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The Boating Magazine for Coastal New England Volume 14 Number 2 May 2011

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74˚ N to 56˚ S The crew of four planned to ply the Northwest Passage and round Cape Horn in one voyage, gathering scientific data. “We wondered,” said Newport’s Herb McCormick, “can we really do this?”

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David Roper

Behind her Mona Lisa Smile, Part I Was this a “coming of age” cruise for Dave?

Bob White

Consider destination races Racing to a new destination is interesting and fun Randy Randall

The lowly grapple saves a marriage It dredged up a cherished fishing rod.

D E PA R T M E N T S Letters..........................................7 Some emotional reminders of Dodge; George Lawson built the Boondoggler; Destiny and the SSCA Downeast Gam. Mystery Harbor...........................13 Nobody got it, so try again. We’ve got a hint.

News..........................................23 Tall Ship to circle Newfoundland; Fires threat to Maine islands; Brewer increases fuel cuts.

The Racing Pages ........................52 Northeast sailors excel in tropics; Five New Englanders on Offshore team; Heads-up on four local races.

Media ........................................56 “With Reckless Abandon” by Capt. Jim Sharp.

Final passages ............................58 Fishing reports............................60 South: With warming temps, fish will be biting.

Yardwork ...................................62 True North’s diesel-electric hybrid; Teaching science through building boats; The Apprenticeshop’s short programs.

Fetching along ............................65 There’s solace to the silence of the wilds Calendar.....................................66 Not a dull moment from now through fall.

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The Boating Magazine for Coastal New England Volume 14, Number 2 Publisher Joseph Burke Editor Nim Marsh Marketing director Bernard Wideman Ad representatives Lynn Emerson Whitney Gerry Thompson, David Stewart Ad design Holly St. Onge Art Director Custom Communications/John Gold Contributors David Roper, David Buckman, Randy Randall, Roger Long, Mike Martel Delivery team Christopher Morse, Victoria Boucher, Michael Hopgood, Jeff Redston Points East, a magazine by and for boaters on the coast of New England, is owned by Points East Publishing, Inc, with offices in Portsmouth, N.H. The magazine is published nine times annually. It is available free for the taking. More than 25,000 copies of each issue are distributed through more than 700 outlets from Greenwich, Conn., to Eastport, Maine. The magazine is available at marinas, yacht clubs, chandleries, boatyards, bookstores and maritime museums. If you have difficulty locating a distribution site, call the office for the name of the distributor closest to you. The magazine is also available by subscription, $26 for nine issues by first-class mail. Single issues and back issues (when available) cost $5, which includes first-class postage.

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EDITOR’S PAGE/Nim Ma rsh

The grace of the day ew Year’s Day resolutions that fact. have a hollow ring com“Is it not recognition of this pared with boating plans which makes the old sailor subliminally etched in the cerehappy, though in the storm, and bral cortex during winter. Such hopeful even on a plank out in dreams approach a painfully palmid-ocean?” he continues, pable reality by May Day, yet as “Surely it is this, for the spiritual realizable as they seem, they, too, beauty of the sea, absorbing have difficulty in the borning. man’s soul, permits of no infidels Freud called such propositions on its boundless expanse.”

“The imaginary gratification of unconscious wishes.”

(Editor’s aside: Slocum’s “spiriDr. Phil McGraw might put it tual” might be a key: A noted Points East file photo this way: “Weather, finances, therapist once declared: “Psylife’s unexpected squalls perhaps “Surely it is this, for the spiritual beauty of the chotherapy makes the car run sea, absorbing man’s soul, permits of no infireluctance to take the leap conwell; spirituality makes the car dels on its boundless expanse.” spire to slow the crazy momeninto an airplane.” With that kind tum of winter’s dreams. But strip away all the excuses of perceptual boost, most any conditions can seem and ask yourself, Are you ready to commit to taking quite fine.) that leap?”

But, Dr. Phil, life does get in the way, and three-week Thanks to Capt. Slocum, we have a fresh, more posexpeditions become three-day-weekend jaunts, and itive way to look generally upon obstacles. But how do weekend overnights turn out to be daysails. Adven- we address these impediments on an hour-to-hour, tures both large and small are put on hold for more fa- day-to-day basis when on that day we are free to hit vorable times, tides and weather patterns. We know the water? Legendary mountaineer and Patagonia this syndrome all too well, for we are as subject to it founder Yvon Chouinard shed light on a daily philosas anyone else. So we decided to take some inspiration ophy when he wrote, “Life is a clear, flowing stream, and a little attitude adjustment from disparate and each day, each minute, each instant must be met sources to help us tweak the way we approach the on its own terms, fresh, forever changing and irretrievdays on which life’s vicissitudes allow us to be on the able.” water. Let’s walk ourselves through some steps toward To recreational mariners, on the less-than-ideal days enlightenment. they can be afloat, this means donning foul-weather The first shot of wisdom comes from Joshua Slocum, gear when it rains and an extra fleece and woolie hat arguably North America’s greatest-ever small-boat and gloves when the temperature drops. To the sailor cruising man. Slocum speaks to us with prose crafted on a blustery day, it means reefing at the dock and 117 years ago, in the introduction (or “greeting,” as he shortening sail often thereafter. To the powerboater, it called it) to his 1894 book “The Voyage of the Liber- means throttling down and quartering to the seas. To dade,” about the passage from Brazil to Washington, both, it means running with the weather when it D.C., in a 35-foot junk-rigged canoe he built on the starts to get unmanageable and accepting that they beach after his bark, the Aquidneck, foundered. may be overnighting somewhere other than home.

Slocum wrote: “Be the current against us, what matOur peripatetic correspondent Jim Aitken, who plies ters it? Be it in our favor, we are carried hence, to what the waters between Florida and Stockton Springs, place or what purpose? Our plan of the whole voyage Maine, aboard the s/v Linda Mae, declares his daily is so insignificant that it matters little, maybe, whither fair-weather-or-foul philosophy at the bottom of each we go, for the ‘grace of the day’ is the same.” of his email messages: “It’s the set of the sails and not Capt. Joshua is saying that regardless of the circum- the gales that determines the way you go.” stances a particular day presents – headwinds, conIn today’s bumper-sticker vernacular, all of this trary currents, foul tides, high winds, big seas, illness, might equate to the ubiquitous one-size-fits-all even death – that day remains a favor, a blessing, a proverb, “A bad day at sea is better than a good day at privilege, a pristine gift, a clean slate to make of what the office.” If, in fact, there really are any bad days at we will. No number of contrary elements can ever alter sea.

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Letters He likes to be greeted by Dodge Thanks for leaving the image of Dodge Morgan, in foul-weather gear on your web home page. It is a good to see that Dodge comes up and says “hello” on opening the page each time. While I am sure there is lost ad revenue, there are just some times when other things are more important. Thank you for this decision: It is a good one.

Gary Ambrose Denmark, Maine

Photo courtesy Dick de Grasse

SSCA Downeast Gam hosts Dick and Kathy de Grasse light a candle in memory of Dodge. “We don't often enough give tribute to some of the world’s true adventurers,” Dick wrote.

An emotional reminder of Dodge The Florida Middle Keys held an American Cancer Society, Relay For Life event in Marathon on April 23. We raised over $120,000, of which $6,700 was raised by the Cruiser’s Net Team here in Boot Key Harbor, Marathon. This event included an emotional reminder of those family and friends lost to cancer and a pledge to find a cure.

Kathy and I lit a candle for our friend and fellow sailor Dodge Morgan during the luminaria part of the ceremony. It is fitting that our fellow cruisers remember just how great a sailor Dodge Morgan was. We had many contacts with Dodge over the years, and we especially remember him anchoring his schooner in Gilkey Harbor, Maine, and speaking at our Downeast gam at our home on Islesboro. We instantly became friends. We’ve made a point to save many of his pieces he wrote for Points East. Dodge is missed. Fairwinds.

Dick and Kathy de Grasse s/v Endeavour Lying Boot Key Harbor, Marathon, Fla.

George Lawson built Boondoggler Correction: With thanks to Sturgis Haskins, of Sorrento, Maine, longtime MDI fan and owner, the Boondoggler (see “1920s MDI Knockabout Boondoggler is restored,” April 2011) was built by George F. Lawson of Dorchester, Mass., not George W. Lawley of the same town. The plaque in Boondoggler’s cockpit says: “George F. Lawson, Dorchester, Mass.”

Jon Emerson North Haven, Maine www.pointseast.com

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The Plotting Party for the 20th Downeast Gam: Capt. Dave Scott, Adm. Peggy (Destiny crew), Capt. Alex AllmayerBeck, Adm. Diane Allmayer-Beck (Ariel III Crew).

s/v Destiny’s 2010 northern swing Ahoy Points East! I’m Dave Scott. My wife, Peggy, and I have been full-time cruisers for almost 11 years.

We moved aboard in August 2000 and travel the East Coast from Maine to the Florida Keys and the Bahamas. It’s a great life.

When we’re on our northern swing, we always grab the latest issue of Points East as we find there are wonderful articles about what is happening Downeast.

You have a great magazine.

