engine, that it was NO PROBLEM. My dear friend smacked me on the forehead and said that the broker was full of it and that it was a BIG PROBLEM. Because of his unclouded vision, I walked away from that nightmare and ended up with a Boston Whaler Harpoon as my first boat at the ripe-old age of 23.

The last thing the hapless owner of the cement ketch said was that he was done with boats and would never consider owning another one again. How sad to kill “The Dream” after a wrong turn. We all make mistakes, and as long as we learn from them, there is hope and recovery. No matter how much experience a boater has, it’s imperative that one physically sees the boat first and is accompanied by a knowledgeable friend who can help keep him grounded and keep the rosecolored glasses off. Finally, before purchasing a vessel, regardless of size, hire a marine surveyor.

Residents of Topsham, Maine, the Schoenbergs are on their second cruise from Maine to the Bahamas as a family (wife Chris, daughter Rachel 16, sons Jacob, 14, and Eli, 8). They left Maine aboard their Whitby 42 last September, and in early February were in the Southern Exumas of the Bahamas.

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News Networking a big plus at Me. Boatbuilders Show

By Steve Cartwright For Points East Just as the vernal equinox arrives, so does the annual Maine Boatbuilders Show. It’s a rite of spring, a combined social and business event that this year takes place for the 24th time March 18-20 at Portland Yacht Services. Portland Yacht cleans out its vast indoor shop – a former locomotive foundry on Fore Street – to make room for more than 200 exhibitors and some 8,000 visitors who pay $15 a head to mosey around, ask questions, browse, schmooze with like-minded mariners, and perhaps even plunk down some money for an anchor, a dinghy, a diesel engine, a prop, or even a sail-away or trailer-away boat.

Phineas Sprague, Portland Yacht Services owner and show organizer, likes to call the three-day event “a meeting of the clan.” He said he enjoys walking around talking to knowledgeable people as much as anyone else at the show, and there is always something new to learn. “What’s new? It could be a vari-

able-pitch feathering propeller.”

Exhibitors come from as far away as Seattle, Wash., and as nearby as the city itself. Some are one-person boatbuilding shops in the backyard; some are industrial giants selling marine products. Some are nonprofits such as the Compass Project, the Maine Island Trail Association, Island Institute, and American Sail Training Association. The Compass Project nourishes young people’s skills and self-confidence through boatbuilding projects. Those groups, Sprague said, contribute a lot to protection of the coast, seamanship and a traditional way of life.

Exhibitors range from Adirondack Guideboats in Charlotte, Vt., and Airhead composting marine toilets in Mount Vernon, Ohio, to Women Under Sail – women teaching women to sail – in Freeport, Maine, and the Yankee Marina, a short sail from Portland on the Royal River in Yarmouth.

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Desert Island, said they’ve been exnew, what’s selling, what customers hibiting at the show for a decade. “It’s want. He recalled a man who flew to nice to put a name to a face,” she said, Portland for the day and bought a halfmeeting customers and fellow million-dollar boat and $30,000 engine. builders.

That doesn’t happen often, he acknowlThe Beaulieus build a Chuck Paineedged. designed sloop called the Pisces 21, in Former Gov. Angus King, and senawood or fiberglass. They range in price tors Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, from about $48,000 to more than a have dropped by the show in past years. $100,000, depending on the customer’s “I enjoy the hell out of it,” said Sprague. wishes.

“I get to see all my friends once a year.”

Chris Harrison of Chase Leavitt, Sprague’s own company employs some shipping agents and purveyor of inflat30 people and is among exhibitors. able life rafts, said “networking” is a Sprague hosts the Cruising Club of big benefit of the Boatbuilders Show.

America (CCA), of which he is a memThe event is “a celebration of the beber, at the show. In the 1970s, he cirginning of the season,” he said. “We are cumnavigated the world aboard the Photo by Billy Black part of this community.” He is pretty 72-foot Alden schooner Mariah, built in Bill Harding holds court in his sure that Chase Leavitt, founded in 1931, and he recently sailed a 1928 Doughdish with the show unfold1854 by Capt. William Leavitt and still ing behind him. Bill was one of Fife-built yacht to Antigua. He has also in the same family, has been an ex- the original exhibitors, who, last cruised the Bras d’Or Lakes on Cape hibitor since the show began.

Breton Island, and the 1,000 Islands summer, sold his business and About 20 percent of exhibitors do not moved to warmer climes. on the St. Lawrence River. This year, return the following year, allowing for he and his wife Joanna plan to cruise others to reserve a space in the exhibition hall. the west coast to Alaska. For more information about Sprague said he believes the show, which started this year’s Maine Boatbuilders Show, visit www.portwith just 11 exhibitors, is good for business from all landcompany.com/boatshow. angles. It’s a meeting of minds, a chance to see what’s

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The award was presented on March 4 by CCA commodore Sheila McCurdy, of Middletown, Mass., during the club’s annual awards dinner in Manhattan.

In 1972-73, he completed North Atlantic Circle with his wife Toni on their 60-foot Sparkman & Stephens ketch, Endeavour.

In 2000, Cook bought the Resolution, a 56-foot Bristol sloop, with which he cruised extensively in the Canadian Maritimes and the Canadian Arctic, including the Labrador Coast, and in 2007 he visited Leaf Basin in Hudson Strait. His most recent cruise, last year, was to Greenland for the second time to explore the southern end of the country. Cook’s first trip was in 2003, when he ventured through the western end into Disko Bay. Cook is a past commodore of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club in Greenwich, Conn., and has been a trustee at Mystic Seaport Museum since 1982. He served as board chairman from 1995 to 2001, and is currently the rear commodore of the CCA’s Boston Station. FMI: www.cruisingclub.org.

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The Habitat Mooring is manufactured by American Concrete in Bangor, Maine, of a high-density, fiberreinforced concrete.

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the lobsters to dangerous predators and disrupts vital life-cycle behavior.

The Habitat Mooring System works by providing recessed cavities and tunnels that create ideal shelter for lobsters of almost any size. “Never before has there been a mooring specifically designed to create habitat for lobsters and other sea life,” said Dr. Robert Bayer, executive director of the University of Maine’s Lobster Institute. “Traditional granite or concrete moorings can disturb habitat where they land. The Habitat Mooring makes up for this lost footprint with engineered habitat that can provide a protected nursery for juvenile lobsters.”

Dr. Ian Bricknell, Libra Professor of Aquaculture Biology at the university, said the moorings can provide habitat for a range of marine species in addition to lobsters. The first Habitat Mooring System was deployed at the entrance to Seal Harbor, Maine, last July and dives in September and October by Mount Desert harbormaster Sean Murphy revealed, living in and around the mooring, lobsters of several sizes, two kinds of crabs, juvenile flounder, shrimp, lumpfish and schools of pollock and mackerel. FMI: www.hamiltonmarine.com.

Hinckley Pilots to rendezvous Aug. 6 The Hinckley Pilot Association has announced plans for its next gathering. Tenants Harbor, Maine, has been selected for a starting point on Saturday Aug. 6, with plans being formulated to continue cruising through the Penobscot Bay region for an additional three days. All Pilot owners are encouraged to participate, and anyone considering chartering a Pilot during those dates is also welcome. Hinckley Charters can be reached at www.hinckleycharters.com or 207.244.5008. FMI: www.hinckleypilot.com.

Schooners celebrate 140th birthdays America’s two oldest active sailing vessels will celebrate 140 years of windjamming June 17-18, with a schooner match-race, a reception, an awards ceremony, and dockside tours of the vessels in Rockland, Maine. The main event is The 1871 Schooner Showdown, in which the schooners Lewis R. French and the Stephen Taber, both built in 1871, will go head to head in a race from Camden harbor to the Rockland Breakwater lighthouse. “I won’t downplay how seriously we race these schooners,” declared Capt. Garth Wells of the French. “This might be the only setting that encourages you to take a 140 year old National Landmark out and push it to the limit. I love my job, and I can’t wait to beat the Taber!” FMI: Email info@windjammerbirthdays.com, www.windjammerbirthdays.com.

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A trip down Memory Lane

Cruising up the Connecticut River to this historic and pristine tidal cul-de-sac with your father, in a 73-year-old motor cruiser, is, well, simply delicious.

Story and photos by Matthew Cohen For Points East he morning air on Long Island Sound was clear and the seas a typical wavelet state for this time of year. These were perfect â&#x20AC;&#x153;rock you to sleepâ&#x20AC;? conditions for the soft chine and bubbly 35-foot

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Below, left: Looking north into upper Hamburg Cove. Below, right: The custom 1937 White Whale maintains steerage through the narrows. Inset: Just looking at Hamburg Cove on the chart gets the gunkholer's heart a'pounding.

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since he and his father had made the same voyage aboard the White Whale when he was a teenager. For Matt, it was an opportunity to experience the pleasures of the Sound and the Connecticut River, not only through the lens of his professional camera gear, but also through the lens of two generations before him who cruised these same waters years ago.

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Jet skis mingle with 70-foot Sea Rays, while numerous sailboats queue up for the ancient railroad bridge to open once the Amtrak races by on its way to New York or Boston.

The White Whale slips under the Amtrak bridge and powers through the standing waves of the Connecticut River current, bound for the cove.

power. Purchased in 1957 by Paul’s father in City Island, N.Y., the White Whale was moored for many years at Rudy’s Barge in New Rochelle where Paul spent family summers cannon-balling from that canvas deck, reeling in bluefish, and helming the large, almost horizontal, ship’s wheel, like driving a Mack truck.

The boat was sold in 1973 and spent the next 17 years cruising the coast of Massachusetts. She later made her way back south to the Connecticut shores to be lovingly restored by the rightful owner, Paul Joslin, and his college buddy Ken Dering.

The Connecticut River is truly a magnificent waterway for vessels of all shapes, sizes, and vintages. Jet skis mingle with 70-foot Sea Rays, while numerous sailboats queue up for the ancient railroad bridge to open once the Amtrak races by on its way to New York or Boston. The lower part of the river is a

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wide estuary and practically a straight shot to Hamburg Cove. In spite of numerous signs warning of no-wake zones, the temptation to speed is great and impatient skippers rip across the bow waves of both upstream and downstream vessels without much concern for a collision course.

Another hazard we noticed – one that visitors on the river should be aware of – is the abundance of logs, timbers, and other navigational hazards that a big rain and high tide will scoop up from the shores and launch on their way to Long Island Sound.

Eight miles north of the river mouth and about a mile north of Essex on the river’s eastern shore, we approached the cove, throttling back to enjoy the grace and elegance of a pair of mute swans gliding along the shore against a backdrop of colonial homes and lush, green foliage. The entrance to the cove is quite narrow, and firsttime visitors will do well to observe the privately maintained channel markers. Those who venture beyond those little stakes with green squares nailed to them might end up picking at the weeds just like the swans.

A few hundred yards inside the cove, the buzz of personal watercraft and roar of cigarette boats begins to fade and we begin to search for Wandering Star, our mooring buddy for the next two weeks. The White Whale is at home in this natural setting, complemented by several wooden sisters on moorings, hooks and docks. The pristine cove is a well-protected harbor with many private moorings and a handful of first-come, first-served rentals.

Hamburg Cove is comprised of the Outer Cove and the Inner Cove.

The Outer Cove, closest to the river, in summer fills its moorings with visitors aboard all manner of craft.

Farther upstream is the smaller Inner Cove, home to Cove Landing Marina and the Hamburg Cove editor@pointseast.com

Yacht club. Eight-mile River, which empties into the upper reaches of the Inner Cove, is a favorite destination for kayakers. Be sure to top off before you enter the cove, as there are no fueling stations once inside.

Visitors to the cove are greeted by a panorama of lovely New England homes peeking through the carpet of dense foliage that graces the hills on either side of the cove. A sharp eye will spot numerous birds along the shore, ranging from the tiny sandpiper to great blue herons. Raptors fill the sky, with frequent sightings of ospreys and hawks and the occasional bald eagle.

Idyllic as in may seem, like any cove, creek or still waterway, there are beautiful creatures as well as those that are not so beautiful, so bring your Deet, long lightweight pants, and mosquito proof screens for nighttime comfort.

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The White Whale rests in the afternoon glow after her Long Island Sound and Connecticut River passage alongside her friend, Wandering Star, a Bob Perry Baba 35 double-ender.

raft up without much difficulty. Wandering Star is a classic 1979 eye-catcher, lovingly restored by our good friend and West Coast shipwright Paul Bracschi. Mo-

ments later, we are soon greeted by Bob Balmer, a white- and wavy-maned old salt and unofficial harbormaster of Hamburg Cove.

Bob lives on the cove in the summer aboard his Cheoy Lee sloop Gajoe, and he was kind enough to keep an eye on the White Whale whenever we went ashore – just in case. At 73 years young, she does tend to leak a bit.

Always willing to lend a helpful hand, Bob is the master of ceremonies for the unpretentious Hamburg Cove show – some might call a sitcom – starring local and newbie yachties, especially sunbathing women, he invites for harbor tours aboard his launch as he collects the daily rental-mooring fees, and sunset cocktail cruises at day’s end.

Good “binos” are a must for more than bird watching as a broad spectrum of wildlife descends upon his little gem of a getaway each weekend. Some are local,

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From the bald eagle’s perspective, Hamburg Cove resembles a figure eight; hence, the horizontal black “lazy eight” lying on top of a brightorange field becomes the burgee for the Hamburg Cove Yacht Club. Rumor has it that, in 1949, a few Princeton graduates swapped their college colors with the former white and blue, which still hangs on the yacht club walls today.

Hamburg Cove even offers an opportunity for the adventurous to test their mettle. A few hundred yards north of the entrance to the cove is Selden Creek, with a six-mile stretch, often 35 to 40 feet wide, that’s navigable by a four-foot draft, the last two miles good for a two-foot draft or less. All boats should be aware of

A great blue heron, perched atop a fallen tree, guards his territory in Selden Creek, a wonderland of lush trees that grow over the estuary, marshes, and wildlife that call it home.

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Saturday, sunset, stillness, and supper: an enjoyable concoction to enhance an already excellent weekend aboard White Whale in Hamburg Cove.

Selden Creek is a wonderland of scenic trees that grow over the creek, marshes, and wildlife, including bald eagles, great blue herons perched atop fallen trees, and cormorants whose wingtips barely kiss the surface when hurtling along at a blazing 30 knots.

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There arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t many places to stop unless you keep your vessel hovering in gear against the three-knot current, drop the hook, or throw as many fenders and vinyl cushions as you have over the side and tie up to the sheer stone ledge. A couple of rings are embedded in the ledge to tie up to, if thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your pleasure.

Someone years ago had the great idea to tap heavy-duty rings into the granite so that you can tie up in the shade of an overhanging tree and jump off those 15to 20-foot quarry rock walls for an afternoon swim. Or, if you prefer, just tie up and surprise your main squeeze with a chilled bottle of wine, a wheel of brie, and an acoustic guitar solo with ospreys chirping vocals for back-up. The White Whale has spent many a night tied to the rings in the granite wall, crew awaking to a breakfast of bacon, eggs and coffee.

Hamburg Cove is more than just a sweet, secluded place at which to drop anchor, so be sure to take your kayak, canoe or dinghy into the Inner Cove to explore its rich history and quaint New England architecture.

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ble today, because of their proximity to the cove and its many visitors, are the Reynolds. The family name first shows up in the history of the cove in 1859 when Ephraim O. Reynolds first built horse-drawn carriages in the area. Today, a visitor will find Reynolds Garage & Marine, Reynolds Marina, Reynolds Subaru and, of course, the Reynolds Store.

Stop by the 151-year-old Reynolds General Store to pick up something, anything, and chat with the current proprietor Jane Reynolds DeWolf. Jane has run the store since 1953 and is a very patient and kindly lady. Be sure to check out the various dated and classic items like original Frisbee Pie Pans, a vintage crank pencil sharpener, old glass bottles and IGA (Independent Grocers of America) signs, and the “Sorry, No Credit Cards, Cash or Check Only” reminder on the counter.

Listening to Jane tell the story of the store, I was transported back a few generations to the middle of the 1800s. Her great grandfather, Hayden L. Reynolds, started the operation in 1859. He eventually passed the reins to his son, and then to one of Jane’s uncles, whose wife ran the post office from a 20- by 20-foot room with mail slots on the wall of the store. Oh, and don’t forget the horse and buggy that delivered the mail as well.

Jane does most of her work from her chair at the checkout counter. She knows exactly where every lit-

tle item is in the 1,000-square-foot store, so she’s not likely to get up for you. But if you ask, she will gladly direct you to the exact location on the shelf for that little combination salt-and-pepper shaker that you need. That is if there are any left. This general store has a lot of variety, not a lot of stock. What you see is what you get.

So acquire a paperback copy of “Hamburg Cove: Past & Present (Lymes’ Heritage Series), which will give you a greater appreciation for the cozy Cove and provide some good conversation as you enjoy your dinner on deck, wondering what it was like to be here in 1953 – or perhaps 1853.

Our stay in the beautiful cove was a blast from the past. Sadly, we departed and headed downriver to Essex, gassed up and headed for home. But there’s no need to despair: Home is only a few hours away, and we know we’ll be back there next year, hopefully aboard the White Whale.

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This was the usual view for the on-watch during the first leg, en route to Bermuda. The seas were choppy, and the crew of the Mary Rose, protected only by the traditional “pram-hood” dodger, was constantly wet.

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of her steel frames – composI regarded her escape, unite construction for 1926 – scathed, as a good one, alreplaced. She wet her keel though the news of it on that once more without a hitch on wind-whipped morning had a fine Indian-summer day in scared the dickens out of me; late October, and had moI was certain that the voyage tored to Bristol to moor at was finished before it had the Herreshoff Museum begun. dock.

But it had not, and we left A couple of weeks later, in on a cold, gray Monday, and a northerly blow on Nov. 8, despite the cold, we were the 29-ton, 65-foot (on deck) cheerful, with buoyant spirwooden schooner broke free its, happy to be heading to of her mooring in front of sea, knowing that we were Herreshoff ’s and drifted embarking on an adventure aground and ashore at Love The other side of the late-fall-delivery-to-the-islands of perhaps two weeks, hoping Rocks, Capt. Nat Her- equation: paradise won. Here, Mary Rose lies at anchor for the best, but mentally reshoff ’s old estate, where, in Soper’s Hole, shortly after her arrival in the British prepared for what might be a miraculously, she wedged Virgin Islands. rough trip. her keel gently between two Why did I go? I went beledges and remained upright, and was refloated at the cause it was an opportunity for adventure, to recharge following high tide. my batteries, so to speak; to test myself mentally and She was towed back to Portsmouth and hauled, only physically. The other reason was to gain more valuable to show that the gentle hand that had guided her into sea time, and practically work on watch standing, that slot – with her bowsprit practically reaching the steering, navigation, chart reading and plotting, radio lawn of her designer’s old homestead – had done so communications, sailing, weather interpretation, with care. She had not suffered a scratch! And al- clouds, forecasting, and much more. As a licensed capthough some may consider her grounding a bad omen, tain, it is important for me to keep my skills sharp by

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keeping them in play, and retain that knowledge through use.