Last summer, in Maine, on our southbound leg in late August, we anchored off Snow Island. The Stars and Stripes were flying from the flagpole, and Eagle was secure and looking beautiful on her mooring. No sooner was the anchor down than a nasty thunderstorm came through bringing whitecaps between us and the island. That good Maine mud held on to our plow and just wouldn’t let go. When it was all over, it was getting on toward suppertime. With another good weather window for the next day, we didn’t think we Points East May 2011

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had time to explore and see if Eagle’s owner was at home.

Later, we were in Falmouth, Maine, actually on a mooring at the Portland Yacht Club as a guest of your Gerry Thompson, when we learned of the tragic passing of Dodge Morgan. Among our cruising friends, there was a sincere sense of loss. Crossing wakes with each other on our voyage south, we would reminisce about a memory, a reminder, an article or meeting that would help to make a more complete picture of this sailor’s life and his contribution to our lifestyle.

While sitting out the winter in Hampton, Va. – not our choice but that’s another story – we received the October/November issue of Points East sent to us by Diane Allmayer-Beck. She and her husband Alex are longtime cruisers/sailors, currently living in Belfast, Maine.

I’ve read many good articles and contributions from your editor in many different venues. The topper is the excellent write-up for Dodge Morgan in that issue. Well done! You captured the essence of a truly wonderful man, a sailor and seaman in every sense of the word.

Thank you.

A real surprise came when we turned to page 24/25!

Yes, this was the 20th SSCA Downeast Gam. The Gam takes place the first weekend in August, and as you mentioned is hosted by Dick and Kathy DeGrasse.

They have a cottage on Islesboro, and a Tartan 34, Endeavour, that took them across the Atlantic and back, and that they continue to sail and cruise down in the Keys to escape the winters in Maine. A follow-up story, giving a little history of the Gam and highlighting some of the amazing boats and people that have attended over the years, might make interesting reading.

Now to add a little background to that article: Diane and Alex Allmayer-Beck cruised for many years on an Island Packet 31, Ariel III, out of Belfast, and for most of those previous 19 Downeast Gams, they were the cohosts and were the host boat. They’d anchor Ariel III, in Broad Cove and do registration and check-in of the boats as they came to anchor. Beginning in 2001, Peggy and I attended the Gam every summer we went north.

We’ve missed only two, one for our son’s wedding, and the other for our daughter’s first baby. You know you couldn’t have kept the Admiral away from those events. (I might be the Captain, but there’s no question who’s the Admiral.) In that time, we became very good friends with Diane and Alex and, of course, with Dick and Kathy DeGrasse.

This past summer we arrived in Belfast in July and enjoyed our first Maine lobster of the year with Alex and Diane. But Ariel III wasn’t in the water, another long story. How were they going to go to the Gam? Who would co-host? Who’d be out there registering all the boats and crews, signing up new folks for SSCA, giving www.pointseast.com

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out information on anchoring, events, speakers, selling those commemorative T-shirts and hats, giving out local magazines and catalogs, and most important, distributing copies of Points East?

“Ah, we’ll be guests on your boat?” says Diane. “We can offload your forward cabin into our garage.” Alex smiles and says, “Yeah, you can help us co-host. We’ll make a run to Hannaford tomorrow and provision.”

Yikes! This is going to happen.

So there we are. Front and center in that picture on pages 24 and 25. Yes, Destiny is our wonderful home, and she takes great care of us. If I do say so myself, she looks pretty darn good there all dressed out with the dinghies alongside for the Friday night raft-up.

Less than 30 minutes before that picture was taken, it was raining cats, dogs and seals. But cruisers will not miss a party. They will persevere, and look at the result!

If you look at the four people aboard Destiny, from left to right are Diane, Peggy, always working, in the purple (violet?) lady’s Gam T-shirt, myself trying not to trip on the mainsheet traveler, and Alex ready to catch me, or more likely, to lead the applause if I go over the lifeline. How about those green Gam T-shirts?

I’m wearing mine again today, Thursday, 17 March.

Happy St. Paddy’s Day! We had 45 dinghies tied up astern that afternoon along with two smaller sloops. At least 65 boats registered for the Gam, but I don’t have the final count.

Some folks didn’t come by boat, and Kathy DeGrasse has the final figure after the shoreside registration on Saturday. It was an absolutely gorgeous weekend, our best weather in 10 years.

Dave Scott s/v Destiny In transit

Dodge, you were indeed ‘one-off’ I was heartbroken to hear of Dodge Morgan’s passing. I had met him about 20 years ago when I was working for Bob Ballard at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Dodge was giving a talk on American Promise and his epic non-stop journey around the world.

After his talk, I offered to introduce him to Ballard (who, unfortunately, was out) and show him the ROV Jason at the Blake Deep Submergence Lab (which was in). He enjoyed that immensely, and as we talked, he recounted how he grew up north of Boston and worked at a Cape Cod boatyard in his youth. I invited him to come over to my uncle’s on Harraseeket Road, South Freeport.

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knew and loved, got along famously. He admired my uncle’s “Grub-Tub” sailing dinghies, and we had lunch Chez Grubby. It was here that Dodge uttered a couple of beauties: When he was discussing his purchase of the “Maine Times,” he stated that he “wanted to get a lot of those goddamned tree-huggers off the masthead!”

Later on, when we were discussing the ongoing gymnastics the state of Maine was undergoing concerning the proper disposal of human waste among the coastal communities, he stated: “Well, there’s nothin’ more recyclable than a human turd....”

Fair sailing, Dodge, you were an original.

Fred Douglass Cataumet Mass./Five Islands, Maine

He’ll get PE while in Hong Kong My wife and I are moving to Hong Kong for three years, but I still want to receive Points East. Thus I’m having the magazine sent to my mother’s home in Rockport, Mass. Mom, in turn, will forward the issues to me or save them for when we return on vacation.

I’m not renewing my subscriptions to any of the wellknown glossy sailing magazines as Points East is by far a better read, and more relevant, too. It’s the only sailing magazine I’d miss while in Hong Kong.

Jacob Meunier Rockport, Mass.

Do you know about the TWIC? Two years after I should have, and one year after I was supposed to, I went and enrolled for my TWIC today. TWIC stands for Transportation Worker Identification Credential. This program is administered by the Transportation Security Administration.

The credential is required by law for, among other people, all holders of USCG licenses. While I will probably never use my TWIC to enter controlled areas (its intended purpose), I am feeling a bit better about being in compliance with the law, especially as I need to renew my license next year.

A TWIC is basically a fancy I.D. card with a chip in it containing biographic and biometric data (fingerprints) as well as a digital photograph. It is used to control access to critical areas around ports and other transportation-related areas. It is part of our country’s ever-increasing security consciousness.

To get my TWIC, I first visited the TSA website to preenroll and make an appointment at a nearby enrollment center. In addition to filling in the biographical information online, there is a disclosure form to print and fill out, as well as a list of the required identity documents. A passport alone makes the grade, as will a combination of a driver’s license and a social security card or birth certificate. editor@pointseast.com

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Next, in about one month, I will be contacted to come in and pick up my credential. At that time, my fingerprint will be scanned and checked against the card’s data, and I will create a PIN. After that, I will probably put the card in a safe place and wait five years to renew it. While I have mixed feelings about being required to enroll in the program at all, I was pleasantly surprised at the ease of the process.

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Even Nelson wasn’t good pickled I have always been a fan of David Buckman’s writing, and he would probably have an easy time of it making

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me a fan of his galley skills as well, if only he didn’t fry his bilge-marinated steaks in an iron pan, serve them with breakfast potatoes, and wash them down with a cheap Pinochet. I’m no wine connoisseur, but I certainly can tell the difference between Pine Tar and PouillyFuisse.

Yet he calls my classic chowder “bloody boiled fish”?

Suggests that I was, er, inappropriately effusive about it? I see a similarity here to appreciating Poe: You might think “The Raven” is brilliant, but you wouldn’t want to go drinking with Edgar Allen. That would be to invite the D.T.s. So I have the greatest respect for David’s writing but perhaps I’ll pack a few Snickers bars the next time – if ever – I’m invited aboard Leight.

Don’t even talk to me about pickled beets. Nothing is good, or ever has been good, once it’s pickled, including Lord Nelson. Pickled beets are nothing more than red roots in a specimen jar, and they belong in the biology lab or on a museum shelf with the baby snakes in alcohol and not on my dinette table.

David, please get a nice little grill. They make them for sailboats. If you can’t bake your potatoes, hand-cut your fries and crisp them in some oil. Drink better wine: Move up to the $8 a bottle stuff, but do it gradually – you don’t want to shock your system. Lastly, pickled beets – what pickled beets? Oops! Did I hear a splash??

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Perspectives Behind her Mona Lisa smile: Part I I remember. . . . he sat before me in all her 21-yearold splendor. She looked relaxed, as if she were enjoying the coolness that came with the late summer afternoon. Her hair was cut short. She combed it with her fingers now, tilting her head back while putting every windblown strand in place.

And my 17 years sat before her, quiet and motionless except for an occasional wince from the pain of my sunburned forehead. I leaned back, surveying the horizon like an old salt at the end of a dying day. The true intent of the gesture, however, was to peripherally catch a glimpse of her tiny white shorts and the long tan legs that flowed so wondrously out of them.

I didn’t think of her perspective. I was 17. I didn’t realize that it was not too late for the setting sun to show the peach fuzz of a beard on my face. I didn’t realize that the tufts of curly red hair that sprouted from under the band of my dirty white tennis hat – which I had put on much too late in the day – made me look like a sun-baked cabbage-patch character.