What did I gain? On a personal level, I surprised myself with my ability to endure, and brought new and wonderful experiences and destinations into the portfolio of my life, experiences that were the best of all things – new, dangerous, and characterized by the sublime paradox of being both frightening and awesomely beautiful at the same time.

No experience has such awe-inspiring power over a man’s soul as does the paradox of “terrifying beauty.”

The Mary Rose’s skipper, Capt.

Thomas Bradford, originally from Cape Cod, and a descendant of Pilgrim father William Bradford, knew her well. He had overseen her careful reconstruction and refitting. I signed on as mate; the captain and I were the old guys. Then there were the two young men: Jason Baker, an able shipwright, IYRS trained, whose careful work on the Mary Rose’s restoration would stand us in good stead during the rough weather ahead; and Andy Furlong, the Bo’sun, able sailor and the fellow who would stay behind in Tortola aboard the Mary Rose as her caretaker during

Author Mike keeps Mary Rose on the straight and narrow, through big seas and sapphire Gulf Stream water, while watch-mate Jason Baker rides shotgun beside him.

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The night before we departed, a Sunday, the four of us, plus our wives, friends and the younger fellows’ lady-friends, had met at Aidan’s, our favorite Irish pub in Bristol, for a pre-departure party – food, pints of ale, and an evening of getting to know one another – it had been Captain Tom’s idea. It was riotous fun. Hughie and Gerry Purcell, our long-time musician friends who are originally from Ireland, played fun and bawdy tunes, and the guitar and fiddle rang out.

The spirit was infectious: Energy ran high, and I felt charged down through the very core of my being. People who did not know us joined in the fun, danced, and spilled beer. Hughie sang “The Leaving of Liverpool” and substituted his own satirical lyrics to give Captain Tom and the rest of us a chuckle.

Captain Tom had divided us into two watches of six hours each, and six hours is a long watch, especially in bad weather. Jason and I had the 6 a.m.-noon, and 6 p.m.-midnight watches every day; Captain Tom and Andy took the other two. This meant a full 12 hours each day on watch and on the helm for each of us, every day, albeit split up. Mary Rose’s traditional cockpit offered no shelter from the weather whatsoever;

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rain, spray, wind, and cold were our enemies as well as our constant companions. There was no wheelhouse, no cockpit dodger, no awning, no Bimini. Only a small sea hood covered the entrance to the companionway going below.

There was no place to hide.

We each took turns on watch hand-steering for two hours each, then standing by in the drenching cockpit trying to stay warm and stay awake. Our faces burned from the effects of driven spray, salt and wind. It was as though they were badly sunburned, and the skin felt hot and angry when we went below and when we touched it with a damp washcloth.

We each wore layers of wool and polar fleece, covered by foulweather rain gear, and wore inflatable life vests and harnesses in the cockpit at all times in rough weather. There were plenty of places to clip on, and we went nowhere on deck without being clipped to a pad-eye or a jackline.

Jason and Andy handled the foredeck work, at the captainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s direction; my specialty became the helm, keeping her controlled and steady while the young men did their dangerous work on the plunging, soaked foredeck managing the sails, fixing problems, reefing, whatever was needed. At night, we turned on the spreader lights to illuminate the deck, and it was a scene out of a wild, wet Hell in motion of deadly swinging spars and luffing sails on a pitching and careening deck, sails suddenly filling, snapping and booming like cannon shots, surrounded by roaring darkness, wind, and blowing spray.

During the first week, sleep was nearly impossible in the rough seas. We all became terribly sleep deprived, so we tried to sleep whenever we could, whenever we were not on watch. Judgment became fuzzy, and all of us, at one time or another, hallucinated a little at night. editor@pointseast.com

Fixed berths tilt, pitch, and yaw with the vessel, unlike hammocks, so to get to sleep, one must immobilize one’s body. If your body moves or your head rolls, you will not sleep. So I packed nearly a dozen pillows and cushions of all kinds around my body – something akin to chocking the wheels of a truck – to immobilize myself.

Then I had to learn to tune out the creaking of the vessel, the slamming, hammering of her hull, seas washing aboard, cabinets emptying their contents onto the main cabin sole, and other loud noises. At one point, an entire cabinet of books blew open and spilled all over the cabin deck, where one of the young guys was sleeping. Another time, a heavy metal winch handle came happily dancing down the ladder from the charthouse enclosure above, making a racket but, thankfully, not gouging up the woodwork.

We got an early taste of what we were in for right after we left Newport, heading out on a strong, outflowing moon tide, into the teeth of an opposing southwesterly. I was on the helm, and Captain Tom, Jason, and Andy went forward to sort out a problem with the yankee, our jib out on the bowsprit. It was furled but was becoming undone and had to be secured before it got loose. This sail would cause us much grief several times during the voyage.

All of a sudden, three impossibly steep waves, at least 10 feet high, in quick succession brought the Mary Rose into an incredible upand-down pitching, with the result that she plowed into the third wave and took green water over the bow.

Captain Tom, who was up there at the time, disappeared under water for a second or two, and then emerged, saucer-eyed and thoroughly doused in November water.

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of Gay Head, on Martha’s Vineyard, flashed against the sky every few seconds. We occasionally saw the lights of fishing boats from time to time, one of them presenting an eerie, phantasmic image as it steamed past a mile away, flocks of seabirds circling around its stern, in and out of its bright lights like a swarm of fireflies as it passed.

Out of the corner of my eye, off the port side of the Mary Rose, in the shimmering white path that led to the rising moon, I thought at one point that I saw something in the water, a black silhouette of a dorsal fin. I rubbed my eyes, and looked again . . . nothing. Then moments later, more black silhouettes, which I recognized as dolphins leaping and shooting like torpedoes through the waves, following us, staying alongside, one, then two, then a half-dozen keeping with us, companions on our trip. They cheered my heart; they reminded me again of Hemingway’s “Old Man and the Sea,” when Santiago,

far out at sea and alone in his fishing boat, notices the birds and other creatures and muses that no one is ever truly alone on the ocean.

The dolphins followed us from time to time, both day and at night, but after Bermuda, we never saw them again, nor did we see whales or much other wildlife except for the odd beauty of a white-tailed tropicbird that periodically hovered above our masts from the day that we left Bermuda. This strange but beautiful bird has a long, single tail extending out nearly the length of its body, like a kite-tail, and it reminded us that we were passing into a new and exotic climate as we wove our way south toward the promise of the tropics.

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were 30 to 35 knots steady, gusting to 40, and one gust hit 49 knots. Big seas built up, and we could only hang on, try to sleep, steer the boat, keep hydrated, and try to stay warm.

At night, the masts swayed wildly in the darkness beneath a sky brilliant with stars that instead of twinkling, remained cold, fixed points of light. The Milky Way glowed as a belt of light across the heavens; the wind howled and the seas roared as they broke alongside. The moon rose later each night as it waned from full, but it illuminated a wild ocean scene under a clear sky, a scene of foaming crests and silver hills rushing by as spray dashed over the foredeck and blew aft. Dolphins followed us, leaping out of the water at night by the moonlight, frolicking around the boat by day.

It was a rough week, without let-up, which stressed all of us both mentally and physically. One night, I began hallucinating, and I knew it. I’d had very little sleep for the past four days. I was at the helm, steering Mary Rose on a southerly course under reduced sail as she fought her way through high seas and gale-force winds in the impenetrable blackness of a deeply overcast night. I had been guiding her with the help of two orange-amber-lit analog wind-indicator dials. I had been staring at them for nearly three hours, keeping

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the Mary Rose’s unseen sails full as we lunged ahead, slogging to windward.

Now, these two luminous dials with dark centers, crusted with salt and spattered with drops of spray, had become two lovely orange-frosted doughnuts, and I could not get that image to change in my mind. It was true that I had eaten very little for several days, and two luscious frosted doughnuts would have been heavenly, even at that moment. But the odd image inversion – much like what sometimes happens when viewing an aerial photograph, when the high and low features reverse in optical illusion – only made the dials harder to see, and I cursed.

It was bad enough that I was wet and cold and constantly being drenched with chilling spray from seas breaking over the bow in the darkness, but I couldn’t see a thing – neither the big seas, nor the sails, nor anything that was not illuminated. Yet I could feel her hull slam into a sea, and two seconds later, after just enough time for me to turn my head, I was doused as effectively as if someone had thrown a huge bucket of seawater at me from only a few feet away.

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Tom, sitting in the darkened slept in our clothes so that our cockpit hunched over, avoiding body heat would help accelerthe spray, and began talking to ate their drying before we had him. Only when Captain Tom to go back on deck. But during did not respond did he look the worst times, we put the closer to see that Tom had besame dank, damp, wet, chill, come a big coil of three-strand, sweaty-salty clothes and gear the main sheet, as it were. back on, like a recurring nightOn another occasion, my mare from which there was no watch-mate, Jason, thought he hope of awakening. Sometimes saw me in the cockpit at night, there was an emergency, and and spoke to me, and when I did we all had to turn out on deck not respond, he looked down and even if we were off-watch and was startled to see that I was exhausted. not there. I had actually gone On the dock in Bermuda, mugging it up with the The Mary Rose’s voyage was below briefly, but he had not Bristol, R.I., weekly newspaper, are, from left: a shakedown cruise as well as seen me leave, and was as mate Mike Martel, Capt. Tom Bradford, crewman a delivery, and as every sailor alarmed as poor Andy was, in Jason Baker, and bo’sun Andy Furlong. Sea sodas and skipper knows, a shakehis weariness worrying that by Heineken. down cruise is the time when Captain Tom had accidentally everything that can go wrong fallen overboard, leaving only the coiled sheet in his will go wrong, with a few bonus breakdowns or failures stead. thrown in for good measure. One failure we noted a The problem with cold weather is condensation few days into the voyage was that the freshwater under your oilskins, so even if your oilies keep the maker wasn’t working right. spray off of your clothing beneath, soon your perspiraThis reverse-osmosis machine makes fresh water tion and body moisture condenses on the inside sur- from seawater at a rate of five gallons per hour, which faces and makes your clothes damp. They don’t dry is why, apparently, the Mary Rose has only a 60-gallon appreciably during your six hours off watch, so we freshwater tank. Sixty gallons doesn’t go very far with

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four fellows aboard who need to wash themselves, drink, cook, and clean dishes. So, we had to conserve water, but even so, we did not have enough water to reach Tortola.

Compounding the problem was that there was water remaining in the tank from, quite possibly, before Mary Rose’s restoration, a year or two old in a metal tank, and when Captain Tom topped off the tank before our departure, he neglected to flush the tank out before adding fresh water. The result was the worst tank water I had ever tasted – it made me gag one morning, even though I was awfully thirsty. Metallic, stale and musty, it tasted as though someone had blown down a boiler into the tank, I thought, and was utterly horrible.

Since we were far out at sea, Captain Tom decided to stop in Bermuda, where we could repair the watermaker, top off the fuel tanks, and get a day’s rest in flat water. It had been a rough, cold week and we needed a break. We arrived on Saturday, just as another 40-knot gale was whipping up the seas.

It was a good decision. After clearing customs and refueling/rewatering Mary Rose, we had the chance to go ashore, have a few cold beers, and relax for a day.

Captain Tom repaired the watermaker, and from that point on we had sweeter and sweeter fresh water, with the memory of that horrible sludge from the first leg of the trip finally diminishing in memory as we neared

Tortola. After repairing the watermaker, Captain Tom slept for 12 hours straight.

We left the next day, Sunday, in the afternoon. Although I was a little reluctant to leave this pretty place with its turquoise harbor waters behind and head once again out into the unknown of the North Atlantic, I now had more confidence in the Mary Rose, in my captain, and in Jason and Andy. These were capable, brave fellows, and we had, through the crucible of the gale, become a closer team, shipmates and friends, as much as we were remarkably different individuals.

Going through rough times at sea together makes a tight crew, even if its members are people with little in common on the land, and who would probably not normally become friends, or close friends, due to disparate ages, personalities and interests. It is a different sort of friendship, developed of necessity, common weal, common risk, and shared exposure to danger and harsh conditions, where the absolute focus of mind, body, and energies is bringing the ship safely to port.

When we left Bermuda, I felt the familiar pang of anxiety, of separation from the land, of a wish, after darkness fell, that the fading glow of the island on the horizon astern would not disappear, but remain with us. The smell of the land had once again vanished, leaving us with the cloying salt tang of the deep, and MARY ROSE, continued on Page 82

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Story by Tyson Bottenus Photos by Matthew Cohen For Points East hey wear white suits and work with applicator guns.

Industrial lighting illuminates huge ventilation tubes that hang down from the lofty ceilings in their Franklin Street workshop, a tucked-away complex located in Bristol, R.I., not far from the America’s Cup Hall of Fame and the Herreshoff Marine Museum. Like maritime alchemists, their task on this cold January day is to build a Stagepoint 17 – a 1970s-style lobster skiff with a sport center console – from the ground up using donated materials.

Five thousand years ago, shipwrights lashed rope around wooden planks, but today they spray gelcoat and fiberglass on balsa wood to achieve whatever shape and strength they desire.

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“Want to see my toolbox?” asks Alex Moore, one of the students in the Composites Technology Program, a new nine-month program offered by the International Yacht Restoration School (IYRS) of Newport, R.I. In existence since the late 1980s, IYRS began by introducing students to boatbuilding the oldfashioned way – plank-on-frame with wood. Three years ago they expanded by introducing a pro-

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gram in Marine Systems focused on teaching students all about the onboard systems found on boats.

But now, aided by a $500,000 grant announced last year by Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, IYRS rolled out its vision for what it hopes will be the future of the marine industry. Alex, only 21 years old, is on the ground floor of this vision, and he proudly displays some tools of the composites trade: tape measure, scissors, a plethora of vice grips, and a respirator among other things.

Composites, Alex explains, are materials created from two or three different materials. “For instance,” chimes in Kurt Musselman, 42, from nearby, “brick can be a composite made from hay and mud.” The pavement we drive on is a composite, but in this new IYRS program, students learn to construct almost anything by combining fiberglass with resin.

The first product built using composites – or “reinforced plastics” in this case – was a boat built in Ohio in 1932. By the 1940s, the Coast Guard began manufacturing patrol boats up to 40 feet in length using this construction method.

Thirty years later, using wood became an antiquated, albeit cherished, process, and almost all boats were built with some form of composites.

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Clockwise from top: Chris Cox, an IYRS Compo cabin sole of a Stagepoint 17. This close-up dis guests peruse one of current projects while acq measurements of multiple composite samples w the very impressive 5 axis molding machine. “I There’s no tiptoeing around this place. Either y

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eight students in the Composite Program are of different ages and backgrounds, but together they share an affinity for boats and the ocean as well as a desire to be part of the burgeoning marine industry in Rhode Island. It’s an industry that boasts the highest average yearly salary in the state – nearly $40,000. For Alex, the training received at IYRS will provide him with a leg up on his first career. For Kurt, this will be his third career.

“I was a brewer,” Kurt tells me as he mixes catalyst.

“I traveled all over the country putting brewhouses in.” Kurt originally graduated with a degree in food science before taking on a series of mini-careers in network engineering, woodworking and, finally, compos-

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ites. “I’m not rich but I’m still alive and I want to have fun. I don’t want to be grinding stuff and working the chopper gun; I want to eventually be doing advanced composites.”

The advanced composites Kurt speaks of are at the forefront of the marine industry today. Most composites are general composites used to manufacture shower stalls, fake granite countertops, almost anything you can think of, Kurt explains. But there is a growing demand for skilled workers who possess a working knowledge of advanced composites, which use high-strength fibers and advanced resins, such as epoxy. Employing advanced composites means using less material to manufacture a product. Less material means a lighter weight, which equates to greater energy efficiency in most industries.

“The future of composites isn’t all going to be in reducing weight,” Kurt explains however. “Some boats are too light; they don’t handle the waves right. A lot of the stuff we’re doing could be done with metal, but it would be really expensive and would require a lot of special machinery. Not everyone welds titanium. You know what we say about composites – it’s as if you’re making an alloy right there on the floor.”

With this philosophy in mind, IYRS hopes to re-engineer the marine industry, along with other industries in the state that could benefit from hiring employees skilled in advanced composites.

Rhode Island may be going through one of its toughest economic time periods since colonial times, but this doesn’t mean that the state is stagnant. Instead, Rhode Island is looking to the past in an effort to revive the future. This quest begins with a strong focus on the marine industry. IYRS leads the way as flag bearer with its approach to technical training. However, the new Composites Program marks a shift for IYRS. Skills taught in this new program are not tailored directly for the marine industry – they can be utilized in other industries such as the aerospace, wind energy and automotive industries.

“In the bigger picture, advanced composites are the future for anything that rolls, floats or flies,” says

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Richard O’Meara of Rhode Islandbased Core Composites in a recent interview in the school’s publication “Restoration Quarterly.” “We are going to need people who know how to use composites, especially advanced composites. We are going to need people who know how to use those materials, and that starts with embracing numeric design using computers – to not only design, but to build the tooling and the molds.”

Upstairs in the shop, Kurt shows off kayaks he and his classmates built using different molding techniques. Patiently, he explains the difference between open- and closed-mold methods of construction. “This is open mold,” he says, pointing to one kayak. “You can see that this was done with a wet layout. This was all done spraying gelcoat, spraying [fiberglass] chop, cutting laminate.” Downstairs, he shows off the closed-mold technique. “Here, we didn’t pump resin – we sucked the resin into the boat.

We fit this bag over the whole boat, and when you remove all the air and create a vacuum, the resin is spread evenly over the whole boat.”

For someone who’s only been in the program less than four months, Kurt is knowledgeable about composites and the techniques associated with them.

“And you know what’s great about this?” Kurt says, almost too excited. “This silicon bag is reusable. Because when you’re on the floor, you have a lot of boats to make. This is one of the reasons to go close-mold. The other reason is emissions.”

Cutting emissions is critical when it comes to building boats with composites, explains Kurt.

“There are boatyards we’ve heard about down south that do all this stuff outside. It’s always eighty degrees down there. Shorts and flipflop weather, you know? But they don’t realize that there’s styrene coming off, and you’re breathing it and it’s going everywhere. This is www.pointseast.com

why the closed-mold technique is so important. Plus, you want to make good parts. You don’t want to waste material. You don’t want this stuff in the dumpster, and you definitely don’t want this stuff in the atmosphere. Around here, being green makes sense.”

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nonsense. It’s very realistic.”

The realism Kurt speaks of is apparent in every aspect of the complex where the Composites and Marine Systems programs are located. On the other side of the building, where the Marine Systems students learn, there are imitation boats complete with engines, sinks, and electrical systems waiting to be fixed. Students practice in a simulated environment, where, if there are any problems, a seasoned instructor is nearby to answer any questions. Many students go straight from one program, like Boatbuilding & Restoration, to another, such as Composites, or Marine Systems, just for the experience itself.