It didn’t seem necessary for us to talk now. I figured that now was an accepted period of contemplation over the beauty of the sail we’d just had. And she may have been thinking of that. I definitely was not. We’d anchored in an isolated little cove, not far from an island with a flat sandy beach that partially rimmed my small cruising sloop. It was a good, safe anchorage and we had things all to ourselves.

“Most everyone will have to be back to the rat race tomorrow morning,” I said finally. I wondered if I had broken a silence that I shouldn’t have. I couldn’t be too careful.

She turned to me and smiled. “But not you, Dave.

Not the roving sailor.”

“And you,” I asked “when do you have to be back?”

“Not till three o’clock.”

“Tomorrow?”

“I hope so. It’s way after three o’clock today.”

My thoughts raced. She spoke: “Dave, where did you get the money to buy this cute little boat?”

I’d never thought it “cute.” “It cost me $2,500, and I earned every cent of it myself, pumping gas all last

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summer in a marina. My dream ever since I can remember has been to buy a boat and sail up and down the Massachusetts coast by myself.”

“And you’re halfway now,” she said.

“Yeah, though sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever get out of Hyannis. People have been so nice.”

“Were those some of your college friends from Hyannis at the party where we met?”

“Well, mostly, yeah, college friends.” I hurried it along. “And you? You’re just here for the summer fun?”

“Just here for the summer fun. I’ve been coming every summer since freshman year. I think I told you at the party, but I go to Ohio State. And you said you went where?”

My mind raced, and landed on the only college I could think of. “Union. Union College.” It was my older brother’s school.

She looked at me now and cocked her head a little.

“Just started? Got a major yet?’

“Me? Just started? No. God no, I’m a junior. Well, junior this coming year.”

“Oh, I could have sworn …. wow, it was so loud at that party.”

“No, I don’t think we got that far. I mostly told you about sailing,” I said.

“So what is your major?” she asked.

“Psychology.”

“Terrific. My major, too! We do have a lot to talk about. I’m afraid, however, that I’m an old lady. Be graduating this coming May.” “No problem,” I said. “I like older women.” And then I winked at her.

She smiled slightly, cocked her head, and leaned towards me, her face near mine. Over her shoulder, I glimpsed a small piece of the day’s sun lingering over the beach. My palms started to sweat. “You’d make a cute little brother,” she said.

That hurt. It made me angry. Little brother . . . .

“I didn’t mean that in an intimidating way, David,” she said, finally. David, I thought. David. No one ever called me David, except Mr. Irving, that old guidance counselor this year at high school. I offered her a beer.

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She leaned over my lap to reach for a beer. Suddenly she was all face, up close. “Let’s swim ashore and go for a walk after I finish the beer,” she said. My hand clutched tight to the cockpit seat.

“No, thank you.”

“I think I’ll have one.” I grabbed for the six-pack in the cooler under the cockpit seat. It felt like a secret weapon, a teenager’s spinach, a last shot to make me brave. My mind scanned the previous few minutes.

Cute little brother…but then again, she’d called me a roving sailor . . . she’d accepted my offer to come on the boat at that party. And now she was five miles from civilization, with the sun going down. And three o’clock tomorrow, she’d said. Tomorrow. One hell of a long date.

I was smug again.

I opened the beer. She didn’t seem to notice; she was looking at the water. It was getting dark now, and quiet. The wind was gone and the water had ceased patting and was now rubbing the white sides of the boat. I wondered what she was thinking. I gulped from my beer, feeling the biting bubbles on my throat.

The words of a seemingly profound sentence about the night’s serenity came to my lips, but then I thought they would seem phony. “Nice night,” came out instead.

“Oh, yes, things are so … so passive and serene,” she said.

I thought about constructing another sentence, something about the gloriousness of sail, something about nature’s breath being idyllic propulsion. There’s some syllables, I thought.

“I think I will have a beer now,” she said softly. But I was preoccupied with “idyllic propulsion.” For a moment I didn’t answer. “Never mind, I’ll get it,” she said. She leaned over my lap to reach for a beer. Suddenly she was all face, up close. “Let’s swim ashore and go for a walk after I finish the beer,” she said. My hand clutched tight to the cockpit seat.

“Great,” I chirped. She pulled on the tab of the can, and then moved to a prone position on the cockpit floor. I watched her there, her eyes closed and a slight smile on her lips. I looked at her white shorts and my mind had us swimming to shore. Then a huddle for warmth. Warming her. Shoulders stretched big to protect. Bodies close. Touching. And then a long kiss.

In my lightheadedness I spoke, “We’ll take the rest of the sex-pack with us.”

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“What?”

“Six-pack. Beer. We’ll bring it with us.”

“Oh,” she said. She had that half-smile again.

My palms were still sweating and I wiped them on my cut off jeans. There was a long pause and I didn’t know what to do next.

“Tell me of some of the places you’ve been since you left home?” she asked.

“Oh. Lots of stops. The usual places.”

“Like where?”

“Just places down the coast. You know.”

“I don’t. I really don’t. That’s precisely the point. I don’t live around here, remember?”

“That’s right. I keep forgetting. Well, I’ve been to Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, Plymouth, and a whole mess of little harbors.”

“Do you know people along the way?”

“Some places.” There was another long pause. She looked into me carefully.

“Wanna go to the beach now?” I asked.

“How come you don’t want to just sit and talk?”

“I do. Really. I just thought you wanted to go on the beach, that’s all. You do, don’t you?”

“Yes, but not this minute.”

“OK. I just wanted to know.”

“Now you know.”

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I became worried. I was worried that it would get too cold for swimming soon. I was worried about how I was handling things. I was worried about this “little brother” business. I looked over at her in the dwindling light. She was running her forefinger around the top of her can of beer while staring at the stars. I looked where she was staring. “That’s Venus, the evening star,” I said.

“I don’t know the stars. You’ve given me a real treat by sharing all this with me today, David.”

“This is my world,” I said easily. “I suppose it’s different back in Ohio. I mean, same stars and all, just different.”

“That’s why I come here for the summers. I guess the sun and the sand and the sea help fortify me for the coming year at school. It’s nice.”

“Then why keep going back to Ohio?”

She put the beer down and turned on her side, leaned on one elbow, and looked at me. “It’s my home.

It’s where I was raised. Just like this is where you were raised.”

I smiled, and tilted my head at her. “Yeah, but isn’t Ohio kind of, you know, well . . . ugly?”

She sat up. She was upset. “Now look, David . . . .”

My face prickled and I realized I’d made a mistake, my second: “I just asked. That’s all. Look, I don’t know. I don’t know. I just heard. That’s all.”

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“Well, don’t believe all you hear.”

“I don’t.”

“Well, OK. I think a person should always go out and see places, and things, before going around and commenting about them.”

I leaned forward, trying to be compassionate. “Look, I was only trying to kid you a little. Of course I don’t know anything about Ohio.”

She smiled. “I guess I’m just a little touchy about my home state.”

“Yeah, sorry.”

Our part of the earth was rapidly losing its heat from the day. Now, if it happened at all, it would be a

cold swim. Already she had put her shoulders closer together and leaned forward in an attempt to keep warm. She was thinking again; I could just tell. But what was she thinking?

I became more and more uneasy. I hadn’t wanted to get into an argument. I hadn’t wanted to discuss this. I wanted that swim, or at least what came after that swim. I knew I was now in uncharted waters regarding what to do next. Instinct was all I had left; it was now at the helm.

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Consider destination races wice in the 13 summers since we bought Preamble, our Island Packet 37, Julie and I have taken the plunge and entered organized, offshore races.

In 2005, we raced in the MarionBermuda Cruising Yacht Race with good friends aboard and with a fair amount of success. Most recently, we entered the 2009 Marblehead to Halifax Ocean Race, in which we were early dropouts after a bit of quick and easy mental calculus involving questions about why we sail in the first place. While we would never describe ourselves as racers, we definitely would argue that both races helped us to grow as sailors and boat mates. What remains to be seen is whether we will enter another such race.

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The Marion Bermuda Race is an ISAF Category 1 race, which is described as follows: “A race of long distance, well offshore, in large unprotected bays, and in waters where large waves, strong currents, or conditions leading to rapid onset

of hypothermia are possible, where yachts must be completely self-sufficient for extended periods of time, capable of withstanding heavy storms and prepared to meet serious emergencies without the expectation of outside assistance.” As such, there are rigorous entry requirements for both the vessel and the crew. Meeting these requirements took some doing on our part.

After serving three years as our primary residence, followed by four summers of cruising, Preamble was very functional, but she also was in need of some overhauling. There were repairs and safety modifications to be made, and there was a lot of required emergency equipment to purchase and install, followed by an official inspection to make sure all had been done correctly.

I did the work myself. This has always been important to me. I figure that, when something goes awry offshore, I stand a much better chance of fixing it if I was the one who did the original work.

When inspection day came, passing muster and the positive comments I received from the inspector gave me a nice shot of confidence in both Preamble and myself.