“There’s a guy who graduated from the Boatbuilding Program and went straight to Composites. Then there’s a guy who did [Marine] Systems and decided to go to Boatbuilding,” remarks Kurt on the cross-pollination of knowledge. Most students go to IYRS for one program and then find that they have an interest in another after graduating. It’s this type of multi-disciplinary training that’s going to prepare the next generation of shipwrights. Not only will they be able to create a fiberglass boat from nothing on Tuesday, they’ll have the know-how to replace the engine, rewire the lighting, and then help their neighbor restore a recently acquired vintage Herreshoff during the weekend.

“If there’s an IYRS way,” Kurt says at the end of the

IYRS composite Program students Chris Cox, left, and Alex Moore remove wrinkles in the plastic covering during an open house at the IYRS Bristol campus.

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Peterson Capital was founded by former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Peter G. Peterson.

The Hinckley Company builds its boats in Trenton and Southwest Harbor, Maine, and operates eight service yards along the U.S. East Coast. Hinckley has approximately 1,500 boat owners and 5,000 service customers worldwide.

“We love the Hinckley brand, and plan to nurture it to preserve all that is Hinckley,” David Howe said. “We’re very excited about the future potential of the company, including the boatbuilding and service businesses.” FMI: www.hincklyyachts.com.

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Pond restores cutter with help from neighbors

By Carrie Sherman For Points East When the vegetable stand is in business, it’s a lot easier to find the Marine Trades Center of South Berwick, Maine: Just take a right off of Route 236 when you see the “Fresh Corn” sign. The rest of the year, it takes a fair amount of patience to find “the shop,” as they call it, which is officially located on 199 Dow Highway, whatever that is.

The four businesses up on the ridge – Warren Pond Boatworks, Whiting Marine Services, Dumas Portable Welding and Fabrication, and Paul Giroux Rigging and Marine – are complementary. It really is a case where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Warren Pond Boatworks, run by partners Bob Eger and Mark Drummond, has been earning a good reputation for fine woodwork-

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Four businesses collaborate on projects ranging this restoration to a Holland 32 lobster yacht and a 46-foot aluminum sloop. Representatives of three of the shops are, from left: Tom Voss and Mark Drummond of Warren Pond Boatworks, Terry Whiting of Whiting Marine Services, Bob Eger of Warren Pond, and Paul Giroux of Giroux Rigging and Marine.

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planking and interior finish work on Nellie, a 46-foot gaff cutter designed by Nat Herreshoff and built

They’ll teach high school math while building skiff The Compass Project, in Portland, Maine, reports that South Portland High School math teacher Geoff Slack and Compass Project program manager Shane Hall have created an effective curriculum that uses boatbuilding techniques to illustrate concepts students are studying in math class, providing an authentic hands-on learning experience.

The students in Slack’s Math 1 ELL class will experience the construction of the Echo Bay Dor y Skiff in terms of the mathematics involved in the construction of the boat. This will be done in collaboration with The Compass Project. The process will be organized in mathematical clusters: Cluster 1: Measurement, Cluster 2: Epoxy Resin/Hardener Ratios & Calculations, Cluster 3: Algebra & Screw Placement, Cluster 4: Geometr y of the Echo Bay Dor y Skiff, Cluster 5: Working with Plans. FMI: www.compassproject.org.

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by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company of Bristol, R.I., in 1903. They began their part of the restoration in 2008, working with 400-year-old long leaf yellow pine that was shipped up from Georgia.

Both Eger and Drummond are pretty quiet, but when someone asked Drummond about the challenge of shaping planks from such rare wood, he said simply: “Well, that’s what we do.”

Eger has also completed a replica of an Ogunquit dory for the Ogunquit Heritage Museum, and he worked with boatbuilder Paul Rollins on a Durham boat known as “the most important boat of the American revolution.” It’s the long, gray boat that George Washington reportedly used to cross the Delaware River.

Like so many, Eger learned much of his boatbuilding skills from the rich trove of skilled craftsmen on the seacoast. While in college, he worked at Great Bay Marine, where he met Bud McIntosh and Gordon Swift.

He also worked for Rollins and Jim Foley. “You can go to school for boatbuilding, but you need to start work-

ing,” Eger says. “The education is informal. You A much rejuvenated have to pick it up.”

Nellie barrels along in Soon Eger set up his a steady breeze. own shop. “It was tight,” recalls Eger. “When I moved up here in 2006, things took off. With more people and the depth of skills here and in the area, we could take on a project like Nellie.” Right now, Warren Pond Boatworks is finishing out a brilliant Photo by Thad Danielson yellow Holland 32 lobster yacht and a 46-foot aluminum sloop.

Whiting Marine Services, run by Terry Whiting, offers state-of-the-art systems design, installation, and upgrades and mechanical maintenance, repair, and repower. He’s also a dealer for Westerbeke engines and generators and Beta Marine. Whiting first learned how to work on car engines with his father, who’d tell him to “hold the light.” Despite a degree in forestry, Whiting, originally from Georgia, went on to work for John Deere tractor, learning about diesel engines and hydraulics along the way.

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Dumas Portable Welding and Fabrication, run by Mike Dumas, specializes in stainless-steel railings, gates, deck railings, exteriors, and interiors. Dumas has 15 years of experience working on boats. “I grew up in Kittery and had a friend whose father owned Dion’s Yacht Yard,” Dumas says. “So, of course, I got to know boats.”

But for many years Dumas was an ironworker, first in Boston and then in San Diego. When he came back to the seacoast, he earned his American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) certification in structural steel. His first major job was a three-year stint helping to build the Redhook Brewery. “I’ve always liked being independent,” says Dumas about running his own business. “With my truck, I can do shop-quality work in the field. I service boats from Boston to Portland.”

Paul Giroux Rigging and Marine is housed in a recently renovated long, narrow building, 25 by 100 feet.

Inside, it’s bright and quiet: The newly laid concrete floor has radiant heat. You might find Giroux perusing

a book on 19-century boats and their sails. Joyce, his wife, who works with him, will be nearby. They are serious sailors. In 1989, the Girouxs and their little daughter sailed from Maine to New Zealand in a small, green sailboat called Freuen. “Basically, we went around the world,” Giroux says. “That’s how I learned rigging.”

In New Zealand, Giroux worked as a rigger, and later, in Florida, he ran a small marine machine shop.

With Rollins, Giroux enhanced his skills in making casting patterns and custom hardware. “We’re set up to do it all from inspections to building masts, spars and furlers,” Giroux says. “With rigging – and I can’t emphasize this enough – it’s all one job.”

But working on boats is more than craftsmanship.

When Nellie was in the shop, even half finished, standing on her deck you could feel the wind on your face.

This past summer, with owners Jeff Boal and Fernando Alva of Connecticut at the helm, Nellie flirted her way up and down the East Coast, revisiting waters she’d plied more than 100 years ago. At the shop, everyone followed news of her journey in the sailing magazines. Under sail, Nellie is a joyous experience, joining past and present while forging ahead, just as the craftsmen of the Marine Trades Center apply their age-old disciplines to the present and the future.

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A gaff-rigged eBay treasure is resurrected by Seal Cove

By Craig L. Buttner For Points East In the fall of 2006, our family parted with our lifelong wooden boat, 42-foot Seguin, a bright-hulled S&S design built in 1968. My parents, with two boys and two girls, had cruised up and down the Maine coast on board her for 38 years, completing eight NewportBermuda races as well.

Immediately feeling the void, I began searching the Web for a smaller replacement for my family of four, including two young children. In the winter of 2006, I spotted on eBay in Los Angeles a nameless 29-foot gaff-rigged sloop, built in 1941 (photos taken by a previous owner revealed she was once called Apache II). I followed the auction for a few days, but as the bidding closed, I stood on the sidelines.

Two weeks later, the same boat re-appeared on eBay, as apparently the first sale fell through. I immediately sent the listing with photos to Bob Vaughan at Seal Cove Boat Yard, caretaker of Seguin for many years.

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October, pointing out that we Maine. needed to do some further reThe boat arrived at Seal fastening below the waterCove in February 2007, and she has been undergoing line. With the kids’ school schedule, we figured that a a phased restoration under the guidance of Bob fall 2010 launch would not make sense.

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1920s MDI knockabout Boondoggler is restored

By Jon Emerson For Points East Boondoggler is an MDI daysailor, built in the 1920s.

She was originally part of a fleet at Seal Harbor on Mount Desert Island, Maine. Edsel Ford, son of Henry Ford, was one of the group that had the class

designed by Ralph E. Winslow and built by George W. Lawley in Dorchester, Mass. She is presently owned by the Porter family of Great Spruce Head Island.

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As she had not been in the water for a number of years, it was decided that, in order to tow her to J.O. Brown and Son on North Haven, she would need flotation, which was accomplished by stuffing her full of blocks of styrofoam and tying large mooring balls alongside.

Once at Brown’s Boatyard, we moved her into the main shop to begin work. One of our goals was to make her “tight,” which she hadn’t been for some time. This involved hooking out the old putty, which was very hard, keeping her planks from swelling against the caulking, much of which we also hooked out. Additionally, we removed a portion of her garboard plank on the starboard side and replaced it and fit new timbers across the keel to “tie her together.”

She had been re-timbered recently, so that did not need to be done. She had also been refastened, so except for bolting the clamp to the hull, we did relatively little refastening to the hull itself. She was then recaulked, re-puttied, and painted.

Above the waterline, we were to fix the planks at the bow and the transom where they were pulling off considerably, fix the deck by repairing (replacing) sections, refastening, and then replacing the old canvas with its modern equivalent: West System epoxy and fiberglass cloth. The old, but not original, guardrails

and toerails were to be replaced as well. The coamings were to either be repaired or replaced. As it turns out, the forward curved section could be saved while the after sections on either side were too far gone for repair.

The planks at the bow were fairly easily pulled back to the stem, while the planks at the transom could not be so easily fixed. The upper section of the transom itself was rotten and needed to be replaced and reinforced from within. Once this was done, those planks were coaxed back into place.

We are now at the painting stage, with the coamings, guards and toerails having Epiphanes Brown and the decks having Epifanes Wheat, reminiscent of the owner’s memory of the boat’s colors at an earlier time. The topsides are semi-gloss white, the bottom green.

Soon we will be re-attaching the deck hardware and moving her to make room for another project. We, and I’m sure the Porter family, look forward to seeing her floating high next summer and once again sailing Penobscot Bay. Jon Emerson lives on North Haven and has worked at J.O. Brown & Son on and off since the early ’70s.

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Briefly ‘New’ old Herreshoff nearly complete Working in collaboration with Herreshoff Designs, Dan Shea of Bristol Boat Company, Bristol, R.I., is building the first of the H-20 Class, a Nathaniel Greene Herreshoff design based on the still-popular 12½, initially called the Buzzard’s Bay Boys Boat. NGH was inspired to carve the model of a finely lined hull form to produce an improved 12½ in 1928. In his notebook he described it as “a pleasure sailing keel boat, to replace the Buzzard’s Bay Boys Boat.” But it was never built in his lifetime and sat unnoticed for nearly 80 years.

These boats now being built are the first to be built to NGH’s design.

Hull No. 1 is nearly complete, and NGH’s influence on boatbuilding history will once again be seen. This new class of recreational and sail-training boats will have greater sailing abilities and a deeper, bigger and drier cockpit than the 12-1⁄2. An electric inboard auxiliary is optional. Principle dimensions are: LOA: 19’10”, LWL: 17’4”, beam: 6’ 9.5”, draft: 3’1”.

“We are pleased to be working with such an exceptional boatbuilder to make my grandfather’s design come to life,” said Halsey Herreshoff, principal in Herreshoff Designs. FMI: www.bristolboatcompany.com, www.herreshoffdesigns.com.

New England Burials At Sea LLC, out of Marshfield, Mass., a burial-at-sea service, has expanded its choice of offerings for its memorial ash-scattering and full-body burial-at-sea services from Maine to Miami. The company has chosen the Chelsea Clock Company of Boston to be the exclusive supplier of suitably engraved ship’s clocks to families who select seaburial services.

Recognized by the EPA, US Navy, U.S.C.G. and many area funeral homes and crematories, New England Burials At Sea is building a network of approved and qualified sea-burial-certified captains on the east and west coasts of the U.S. FMI:www.newenglandburialsatsea.com.

Destino Yachts, of Branford, Conn., a custom wooden-boat builder, has unveiled its newest runabout. The 20-foot Destino, the second in this series of Destino’s boats, was built last year by Destino Yachts master craftsman and president Ole Nielsen and his team in Connecticut. The boat’s debut occurred in mid-February at the Miami Boat Show. Sea trials were offered later during the show. Destino Yachts start at $225,000, and they are hand-crafted and customizable from helm station to hull shape. “The new Destino is a labor of love for us,” says Nielsen. We hope our customers are just as excited and pleased with the new boat as we are.” FMI: www.destinoyachts.com.

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Seth Persson Boat Builders, of Centerbrook, Conn., is offering boatbuilding classes that will craft 12-foot Fisherman’s Skiffs designed by Jon Persson. The skiffs are lapstrake-planked of okoume plywood, bonded and copper riveted, on oak frames, with varnished solid mahogany transoms, seats, knees, and trim. Spars and oars are spruce. These skiffs and other designs are available at various degrees of construction. FMI: 860-7673303.

Lunenburg Shipyard Alliance, of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia – comprised of Lunenburg Industrial Foundry & Engineering, Covey Island Boatworks, and Snyder’s Shipyard – has been awarded the contract for the reconstruction of Canada’s sailing ambassador, the Grand Banks schooner replica Bluenose II.

This major refit is the first of many that the LSA plans to undertake, and, said Tim Edwards, executive director of the Nova Scotia Boatbuilders Association, the combined technical assets and skills the alliance offers will be extremely enticing when marketed around the world for refitting, repairing and converting large sailing and motor vessels. Bluenose II was built in the 1960s. FMI: www.lunenburgfoundry.com, www.coveyisland.com, www.joelro.com/snyders07.

Kittery Point Boatbuilders, LLC, in Eliot, Maine, builds the PYY22, a proprietary line of 22-foot boats that can be customized and finished off for a variety of uses. The PYY22, designed by KPBB co-owner George Patten, displays classic lines above the waterline and a modern performing platform below the water. The Picnic Cabin Cruiser model is being unveiled at the Maine Boatbuilders Show. KPBB is a company related to Kittery Point Yacht Yard, and owned by Tom Allen and George Patten. FMI: www.kpbb.net.

Front Street Shipyard, Inc., in Belfast, Maine, will open its doors this coming summer. It will be a cooperative custom boatbuilding and service yard, and specialty composites manufacturing facility, on the former Stinson canning factory site, just south of the Belfast bridge. Managing partner J.B. Turner, of Warren, Maine, is joined in the new enterprise by Taylor Allen, owner of Rockport Marine, Inc.; Steve White, owner of Brooklin Boat Yard; and Kenneth Priest, president of Kenway Corporation in Augusta, Maine. Turner has 24 years of experience as a manager of yacht service and composite boatbuilding projects for major yards on the east coast. Turner is former president of Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding Company in Thomaston.

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ability to accommodate vessels up to 250 feet; and 24/7 composite pump-out station free of charge. FMI: www.dolphinmarinaandrestaurant.com Grain Surfboards, in York, Maine, is pleased to announce three new additions to their 2011 class schedule: early Hawaiian surf craft, body surfing hand-planes, and a three-day board-building workshop. The three-day Board Blitz will be offered twice in 2011: June 3-5 and Aug. 5-7. Sept. 8-10th, alaia (ah-lie-yuh) finless board pioneer Jon Wegener will teach students about this traditional Hawaiian board and how to build it. On Sept. 11, the King of Hand-Made, Cyrus Sutton, will teach students how to make their own surf-craft. FMI: Contact Tyler Briggs at 207-951-1820, email: pr@grainsurfboards.com.

The Apprenticeshop, in Rockland, Maine, has welcomed six new directors to its board. Craftsman and sailor Alec Brainerd is the owner and founder of Artisan Boatworks in Rockport.

The Honorable James O’Leary, of Cushing, Maine, adds his legal perspective to the board. His early career included time as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice-civil rights division and a stint as assistant attorney general in Massachusetts. Journalist and yachtsman Aaron Porter of Brooklin, Maine, is the editor of “Professional Boatbuilder,” a magazine of WoodenBoat Publications. Originally from Canada, Porter has much seamanship experience from time spent as mate on the Pride of Baltimore II, American Eagle, and Mary Day. Writer and television host Steve Thomas of Port Clyde joins the board as well. Thomas’s memoir, “The Last Navigator,” was published in 1986. He then went on to host PBS’s “This Old House” and has since hosted programs for The History Channel and Discovery. Apprentice Hobbs White joined the board to serve as a student representative. Sailor and businessman Bill Zierden of St. George, Maine, returns to The Apprenticeshop board after a four-year hiatus. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, he served in the Navy, on the faculty at the University of Virginia, and later as a consultant to venture capital backed start-up companies. FMI: www.apprenticeshop.org.

Bluenose Yacht Sales & Brokerage, in Newport, R.I., is now representing the Legacy Downeast-style power yacht product line in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Maine. Built in Ohio, and designed by Mark Ellis, the Legacy models and brand began in Rhode Island. Bluenose Yacht Sales’ managing partner, Glenn Walters, said, “It’s nice to see the Legacy product line being reintroduced by the Tartan/C&C group, which now owns the tooling, designs and the brand name.” FMI: www.bluenoseyachts.com.

Langan Design Partners LLC, in Newport, R.I., is the new name of Langan Design, the successful enterprise of the late naval architect Bill Langan (1955 -2010), who began his career as a designer with Sparkman & Stephens. His long-time associates Thomas Degrémont, Antonio Ferrer, and Samuel Howell have formed an equal partnership that will move forward with the same vision and purpose cultivated over their 32 years of combined dedication to Langan Design. Langan passed away on Dec. 31 after a courageous two-year battle with leukemia. FMI: www.LanganDesign.com.

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The stillness of our private paradise was rich. An expansive waterscape stretched away to the north, islands, large, small and lonely gathered about. The roar of surf reported the presence of a great ocean on the bay side.

Of shoal water and secret places or the all the drama of the wide sea, there’s as compelling a spectacle to shoal water and secret places.

Wandering from the well traveled seaways, bringing land close aboard, discovering the native intelligence of wild islands, and cozying up under a sheltering shore are the most delightful of pursuits, if too infrequently practiced.

And so my axe to grind: We treat our boats and imaginations much too delicately – not including you or me, of course. We rarely wander from the beaten path and hazard a chance. It’s a good thing to know the wildness of the margins.