We also needed to deal with the matter of crew. Prior to this, our crew had always consisted of Julie and me and our then 13-year-old daughter Rachel. We decided to invite some sailing friends, Kim and Marie, to join us. We had sailed in tandem with them in the past, we knew they were up to the challenge, and we felt comfortable with the prospect of spending time with them offshore. We also decided to have Rachel fly to Bermuda and to make the return trip a family cruise. Both turned out to be good editor@pointseast.com

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The race itself was challenging, starting with a beat down Buzzards Bay in 20-plus-knot winds. This was followed up by two and a half days of 25- to 35-knot northeast winds and spreader-high standing waves in the Gulf Stream. Next, it was a light southwest breeze and a slow crawl to the finish. After making our way through the cut and into St. George’s Harbour, we dropped the hook, popped some champagne, and went for a swim. The feelings of satisfaction were indescribable, and they were immense.

The trip home was a milk run. Bright sunshine, calm seas and light breezes made for an easy trip. Rachel stood a four-hour watch each midday. Dolphins played in our bow wave. We fished and read books and ate good food. We made landfall in time for July Fourth in Newport, and then spent another week cruising around the Vineyard before arriving back in our then

home port of Hull, Mass., tired but feeling very fulfilled.

We ended up finishing 8th overall, after the handicapping voodoo was done, much better than we had ever dared to dream. More importantly, we had sailed our boat across a significant piece of water, through some nasty conditions, and gained quite a bit of priceless experience and confidence along the way.

Our second foray into the world of offshore racing was quite different. The Marblehead-Halifax Race is an ISAF Category 2 race, slightly less rigorous in its requirements for both boat and crew. Having done Marion-Bermuda just a few years previous, the preparations were a bit easier to make. Preamble’s normal summer cruising commission needed only slight modifications, and we decided to enter in a doublehanded category, alleviating any crewing decisions.

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northwest, the backside of a cold front that was quickly exiting the area. We popped out the asymmetrical as we crossed the line and enjoyed about an hour of hull speed before the wind died completely. Over the next 15 hours we managed to eke out a further 12 miles.

The forecast called for nothing above a spotty five knots for the next three days. As I relieved Julie on deck at four in the morning, she vocalized the night’s unspoken thoughts with a simple “your call,” and headed below for some rack. I mulled it over, checking forecasts, projecting boat speeds and distances, and, at about 0630, I fired up the diesel and sent off an email, officially retiring from the race.

The MHOR committee ended up extending the race window by 48 hours. Still, many boats either dropped out or did not finish. As Preamble is not the most nimble light-air boat, I doubt we would have gotten in on time. Instead, we motored north and, about 25 miles south of Monhegan Island, found a nice westerly sea breeze by three that afternoon. Without regrets, we spent the next two stolen weeks traipsing around our favorite cruising grounds, still managing to find new harbors and anchorages even after so many years.

The big question now is whether or not there are more destination races in our future. I imagine that sometime in the next few years we will look at another

race and weigh the minuses and pluses.

The way I see it, there are two major factors on the downside. First, there is the expense: These races can be quite costly to gear up for. We spent over $10,000 preparing for the Marion-Bermuda Race, and $3,000 to $4,000 more for Marblehead-Halifax. Second, when racing, you can’t pick your weather window. Both of our races were in less than ideal conditions, albeit conditions at opposite ends of the spectrum. In both cases, I am sure we would have looked for better departure windows had we been cruising.

On the upside, there are many reasons to race again.

Planning routes, learning about currents, and studying weather patterns all appeal to my scientific side.

Sailing to new destinations is interesting and fun. It is great to spend time with friends, both new and old, in such an energy-charged environment. But, most of all, I enjoy knowing that my boat and crew are in good, fighting trim, prepared to meet the challenges that routinely arise whether racing or cruising.

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In the spring, like now, we drag it behind the work skiff to catch our mooring cables lying on the bottom of the river. We’ve been known to lose a mooring chain overboard, and the grapple is just the thing for recovering it. During the spring runoff, our docks are jammed with great clumps of matted grass, weeds and sticks. We throw the grapple into the center and then tow the whole mess out to sea.

Yes, a grapple is a very useful tool. Ours once even saved a marriage. A husband and wife were customers who loved to go striper fishing together. One afternoon, they arrived at our marina and loaded up the dock cart with all their boating and fishing gear, and right on top of the pile he laid his father’s favorite bait-casting rod.

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Now he lovingly laid the old rod on top of the dock cart, and his wife pushed the loaded cart down the gangwalk and along the docks to their boat slip. She accidentally bumped that precious fishing rod, and before she could even gasp it had plopped over the side and under the water. She nearly fainted she was so startled and scared. I was working in the tool room when she gave a tentative knock at the open door.

“Randy,” she said. “you’ve got to save my marriage.”

She told me all about the loving restoration of the old fishing rod and how her husband cherished that fishing pole. “He’ll die when he finds out,” she said, “and he’ll divorce me.”

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to the boat slip. The I grabbed that and tide was dropping, the begin to pull, and within current running at a a minute the business good clip. “Right here,” end of that antique fishshe said, pointing down ing rod broke the surface. at the water. “This is “I think I’ve got it,” I said, where it fell in, right and she was so happy she here.” began to cry. “You did it,” I knew the current she said. “You saved my would have carried marriage,” and she gave that lightweight rod me a bodacious hug. two or three more As I said, a grapple’s a docks away. I stepped mighty handy tool to over onto the neighborhave around the watering dock and made a front sometimes. We chercast with the grapple. ish ours.

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By John Stone mately eight miles from Mount Desert For Points East Island. There is no state-recognized fire department: All residents become Shortly after dinner on Monday volunteers. Additional resources are night Jan. 17, the island community of limited. As word of this close call has Frenchboro, Maine – on Long Island, spread, there has been a great rejust off Swans Island – responded to a sponse from people interested in helphouse fire near the center of town. ing to develop a greater firefighting Luckily, on this particular evening, capability in Frenchboro and on other there was very little wind, the fire was islands. contained, and no one was hurt, due in Photo courtesy John Stone A relief fund for the purchase of adlarge part to the collaborative reThis house, owned by the Forsgren ditional fire-fighting equipment has sponse from the Frenchboro commufamily that summers in Frenchboro, nity, Swans Island Fire Department, was totally destroyed due to lack of been established in conjunction with the Island Institute (www.islandinstiTremont Fire Department, Maine manpower and equipment. tute.org), a nonprofit organization State Ferry Service crew of the Capdedicated to ensuring that Maine’s istain Henry Lee, and local fishermen, lands and working-waterfront communities remain viwho helped to provide transportation to the island.

The fear that people on this island of less than 100 brant places in which to live and work.

Please consider a tax-deductible contribution to the year-round residents, and other small islands, live with every day is that if fire does break out it will burn Frenchboro Fire Fund. All donations made will go diuntil it reaches the water. Too often there are insuffi- rectly to support the Town of Frenchboro and its fire cient means to control it. The best that can be done is department.

Contributions should be sent to: Island Instituteto contain it, and if it can’t be contained, then there is Frenchboro Fire Fund, P.O. Box 648, 386 Main St., a danger of losing an entire village.

Frenchboro is located in Blue Hill Bay approxi- Rockland Maine 04841.

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Briefly Boston Community Boating honored Community Boating, in Boston, Mass., received the Captain Joe Prosser Award at US Sailing’s 2011 National Sailing Program Symposium in Florida this past winter. The Prosser is awarded to an organization that has made an exemplary contribution toward improving the quality and safety in the training or instruction of sailors. As the oldest community sailing program in the country, Community Boating, Inc. has taught tens of thousands of people how to sail on the Charles River. Over 4,000 adults, 2,300 youths and 140 sailors with disabilities learned to sail at CBI last year. FMI: www.community-boating.org

Brewer ups customer fuel discounts Brewer Yacht Yards will double the fuel discounts its customers already receive. Seasonal Brewer customers already receive a 10¢ per gallon discount on gasoline and diesel at all Brewer fuel docks, while customers who keep their boats at a Brewer yard year-round are eligible for a 20¢ discount. Effective April 1, these discounts will become 20¢ and 40¢ per gallon respectively. “We always want to see customers enjoy their boats as much as they can every year, so this just makes sense when the cost of fuel is such a big concern,” said Jack Brewer, president. FMI: Contact James Phyfe at (401-884-1810, email: jphyfe@byy.com, email: www.byy.com.

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CCA hails Mini circumnavigator This is not a New England boating story, but it is so incredible that it has to stretch the imaginations of all mariners in the Northeast. The Cruising Club of America awarded the 2010 Rod Stephens Trophy for Outstanding Seamanship to 40year-old Italian Alessandro Di Benedetto for his seamanship in jury-rigging a mast after being dismasted near Cape Horn. But that is only a small CCA photo part of his story: At the time of the dismasting, Allessandro Di Benedetto was in the midst of a solo, nonstop circumnavigation on the 21-foot Mini Findomestic!

In 1992, he sailed with his father from Italy to Martinique in the French Caribbean Islands. In 2002, he sailed single-handed across the Atlantic in his sport catamaran, and in 2006 he sailed singlehanded, nonstop from Yokohama, Japan to San Francisco on a 19foot catamaran that had no shelter. So what do you have planned this coming summer? FMI: www.cruisingclub.org.