A season without giving the Leight’s keel a mud bath or two means that I’m not trying hard enough. A summer without discovery shows I’m in a rut, and, for all the charts tell me, there’s much unfathomed. None of this is to suggest any sort of recklessness, but that we become students of the shallows, learn to read its signs, and arm ourselves with local knowledge, which is easily enough acquired.

Arriving at Dix Island, off Maine’s Muscle Ridge Channel, on a cool August afternoon, we found a yacht club cruise in residence, and casting about where to anchor, Leigh remembered that we’d sounded the slot between Birch and High islands in our dinghy a few years before.

I recalled there was a way through, but not exactly where. Throttling the genoa, we made toward High Island, the breeze dying of boredom, mate at the bow, and

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The Leight draws four feet. Three boat lengths from shore, the sounder readings declined. Half-tide and falling. A swarm of terns winged past the bow. An arabesque of eddies trailed astern. Eight feet and two knots. It was provocative to be close to the unfolding secrets of shore and shoal. We could hear songbirds and smell the spruce liquor and musky saltings.

A gathering of ledges was starting to show to starboard. Seven feet. Rocks to port. Threading our way between them, navigating by lobster-pot buoys, we looked at each other and smiled. Making a knot of it, at length we brought up in the emerald alcove between The Neck and Andrews Island. The mate got the anchor overboard.

Six feet at low. Plenty.

The stillness of our private paradise was rich. An expansive waterscape stretched away to the north; islands, large, small and lonely, gathered about. An occasional roar of surf reported the presence of a great ocean on the bay side. There was a heightened awareness to the moment, as there often is in solitude. There we were, snug in the lee, perfectly content, an osprey arcing across the sky. We can’t afford to not know such things. There’s wildness, if you look for it.

David Buckman sails out of Round Pond, Maine. His book, Bucking The Tide, is about discovering the New England coast in a $400 yacht. It pairs well with a mature Bordeaux. Buy it at www.eastworkspublications.com Points East April 2011

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Reviewed by Sandy Marsters For Points East After finishing Simon Winchester’s expansive “Atlantic,” I had the overwhelming feeling that something awful had just happened somewhere in the world. Of course, there are plenty of awful things happening, but this was a sense of doom I had – an earthquake, a pirate attack, a tsunami, a flood, an oil disaster, a giant hurricane, a drought – something like that. Sound familiar?

So I logged on to CNN to see if indeed anything bad had happened, and, of course, there was plenty there to feed my paranoia”; “New Zealand Quake Death Toll Climbs,” “Chileans Commemorate Quake,” “Americans Detained by Pirates (as in the Somali ones who killed four Americans on their cruising boat) Negotiators,” “Report: 75 Percent of Coral Reefs Threatened,” “Four Children Dead After Being Swept Away in Kentucky Creek,” and on and on.

Then I remembered an NPR story I heard the day before, about the documentary “Sun Come Up,” an Academy Award nominee, which tells the story of the South Pacific’s Cataret Island, which is sinking below

rising seas.

The only good news was that none of this involved the Atlantic Ocean – at least not this time. But just wait, warns Winchester in this book that does the work of at least 14 others, some of which could be titled “A History of Piracy,” “Battles on the High Seas,” “The Great But All-TooShort Days of the Magnificent Clipper Ships,” “Columbus: Brave but Misinformed,” and “Where the Heck Did All the Fish Go?” Winchester, in other words, attempts to do a lot in this nearly 500page book that begins with the Phoenicians making their way to Morocco and then setting a great example for generations of sailors everywhere by venturing outside the pleasant Mediterranean into the vast and turbulent Atlantic.

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Winchester is an Englishman who lives in New York and Massachusetts, and he’s a man who has clearly spent a lot of time on the water. Part of the magic of this book is that he has been to so many of the places about which he writes, occasionally under dangerous circumstances, such as a stranding or serving time in a South American prison on treason charges. Propelling his book are numerous asides and by-the-ways, such as the connection between chestnuts, an acetone shortage in England, and the formation of the state of Israel.

But this is not an adventure book or a travelogue. It is a book that spends a lot of time helping us to understand where the Atlantic Ocean came from and where it is going, which definitely isn’t any place good, and urges us toward doing something about it. “There is change and decay all around the sea,” he writes.

And later, a warning that Hurricane Katrina probably isn’t the last time we will pay for our abuse of the oceans: “And what, one is bound to wonder, might those consequences be? Could the sea somehow contrive, in some unimagined way, to resist our unending misuse of her, and in some fashion or other start to strike back? What price might mankind have to pay, if after decades of his misuse and carelessness, the Atlantic determines to do just that?”

Uh oh. No wonder I had that feeling that something awful was happening. It is, and in the tradition of the great environmental writer Rachel Carson, obviously one of Winchester’s heroes, we’d better do something about it.

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“From the Bow Seat” features interviews with leaders in marine research and conservation. Explaining the issues that affect the birds, lobsters, and fishes of the Gulf are Diane Cowan of The Lobster Conservancy; Stephen Kress of Project Puffin; Carl Wilson, lobster biologist with the Maine Department of Marine

Resources; and Colin Woodard, author of Lobster Coast and Oceans End, As a way to further engage high school students, the partnership is sponsoring an essay contest challenging students around the region and the U.S. Essays may be submitted until September 15th. Educators, including high school teachers and home school instructors, may receive a free teacher packet and copy of the “From the Bow Seat” DVD by emailing info@fromthebowseat.org.

Prizes for students who write the winning essays are $2,500, $1,500 and $500; the science department of the first-place winner receives an additional $2,500. “This film is timely, informative and engaging,” said Susan Ryan, president of the Gulf of Maine Marine Education Association. “Think of PBS documentary meets YouTube video: a perfect venue for reaching high school students.” FMI: www.fromthebowseat.org.

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April Tides New London, Conn.

Bridgeport, Conn.

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04:46AM 05:25AM 06:02AM 12:17AM 12:51AM 01:26AM 02:02AM 02:41AM 03:26AM 04:18AM 05:17AM 12:14AM 01:19AM 02:22AM 03:21AM 04:16AM 05:10AM 06:01AM 12:22AM 01:12AM 02:03AM 02:56AM 03:52AM 04:51AM 05:52AM 12:49AM 01:48AM 02:43AM 03:31AM 04:16AM

0.2 0.0 0.0 7.3 7.3 7.2 7.1 7.0 6.9 6.7 6.7 0.9 0.6 0.2 -0.3 -0.7 -1.0 -1.2 8.7 8.5 8.2 7.7 7.2 6.8 6.5 1.1 1.0 0.8 0.6 0.4

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10:51AM 11:30AM 12:08PM 06:38AM 07:14AM 07:51AM 08:30AM 09:13AM 10:01AM 10:55AM 11:54AM 06:22AM 07:26AM 08:28AM 09:27AM 10:22AM 11:14AM 12:05PM 06:52AM 07:43AM 08:34AM 09:27AM 10:23AM 11:20AM 12:18PM 06:54AM 07:52AM 08:46AM 09:35AM 10:19AM

6.7 6.7 6.7 -0.1 -0.1 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 6.7 6.8 7.1 7.3 7.5 7.6 7.7 -1.2 -1.0 -0.6 -0.2 0.2 0.5 0.8 6.3 6.2 6.2 6.3 6.4

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04:58PM 05:34PM 06:09PM 12:44PM 01:21PM 01:58PM 02:38PM 03:21PM 04:10PM 05:04PM 06:03PM 12:55PM 01:54PM 02:50PM 03:43PM 04:34PM 05:24PM 06:13PM 12:56PM 01:47PM 02:39PM 03:33PM 04:30PM 05:29PM 06:29PM 01:15PM 02:07PM 02:55PM 03:39PM 04:20PM

0.4 0.3 0.3 6.7 6.6 6.5 6.4 6.3 6.2 6.1 6.3 0.5 0.3 0.0 -0.3 -0.5 -0.6 -0.6 7.6 7.4 7.2 6.9 6.6 6.5 6.4 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.8 0.7

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11:06PM 11:42PM

7.1 7.3

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06:43PM 07:19PM 07:56PM 08:36PM 09:21PM 10:12PM 11:10PM

0.4 0.5 0.6 0.8 0.9 1.0 1.0

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07:04PM 08:02PM 08:58PM 09:52PM 10:43PM 11:33PM

6.5 7.0 7.5 8.0 8.4 8.6

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07:03PM 07:54PM 08:48PM 09:44PM 10:43PM 11:46PM

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07:26PM 08:19PM 09:07PM 09:51PM 10:31PM

6.5 6.7 6.9 7.1 7.2

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

03:07AM 03:46AM 04:22AM 04:59AM 05:37AM 06:18AM 12:18AM 12:57AM 01:40AM 02:31AM 03:34AM 04:42AM 05:45AM 12:43AM 01:41AM 02:37AM 03:29AM 04:21AM 05:12AM 06:03AM 12:07AM 01:02AM 01:59AM 03:00AM 04:04AM 05:08AM 12:15AM 01:09AM 01:57AM 02:40AM

0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.9 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.6 2.7 2.7 0.1 -0.1 -0.4 -0.5 -0.6 -0.6 -0.5 3.5 3.3 3.0 2.8 2.6 2.4 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3

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03:07AM 03:46AM 04:22AM 04:59AM 05:37AM 06:18AM 12:18AM 12:57AM 01:40AM 02:31AM 03:34AM 04:42AM 05:45AM 12:43AM 01:41AM 02:37AM 03:29AM 04:21AM 05:12AM 06:03AM 12:07AM 01:02AM 01:59AM 03:00AM 04:04AM 05:08AM 12:15AM 01:09AM 01:57AM 02:40AM

0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.9 2.8 2.7 2.7 2.6 2.7 2.7 0.1 -0.1 -0.4 -0.5 -0.6 -0.6 -0.5 3.5 3.3 3.0 2.8 2.6 2.4 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3

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08:52AM 09:30AM 10:09AM 10:49AM 11:30AM 12:11PM 07:02AM 07:51AM 08:44AM 09:38AM 10:33AM 11:26AM 12:19PM 06:41AM 07:32AM 08:21AM 09:10AM 10:01AM 10:52AM 11:45AM 06:56AM 07:52AM 08:50AM 09:47AM 10:43AM 11:36AM 06:07AM 06:57AM 07:41AM 08:22AM

2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.4 2.4 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1 2.8 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.7 -0.3 -0.1 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.5 2.4 2.4 2.4 2.4

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03:11PM 03:46PM 04:20PM 04:54PM 05:29PM 06:07PM 12:52PM 01:35PM 02:23PM 03:18PM 04:20PM 05:20PM 06:15PM 01:10PM 02:00PM 02:50PM 03:38PM 04:27PM 05:17PM 06:09PM 12:39PM 01:35PM 02:34PM 03:37PM 04:42PM 05:42PM 12:25PM 01:11PM 01:53PM 02:33PM

2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.4 2.4 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.1 2.8 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.8 2.7 -0.3 -0.1 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.5 2.4 2.4 2.4 2.4

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03:11PM 03:46PM 04:20PM 04:54PM 05:29PM 06:07PM 12:52PM 01:35PM 02:23PM 03:18PM 04:20PM 05:20PM 06:15PM 01:10PM 02:00PM 02:50PM 03:38PM 04:27PM 05:17PM 06:09PM 12:39PM 01:35PM 02:34PM 03:37PM 04:42PM 05:42PM 12:25PM 01:11PM 01:53PM 02:33PM

0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.5 2.3 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.3 2.5 2.7 0.0 -0.2 -0.3 -0.3 -0.3 -0.2 -0.1 2.7 2.6 2.5 2.4 2.5 2.6 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5

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0.7 0.7 0.7 9.6 9.4 9.3 9.0 8.8 8.7 8.6 8.7 0.6 0.3 -0.1 -0.5 -0.9 -1.1 -1.1 11.1 10.8 10.4 9.9 9.4 9.0 8.8 1.2 1.4 1.4 1.3 1.2

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09:07PM 09:45PM 10:23PM 11:02PM 11:40PM

2.9 2.9 3.0 3.0 2.9

H H H H H

06:50PM 07:40PM 08:38PM 09:39PM 10:41PM 11:43PM

0.6 0.6 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.3

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07:06PM 07:54PM 08:42PM 09:31PM 10:22PM 11:14PM

3.1 3.4 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.7

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07:05PM 08:06PM 09:10PM 10:14PM 11:16PM

0.1 0.3 0.5 0.6 0.6

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06:34PM 07:18PM 07:59PM 08:38PM

2.7 2.8 2.9 3.0

H H H H

11:11PM 11:46PM

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H H

06:45PM 07:22PM 07:59PM 08:39PM 09:22PM 10:10PM 11:04PM

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06:56PM 07:54PM 08:51PM 09:45PM 10:37PM 11:27PM

9.0 9.5 10.2 10.9 11.6 12.0

H H H H H H

06:55PM 07:45PM 08:37PM 09:30PM 10:26PM 11:25PM

-0.9 -0.6 -0.1 0.5 1.0 1.4

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07:27PM 08:21PM 09:09PM 09:53PM 10:33PM

8.8 9.0 9.2 9.5 9.7

H H H H H

Boston, Mass.

Newport, R.I. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

08:52AM 09:30AM 10:09AM 10:49AM 11:30AM 12:11PM 07:02AM 07:51AM 08:44AM 09:38AM 10:33AM 11:26AM 12:19PM 06:41AM 07:32AM 08:21AM 09:10AM 10:01AM 10:52AM 11:45AM 06:56AM 07:52AM 08:50AM 09:47AM 10:43AM 11:36AM 06:07AM 06:57AM 07:41AM 08:22AM

0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.5 2.3 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.3 2.5 2.7 0.0 -0.2 -0.3 -0.3 -0.3 -0.2 -0.1 2.7 2.6 2.5 2.4 2.5 2.6 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5

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09:07PM 09:45PM 10:23PM 11:02PM 11:40PM

2.9 2.9 3.0 3.0 2.9

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06:50PM 07:40PM 08:38PM 09:39PM 10:41PM 11:43PM

0.6 0.6 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.3

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07:06PM 07:54PM 08:42PM 09:31PM 10:22PM 11:14PM

3.1 3.4 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.7

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07:05PM 08:06PM 09:10PM 10:14PM 11:16PM

0.1 0.3 0.5 0.6 0.6

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06:34PM 07:18PM 07:59PM 08:38PM

2.7 2.8 2.9 3.0

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

04:36AM 05:16AM 05:55AM 12:21AM 12:55AM 01:30AM 02:07AM 02:47AM 03:31AM 04:20AM 05:14AM 12:02AM 01:04AM 02:05AM 03:04AM 04:01AM 04:55AM 05:48AM 12:17AM 01:08AM 01:58AM 02:51AM 03:46AM 04:43AM 05:43AM 12:27AM 01:28AM 02:26AM 03:18AM 04:05AM

0.8 0.5 0.3 10.0 10.0 10.1 10.0 9.9 9.8 9.7 9.7 1.4 1.1 0.5 -0.2 -0.9 -1.5 -1.9 12.2 12.2 11.8 11.3 10.7 10.1 9.6 1.7 1.7 1.5 1.2 0.9

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10:53AM 11:32AM 12:09PM 06:32AM 07:10AM 07:48AM 08:28AM 09:11AM 09:57AM 10:48AM 11:44AM 06:13AM 07:15AM 08:17AM 09:16AM 10:13AM 11:08AM 12:01PM 06:39AM 07:31AM 08:22AM 09:15AM 10:10AM 11:07AM 12:06PM 06:45AM 07:46AM 08:42AM 09:33AM 10:19AM

9.5 9.6 9.6 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.3 0.4 0.6 0.7 0.7 9.7 9.9 10.2 10.6 10.9 11.2 11.2 -2.1 -1.9 -1.5 -0.9 -0.2 0.4 0.9 9.2 9.0 9.0 9.0 9.1

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Times for Boston, MA

APRIL 2011

Sunrise/Sunset

04:57PM 05:34PM 06:09PM 12:46PM 01:23PM 02:01PM 02:40PM 03:23PM 04:10PM 05:01PM 05:57PM 12:42PM 01:40PM 02:37PM 03:32PM 04:24PM 05:15PM 06:05PM 12:53PM 01:46PM 02:39PM 03:33PM 04:30PM 05:29PM 06:29PM 01:05PM 02:01PM 02:52PM 03:37PM 04:18PM

1 6:27 7:10

2 6:26 7:11

3 6:24 7:12

4 6:22 7:13

5 6:21 7:14

6 6:19 7:15

7 6:17 7:17

8 6:16 7:18

9 6:14 7:19

10 6:12 7:20

11 6:11 7:21

12 6:09 7:22

13 6:07 7:23

14 6:06 7:24

15 6:04 7:26

6:02 7:27

17 6:01 7:28

18 5:59 7:29

19 5:58 7:30

20 5:56 7:31

21 5:55 7:32

22 5:53 7:33

23 5:52 7:35

24 5:50 7:36

25 5:49 7:37

26 5:47 7:38

27 5:46 7:39

28 5:44 7:40

29 5:43 7:41

30 5:41 7:42

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18 8:41 PM 5:52 AM

19 9:56 PM 6:34 AM

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27 2:55 AM 2:33 PM

28 3:18 AM 3:32 PM

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30 4:04 AM 5:30 PM

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April Tides Portland, Maine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

04:37AM 0.6 05:16AM 0.4 05:52AM 0.2 12:12AM 9.6 12:43AM 9.6 01:15AM 9.6 01:50AM 9.6 02:27AM 9.5 03:10AM 9.4 03:58AM 9.3 04:53AM 9.2 05:54AM 9.3 12:43AM 1.1 01:49AM 0.6 02:51AM -0.1 03:49AM -0.8 04:44AM -1.4 05:37AM -1.8 12:06AM 11.8 12:57AM 11.7 01:48AM 11.4 02:41AM 10.9 03:37AM 10.2 04:37AM 9.6 05:39AM 9.2 12:30AM 1.6 01:33AM 1.6 02:30AM 1.4 03:21AM 1.1 04:07AM 0.8

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10:49AM 11:27AM 12:03PM 06:27AM 07:00AM 07:34AM 08:11AM 08:50AM 09:35AM 10:25AM 11:21AM 12:22PM 06:58AM 08:03AM 09:05AM 10:03AM 10:58AM 11:51AM 06:29AM 07:21AM 08:14AM 09:09AM 10:06AM 11:06AM 12:07PM 06:43AM 07:45AM 08:41AM 09:31AM 10:17AM

9.2 9.2 9.2 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.5 9.4 9.7 10.1 10.5 10.7 10.8 -1.9 -1.8 -1.4 -0.8 -0.2 0.3 0.7 8.8 8.7 8.6 8.7 8.8

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04:57PM 05:31PM 06:03PM 12:37PM 01:11PM 01:46PM 02:24PM 03:04PM 03:50PM 04:42PM 05:40PM 06:41PM 01:23PM 02:22PM 03:18PM 04:11PM 05:02PM 05:52PM 12:44PM 01:37PM 02:31PM 03:27PM 04:25PM 05:26PM 06:28PM 01:07PM 02:03PM 02:53PM 03:37PM 04:17PM

Bar Harbor, Maine 0.6 0.6 0.6 9.1 8.9 8.7 8.5 8.4 8.2 8.2 8.3 8.6 0.3 -0.1 -0.5 -0.8 -1.0 -1.0 10.6 10.3 9.9 9.4 9.0 8.7 8.5 1.0 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1

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11:07PM 11:41PM

9.3 9.5

H H

06:34PM 07:06PM 07:39PM 08:16PM 08:58PM 09:45PM 10:38PM 11:38PM

0.7 0.9 1.0 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.4

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07:42PM 08:40PM 09:35PM 10:27PM 11:17PM

9.1 9.8 10.5 11.1 11.6

H H H H H

06:42PM 07:33PM 08:26PM 09:22PM 10:21PM 11:25PM

-0.8 -0.5 0.0 0.6 1.0 1.4

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07:27PM 08:20PM 09:08PM 09:51PM 10:30PM

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Boston Boston Boston Boston Newport Newport

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New London Newport Newport Newport

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Connecticut Stamford New Haven Branford Saybrook Jetty Saybrook Point Mystic Westport

Bridgeport Bridgeport Bridgeport New London New London Boston Newport

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Find Points East at more than 700 locations in New England MAINE Arundel:The Landing School, Southern Maine Marine Services.