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Cape Dory Maine cruise Aug. 8-12 The Cape Dory Sailboat Owners of America (CDSOA) 2011 Maine Cruise, Casco Bay Region, has been scheduled for Aug. 8-12. This year’s itinerary is as follows: Aug. 8, The Basin (New Meadows River); Aug. 9, Snow Island; Aug. 10, Jewell Island; Aug. 11, The Goslings; Aug. 12, Falmouth Foreside (group dinner ashore at The Sea Grill). All owners of both Cape Dory and Robinhood power and sailboats, CDSOA members and non-members, are welcome to attend. Register online by Aug. 3. For the complete details, visit www.capedory.org.

Beware of E15 fuel in powerboats Boaters who fuel their boats from the same pumps as their vehicle may be at risk of unknowingly or mistakenly putting 15 percent ethanol and 85 percent gasoline into an engine for which E15 has not been approved, the Coast Guard Auxiliary says. The Auxiliary suggests fueling boats only from tanks at marinas. In January 2011, the EPA granted a waiver that allows the percentage of ethanol in the nation’s gasoline supply to jump from 10 to 15 percent, to be sold only for cars, SUVs and light-duty trucks made in 2001 through 2006. This EPA waiver does not permit use of the higher alcohol content fuel in lawnmowers, chainsaws, snowmobiles, motorcycles or boats, which could potentially be dangerous . FMI: Contact public affairs officer Michael McCormack at 508-965-1075, email: mkm-uscgaux@comcast.net.

Rozalia Project Trash Tour 2011 The Rozalia Project and its world famous mothership, Dodge Morgan’s old American Promise, is coming to New England this summer to clean marine debris from the local waters. Fifteen community sailing centers, yacht clubs, maritime museums and businesses from New York to Downeast Maine have partnered with the Rozalia Project to get communities involved in clean-up and marine debris education programs.

Trash Tour 2011 locations in New England: Providence Community Boating, R.I., July 5-7; Herreshoff Museum, Bristol, R.I., July 8-10; Sail Newport, Newport, R.I., July 11-13; New Bedford Community Sailing, New Bedford, Mass., July 14-16; Eastern and Pleon yacht clubs, Marblehead, Mass., July 1820; American Promise Celebration, Marblehead, Mass., July 19; Courageous Sailing, Boston, Mass., July 21-23. Dates to be confirmed: Tabor Academy, Marion, Mass., Nantucket Community Sailing Center, Mass., Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.,

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Celebrate Dodge’s nonstop, solo 25th The Dodge D. Morgan Memorial Scholarship Fund was established by the Morgan Family to benefit at-risk youth who participate in the Compass Project’s Boat Building Programs.

In just a short time, the fund has already supported 10 youths who are learning math through boatbuilding in the current school year. Help us celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Dodge’s legendary circumnavigation by making a generous donation online at www.compassproject.org, or by sending your check to: Dodge D. Morgan Memorial Scholarship Fund, c/o The Compass Project, 219 Anderson St., Unit 6, Portland, ME 04101.

Avast there me four-legged hearties Sailors for the Sea, the only nonprofit focused on the sailing boating community, has introduced its “Salty Dog” designation that allows canine owners to register their seafaring fidos as official members. The 12-month membership gives four-legged hearties the opportunity to display their love of the ocean and support of ocean conservation. Each month, the Sailors for the Sea newsletter and website will feature a Salty Dog and her/his water activities, thus dog owners can help spread the word about ocean conservation. Each Salty Dog owner will enjoy such benefits as a Sailors for the Sea sticker and brochure, 20 percent off Atlantis WeatherGear, and 30 percent discounts on all ePaint products. FMI: www.sailorsforthesea.org

Penobscot Bay Rendezvous unveiled Shane Flynn, owner of Wayfarer Marine and Cabot Lyman, owner of Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding, have teamed up to organize a new regatta for sail and power Aug. 18-21. At least 100 boats, ranging from super yachts, to classics, to performance racers, Picnic Boats and lobster yachts, are expected to participate in the Penobscot Bay Rendezvous, which will gather in Rockland Thursday night, then move to Camden for the following two nights. The event will have daily races for sailboats and a Poker Run and Photo Pursuit event for powerboats. The NOR and SI instructions can be found at www.penobscotbayrendezvous.com.

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The crew of four planned to ply the Northwest Passage and round Cape Horn in one voyage, gathering scientific data. “We wondered,” said Newport’s Herb McCormick, “can we really do this?”

By Stephanie Ocko Photos by David Thoreson For Points East ot everybody in Newport, R.I., grows up learning how to sail, but Herb McCormick certainly did, and he’s seen close to 60,000 open-water

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miles slip beneath him in the past 30 years. During that time, he’s written way more than that number of words about sailors, sailboats, and the sea. “I write about sailing,” he says with his characteristic modesty.

The former Williams College football star began his career as a receptionist at “Cruising World” magazine

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Ocean Watch plies a windless lead through the Northwest Passage ice. Inset: The core crew celebrates the closing of the circle off Cape Flattery, at the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. From left: David Thoreson, Dave Logan, Herb McCormick, Mark Schrader, and oceanographer Michael Reynolds.

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in 1978, became editor-in-chief in 2000, wrote a weekly sailing column for “The New York Times,” and the story from there has been one of dozens of ocean races, including the challenging Sydney Hobart Yacht Race and long transoceanic trips (one without an engine), which have made him part of that brotherhood of sailors with a lot of moxie for whom exploration is a way of life.

But McCormick wasn’t prepared for the Around the Americas voyage. “I’ve never experienced anything like this in duration or length,” he said. “It was a once-in-a-lifetime trip.” A couple of years ago, when old friend Mark Schrader, a veteran round-the-world solo sailor, called him with a request to go to Mexico and help sail back a boat he’d bought, McCormick was happy to help. They were veterans of several TransPac races from California to Hawaii, and had proven to be solid shipmates through thick and thin.

During that delivery, Schrader realized that McCormick was exactly what he was seeking for his next great adventure: a good sailor and a good writer for Around the Americas (www.aroundtheamericas.org), the formal name of his quest. The assignment: Sail a cutter around the North and South American continents as if they were one island, some 28,000 sea miles, find out how changes in the ocean are affecting coastal people at ports of call, and spread the word in a daily log.

Schrader had talked to David Rockefeller and David Treadway, from the environmental group Sailors for the Sea (www.sailorsforthesea.org), who were suffi-

When Herb first heard the boat chosen for the voyage was a Bruce Roberts-designed steel hull, he thought to himself, It will be terrible, “but I was wrong,” he admits.

ciently enthusiastic about the project to inspire Tiffany & Co. Foundation and Unilever to fund it, and the Pacific Science Center to organize it. And he signed on a longtime friend, sailor/cabinetmaker David Logue, and photographer David Thoreson, the first American to sail alone east-to-west through the Northwest Passage.

Schrader’s only parameter was the timing: They needed to get to the Northwest Passage by July, and around Cape Horn before the wild weather kicked in.

Otherwise, it was pretty simple – for some, maybe.

For starters, sailing the old steel cutter – which had belonged to a couple of researchers studying Humboldt squid in the Sea of Cortez – from La Paz to Seattle was a bumpy ride in an aging boat with baggy sails. When

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Herb first heard the boat was a Bruce Roberts-designed steel hull, he thought to himself, It will be terrible, “but I was wrong,� he admits. “A nasty headwind tested us, and we got the snot kicked out of us,� McCormick said, but the vessel, badly in need of a refit, handled all the sea would dish out. Christened Ocean Watch, the boat was outfitted with brand new Carol Hasse sails, wiring, and electronics, renovated living quarters to sleep nine, and a head with a shower, washer/dryer, and a library.

Six different institutions loaded on scientific instruments, each array geared for continuous collection of ocean and atmosphere data. Onboard for various legs would be a scientist analyzing data and a science educator who’d prepare teachers’ guides. Even the crew was to have six or seven daily data-collection chores, including photographing the bellies of clouds to be matched up with NASA satellite images of the tops of the same clouds.

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Harry Brower, Jr., a fourth-generation Inuit whale hunter and deputy director of the Department of Wildlife Management in Barrow, said that it’s hard to teach young hunters how to hunt anymore because animals’ habits have been so affected by warming.

to the Chukchi Sea – which the crew was taught to capture. Besides her mainsail, with three deep reefs, Ocean Watch carried a jib, a staysail and an asymmetric spinnaker soon to be known affectionately as Big Blue because of the iconic map of the Americas emblazoned on it. A painted orange octopus sprawled across the hull.

Bravely, the crew of four set forth May 31, 2009, ready for science and sailing and looking forward to going through the Northwest Passage and around the Horn in one voyage. It was not your average trip, and the boat was not your average yacht. “We wondered,” McCormick said, “can we really do this?”

It took Roald Amundsen three years to navigate the icebound Northwest Passage in 1903; Ocean Watch did it in three months. For the record, Ocean Watch became the first American yacht to sail the Northwest Passage west-to-east in a single season. The ice was not completely gone as it had been when Thoreson sailed through in 2007. At the end of each season, leftover ice refreezes and creates a backlog of ice, which is what Ocean Watch encountered. To safely negotiate pesky patches of pack ice, not all of which were visible, required color-coded charts, intelligence from other sailors, daily reconnaissance from the Canadian Ice Service, and a lot of anxiety. Ultimately, to thread a path through it, the crew would have to climb up to the spreaders to eyeball the maze of ice that lay ahead of them.