Augusta: Mr. Paperback.

Baileyv ille: Stony Creek Bangor: Borders, Book Marc’s, Harbormaster, Young’s Canvas.

Bar Harbor: Acadia Information Center, Bar Harbor Yacht Club, Lake and Sea Boatworks.

Bass Harbor: Morris Yachts.

Bath: Kennebec Tavern & Marina, Maine Maritime Museum.

Belfast: Belfast Boatyard, Belfast Chamber of Commerce visitors’ center, Coastwise Realty, Crosby Manor Estates, Harbormaster’s office.

Biddeford: Biddeford Pool Y.C., Buffleheads, Rumery’s Boatyard.

Blue Hill:, Bar Harbor Bank, Blue Hill Farm Country Inn, Blue Hill Food Co-op, Blue Hill Peninsula Chamber of Commerce, Compass Point Realty, Downeast Properties, EBS, Kollegewidgwok Y.C., North Light Books, Rackliffe Pottery, Slaven Realty.

Boothbay : Boothbay Mechanics, Boothbay Resort, Cottage Connection.

Boothbay Harbor: Boothbay Harbor Inn, Boothbay Harbor Shipyard, Brown’s Motel, Cap’n Fish’s Inn, Carousel Marina, Gold/Smith Gallery, Grover’s Hardware, Municipal Office, Poole Bros. Hardware, Rocktide Inn, Sherman’s Bookstore, Signal Point Marina, Tugboat Inn. Bremen: Broad Cove Marine.

Brewer: B&D Marine, Port Harbor Marine.

Bristol: Hanley’s Market.

Brooklin: Atlantic Boat Co., Brooklin General Store, Brooklin Boat Yard, Brooklin Inn, Center Harbor Sails, Eric Dow Boatbuilder, Eggemoggin Oceanfront Lodge, WoodenBoat School.

Brooksville: Bucks Harbor Market, Bucks Harbor Marine, Bucks Harbor Y.C., Seal Cove Boatyard.

Brunswick: Bamforth Automotive, Coastal Marine, H&H Propeller, New Meadows Marina, Paul’s Marina.

Bucksport: Bookstacks, EBS Hardware.

Calais: EBS Hardware.

Camden: Camden Chamber of Commerce, Camden Y.C., French & Brawn, Harbormaster, Owl & Turtle, PJ Willeys, Port Harbor Marine, Waterfront Restaurant, Wayfarer Marine.

Cape Porpoise: The Wayfarer.

Castine: Castine Realty, Castine Y.C., Four Flags Gift Shop, Maine Maritime Academy, Saltmeadow Properties, The Compass Rose Bookstore and Café.

Chebeague Island: Chebeague Island Boat Yard.

Cherryfield: EBS Hardware.

Columbia: Crossroads Ace Hardware.

Cundy’s Harbor: Holbrook’s General Store, Watson’s General Store.

Damarisc otta: Maine Coast Book Shop, Poole Bros. Hardware, Schooner Landing Restaurant.

Deer Isle: Harbor Farm.

East Boothbay : East Boothbay General Store, Lobsterman’s Wharf Restaurant, Ocean Point Marina, Paul E. Luke Inc., Spar Shed Marina.

Eastport: East Motel, Eastport Chowder House, Moose Island Marine, The Boat School - Husson.

Eliot: Great Cove Boat Club, Independent Boat Haulers, Patten’s Yacht Yard.

Ellsworth: Branch Pond Marine, EBS Hardware, Riverside Café.

Falmouth: Hallett Canvas & Sails, Portland Yacht Club, Sea Grill at Handy Boat, The Boathouse, Town Landing Market.

Farmingdale: Foggy Bottom Marine.

Farmington: Irving’s Restaurant, Mr. Paperback, Reny’s.

Freeport: Gritty McDuff’s, True Value Hardware.

Georgetown: Robinhood Marine.

Gouldsboro: Anderson Marine & Hardware.

Hampden: Hamlin’s Marina, Watefront Marine.

Hanc ock Pt.: Crocker House Country Inn. Harpswell: Dolphin Restaurant, Finestkind Boatyard, Great Island Boat Yard.

Harrington: Tri-Town Marine.

Holden: McKay’s RV. Islesboro: Dark Harbor Boat Yard, Tarratine Club of Dark Harbor.

Islesford: Little Cranberry Y.C. Jonesport: Jonesport Shipyard.

Kennebunk: Kennebunk Beach Improvement Assoc., Landing Store, Seaside Motor Inn.

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Kennebunkport: Arundel Yacht Club, Bradbury’s Market, Chick’s Marina, Kennebunkport Marina, Maine Yacht Sales.

Kittery: Badger’s Island Marina, Cap’n Simeon’s Galley, Frisbee’s Store, Jackson’s Hardware and Marine, Kittery Point Yacht Yard, Port Harbor Marine.

Lewiston: Mr. Paperback.

Machias: EBS Hardware, H.F. Pinkham & Son. Milbridge: H.F. Pinkham & Son. Monhegan Is: Carina House.

Mount Desert: John Williams Boat Company North Haven: Calderwood Hall, Eric Hopkins Gallery, JO Brown & Sons, North Haven Giftshop.

Northeast Harbor: F.T. Brown Co., Full Belli Deli, Kimball Shop, Mt. Desert CofC,, McGraths, Northeast Harbor Fleet, Pine Tree Market.

Northport: Northport Marine Service, Northport Yacht Club.

Owls Head: Owls Head Transportation Museum.

Peak’s Island: Hannigan’s Island Market.

Penobscot: Northern Bay Market.

Port Clyde: Port Clyde General Store.

Portland: Becky’s Restaurant, Casco Bay Ferry Terminal, Chase Leavitt, Custom Float Services, DiMillo’s Marina, Fortune, Inc., Gilbert’s Chowder House, Gowen Marine, Gritty McDuff’s, Hamilton Marine, Maine Yacht Center, Portland Yacht Services, Ports of Call, Sawyer & Whitten, Vessel Services Inc., West Marine.

Raymond: Jordan Bay Marina, Panther Run Marina.

Rockland: Back Cove Yachts, E.L.Spear, Eric Hopkins Gallery, Gemini Marine Canvas, Hamilton Marine, Harbormaster, Johanson Boatworks, Journey’s End Marina, Knight Marine Service, Landings Restaurant, Maine Lighthouse Museum, North End Shipyard Schooners, Ocean Pursuits, Pope Sails, Reading Corner, Rockland Ferry, Sawyer & Whitten, The Apprenticeshop.

Rockport: Bohndell Sails, Cottage Connection, Harbormaster, Market Basket, Rockport Boat Club, Rockport Corner Shop.

Round Pond: Cabadetis Boat Club, King Row Market.

Saco: Lobster Claw Restaurant, Marston’s Marina, Saco Bay Tackle, Saco Yacht Club.

St. George: Harbormaster Scarborough: Seal Harbor Y.C. Seal Harbor: Seal Harbor Yacht Club Searsport: Hamilton Marine.

South Bris tol: Bittersweet Landing Boatyard, Coveside Marine, Gamage Shipyard, Harborside Café, Osier’s Wharf.

South Freeport: Brewer’s South Freeport Marine, Casco Bay Yacht Exchange, DiMillo’s South Freeport, Harraseeket Y.C., Strouts Point Wharf Co., Waterman Marine.

South Harpswell: Dolphin Marina, Finestkind Boatyard, Ship to Shore Store South Portland: Aspasia Marina, Centerboard Yacht Club, Joe’s Boathouse Restaurant, Port Harbor Marine, Reo Marine, Salt Water Grille, South Port Marine, Sunset Marina.

Southwest Harbor: Acadia Sails, Great Harbor Marina, Hamilton Marine, Hinckley Yacht Charters, MDI Community Sailing Center, Pettegrow’s, Sawyer’s Market, Southwest Harbor-Tremont CofC, West Marine, Wilbur Yachts.

Spruce Head: Spruce Head Marine.

Stockton Springs: Russell’s Marine.

Stonington: Billings Diesel & Marine, Fisherman’s Friend, Inn on the Harbor, Lily’s Café, Shepard’s Select Properties.

Sullivan: Flanders Bay Boats.

Sunset: Deer Isle Y.C. Surry: Wesmac.

Swan’s Island: Carrying Place Market Tenants Harbor: Cod End Store and Marina, East Wind Inn, Pond House Gallery and Framing, Tenants Harbor General Store.

Thomaston: Harbor View Tavern, Jeff’s Marine, Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding.

Turner: Youly’s Restaurant.

Vinalhaven: Jaret & Cohn Island Group, Vinal’s Newsstand, Vinalhaven Store.

Waldoboro: Stetson & Pinkham.

Wells: Lighthouse Depot, Webhannet River Boat Yard.

West Boothbay Harbor: Blake’s Boatyard.

West Southport: Boothbay Region Boatyard, Southport General Store.

Windham: Richardson’s Boat Yard.

Winter Harbor: Winter Harbor 5 & 10.

Winterport: Winterport Marine.

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Wiscass et: Market Place Café, Wiscasset Yacht Club.

Woolwich: BFC Marine, Scandia Yacht Sales, Shelter Institute.

Yarmouth: Bayview Rigging & Sails, East Coast Yacht Sales, Landing Boat Supply, Maine Sailing Partners, Royal River Boatyard, Royal River Grillehouse, Yankee Marina & Boatyard, Yarmouth Boatyard.

York: Agamenticus Yacht Club, Stage Neck Inn, Woods to Goods, York Harbor Marine Service.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Dover: Dover Marine.

Dover Point: Little Bay Marina.

Gilford: Fay’s Boat Yard, Winnipesaukee Yacht Club.

Greenland: Sailmaking Support Systems.

Hampton: Hampton Harbor State Marina, Hampton River Boat Club.

Manchester: Massabesic Yacht Club, Sandy’s Variety.

Milton: Ray’s Marina & RV Sales.

New Castle: Kittery Point Yacht Club, Portsmouth Yacht Club, Wentworth-ByThe-Sea Marina.

Newington: Great Bay Marine, Ports mouth: New England Marine and Industrial, West Marine.

Seabrook: West Marine.

Tuftonboro: Tuftonboro General Store.

MASSACHUSETTS Barnstable: Coast Guard Heritage Museum at the Trayser, Millway Marina.

Beverly: Bartlett Boat Service, Beverly Point Marina, Jubilee Yacht Club.

Boston: Boston Harbor Islands Moorings, Boston Sailing Center, Boston Yacht Haven, Columbia Yacht Club, The Marina at Rowes Wharf, Waterboat Marina.

Bourne: Taylor’s Point Marina Braintree: West Marine.

Buzzards Bay: Dick’s Marine, Onset Bay Marina.

Cataumet: Kingman Marine, Parker’s Boat Yard.

Charlestown: Constitution Marina, Shipyard Quarters Marina.

Chatham: Ryders Cove Marina, Stage Harbor Marine.

Chelsea: The Marina at Admiral’s Hill.

Cohasset: Cohasset Y.C. Cotuit: Peck’s Boats.

Cutty hunk: Cuttyhunk Town Marina.

Danv ers: Danversport Yacht Club, Liberty Marina, West Marine.

Dedham: West Marine.

Dighton: Shaw’s Boat Yard.

Dorchester: Savin Hill Yacht Club.

East Boston: Boston Harbor Shipyard & Marina, Orient Heights Yacht Club, Quarterdeck Marina.

East Dennis: Dennis Yacht Club, North Side Marina.

Edgartown: Boat Safe Martha’s Vineyard, Edgartown Moorings, Edgartown Yacht Club, Harborside Inn. Essex: Flying Dragon Antiques, Perkins Marine.

Fairhaven: Fairhaven Shipyard, West Marine.

Falmouth: East Marine, Falmouth Harbor Town Marina, Falmouth Marine, MacDougall’s Cape Cod Marine Service, West Marine.

Gloucester: Beacon Marine Basin, Brown’s Yacht Yard, Cape Ann’s Marina Resort, Enos Marine, Three Lanterns Ship Supply.

Green Harbor: Green Harbor Marina, Taylor Marine.

Harwich Port: Allen Harbor Marine Service, Cranberry Liquors, Saquatucket Municipal Marina.

Hingham: 3A Marine Sales, Eastern Yacht Sales, Hingham Shipyard Marinas, Hingham Yacht Club.

Hyannis: Hyannis Marina, West Marine.

Ipswich: Ipswich Bay Yacht Club.

Manchester: Manchester Marine, Manchester Yacht Club.

Marblehead: Boston Yacht Club, Corinthian Yacht Club, , Dolphin Y.C., Eastern Yacht Club, Lynn Marine Supply Co., Marblehead Yacht Club, The Forepeak, West Marine.

Marion: Barden’s Boat Yard, Beverly Yacht Club, Burr Bros. Boats, Harding Sails, West Marine.

Marston Mills: Prince’s Cove Marina.

Mattapoisett: Mattapoisett Boatyard.

Nantucket: Glyns Marine, Nantucket Boat Basin, Nantucket Y.C., Town Pier Marina.

New Bedford: C.E. Beckman, Cutty Hunk Launch, IMP Fishing Gear, Lyndon’s, Neimic Marine, New Bedford Visitors Center, Pope’s Island Marina, Skip’s Marine, West Marine.

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Newburyport: American Boat Sales, American Yacht Club, Merri-Mar Yacht Basin, Newburyport Boat Basin, Newburyport Harbor Marina, Newburyport Yacht Club, North End Boat Club, The Boatworks, Windward Yacht Yard.

North F almouth: Brewer Fiddler’s Cove Marina.

North Weymouth: Tern Harbor Marina.

Oak Bluffs: Dockside Marketplace.

Onset: Point Independence Yacht Club.

Orleans: Nauset Marine.

Osterville: Crosby Yacht Yard, Oyster Harbors Marine Service.

Peabody: West Marine.

Plymouth: Brewer’s Plymouth Marine, Plymouth Yacht Club, West Marine.

Provincetown: Harbormaster.

Quincy: Captain’s Cove Marina, Marina Bay, Nonna’s Kitchen, POSH, Squantum Yacht Club, Wollaston Yacht Club.

Salem: , Fred J. Dion Yacht Yard, Hawthorne Cove Marina, H&H Propeller Shop, Palmer’s Cove Yacht Club, Pickering Wharf Marina, Salem Water Taxi, Winter Island Yacht Yard.

Salisbury: Bridge Marina.

Sandwich: Sandwich Marina, Sandwich Ship Supply.

Scituate: A to Z Boatworks, Cole Parkway Municipal Marina, Front Street Book Shop, J-Way Enterprises, Satuit Boat Club, Scituate Harbor Marina, Scituate Harbor Y.C. Seekonk: E&B Marine, West Marine.

Somerset: Auclair’s Market, J&J Marine Fabricators South Dartmouth: Cape Yachts, Davis & Tripp Boatyard, Doyle Sails, New Bedford Y.C., New Wave Yachts.

Vineyard Haven: Owen Park Town Dock, Vineyard Haven Marina.

Watertown: Watertown Yacht Club.

Wareham: Zecco Marine.

Wellfleet: Bay Sails Marine, Town of Wellfleet Marina, Wellfleet Marine Corp.

West Barns table: Northside Village Liquor Store.

West Dennis: Bass River Marina.

Westport: F.L.Tripp & Sons, Osprey Sea Kayak Adventures, Westport Marine, Westport Y.C. Weymouth: Monahan’s Marine.

Winthrop: Cottage Park Y.C., Cove Convenience, Crystal Cove Marina, Pleasant Point Y.C., Winthrop Book Depot, Winthrop Lodge of Elks, Winthrop Y.C. Woburn: E&B Marine, West Marine.

Woods Hole: Woods Hole Marina.

Yarmouth: Arborvitae Woodworking.

RHODE ISLAND Barrington: Barrington Y.C., Brewer Cove Haven Marina, Lavin’s Marina, Stanley’s Boat Yard, Striper Marina.

Block Island: Ballard’s Inn, Block Island Boat Basin, Block Island Marina, Champlin’s, Payne’s New Harbor Dock.

Bristol: Aidan’s Irish Pub, All Paint, Bristol Bagel Works, Bristol Marine, Bristol Yacht Club, Hall Spars & Rigging, Herreshoff Marine Museum, Jamestown Distributors, Quantum Thurston Sails, Superior Marine.

Central Falls: Twin City Marine.

Charlestown: Ocean House Marina.

Cranston: Edgewood Yacht Club, Port Edgewood Marina, Rhode Island Yacht Club.

East Greenwich: Anderson’s Ski & Dive Center, East Greenwich Yacht Club, Norton’s Shipyard & Marina, West Marine.

East Providence: East Providence Yacht Club.

Jamestown: Conanicut Marine Supply, Dutch Harbor Boatyard..

Middletown: West Marine Narragansett: Buster Krabs, West Marine.

Newport: Armchair Sailor, Brewer Street Boatworks, Casey’s Marina, Goat Island Marina, IYRS, Museum of Yachting, New York Yacht Club, Newport Harbor Hotel & Marina, Newport Nautical Supply, Newport Visitor Information Center, Newport Yacht Club, Old Port Marine Services, Sail Newport, Seamen’s Church Institute, Starbucks, The Newport Shipyard, West Wind Marina.

North Kingstown: Allen Harbor Marina, Johnson’s Boatyard, RI Mooring Services.

Ports mouth: Brewer Sakonnet Marina, East Passage Yachting Center, Eastern Yacht Sales, Hinckley Yacht Services, Ship’s Store and Rigging, The Melville Grill.

Riverside: Bullock’s Cove Marina.