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wind and waves eat away the edges, and the melting permafrost is swallowing houses whole. Families, whose ancestors have lived there for 400 years, are being relocated to the mainland. From the boat, McCormick watched a handful of people wait for Ocean Watch to anchor, while an ATV zipped crazily along the shore “like an agitated puppy.”

Ocean Watch delivered a part for an electric bear fence to field researcher George Divoky, a veteran of 33 summers living in a tent on Cooper Island studying the black guillemot. Until a couple of years ago, Divoky said, he would have one visit per summer from a bear. Now, without seals to eat, the bears come in groups and eat the birds. And soon, he fears, him.

In an interview with McCormick, Harry Brower, Jr., a fourth-generation Inuit whale hunter and deputy director of the Department of Wildlife Management in Barrow, said: “The animal resources we depend on are ice-associated resources: polar bears, ring seals, beluga whales.” It’s hard, Brower said, to teach young hunters how to hunt anymore because animals’ habits have been so affected by warming.

Craig George, a wildlife biologist in the same Department, told McCormick that with no ice, he envisions a bleak Arctic riven with oil tankers and freighters.

“The Arctic,” wrote McCormick, “is the canary in the mineshaft.”

Finally, in open water at Baffin Island, amid looming icebergs, the good ship turned south, having navigated the Northwest Passage safely and successfully.

“We have some serious sailing ahead,” said Capt.

Schrader, admitting he had a fear and loathing of Cape Horn, despite having rounded it twice before (he was the first American to finish the solo aroundthe-world race, the BOC, in 1986-87).

Unexpectedly, pack ice behind them, a massive storm roiled out of the Labrador Sea, and the ocean crested in 40-foot peaks, pushed by 40 knots of wind, as bad as any, Schrader said later, that they could encounter around the Horn. Their 135-horse Lugger diesel engine worked steadily to maintain 17 knots.

“For 48 straight hours, we were tested. But in the worst of times, everybody pulls together,” Schrader said. In his log, McCormick was moved to whimsy.

“What would have been so awful about spending a winter stuck in the Arctic? Really!” he asked. There would have been the usual downsides – isolation, insanity, starvation – but “we would never have to sail through the Labrador Sea.” With new muscle and a certain swagger, Ocean Watch zigged into familiar port stops – Halifax Boston, New York, Charleston, Miami and Puerto Rico – to give short talks to groups and schools, before zagging around the horn of Brazil. “We have to haul ass to get to the Horn before the end of January,” McCormick said. As they negotiated the trade www.pointseast.com

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“Cape Horn,” McCormick wrote, “is the [period beneath the] exclamation point that is South America. It is the southernmost speck of land...a hardscrabble slab of rock called Isla Hornes in the Hermite Islands group. It is the one and only, the legendary Cape Horn.”

winds above and below the Equator, they got stuck in an easterly current known as the Brazil Current, which they realized might keep them sailing east forever.

For days, they fought “currents, gyres, rings, vortexes and eddies” before finally breaking through. “Go west, young man?” McCormick mused. “Not aboard Ocean Watch: It was all about heading east.”

Below the Equator, the expedition, with some new Shellbacks (those who have crossed the Equator), turned south, and the soaring temperature instilled a “lassitude,” McCormick noted, that rendered “the crew at times on life support.” And coming up was the mother and father of challenges.

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speck of land...a hardscrabble slab of rock called Isla Hornes in the Hermite Islands group. It is the one and only, the legendary Cape Horn.” At about 55 degrees south latitude, the Horn is whipped by a prevailing west wind, wildly changing weather, and wicked seas that churn around tall ragged spikes of rock. Most sailors prefer to take it west to east.

Passing south through the Roaring 40s, Ocean Watch reefed the main, then switched to staysail, finally taking everything down and heading for Chile’s Puerto Williams. Here, they waited for their assault on the Screaming 50s, reading the instruments and waiting for a weather window.

Puerto Williams, with a population of about 2,000 people, is on Isla Navarino, across the Beagle Channel from Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego. Isla Navarino is separated from Horn Island by Bahia Nassau.

One night, both crew and guests were taken by fellow mariners to a house and inducted in a secret ceremony into The Brotherhood of the Coast, which, despite their being dressed like pirates, solemnified their imminent rounding of the Horn. Early next morning, Ocean Watch wove through the small islands, then found a sheltered spot in which to wait. After a howling night, with one recording of 105 knots, the legendary weather suddenly dwindled to a 15- to 20-knot breeze out of the east, and at 5:00 a.m., they got under way.

Beneath dozens of huge albatrosses, in a surreal landscape, the boat rounded the foreboding isle.

“As a seaman,” McCormick wrote, “you instinctively realize you’re slipping through waters both hallowed and lethal.” On the one side was the headland, and on the other, nothing but “ . . . the absolute, final, non-negotiable end of the earth.”

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crew: Schrader flew the spinnaker, and David Rockefeller, aboard for the Horn, appeared on deck in shorts and a sport shirt. Taking turns at the helm were David Treadway and Ned Cabot from Sailors for the Sea. When a sudden squall popped out of nowhere, the crew ran for the spinnaker, “laughing and grinning at the outlandishness of the whole thing, like teenagers out past curfew,” McCormick wrote. “Surely we’d gotten away with something, but what a souvenir.”

Once around, the crew broke out beers as offerings to King Neptune and to the good ship Ocean Watch, which had rounded the Horn with dignity and grace, and now turned north.

There were only 10,000 miles of Pacific Ocean to go, and a lot of sad stories of coastal garbage in plastic bags dumped by freighters to avoid dumping fees. In Chile, McCormick interviewed a fisherman whose options had been seriously reduced by overfishing and the invasion of salmon fish farms. “They don’t know it yet,” McCormick observed, “but tourism is also looming in their future.”

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To safely thread the needle through pack ice, not all of which was clearly visible, the crew would have to climb up to the spreaders for a better view. This is photographer Thoreson.

earthquake recorded by a seismograph, just below Japan’s 9.0 magnitude earthquake this past March – struck off Chile, with tsunami warnings clear across the Pacific. Five hundred miles north, the crew read stories about the tsunami, which did not ruffle their calm seas.

Between port calls, McCormick and Thoreson went diving on reefs, most of them dead. In his trusty sea kayak, McCormick explored coastal crags and inlets

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from Patagonia to the U.S. Everywhere were undecayed plastic bags and party balloons, and the indescribable junk that collects in the ocean.

And then fireboats greeted them in their home port of Seattle after 13 months, more than 28,000 miles, and 51 ports of call: Mission accomplished. They had traveled from 74° N to 56° S. On both continents, coastal people had listened to stories of global ocean problems and opened up to the Ocean Watch crew, who were interested in what they had to say.

Professionally, with lots of collective expert ocean experience, the crew sailed a fine ship in seamanlike fashion, sharing watches, cooking, and cleaning duties.

As Rockefeller told a reporter, “We were all captains who had stuffed our egos into our duffle bags.”

“It was a 13-month, fulltime job,” McCormick said of the voyage. “We worked 24/7, and in ports we gave presentations and hosted thousands of schoolkids who crawled through the boat.” All of McCormick’s doubts about the boat had been dispelled. “Man, what a boat!” he noted after she glided around the Horn. “With her 44 tons and Hasse sails, she had a seakindly motion.

She needed a breeze to get going, and we used the motor too much for my tastes. But she was a lovely sailing boat.”

On his final day aboard, McCormick wondered “if today is the happiest one ever or the saddest.” Reentry was cold. “It was a full frontal assault – modern

culture, politics,” he said of the reality of bills and truck repairs, and the media drone of political rhetoric.

“You forget about the anger that is everywhere. And it hadn’t changed from the time we left! It was the same thing.”

McCormick was changed, however. Back in Newport, he quoted Thomas Friedman’s observation that it’s all about “sustainability of values.” “I learned so much about the ocean and the people who live near it,” McCormick said, “and if we don’t start doing things about the problems we’ve caused, we’ll be in trouble. The sea is our responsibility,” he said. “It’s our playground, and it’s more a part of us than the average person. If sailors don’t get the message, who’s going to?”

The best part of the trip, he said, was when his 12year-old daughter Maggie sailed with him on the Newport-to-New York leg, and they arrived in New York Harbor at dawn. “Kids get it a lot better than adults,” he said. “They already know about pH levels and their effects, and they know they’ll inherit problems. But they have an innate feeling of what needs to be done, and they’re not afraid. I’m very optimistic,” he said.

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was flooded, another when a squid sailed through the air and hit him in the chest. Each log is fresh, and altogether, McCormick managed to organize the chaos of the long trip

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Back in Newport, McCormick is now senior editor for “Cruising World” and “Sailing World,” and he writes “Herb’s Watch,” an online cruising blog for the former periodical. Paradise Cay is due to release his “Gone to the Sea,” a collection of his favorite stories, this coming August. He is also writing a biography of global sailing voyagers Lin and Larry Pardey. Maggie is spending the year with her father in Newport, sharing Lady Gaga songs with him.

For a great sailing read, see McCormick’s Crew Logs at www.aroundtheamericas.org.

David Thoreson’s images are at www.flikr.com/aroundtheamericas.

Ocean Watch the boat is docked in Seattle. Ocean Watch, the project, continues, and McCormick regularly participates in speaking engagements (see www.facebook.com/aroundtheamericas).

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Looking back down Casco Bay from the entrance to the Admiral Peary House, Golden Mean rides on a state mooring while her crew tours Eagle Island. Inset: Dennis and Cathy, crew of Surprise, are deep in thought during a game of bridge as Susan, the author’s wife, looks on.

Gunkholing from Casco Bay to Christmas Cove with friends and family is a small voyage of delicious discovery.

Story and photos by Ken Packie For Points East usan, I think I see Surprise coming down the channel,” I said to my wife. “They must have made good time crossing the Gulf of Maine.” So began the Stonington Cruising Club Maine Cruise for 2009.

We had been looking forward to the 2009 summer cruising season since February when we decided to move Golden Mean, our Able 42 sloop, from Connecticut to Casco Bay for the summer. After being wait-listed with several boat yards, we finally got a favorable reply from Kristin Peterson at Brewers, South Freeport, and we had a home on the Harraseeket.

Our delivery at the end of May went relatively smoothly, but June was a complete washout. Even trying to have a few coats of varnish applied turned out to be impossible. The soggy weather pattern finally broke at the end of July, just in time for our planned cruise with the Hodges and the McKays, friends from Stonington Cruising Club in Connecticut.

The plan was to rendezvous in South Freeport and then gunkhole in Casco Bay and perhaps a little beyond for about a week. However, no big push farther Downeast

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Surprise, the Hodges’ Little Harbor 44, waits on her mooring in The Goslings until the fog lifts before heading out for Snow Island.

was intended. Later in August my wife Susan was to cruise with son Tom and his family, which included a 5-year-old and a 2-year-old. Finally, I would take Kenny and Matt, our two 14-year-old grandsons for another week. This would

truly be a cruise for all ages.

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winches. She has been fit with Pentex sails made by Z in Stamford, and this lightweight material makes it a breeze to hoist the main, which is set on a low-friction sail track. The 135 jib, also by Z and made of Pentex, is eight years old but still in decent shape.

All lines are led aft to clutches on the cabin top. All reefing can be done with this slab system from the cockpit, although I prefer to go to the mast and use the goosenecks at the tack. The primary winches are within reach of the helmsman. The nav station to starboard at the foot of the companionway has radar, chart plotter and autopilot station plus all sailing instruments. A second chart plotter, sailing instruments, and autopilot are at the helm. The icom VHF has a station below and at the helm and can be used as an intercom.

Susan and I spent Friday on Route I-95 on a seven-hour drive from New Jersey in an absolute deluge. Kristin, the Brewer Dockmaster, had kindly moved Golden Mean to the dock so the evening provisioning was tolerable. We grabbed a bite for dinner at Jameson’s Tavern in Freeport and retired early and exhausted.

Saturday dawned bright and clear, a portent of things to come, perhaps?

Surprise, the Hodges’ Little Harbor 44 had departed on Thursday evening from Stonington, Conn., and planned to sail straight through after a brief stop at Cuttyhunk. She entered the harbor early in the afternoon, right on schedule, and things were looking better by the hour. After drinks in the cockpit, we found our way to the Harraseeket Lunch & Lobster for an assortment of seafood and burgers while continuing our discussion of the plan for the week.

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friends needed to depart that Friday, so we would have a full plate with this handful of harbors.

Saturday’s lovely weather morphed into a foggy Sunday as we headed down the channel for a day sail to Jewell. Surprise decided to sail around Long Island and reported that Jewell had seven or eight boats, a full house for this keyhole of an anchorage. On an earlier visit to Jewell, I had watched as the tide receded and a boat anchored too close to the shore slowly went aground. Our alternative was the Goslings, and Golden Mean headed in that direction and found the harbor almost empty.

Casco Bay is a gunkholing paradise, peppered as it is with hundreds of islands strung out in four or five strings running roughly northeast to southwest. Amazingly, none of these islands have any resemblance to their appearance on the chart when viewed from your boat. Compound this with a gossamer veil of mist and fog and your navigational senses are brought sharply into focus.

The Goslings present a surprisingly well-protected nook tucked in behind several small islands and close to the Harraseeket. The islands are private, but the owners allow visits so long as folks respect the environment. Lower Goose Island, which forms the western side of the anchorage, is owned mostly by a conservatory. This island has a large nesting population of blue herons, and visits should be confined to the shoreline during nesting season. Grassy Ledge, which is often populated by lots of seals, forms the east side of the harbor along with Irony Island.

We returned to the Goslings with Tom and his family, and also with the older grandchildren, later in the month. The islands are connected by shell spits and, at low tide, you can walk between them and the kids can explore for hours.

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Matt and Kenny, the author’s 14year-old grandsons, play a round of “Golf” (see sidebar on page 48), our favorite shipboard card game.

commission with a close encounter with an immovable object. Surprise hosted dinner for our evening entertainment followed by a spirited

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Monday morning brought more fog, but also the promise that it would scale up and disappear for

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several days. We decided to feet with a mud bottom. hang on our moorings until This is a well-protected things improved, and by 1000 spot, and the water was 70 we were on our way. We indegrees, thus swimming tended to stop at Eagle Island was the order of the afterand visit the Admiral Peary noon. This anchorage is Museum. However, while sevover mud, so be prepared eral guest moorings are availto hose your chain off as able on the northwest side of you haul the anchor. the island, once under way we It was now Golden headed for Snow Island, saving Mean’s turn as the dinner Eagle Island for another day. platform, and we decided When I stopped at Eagle to grill pork tenderloins with Matt and Kenny as crew, and play a few rubbers of I was delighted with our tour of bridge. There was just the island and the well-mainenough harbor activity to tained facility. White moorings add some occasional interare for larger boats and pink Dennis McKay prepares his specialty, banana panest, plus an osprey nest on cakes, for the crew of Golden Mean and Surprise before the south side of Snow. for smaller ones. departing Sebasco Harbor.

Our course took us down The anchorage was flat Broad Sound and around the calm that night, and in the Drunkers before passing inside Ragged Island and morning we decided to take a dinghy tour of the harinto Quahog Bay. Snow Island lies at the north end of bor. Aside from some thin spots on the east side of the bay, and although there are unmarked hazards, Snow, this is a huge area with several small mooring the approach is rather direct. We turned into the an- areas tucked in behind islands or in bights. One narchorage south of Snow and found acres of room in 16 row cove extends southeast about a quarter of a mile

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and is pristine. The crew so we cut the sail short and of Surprise spotted an headed to our mooring at eagle. We wished our the resort, being careful to schedule would accommohonor the green can that date a layover day but we marks the ledge making out had much more to see, so a third of the way across the weighed anchor and harbor entrance. headed for Sebasco HarSebasco Harbor Resort is bor. a real change of pace from Rather than head back the gunkholing of our first out and around Ragged few days. This boat-oriented Island, some three and a facility could not be more half miles south of the accommodating to guests, mouth of Quahog Bay, we with a saltwater swimming decided to take a small, pool, excellent restaurant, “keyhole” passage just to and clean shore facilities. the north of Elm Islands, The Able 42 Golden Mean departs The Basin, near the The only shortfall was the marked by two red nuns. mouth of the New Meadows River, through the passage lack of hot water in the The fog was light and south of Brightwater, heading toward Christmas Cove. showers….brrrrr. The moordrifted in and out but ing field can be a little rolly with some visibility the passage was very doable as we with a southwest breeze, but if you are lucky enough proceeded east. We continued east past Jenny Island to have an inside mooring, much of that can be and Goudy Ledge, then headed for R “8” outside Se- avoided. basco Harbor. The fog had lifted so we decided to take After a lovely swim in the harbor in 70-degree water, a sail south toward Cape Small for an hour or so. As is we decided to try the pool and enjoy a margarita typical of the Bay, fog was lurking farther to the south, served on the terrace by Will, who runs the dining fa-

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cility. Now this is a cruise! That night, we returned to the Pilot House for a true dining delight with lobster risotto, crispy salmon and other assorted selections.

By now we had seen the last of the fog, and we planned to head to The Basin, a scant few miles to the north past Bear Island and Cundy’s Harbor, in the New Meadows River. Surprise decided to pay a visit to Cape Small Harbor first, while Golden Mean would go to The Basin to scout things out.

First, however, Dennis volunteered to fix his outrageous banana blueberry pancakes while we waited for a high tide to ease entrance into Cape Small. There are two bars to navigate to the east of Goose Rock.

The Basin turned out to be quite remarkable, completely landlocked except for the narrow channel south of Brightwater. Our cruise guide advised us to keep a clearance around the southern tip to find the seven feet shown on the chart, and we had no problems. Once inside, we went north to the area of 14 feet and anchored opposite the private dock. What a charmer. This was another swimming opportunity, protected and scenic. Surprise planned to grill steaks and serve appetizers and side dishes, plus host another round of Golf.

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parted early since we planned to make Christmas Cove and wanted to maximize the sailing. After motorsailing until we got in the vicinity of Fuller Rock, off Cape Small, we turned off our engines and ghosted along at three knots until we got to Seguin Island, where we turned downwind toward Damariscove Island, where we again resorted to motoring.

Surprise decided to see if there was room to anchor at Damariscove, but once inside she found it a bit congested with several smaller boats, and the prospect of digging her stern anchor out of the lazarette would be a challenge on short notice. Damariscove is well worth a visit, but any more than three or four boats is a full house.

The author visited several years ago and was able to anchor near the Coast Guard station. Low tide really shrinks the available anchoring room, however.