Tiverton: Don’s Marine, Life Raft & Survival Equipment, Ocean Options, Quality Yacht Services, Standish Boat Yard.

Wakefield: Point Jude Boats, Point Judith Marina, Point Judith Yacht Club,

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Point View Marina, Ram Point Marina, Silver Spring Marine, Snug Harbor Marine, Stone Cove Marina.

Warren: Country Club Laundry.

Warwick: Appanoag Harbor Marina, Brewer Yacht Yard at Cowesett, Greenwich Bay Marina, Pettis Boat Yard, Ponaug Marina, Warwick Cove Marina.

Wickford: Brewer Wickford Cove Marina, Johnson’s Boatyard, Marine Consignment of Wickford, Pleasant Street Wharf, Wickford Marina, Wickford Shipyard, Wickford Yacht Club.

CONNECTICUT Branford: Birbarie Marine, Branford River Marina, Branford Yacht Club, Brewer Bruce & Johnson’s Marina, Dutch Wharf Boat Yard, Indian Neck Yacht Club, Pine Orchard Yacht Club, West Marine.

Byram: Byram Town Marina.

Ches ter: Castle Marina, Chester Marina, Hays Haven Marina, Middlesex Yacht Club.

Clinton: Cedar Island Marina, Connecticut Marine One, Harborside Marina, Old Harbor Marina, Port Clinton Marina, Riverside Basin Marina, West Marine.

Cos Cob: Palmer Point Marina.

Darien: E&B Marine, Noroton Yacht Club.

Deep River: Brewer Deep River Marina.

East Haddam: Andrews Marina East Norwalk: Rex Marine.

Essex: Brewer Dauntless Shipyard, Boatique, Essex Corinthian Yacht Club, Essex Island Marina, Essex Yacht Club.

Fairfield: J. Russell Jinishian Gallery, West Marine.

Farmington: Pattaconk Yacht Club.

Greenwic h: Beacon Point Marine, Indian Harbor Yacht Club.

Groton: Pine Island Marina, Shennecossett Yacht Club.

Guilford: Brown’s Boat Yard, Guilford Boat Yard, Harbormaster.

Lyme: Cove Landing Marine.

Madison: East River Marine.

Milford: Flagship Marina, Milford Boat Works, Milford Landing, Milford Yacht Club, Port Milford, Spencer’s Marina, West Marine.

Mystic: Brewer Yacht Yard, Fort Rachel Marina, Gwenmor Marina, Mason Island Yacht Club, Mystic Point Marina, Mystic River Yacht Club, Mystic Seaport Museum Store, Mystic Shipyard, West Marine.

New Haven: City Point Yacht Club, Fairclough Sails, Oyster Point Marina.

New London: Crocker’s Boatyard, Ferry Slip Dockominium Assoc., Hellier Yacht Sales, Thames Shipyard and Ferry, Thames Yacht Club, Thamesport Marina, West Marine.

Niantic: Boats Inc., Mago Pt. Marina, Port Niantic Marina, Three Belles Marina.

Noank: Brower’s Cove Marina, Hood Sails, Noank Village Boatyard, Palmers Cove Marina, Ram Island Yacht Club, Spicer’s.

Norwalk: Norwest Marine, Rex Marine, Total Marine, West Marine.

Norwich: The Marina at American Wharf.

Old Lyme: Old Lyme Marina.

Old Saybrook: Brewer’s Ferry Point Marina, Harbor Hill Marina & Inn, Harbor One Marina, Island Cove Marina, Oak Leaf Marina, Ocean Performance, Ragged Rock Marina, Saybrook Point Marina, West Marine.

Portland: J & S Marine Services, Yankee Boat Yard & Marina.

Riverside: Riverside Yacht Club.

Rowayton: All Seasons Marina, Wilson Cove Marina.

South Norwalk: Norwalk Yacht Club, Rex Marine Center, Surfside 3 Marina.

Stamford: Brewer Yacht Haven Marina, Czescik Marina, Halloween Yacht Club, Hathaway Reiser Rigging, Landfall Navigation, Ponas Yacht Club, Prestige Yacht Sales, Stamford Landing Marina, Stamford Yacht Club, West Marine, Z Sails.

Stonington: Dodson Boat Yard, Dog Watch Café, Madwanuck Yacht Club, Stonington Harbor Yacht Club.

Stratford: Brewer Stratford Marina.

Waterford: Defender Industries.

Westbrook: Atlantic Outboard, Brewer Pilots Point Marina, Pier 76 Marina, Sound Boatworks.

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Established by Tom Allen in 2004, Kittery Point Yacht Yard (KPYY ) now represents Maine’s two southernmost full service and storage facilities on the banks of the Piscataqua River. Previously known as Dion’s Yacht Yard in Kittery and Patten’s Yacht Yard in Eliot; KPYY combined the two oldest and most well respected yards in the area. Together with a full-time crew representing over 250 years of collective knowledge and experience, KPYY offers exceptional vessel maintenance, repair, refits, and boat building. We have dry storage capacity for 200 boats with a haul out capacity of up to 70 tons. Our Kittery mooring field is the most protected basin in the area. KPYY is a registered Clean Marina and is an authorized dealer for Caterpillar, Yanmar, Steyr Motors and Westerbeke. www.kpyy.net “I am particularly proud of what we have accomplished over the past few years in light of the challenges. To that, I thank my crew, our very loyal customer base and our friends in the industry, including Points East. From every one of us, we look forward to each new issue.”

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The author took this photo of an island estate on the south side of the entrance to Soper's Hole because “it looked so irresistible.” This is what New England voyagers sailed some 1,500 miles to see.

MARY ROSE, from Page 49 my uneasiness would not go away.

We were motor-sailing in moderate airs, heading off the wind, and we had engaged the autopilot, which I judged the best helmsman second to myself, and thoroughly indefatigable, unerringly accurate, and quite capable now that the high seas of the first leg of our passage were, for the time being, behind us.

So we sat in the cockpit, checking the navigation system, keeping a lookout for other vessels, and occasionally taking turns going below for a hot cup of tea or a snack, usually multi-grain bread smeared with chunky peanut butter. But my uneasiness would not go away, and I was still tired, drowsy, nearly nodding off, when I heard something, a sound that made the hair stand up on the back of my neck (or so I thought) and sent a shiver through me, a shiver of what I can only describe as deep, subliminal terror. I heard music.

It was unearthly, ethereal, and faint, like a choir of angels; the music was high, and strange, just out of my range of hearing, and the more I strained to hear it, the more elusive it became. I was fully awake now, and intensely focused, entranced; the music came from nowhere, and everywhere, at once, and was incredibly lush and melodic, ornate, sweet, complex, and captivating, yet again, just beyond the range of actual hearing, yet I knew that I was hearing it with my ears.

I thought of Mozart writing for the choirs of angels, no music ever heard on earth, the singing of the sirens.

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wreck of drowned souls in the still blackness of the depths has the proximity of our passage disturbed?

Los Cantos de Los Muertos. I whispered a prayer for them, if indeed we had passed over a wreck.

Jay came back on deck with a cup of tea and a sandwich, which broke the spell, and I heard the music no more that night, or any night, but the memory of it haunted me for days afterward.

Now we were experiencing increasingly better, and warmer, weather that continued to improve for the rest of the trip – favorable winds on the beam that pushed the Mary Rose through the sea at nine and 10 knots at times, averaging nearly 200 miles per day for about three days. The performance qualities that Captain Nat had designed into her became apparent then, in addition to her strength and seaworthiness.

With moderating seas we slept better, ate better, took turns cooking and preparing the day’s main meal in the galley, and regaining our strength. In fact, the winds and seas eventually became quite calm, so much so that we were motoring once again, and would have welcomed a moderate breeze again to move us along, but it remained calm for the final few days of the trip.

By the end of the second week, we were in Tortola, arriving on Dec. 4, sitting on the foredeck at break of dawn and seeing the blue outline of the mountainous islands, and our channel between Jost Van Dyke and Tobago islands ahead. We motored into Soper’s Hole on the west end of the island around midday, cleared customs, and went ashore to explore the harbor and the watering holes.

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chor, and the way one gets to shore, to another boat, or to the bar, is via inflatable, motorized dinghy. Jason and Andy had worked hard the day before to ready the Mary Rose’s old, sun-baked, rubber inflatable, which looked like it had been conceived and built from the sap of the very first rubber tree that grew in Eden. The forward part of it would not hold air for very long, and after Tom, Andy and Jason had made a valiant attempt at patching its holes, it held air for a little while longer, but still needed occasional re-pressurizing with the foot pump. On top of that, it leaked water, and the hand-pump could not empty it, so we operated it at speed so it would self-bail.

Our favorite watering hole, almost immediately, was the Jolly Roger, a waterside gathering place for cruisers, expatriates, boat bums, and other similarly distinguished folks on the north side of the harbor. In the open-air Jolly Roger bar at night, one meets most everyone who lives out on a moored or anchored yacht, the dinghy dock crowded with inflatables nose-in and nestled together. There are friends new and old to meet, or become re-acquainted with.

The sun sets in a blaze of color, the dark rounded peaks silhouetted against the fiery sunset as the first bright stars peek out of the deep blue that slowly descends in the west with the last curtain-call of the day.

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It is my last evening in paradise: Captain Tom and I will be on a midday flight the next day to San Juan, Philadelphia and, at last, Providence. I should feel sad, but I do not; too much happiness is welling in my soul.

Our voyage was a success; I am with my shipmates and friends with whom I have been through ordeals as well as swell times, adventure and discovery, and have lived not only to tell about it but also to savor this moment.

Another round of rum punch comes to the table. We three crewmen of the Mary Rose stand and toast our captain, and suddenly and spontaneously, nearly everyone seated at the tables around us, most of them familiar with our story, rises and joins in, with hearty shouts and earnest well-wishing. It is the community, the fellowship of cruisers and adventurers: Hermandad de La Mar, the Brotherhood of the Sea. Captain Tom is grinning: This is his moment, saluted by his crew and fellow captains and sailors and bon vivants all encircling. We vow to return again and to meet again. But for now, we will think only of the joy of this moment. Tomorrow is a different day, and by God, it ain’t here yet!

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This is the author’s big Lund, rigged for bear on the Maine Island Trail. Can this be extended to southern Florida?

The Great Eastern Water Trail There is the long-established Appalachian Trail.

There is the ever-growing, highly ambitious East Coast Greenway, a non-motorized trail through the length of the heavily-settled eastern coastal plain. And there is the impressive, 700-mile-long Northern Forest Canoe Trail from northern New York to Maine. Is it now time to consider a Great Eastern Water Trail, one that would ultimately create a small boat waterway from the Canadian border to Florida?

“Why bother?” will be the immediate answer of many people, citing as their biggest argument the existence of the Intracoastal Waterway.

“Such a project is too complicated, too ambitious, too costly, too long and totally unnecessary,” others will say. They may be right, especially if the idea is considered in conventional terms as a single project needing a large staff and a bale of money.

But at this stage let’s not get boxed in with the details, where lurks the devil himself, not when such a trail may already exist in several impressive parts with more a’building. Instead, let’s go outside the box and weigh some possibilities.

Existing Trails: Nearly every state on the East Coast has water trails along or touching on salt water.

Many are so-called “paddling trails” designed to accommodate kayaks, canoes and other self-propelled craft. A few, the 25-year-old Maine Island Trail being a prime example, are set up to include all types of boats, a situation that garners wide support for a private organization to arrange for campsites, stewardship and cooperation with local and state governments and private organizations and individuals.

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so as to be able to publish conventional print or electronic guides. Others are little more than suggested routes that offer protected passage for small boats. Variety seems to be the common trait.

Of greater import to this discussion is that several long and generally north-south trending water trails already exist in New England, New Jersey, the Chesapeake, Virginia and Florida. If there were some way these and smaller trails might be connected, while still maintaining their original identity, an exciting and challenging small-boat waterway spanning hundreds of miles could be created.

The Need: On a day-by-day time frame, we don’t always see what is happening around us, but vast change is coming on land and water whether we like it or not. Worthy of serious study is the January 2011 issue of “National Geographic” and its sobering article on population growth. The fast-rising number of people on earth (from seven billion now to nine billion in just the next 35 years), with all its implications both good and terrible, is of interest here mainly because the U.S. population is estimated to swell from 308 million today to 400 million by 2050. Many millions of these newcomers will be added to our already crowded East Coast.

Today, the opportunities for individual outdoor activities are dwindling. In their place, almost by necessity, are group and spectator sports, satisfying to many but of limited attraction to those seeking personal challenge and some semblance of solitude. Where can one find that elusive solitude in a region of millions?

Try a small boat on big waters: a kayak, a little sailboat, a small outboard boat. Imagine if there were an editor@pointseast.com

all-encompassing water trail, and you had the skill and time to navigate more than a thousand miles of ever-changing water. Just being able to think about it would be the source of continuing thrills or, at the very least, pleasant daydreams.

Creating the trail: When we created the Maine Island Trail we started at the top and worked down.

With a scattering of state-owned islands, some of which could be used as stopovers, we “declared” the existence of a “trail” more than 300 miles in length. All we had to do was the sizable job of filling in the gaps between stops, some of these of considerable length and over challenging water.

However, the sheer size of the water-trail idea in a magnificent setting drew widespread enthusiasm and broad support, enough to warrant the setting up of an organization, the Maine Island Trail Association (MITA), solely to manage the trail. Over time, the gaps were filled or narrowed, private islands were added for use by members of the organization, and an ethic of responsible use of the resource became evident in the actions of members and the general public alike.

Could some of these methods be used on a much larger scale? Is there some way the existing but diverse water-trail organizations might support the idea of a long trail without having to take on a major burden? The answer, in my opinion, is a strong “probably yes.”

In this increasingly pervasive electronic age, most decisions regarding the trail could be made by a coalition of trail leaders ranging the length of the coast and using the Internet for their deliberations. Meanwhile, going for the “Grand Plan,” the coalition could declare the water trail as an entity even though gaps would exist for some time to come.

First Steps: Ideas are cheap; as mentioned earlier, the devil’s in the details. Interest and possibilities have to be evaluated. People have to get together and kick the idea around – and maybe kick it out the door.

After the water-trail concept began to attract interest in the early ’90s, the National Park Service’s Rivers and Trails Section helped organize the first national conference on water trails at Mills-Norrie State Park on the Hudson River. Enthusiasm generated there was the genesis of the modern water-trail movement, one that has resulted in hundreds of water trails being established in the United States and Canada.

A conference, whether sponsored by the Park Service or some private organization, would seem to be the first order of business.

Of incidental interest regarding that first conference, Steve Spencer, a major cog in the development of the Maine Island Trail, and I traveled to the meeting by 18-foot outboard skiff from Portland, Maine, to New York City and up the Hudson to Mills-Norrie State Park. Our five-day voyage in mid-October was over www.pointseast.com

some of the most exposed water on the entire suggested new water trail and proved to be an exciting, rewarding and very doable venture.

Who Would Use it? Only a few dozen through-hikers walk the entire Appalachian Trail each year, but thousands more hike parts of it, some always trying new sections with the goal of eventually covering the trail in its entirety. My guess is that even fewer “through-sailors” would complete the East Coast water trail in a single voyage because of its inherent difficulties. But what a fine accomplishment for those few!

Meanwhile, hundreds of others in their small boats would be getting their feet wet, so to speak, on shorter sections of the trail.

Would-be voyagers undoubtedly would tackle the sea in boats of their choice only to discover that not all boats are good cruisers. Kayaks, canoes, rowboats and their like, for instance, are great fun and seaworthy in experienced hands, but they are limited in their capacity for gear and require overnighting ashore.

And when they come to that great land arm called Cape Cod, the choices of passing it are difficult or nil – non-powered craft are not allowed in the Cape Cod Canal, and rounding the Cape on the ocean side can be a long and hazardous undertaking. For a huge trail as the one being considered here, all boats big and small, motorized and non-motorized, should be encouraged to use and support the project. Where the actual route is eventually located will be sufficient to limit the size of boats.

An enjoyable and able cruiser would be a catboat of 16 to 18 feet in length with a cuddy cabin and small outboard motor for auxiliary power. Cats are easy to handle by one or two persons, are roomy and, with their shallow draft, are great craft for exploring gunkholes and marshes and creeks where keeled boats cannot go.

As for outboard-powered boats in the 16- to 20-foot range, many are adaptable for cruising long distances with only minor changes to their usual day-use layout.

One worthwhile consideration is to downsize the motor. High power is really not needed in a small cruiser with one or two in the crew. With a four-cycle motor of one-third to one-half the rated horsepower of the boat and traveling at a modest speed, fuel consumption can be reduced by a remarkable degree.

But we digress – as usual when we start talking boats! – when the discussion right now is one of possibilities. Is such a long water trail feasible? Is it needed? Is there a way to encourage support for it?

Is it worth doing?

Dave Getchell is co-founder of the Maine Island Trail, former editor of “National Fisherman,” a founding editor of “The Small Boat Journal,” and editor/author of “The Outboard Boater’s Handbook.” He boats and fishes out of Appleton, Maine.

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27’ Catalina Sloop, 1985 Nice example of this popular small cruiser. Well equiped and cared for. $14,900. 207-799-3600. www.theyachtconnection.com 24’ Bluenose Sloop Professionally restored traditional wooden racing class sloop built in Nova Scotia. Custom trailer and 4 sails. $25,000. See website for details. 207-677-2024. www.pemaquidmarine.com

24’ Eldredge McInnis Eastward Ho, 1976. Fiberglass, full keel, capable coastal cruiser. 6’ 4 headroom, Yanmar 2QM, enclosed head, roller furler, club footed jib.

Sleeps 4. 10’ Achilles inflatable w/ 3.5hp Nissan. Use of Newport R.I. inner harbor mooring for 2011 season included; $10,000. Call Joe at 401-439-7902.

25’ Eastsail 25, 2006 A Little Yacht for These Times.

Safe - full keel, recessed deck.

Functional, simple systems. Comfortable - full headroom. Marine head, galley sleeps 2-4. Offered at $39,900. Contact Gulf of Maine Yacht Sales, 207-899-0909. http://www.eastsail.com

26’ Kelly Sloop, 1982 Kelley 24 (+2) masthead sloop, fin keel, well equipped day-sailer w/ 11’ cockpit. $6500. www.jonesportshipyard.com info@jonesportshipyard.com 26’ Ranger 26, 1974 In very good condition with 5 sails, roller furler. No outboard. $2000 firm. 207-223-8885 or email info@winterportmarine.com

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28’ Samurai Auxiliary Sloop 1959. 28’ x 9’2 x 3’11 Hull #20 of 40 built in Japan, Yanmar 2GM w/heat exch. See her at Jonesport Shipyard. 207-497-2701. info@jonesportshipyard.com

30’ Hinckley Sou’wester Sloop 1962. Flag blue awlgripped hull ‘08, 2004 Yanmar diesel, sleeps 4, new radar-gps, 1998 roller furler genoa. Caring ownership $54,000.

Gray & Gray, Inc 207-363-7997 www.grayandgrayyachts.com

placement 8 tons. Teak planking on iroco frames, teak decks, varnished mahogany deck joinery and varnished spars. New Beta diesel.

A sailor’s cruising boat. Contact Islesboro Marine Enterprises, Islesboro, Maine. 207-734-6433.

32’ Columbia, 1975 Well maintained cruiser with new mahogany cabinetry. $17,000. Call 207-799-3600. www.theyachtconnection.com

35’ Hinckley Pilot Sloop, 1970 Black hull, outstanding condition. $127,500. Gray & Gray, Inc. 207363-7997.

36’ Ericson, 1976. $24,995. Contact Ocean Point Marina, 207-633-0773. www.oceanpointmarina.com

29’ Watkins Sloop, 1987 18hp Yanmar, 1000 hrs. Sleeps 5, full head, hot water, 35 gal. holding tank, 40 gal. fresh water. Garmin chartplotter/sounder, fenders, dock lines, bimini, cabin heater. Additional details and pictures upon request. panachebh@aol.com 30’ Island Packet 27, 1988 Cutter, 30’x10.5’x3.67’, full keel, 6’ 2 headroom. Easy single handler.

Engine hours 554. Selling Price: $39,500. www.jonesportshipyard.com info@jonesportshipyard.com

30’ Sabre Mk III Custom interior. Rigged for racing or singlehanding. Westerbeke diesel 500 hrs. Well maintained, very clean. Call for details and survey. $50,000. 207-655-4962. gbclark@maine.rr.com

30’6 Haj boat aka Finn boat Pua Noa. Built in Abo Finland of fir on oak. Sloop rigged club racing boat very popular in Europe, and raced here in Camden, Maine. Sails like a dream. Contact Islesboro Marine Enterprises, Islesboro, Maine. 207-734-6433.

34’ C&C, 1979 Racer/cruiser. LOA 33’6, LWL 25’ 11, Beam 11’. Asking $17,500.

203-377-5597, or 203-339-1322 (cell). https://lordshipsailing.com moorepm@aol.com 34’ Titan 1971 with auxiliary diesel engine. $29,000 FMI Contact Ocean Point Marina 207-633-0773 www.oceanpointmarina.com info@oceanpointmarina.com 34’ Tartan Sloop Roomy interior, solid boat, needs cosmetics. Excellent opportunity to get into a good cruiser. Make an offer. 207-497-2701 . Jonesport Shipyard. www.jonesportshipyard.com info@jonesportshipyard.com 34’ Pearson 34, 1984 Sea Glass is a very attractive equipped Pearson 34 with her dark blue Awl-Grip hull. Her equipment includes a spinniker and recent main and 150% genoa, as well as a new dodger. $39,500. 207-3712899. www.robinhoodmarinecenter.com perry@robinhoodmarinecenter.co m

38’ Pearson Invicta II, 1968 Therapy was completely re-built in 2000 to 2001 by her owner. Reequipping included a Universal 25hp diesel, Isotherm refrigeration, Force 10 propane stove, among many other features. All new electronics were added along with new sails and other upgrades. $59,500.

207-371-2899. www.robinhoodmarinecenter.com perry@robinhoodmarinecenter.co m

39’ Concordia Yawl, 1960 Dan Strohmeier’s MALAY, built by Abeking & Rasmussen. Full survey

by Capt. Paul Haley 2011. Located in Damariscotta, Maine. Contact: Cheryl B Strohmeier at 207-5636477 or email c.b.strohmeier@gmail.com 40’ Luders L-27 Sloop, 1955 Refit 2007. Westerbeke diesel. Superb condition. Hot molded plywood construction. 2008 black awlgripped hull, new sails, sleeps 6. Elegant, fast racer-cruiser. Gray & Gray, Inc. 207-363-7997.

42’ S&S Cutter, 1964 S&S center-cockpit offshore cutter.

Refit 2001. Fiberglass hull and decks to the famous Finisterre design. 2001 Yanmar. 3 cabins. $89,000. Gray & Gray, Inc. 207363-7997.

35’ Sloop, 1936 Pleiades Built in 1936 at the A.H. Kin yard in Hong Kong to a Ross design. Beam 8’6, draught 6’2, dis-

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fish. All you need to do is load on the gear. Call for details at York Harbor Marine Service, 207-3633602. sales@yorkharbormarine.com 42’ Catalina 42, Mk 1, 1993 Wing keel, two cabins, Doyle sails, 50 Yanmar, Garmin GPS/Radar, new canvas, air/heat, davits. $122,500. Rockland, Maine. 207354-0865 gerry.hull@yahoo.com 42’ Catalina 42 MKII, 2002 3 staterooms, wing keel, Doyle stack, 140 genoa, CDI furling spinnaker, etc. Bailey Is., Maine. $169,000. Frank Jones, 603-7263112. games@roadrunner.com

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Any condition considered. Please call John at, York Harbor Marine Service at 207-363-3602 or email sales@yorkharbormarine.com 16’ Calvin Beal, Jr. 1995 Fiberglass runabout with trunk cabin w/ screened ports and folding cabin door. 45hp Honda 4stroke OB, trailer, used lightly.

Jonesport Shipyard, 207-4972701. www.jonesportshipyard.com info@jonesportshipyard.com 16’ Lund Laker, 2002 With a 40hp Honda and a trailer. $7,700 Contact Bamforth Marine at 207-729-3303. www.bamforthmarine.com salesandservice@bamforthmarine.com

17’ Sunbird Corsair, 1994 with very nice trailer. Add an outboard and a little cosmetic work for a great little runabout. $1100.

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18’ Mini Tugboat Fiberglass over two layers of 1/4 marine plywood. 3GM30 Yanmar, Garmin chartplotter/sonar combo, VHF radio. Cushions, cover, ground tackle, etc. 207- 832-0321. $25,000 or best offer. sailmates1@gmail.com

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21’ Seaway Seafarer, 2006 Closed Transom swim platform, Suzuki 115hp 4-stroke, warranty 62012, Bimini w/enclosure, portapotti, compass, aft seat. $42,995. captjack@captjack.info 21’ Boston Whaler Conquest 2000. With a 2000 225hp Evinrude. Has new Garmin GPS Chart Plotter and Fish Finder too. $23,500 Contact Bamforth Marine at 207-729-3303.

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23’ Whitticar, 1964 Whitticar inboard powerboat Avellar. Built 1964 of plywood and fiberglass. Original 185hp ChrisCraft 283 engine reconditioned 2009. Well equipped and well built. $15,000. Contact Islesboro Marine Enterprises, Islesboro, Maine. 207734-6433.

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22’ Sisu 22, 1982 In pristine condition, completely rebuilt trailer, new hydraulic steering, 2009 Mercury 150 Optimax Two stroke with 81 hrs. $30,000.00 firm for this classic soft top in near perfect condition.

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22’ PYY 22 All new molded fiberglass liner, larger (head capable) center console, molded non-skid hatches, increased storage beneath deck.

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24’ Eastern, 2003 Eastern Center Console w/130hp 4-stroke Honda outboard. Comes with trailer. $31,500. Call Ocean Point Marina at 207-633-0773 www.oceanpointmarina.com info@oceanpointmarina.com 24’ Angler, 2001 Too many options to list. 225 plus 9.9hp Yamahas. Includes trailer. $22,000. Call 603-964-7087.

LMTT4@yahoo.com 24’ Hydra-Sports 2390, 2000 Center Console with T-Top. With a 225hp DFI Evinrude, electronics and a tandem trailer. $29,900 Contact Bamforth Marine at 207-7293303. www.bamforthmarine.com salesandservice@bamforthmarine,com 25’ Sea Fox 257 CC, 2004 W/twin Mercury 150hp. Saltwater Series. Demo boat. Full warranty.

This boat is loaded. $39,900.

Carousel Marina, 207-633-2922.

25’ Grady White Voyager, 1996 Nice Grady-White 248 Voyager.

This boat has radar, GPS, and full enclosure. Yamaha 250hp.

25’ Grady White Sailfish Hardtop, with two Yamaha 150’s w/ 470 hrs. Excellent condition.

Radar, depth/fishfinder, GPS, VHF, new head, $20,000. 860-581-8101. rjschoonmaker@comcast.net 25’ Hydra-Sports 2450, 1997 Walk-around, with a 2007 225hp Evinrude E-Tec. $37,000 Contact Bamforth Marine at 207-729-3303. www.bamforthmarine.com salesandservice@bamforthmarine.com

26’ Eldredge McInnis, 1989 A beautiful example of the well known Eldredge McInnis Bass boat, built by the Landing Boat School. Wood hull, single diesel.

Located in Southport, Maine. $49,500. 207-371-2899. www.robinhoodmarinecenter.com perry@robinhoodmarinecenter.co m 26’ Southport 26, 2005 Twin Mercury Verado engines. $75,000. 207-799-3600. www.theyachtconnection.com tyc@southportmarine.com 27’ Hydra Sport, 2000 With Raymarine electronics. $41,900. Call York Harbor Marine Service, 207-363-3602. sales@yorkharbormarine.com 27’ Boston Whaler Outrage 2008. Like new. Powered by twin 225hp Mercs. Loaded with factory BW options. Call York Harbor Marine Service, 207-363-3602. sales@yorkharbormarine.com

26’ Somes Sound 26 “Bai Ji Er”, with enclosed pilot house. Great day boat and small cruiser. Gas inboard. $165,000.

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25’ Pacemaker, 1969 Center Console, total refit. MercCruiser 454. Asking $32,000.

Rockland, Maine. Call John Morin, 207 691-1637.

launch look with plenty of teak and bronze. $100,000. Call 207-2557854 or email bill@jwboatco.com

27’ St. Pierre Dory 27’ St. Pierre Dory (Glen-L design) $1,000. Load Rite trailer, $2,500.

Rebuilt Atomic 4, $1,500. Volvo diesel, $5,500. Propeller haul up, $300. hutton3@comcast.net

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25’ Bertram, 1970 Classic fiberglass sportfisherman flybridge cruiser. Great in heavy weather. Immaculate hull, GPS, radar, VHF, depth, twin 165 Mercruiser engines. Sleeps 2+, head.

Moving. $15,000. Call 207-2447672. lbeatty@midmaine.com

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28’ Wellcraft 2800, 1987 Coastal Offshore Fisherman with twin MerCruiser inboards (fairly new) loaded with extras. $10,000.

Call Bamforth Marine at 207-7293303. www.bamforthmarine.com salesandservice@bamforthmarine.com 29’ Webbers Cove, 2000 Hardtop Express Downeast DayBoat. Yanmar. Separate shower.

Asking $110,000. Rockland, Maine. 207 691-1637.

29’ Wilbur/Crosby Express 1988. Twin Volvos. Fast commuter.

Asking $49,900. Southwest Harbor, Maine. John Morin, 207 6911637.

33’ Sea Ray Sundancer, 1998 Twin 310hp Merc IB with V-drives.

Westerbeke gen, four-blade Nibral props, full updated electronics, complete new canvas set, clean with many extras. Asking $67,000 Call: 617-429-1220 or email toddpekrul@hotmail.com 34’ Wilbur Flybridge, 1988 Wilbur Flybridge Long Range Expeditionary Cruiser. Caterpillar.

Turn-key. Asking $149,000.

Florida. John Morin, 207 6911637.

31’ Duffy, 2005 STRIDER. Galley-up, nav equipment includes radar, GPS sensor, depth & transducer, VHF, autopilot, compass. Yanmar 360hp 6 cylinder diesel. $245,000. www.atlanticboat.com brokerage@atlanticboat.com

31’ Duffy, 1987 ALEXA. Open cockpit, cherry interior, new 300hp Cummins engine 2002, new transmission 2004, new portlights 2003, hull and deck awlgrip 2010. $119,000. www.atlanticboat.com brokerage@atlanticboat.com 32’ Down East New 32’ Carroll Lowell Down East design, cedar on white oak, silicon bronze fastenings, hull, trunk, deck, done, fuel tanks, shaft, rudder installed, will finish to your custom design, work or pleasure.

508-224-3709. www.by-the-sea.com/karbottboatbuilding/ jmkarbott@aol.com 32’ Wilbur/Newman Sedan 1977. New Yanmar. Refit. Old style charm. Asking $125,000. Biddeford, Maine. 207-691-1637.

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36’ Garber Aft Cabin, 1989 Twin MerCruiser’s. $70,000. Call 207-799-3600. www.theyachtconnection.com tyc@southportmarine.com

32’ Island Gypsy Trawler, 1994 Single 250hp Cummins, 1800 hours, thruster, generator, queen berth forward, 2 side doors, galley up, good electronics. $109,000.

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35’ Duffy, 2006 YANNIE B. Spacious cockpit, galley-up, 6’8 headroom above decks & 6’3 below, great weekend cruiser. $295,000. www.atlanticboat.com brokerage@atlanticboat.com

35’ Duffy, 2008 WHITE CAPS. Lightly used and meticulously maintained. Cummins 350hp, bright and airy main saloon/wheelhouse, galley-down, vberth, head. $349,000. www.atlanticboat.com brokerage@atlanticboat.com

36’ Alley Built Lobster Boat, 197317,900 FMI contact Ocean Point Marina 207-633-0773 www.oceanpointmarina.com info@oceanpointmarina.com

36’ 10.8 Meter 1989 Trojan Convertible. Twin stateroom, fully equipped galley, cockpit freezer and sink. Transom door. Includes Zodiac with outboard. Full electronics. Interior redone. Must see $49,900. Private owner: 860345-7373. russpekrul@SBCGlobal.net

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34’ Lobster Boat, 1952 34’ Jonesport style lobster boat Xanna II. Built 1952 of cedar on oak. New 160hp Yanmar diesel.

Nicely refurbished wheelhouse and cabin and many other improvements. Goes great. Contact Islesboro Marine Enterprises, Islesboro, Maine. 207-734-6433.

35’ Duffy FB Cruiser, 2000 Single Cat 435hp diesel, 587 hours. Sidepower thruster, dual helms, large cockpit and salon, galley down. Sleeps 4. Cruise 17 knots. Handsome green hull. $164,500. Gray & Gray, Inc. 207363-7997.

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1982 in pristine condition, completely rebuilt trailer, new hydraulic steering, 09 Mercury 150 Optimax Two stroke with 81 hrs. $30,000 firm for this classic soft top in near perfect condition. Je1449@aol.com or 413-374-8681.

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36’ Carver Aft Cabin, 1989 Well kept New England Carver 36 Aft Cabin owned by licensed captains. Recent upgrades include new starboard engine, new holding tank/lines, Raymarine C 80 chart plotter, Kohler 7.3 KW Generator, hot water heater, Tempurpedic Mattress, and much more. 20102011 storage and shrink wrap paid. A true turn key boat. $70,000. Call 207-799-3600. www.theyachtconnection.com 37’ Silverton 37 Convertible 1989. This Silverton Convertible is well maintained, and in great shape. Owner is upgrading so this one must go. $47,000. Call 207799-3600. www.theyachtconnection.com

38’ H&H Osmond Beal, 2002 Make an offer. Propose a trade house, land, sailboat for this customized lobster yacht, designed for living aboard year-round in New England and beyond. Docked in Kittery for the winter. Check out

our website. Give us a call. 603770-8378 dotgale38.googlepages.com dotgaleforsale@comcast.net 38’ Stanley, 1984 Stanley 38 ìFishwife”. First Stanley 38 built in 1984 and owned by the same family since her launch. She is in excellent condition. $285,000.

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38’ Holland/Pettegrow, 1987 Downeast Sportfishing, 2001 3208 435hp Cat, 4,000 hrs. Teak interior, galley down, enclosed head and shower, sleeps 4. Fighting chair, tower and pulpit. Furuno Navnet. $140,000. 207-450-6119. valborgcharter@gmail.com 40’ Hatteras Double Cabin, 1987 Voyager is a very clean and well mainatined Hatteras 40 Motoryacht. Re-powered in 1999 with twin Yanmar 315hp diesels and a diesel genset. Solar panels, recent electronics, fuel system upgrades

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42’ Duffy, 2006 LADY DIANA. Built for a serious sport fisherman. Extensive electronics, engine controls at five locations, galley-down, full head, stowage, sleeping accommodations. $690,000. www.atlanticboat.com brokerage@atlanticboat.com 43’ Marine Trader, 1984 Priced to sell at $69,999. FMI contact Ocean Point Marina at 207633-0773. www.oceanpointmarina.com info@oceanpointmarina.com 47’ Maine Cat, 2009 Maine Cat P-47, hull#2, launched June ‘09. Twin 180 Yanmar, liveaboard equipped, low fuel burn, 3’ draft, located in Maine. $110k below list. 1-888-832-2287. www.mecat.com info@mecat.com

47’ Mainship Cruiser, 1997 Mainship Aft Cabin Cruiser with flybridge. This vessel has had a full-time captain, working for the same owner since purchased brand new in 1997. Two spacious staterooms (sleeps six), two heads, salon and galley. Everything on this boat is in working condition and she is ready to show. Please call Mike at 843-290-6733 or Sharon at 603-997-1689. sbfld155@gmail.com 47’ Novi Dragger, 1985 Fiberglass Atkinson Novi Dragger.

43.8’ + 4’ extension. 15.5’ beam, 6’ draft. Good Condition. Jonesport Shipyard, 207-497-2701. www.jonesportshipyard.com 48’ Coastal Passagemaker Yanmar 140hp, 1.5 to 2.5 gal. at 8 to 9 kts. Ketch rig for steadying sails. Sleeps 4 in separate cabins and additional 2 in salon. I’m almost past it, and want someone younger to enjoy this wonderful boat. hutton3@comcast.net

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Boat Building & Repair Dave Miliner 30 years in the Marine Industry Professional Quality Work at an Affordable Price

• Major Fiberglass repair • Gelcoat and Awlgrip resurfacing • Woodwork • New boat construction Rte. 236, Eliot Business Park Eliot, ME 03903 (207) 439-4230 Fax: (207) 439-4229 email: dmiliner@msn.com CALL FOR A FREE ESTIMATE

Land with Dock For Sale Kittery, Maine. Well protected deepwater commercial dock with 2 slips. 2 storey building on the dock. Town water and sewer at the site. Paved parking area. Will accomodate two 40’ boats. Possibly able to build a small home on lot.

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Commission a Tender Get a great boat while helping a great cause. Custom-built for you by the Compass Project. Come on in and meet your build team. 12’ Bevins Skiff $850 12’ Echo Bay Dory $1950 16’ Gloucester Light Dory $1,600 Call 207-774-0682 www.compassproject.org compassinfo@maine.rr.com Engine Building Class This is a Special 2 Day Seminar.

You will completely assemble and test run a diesel engine. It will run Sat, 9-5 through Sun, 11-5. Call for dates and details. There will be a limit of 6 for this class.

WWW.JWAYENT.NET JWAYENT@JWAYENT.NET Boat Rental Triumph Boats 17’ & 19’ Center Console available for half day, full day and extended rental. Guilford Boat Yards, View Details www.guilfordboat.com, Guilford, Connecticut 203-453-5031 Delivery Captain Your power or sail boat delivered wherever you need it. Owners welcome on deliveries. Also available for instruction. Captain Tim. 603770-8378. dotgale38.googlepages.com tphsails@comcast.net

only industry approved cleaners that work. We ship UPS, call us at 207-596-7705. www.geminicanvas.com peter@geminicanvas.com Boat Transport Best rates, fully insured, Nationwide and Ocean Freight. Reliable Service. Rob Lee, Maritime. 508758-9409. www.marinasandtransport.com boattransport@comcast.net Atomic 4 engine, 1979 Universal Atomic 4 gasoline engine, model 5101. 4 cyl., raw water cooled. 30hp @ 3000 rpm. From a Pearson 30. Comes complete with 20 gal. gas tank, gauges for oil pressure, water temp., amps. Includes spare parts kit and new automatic electronic ignition kit.

Engine is working well; we recently completed a 200 mile trip with no problems. Moving on to a new diesel. Asking $2,000. for this old but still-purring engine. For more information contact Pemaquid Marine at 207-677-2024.

Heated Boat Storage New heated boat storage building in Harpswell, Maine. Professional service or do-it-yourself space available during lay-up time in the work area as well. Storage rate $11.sq.ft for the season. Call 207833-6443 or email chipneta@comcast.net Winterization Diesel Seminar Includes instruction on oil system, electrical system, fuel systems, cooling systems, basic troubleshooting with discussion period and question & answer period.

September 25, October 16. Price $175. www.jwayent.net jwayent@jwayent.net Repower & Refit Considering repower or refit upgrades to your boat? Our two locations offer you in-house, factory

trained technicians ready to address your upgrades to the highest standards. Stop by or give us a call, we’d be happy to talk about your options. Kittery Point Yacht Yard. 207-439-9582, Eliot yard 207-439-3967. www.kpyy.net jglessner@kpyy.net.

Ocean Master, Motor 40 years in big boats and small ships, BOATWISE instructor. Deliveries, training, management. 401885-3189. capt_bill@cox.net Fiberglass Repair Position Permanent, year-round position available for Fiberglass/Composite Structure Repair Technician. Yankee Marina is a full-service marina and boatyard. Please send resume with cover letter summarizing work experience to www.yankeemarina.com deborah@yankeemarina.com

Pre-purchase surveys Insurance surveys Damage surveys

207.232.8820

Moorings & Slips Small marina on beautiful Great Bay. 16’ to 30’ boats. Bay View Marina, 19 Boston Harbor Road, Dover Point, NH. 603-749-1800.

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Call Gordon at (207) 229-9413 for immediate assistance

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Slips & Moorings in N.H. Limited dockside slips and protected moorings available in pristine Great Bay, New Hampshire.

Leave trailering behind and chase the big stripers more often. Reasonable rates. Great Bay Marine 603-436-5299 or email@greatbaymarine.com

www.northpointyachtcharters.com info@northpointyachtcharters.com

Inside Storage Eric Dow Boat Shop offers inside storage for lovely boats, reasonable rates, exceptional care. Call Eric to discuss your project needs.

Brooklin, Maine 207-359-2277. www.dowboats.com

Moorings Available Kittery Point Yacht Yard has moorings available for the 2010’ summer season. Very well protected and just inside the mouth of the Piscataqua River. Don’t Wait - call now for information: 207-4399582 or email jglessner@kpyy.net.

Marina For Sale For Sale: Wotton’s Wharf Marina in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. For more information call Bruce Tindal at 207-633-6711. www.wottonswharf.com

Rental Moorings Sail beautiful Penobscot Bay. Seasonal moorings in protected Rockland harbor with an expansive float and pier facility for dinghy tie-ups and provisioning. On-site parking.

207-594-1800. www.atlanticchallenge.com info@atlanticchallenge.com

Boat Storage Kittery Point Yacht Yard has two waterfront locations with plenty of off-season storage space available.

Store with KPYY and our full service yard and factory trained technicians are available if you need us.

Call to join our family of customers: 207-439-9582 or email jglessner@kpyy.net.

Maine Chartering Consider chartering your boat(s) to help with those yard bills. Give us a call to talk about options. NPYC 207-557-1872

Moorings Available Boothbay Region Boatyard has

Power Boat Rental Kennebunkport Marina now offers a power boat rental program.

Come pick out your boat and go fishing for the big one. Call 207967-3411. www.kennebunkportmarina.com managerkport@roadrunner.com

Mobile Repair Service Coastal Marine Care, specializing in fiberglass repair, carpet installation, dockside detailing, polish/wax, and marine upholstery services. Experienced, efficient, and fully insured. Offering affordable rates. We come to you. 207756-5244. www.coastalmarinecare.com

Kennebunkport Boat Club Kennebunkport Marina is unveiling The Kennebunkport Boat Club. Call 967-3411 for details. Become a charter member of The Kennebunkport Boat Club. www.kennebunkportmarina.com managerkport@roadrunner.com

Mercury, Yamaha Service Kennebunkport Marina has the only factory trained Mercury and Yamaha technicians located on the water in Kennebunkport to service all of your mechnical needs. www.kennebunkportmarina.com managerkport@roadrunner.com

Kennebunkport Marina Kennebunkport Marina is a full service marina with the staff to meet all of your boating needs.

Limited transient slips available.

Call 967-3411 for rates. www.kennebunkportmarina managerkport@roadrunner.com

Docking Available Kennebunkport Marina has the newest docks on the river with all

CHARTER Charter Phoenix 40’ C&C

new power pedestals and water hook ups. Call today to reserve a slip 207-967-3411. www.kennebunkportmarina.com managerkport@roadrunner.com

seasonal moorings available, $950.

We are located in well protected Ebenecook Harbor, with free launch service, parking, showers, laundry and a well stocked ship store. Email Amy or call us at 207633-6788. www.brby.com dockmaster@brby.com

NorthPoint Yacht Charter Co. Want to off-set yard bills? Call about chartering your boat ■

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Larrain Slaymaker PO Box 252 Rockport, Maine 04856 (207) 557-1872

Caribbean

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Contact Jan at Bayview Rigging & Sails Inc.

207-846-8877

Johanson Boatworks

Rockland, Maine

Extensive bareboat fleet (30-45 feet) Buy or Charter • Power or Sail

www.mecat.com

www.jboatworks.com info@jboatworks.com 207-596-7060

888-832-2287 Charter Maine Cat 30 & 41

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HINCKLEY YACHT CHARTERS Southwest Harbor, Maine 1-800-HYC-SAIL • (207) 244-5008 charters@hinckleyyachts.com

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Abaco, Bahamas

Women Under Sail

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“We’re on the job, so you can be on the water.”

Charter Maine!

Bareboat • Crewed • Power • Sail Trawlers • DownEast Cruisers

Yacht North Charters 182 Christopher Rd, Suite 1, North Yarmouth, ME 04097-6733 207-221-5285 • info@yachtnorth.com • www.yachtnorth.com

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Call these marinas to reserve your seasonal slip/mooring.

MARINA

listed geographically

LOCATION

MAX LOA

TEL

WEBSITE

Stamford Stratford Branford Westbrook Essex Old Saybrook Deep River Portland Mystic

203-359-4500 203-377-4477 203-488-8329 860-399-7906 860-767-2483 860-388-3260 860-526-5560 860-342-4735 860-536-2293

www.byy.com/Stamford www.byy.com/Stratford www.byy.com/Branford www.byy.com/Westbrook www.byy.com/Essex www.byy.com/oldsaybrook www.byy.com/deepriver www.yankeeboatyard.com www.byy.com/Mystic

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

160’ 90’ 60’ 100’ 30’ 60’ 50’ 45’ 65’

Wickford Warwick Warwick Barrington Portsmouth Portsmouth

401-884-7014 401-884-0544 401-884-1810 401-246-1600 401-683-3551 401-683-4000

www.byy.com/Wickford www.byy.com/Warwick www.byy.com/Warwick www.byy.com/Barrington www.byy.com/Portsmouth www.NEBoatworks.com

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

New Bedford Bourne Osterville Salem Salem Newburyport Plymouth

508-997-7390 508-563-7136 877-491-9759 978-740-9890 978-744-2727 978-465-3022 508-746-4500

www.niemiecmarine.com

Yes Yes www.crosbyyacht.com Yes www.byy.com/salem Yes www.pickeringwharf.com Yes www.merri-maryachtbasin.com __ www.byy.com/plymouth Yes

603.436.5299 603-929-1422

www.greatbaymarine.com Yes 50’ www.hamptonrivermarina.com Yes __

207-439-9582 207-363-3602 207-967-3411 207-767-4729 207-799-8191 207-774-1067 207-842-9000 207-846-4326 207-865-3181 207-833-5343 207-443-6277 207-371-2525 207-633-2970 207-633-2922 207-633-0773 207/372/6543 207-596-6573 207-594-4444 207-596-7357 207-469-5902 207-941-8619 207-244-5572 207-244-5600

www.kpyy.net www.yorkharbormarine.com www.kennebunkportmarina.com www.sunset-marina.com www.southportmarine.com www.portlandyacht.com www.maineyacht.com www.yankeemarina.com www.byy.com/South Freeport

SLIPS

CONNECTICUT

Brewer Yacht Haven Marina Brewer Stratford Marina Brewer Bruce & Johnson's Marina Brewer Pilots Point Marina Brewer Dauntless Shipyard Brewer Ferry Point Marina Brewer Deep River Marina Yankee Boat Yard & Marina, Inc. Brewer Yacht Yard at Mystic

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Yes

30’

Yes __

50’ __

Yes Yes __

50’ 36’ __

100’ 50’ 125’ 60’ 40’ 70’

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120’ 60’ 100’ 65’ 65’ __

Yes Yes Yes Yes __

70’ 60’ 40’ __ __

Yes __

60’ __

Yes

50’

Yes __ __ __ __

60’ __ __ __ __

Yes __ __

60’ __ __

__ Yes __

__ 50' __

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes __

45' 50’ 45’ 45’ 50' 60' 50’ 70' __

Yes Yes Yes

40' 100' 60'

RHODE ISLAND

Brewer Wickford Cove Marina Brewer Yacht Yard at Cowesett Brewer Greenwich Bay Marina Brewer Cove Haven Marina Brewer Sakonnet New England Boatworks

MAX MOORINGS LOA

MASSACHUSETTS

Niemiec Marine Kingman Yacht Center Crosby Yacht Yard Brewer Hawthorne Cove Marina Pickering Wharf Marina Merri-Mar Yacht Basin Brewer Plymouth Marine

www.kingmanyachtcenter.com

150’

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Great Bay Marine Hampton River Marina

Newington / Portsmouth Hampton, NH

MAINE

Kittery Point Yacht Yard York Harbor Marine Service Kennebunkport Marina Sunset Marina South Port Marine Portland Yacht Services Maine Yacht Center Yankee Marina & Boatyard Brewer South Freeport Dolphin Marina New Meadows Marina Robinhood Marine Center Boothbay Region Boatyard Carousel Marina Ocean Point Marina Port Clyde General Store Landings Marina Journeys End Ocean Pursuits Bucksport Marina Hamlin’s Marina Hinckley Yacht Service-ME John Williams Boat Company

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Kittery York Harbor Kennnebunkport South Portland South Portland Portland Portland Yarmouth South Freeport Harpswell Brunswick Georgetown Boothbay Harbor Boothbay Harbor East Boothbay Port Clyde Rockland Rockland Rockland Bucksport Hampden Southwest Harbor Mount Desert

www.dolphinmarinaandrestaurant.com

www.newmeadowsmarina.com www.robinhoodmarinecenter.com

www.brby.com www.carouselmarina.com www.oceanpointmarina.com www.LindaBeansPerfectMaine.com

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Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes __

45' 60’ 50' 150' 200’ 35'/46' 35' 42’ 50' 25’ 65' 25'/50' 75' 50’ __

www.rocklandlandingsmarina.com Yes http://oharacorporation.com/marina.html

www.oceanpursuits.com www.portharbormarine.com www.hamlinsmarina.com www.hinckleyyachts.com www.jwboatco.com

54' Yes 30' __ __

Yes 40' Yes 32' __ __ __ __

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Fabric Project Quotes Coastal Marine Canvas (Belfast) wants to quote your next fabric project. Want new berth cushions,

Biminis? Perhaps a Dodger or a salon interior? mainemarinecanvas.com info@mainemarinecanvas

Help Wanted - Sailmaker Help Wanted - Experienced sailmaker, year around postion, knowledge of all aspects of sailmaking,

salary based on experience. 978388-0017 www.withumsailmakers.com

Advertiser index Allied Boat Works

59

Great Bay Marine

Northeast Boat Hauling

71

Atlantic Boat

20

Gulf of Maine Yacht Sales

87

Oak Hill Financial

75

Bamforth Marine

45

Hallett Canvas and Sails

37

Ocean Point Marina

88

Bayview Rigging & Sails

24

Hamilton Marine

2

Ocean Pursuits

46

Beavertail Rod and Reel

48

Hamlins Marina

9

Padebco Custom Yachts

56

Beta Marine

33

Hampton River Marina

Boat U.S.

14

Handy Boat Service

Boatwise

73

Hansen Marine Engineering

Bohndell Sails & Rigging

46

Haut Insurance Agency

58

3, 9, 31

Hinckley Yacht Charters

Boothbay Region Boatyard Bowden Marine Service

58

Brewer Plymouth Marine

9

Pemaquid Marine

42 63

Pickering Wharf Marina

72

Pierce Yacht Co.

54

65

Pope Sails

49

Howard Boats

25

Port Clyde General Store

Islesboro Marine Enterprises

33

Portland Yacht Services

Brewer Yacht Yards

99

J-Way Enterprises

75

J.R. Overseas

Buck’s Harbor Marine Charters

93

Burials at Sea

94

Jeff’s Marine

3, 9

48

Royal River Boatyard

24

Russell’s Marine

94

22

SailMaine

83

Sailmaking Support Systems

72

John Williams Boat Company

89

Jonesport Shipyard

Cay Electronics

13

Journey’s End Marina

Charter Phoenix

96

Kanberra Gel

73

Johanson Boatworks

62

Sawyer & Whitten

44 86 9, 23

Kennebunkport Marina

32

SeaTech

95

Kent Thurston Marine Surveyor

92

SK Marine Electronics

91

Kingman Yacht Center Kittery Point Boat Builders

Compass Project

71

Kittery Point Yacht Yard

Crosby Yacht Yard

Samoset Scandia Yacht Sales

91

3

65

Seal Cove Boatyard

93

89

64, 88

35

Coastal Marine Care

CPT Autopilot

33, 42, 96

3, 9, 13, 20, 56, 88

9, 47

Coastal Marine Canvas

Crocker’s Boatyard

64

65

30

3

Riley Marine Models

J&S Marine Services

Casey Yacht Enterprises

Concordia Company

3, 9

46 3, 55

Jackson’s Hardware & Marine

Carousel Marina

100

3

Robinhood Marine Center

89

Cisco Brewers

3, 36

92

Capt. Jay Michaud Marine Surveys

Chase, Leavitt & Co.

26

Penobscot Marine Museum

Brooklin Inn

Burr Brothers Boats

3, 9, 18

3, 9, 13, 44 34 3, 9

Sound Marine Diesel

33

South Port Marine Yacht Connection

9, 57

Spruce Head Marine

47

Stanley Scooter

75

Kramp Electronics

13

Lake & Sea Boatworks

52

The Yacht Connection

86

Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding, Inc.

61

Theriault Marine Consulting

95

9

MacDougalls Cape Cod

13

Triple M Plastic Products

Curtis Yacht Brokerage, LLC

91

Maine Sailing Partners

43

URL

Custom Float Services

12

Maine Veterinary Referral Center

42

Warren Pond Boatworks

19

CW Johnson, Inc.

63

Maine Yacht Center

40

Waterline Services

63

Dark Harbor Boat Yard

46

Marblehead Trading Company

Wesmac

61

Dockwise Yacht Transport

15

Marine Engines

70

West Marine

11

Dolphin Marina

60

Merri-Mar Yacht Basin

3, 9

Whales Tale

30

Dor-Mor Inc

89

MIke Martel

91

Whiting Marine

33

Miliner Marine Services

94

Wichard, Inc.

27

Duchak Maritime Services

92, 95

3, 13

65 66, 67

Dumas Welding

19

Mobile Marine Canvas

10

Wilbur Yachts

Easy Bailer

71

Moose Island Marine

45

Winter Island Yacht Yard

Ecovita

92

Moose Landing Marina

87

Withum Sailmakers

73

Enos Marine

45

Morris Yachts

9

Women Under Sail

32, 96

Finestkind Boatyard

52

Mystic Shipyard

Finestkind Brokerage

88

Navtronics

Fred J. Dion Yacht Yard

3, 9

New England Boatworks

71 9, 21

3, 53

Wooden Boat Show

13, 44

Yacht North Charters

75, 96

3, 9, 41

Yacht Sales Network

87

48

Gamage Shipyard

92

New Meadows Marina

Gannon and Benjamin, Inc.

33

Niemiec Marine

Gemini Marine Canvas

72

Norm Leblanc

94

Yarmouth Boatyard

13, 59

Gordons Marine Referral

95

North East Rigging Systems

13

York Harbor Marine Service

57, 86

North Point Yacht Charter Co.

96

North Sails Direct

62

Gowen Marine Gray & Gray, Inc.

98 Points East April 2011

9, 45 87

52 3, 9

Yankee Boat Yard and Marina Yankee Marina & Boatyard

3 3, 9, 13

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more from a marina Brewer Yacht Yards ... get more with your investment! Secure a slip at Brewer, and enjoy free dockage and discounted fuel at 22 New England locations. Reserve your 2011 slip for the best amenities – and the most skilled service team – in the industry.

Whether looking for a seasonal slip or a year-round ‘home’ for your boat, Brewer is second to none.

Call or visit a Brewer yard today.

New York Greenport Stirling Harbor Glen Cove Port Washington Mamaroneck

(631) 477-9594 (631) 477-0828 (516) 671-5563 (516) 883-7800 (914) 698-0295

Connecticut Stamford Stratford Branford Westbrook Old Saybrook Essex Deep River Mystic

(203) 359-4500 (203) 377-4477 (203) 488-8329 (860) 399-7906 (860) 388-3260 (860) 767-0001 (860) 526-5560 (860) 536-2293

Rhode Island Wickford Warwick Greenwich Bay Barrington Portsmouth

(401) 884-7014 (401) 884-0544 (401) 884-1810 (401) 246-1600 (401) 683-3551

Massachusetts N. Falmouth Plymouth Salem

(508) 564-6327 (508) 746-4500 (978) 740-9890

Maine South Freeport

(207) 865-3181

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