This island served as an early European summer fishing camp, provided refuge for early American settlers during the Indian Wars, and was a lifesaving station among other things. Entrance is easy, but favor the west side of the channel until you clear the ledge to the east. Once inside, the harbor shoals to the north are the only hazards.

Christmas Cove is a short hop from Damariscove, leaving The Hypocrites to port as you head north to Red and White “HL”, then up the Damarascotta River and south of Rutherford Island toward the square

tower at the head of the harbor. The channel is marked by red and green day markers. The red marker sits back on a ledge that extends another 50 feet into the channel, so give it some room at high tide. Moorings are controlled by Coveside Marina, the red facility on the north side of the harbor. Reserve ahead as the harbor is crowded and anchoring would be very problematic.

By now it was clear that Surprise was doing the heavy lifting with meals, as we again prepared to join her for dinner and more card games, of course. Golf was a staple of evening entertainment, and the game became more hilarious as the wine supply diminished.

Friday, Surprise planned to head back to the Cape Cod Canal, while Golden Mean would depart for the Harraseeket. The weather appeared ideal for the crossing back to the canal once a front blew through, followed by northwest winds. Our sail back to the Harraseeket, in the company of a Nonsuch 32, was punctuated by the frontal passage as we rounded Cape Small. This gave us cause to duck back into Sebasco Harbor Resort for a bonus day on the water. Thus ended a perfect week for our inaugural cruise along this charming and often overlooked gunkholing delight.

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This June, our sailing friend Joe forwarded an email from a British cruising couple asking for an insider’s guide to the city and harbor. We wrote back in detail about some of our favorite places. It reminded us of how much there is to do in home waters. So when it came time to plan our first cruise of 2010, we asked ourselves, “Why not Boston?”

Boston Harbor is a fine place to sail. People come in from around the world to see our harbor and islands.

Superyachts and foreign flags abound. Let’s check out our own backyard.

For a theme, we chose July Fourth on Boston Harbor.

We know that Boston and its surroundings enjoy their Independence Day celebrations. After all, Boston’s primary product these days is history. We knew there would be many fireworks celebrations from which to choose. What we didn’t know was how much fun we would have making waterfront fireworks our cruise destinations.

Urban cruising can offer plenty of beautiful sails and vistas. Boston Harbor is among the best for variety in its cruising grounds. The area is roughly 10 miles by 10 miles square and contains a dozen islands, yacht clubs and marinas. There are anchorages, swimming beaches, island trails to explore, restaurants of every description, provisioning markets, and your choice of BOSTON HARBOR, continued on Page 74

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Rhode Island, New Brunswick boats excel at Rolex Regatta Three Northeast boats excelled at this year’s International Rolex Regatta on Pillsbury Sound, off St. Thomas, U.S.V.I., March 25-27, where the event has been hosted for 38 years by St. Thomas Yacht Club.

Richard Oland’s Southern Cross 52 Vela Veloce, out of Saint John, New Brunswick, took 2nd in the six-boat IRC 1 fleet, with four 2nds and two 3rds. Austin and Gwen Fragomen’s, JV 52 Interlodge, from Newport, R.I., finished in 3rd place. In the IRC 2 nine-boat fleet, Arethusa, the Club Swan 42 sailed out of Newport, R.I.

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During three days of sun-drenched racing, such Big Guns as Boewe Bekking, Gavin Brady, Ed Baird, Steve Benjamin, Richard Clarke and Chris Larson were in abundance aboard the keelboats, but it by no means took the calling cards of professional sailors to guarantee victory, or a good time, in the eight classes, which included two for IRC, four for CSA, and one each for IC 24s and Beach Cats.

For Ed Baird, being a seasoned professional didn’t take anything away from his experience here. The winning skipper from the 2007 America’s Cup crewed aboard Oland’s Vela Veloce, while Canadian Olympian Richard Clarke steered.

Jim Swartz’s TP52 Vesper/Team Moneypenny won all but one of six races. Willem Wester’s Grand Soleil 43 Antilope, from the Netherlands, took the top spot in IRC 2.

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Interlodge, the JV 52 owned by Austin and Gwen Fragomen and sailed out of Newport, R.I., took 3rd place in the IRC 1 division of the International Rolex Regatta off St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. Here the crew strains to keep her on her bottom as she drives to windward.

keelboat was the 90-foot Genuine Risk, the recent Pineapple Cup Montego Bay Race winner, with Swede Hugo Stenbeck steering, while the smallest were the 24-foot Melges 24s

and IC 24s. Ages of crew ranged from the single digits to mid 70s, and included newcomers, returning veterans and everything in between. FMI: www.regattanews.com. editor@pointseast.com

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Five New Englanders are on the All-American Offshore Team In announcing the members of its 2011 sailing roster, the All-American Offshore Team (AAOT) will foster youth opportunities in offshore racing aboard the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Sailing Foundation’s Vanquish. The STP 65 will compete in the Storm Trysail Club’s Around Block Island Race; the Annapolis to www.pointseast.com

Newport Race; the Transatlantic Race (Newport, R. I., to The Lizard, England); and the Rolex Fastnet Race.

The age range for AAOT was modeled on the age cutoff for the Volvo Ocean Race, with nine sailors between the ages of 18 and 30, including two women, seAAOT, continued on Page 54 Points East May 2011

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AAOT, continued from Page 53 lected. The 2011 Offshore Team represents nine different states with an onboard average age of 23. Nate Fast (Noank, Conn.), the youngest member of the team at 19, has competed in sailing regattas since he was on the junior racing circuit, has been sailing keelboats for the past four years as well as competing for his college team at Webb Institute.

Fast’s most significant achievements include a 1st-place finish in the IRC division of the 2007 Block Island Race Week aboard the R/P 66 Blue Yankee, as well as his first offshore racing experience in the 2008 Newport to Bermuda Race aboard the J/44 Vamp.

“Being the youngest means I will definitely be working that much harder to prove myself, which will probably help me in the end,” he said.

The 2011 All-American Offshore Team: Benjamin Allen (Newport, R.I., 24); Benjamin Quatromoni (Tiverton, R.I., 24); Charlie Enright (Bristol, R.I., 26); Chris Branning (Pace, Fla., 25); Chris Welch (Gross Pointe, Mich., 23); Colin Orsini (Seattle, Wash., 27); David Rasmussen (Novato, Calif., 24); Jesse Fielding

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U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Sailing Foundation’s STP 65 Vanquish will be used in the 2011 All-American Offshore Team campaign.

(Wickford, R. I., 24); Kaity Storck (Huntington, N.Y., 23); Mark Towill (Kaneohe, Hawaii, 22); Matt Noble (Richmond, Calif., 25); Molly Robinson (San Francisco, Calif., 23); Nate Fast (Noank, Conn., 19); and Pat Showell (Sweetwater, N. J., 24). FMI: http://allamericanoffshoreteam.org.

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There were at least two pleasant New England connections in The Classics class at the 2nd edition of Les Voiles de St. Barth this spring, midway down the Caribbean island chain. While low on numbers, with just five boats, they were high on style points and diversity with the 76-foot W-class White Wings, the 80foot Fife yawl Mariella, the 60-foot gaff-rigged yawl Kate from St Kitt’s, and – get this − the 26-foot Friendship sloop La Sirene gracing the line. A 26-foot, finestkind Friendship! Hoooeeeee. Katy bar the door!

Long-time navigator for Carlo Falcone aboard Mariella, from Antigua, was 89-year old Henry Pepper of Marblehead, Mass., who joined a crew from Italy, Australia and Dominica. Les Voiles de St. Barth is a warm-up for this summer’s classicyacht series in New England. FMI: www.lesvoilesdesaintbarth.com. editor@pointseast.com

Briefly Marblehead J/105 Nats Aug. 10-14 The J/105 North American Championship is being held Aug. 10-14, hosted by fleet No. 2 and the Eastern Yacht Club in Marblehead, Mass., one of the top sailing venues on the East Coast. A strong turnout is expected, with more than two dozen boats registered by early April, from five states, including California, Maryland and Rhode Island. With our rapidly growing local fleet (now 25-plus boats), and Marblehead’s proximity to other strong fleets in Newport, Long Island Sound, Maine, New Hampshire, and Cape Cod, the numbers could easily swell to more than 40, the regatta committee said.

Eastern Yacht Club’s highly professional race committee will be complemented by event PRO Ken Legler, and the club’s staff (as well as Marblehead’s many local watering holes) will be focused on providing fantastic shore side activities. For the full preliminary schedule visit www.j105.org, email: j105@regattapromotions.com.

Sails Up 4 Cancer Regatta June 26 Mystic River Yacht Club is hosting another major eastern Connecticut Sailing Association-approved regatta on Sunday, June 26, in Fishers Island Sound, with the shore party and awards ceremony immediately following. Sails Up 4 Cancer is a nonprofit organization with which MRYC is partnering to stage this regatta. In addition to the traditional racing format,

NYYC Invitational Cup is Sept. 10-17 This biennial event returns to NYYC’s Harbour Court in Newport, R.I., with at least 19 yacht club teams – representing 13 nations from six different continents – racing NYYC Swan 42s on Rhode Island Sound and Narragansett Bay. By country, the current roster of teams is: Yacht Club Argentino (Argentina); Cruising Yacht Club of Australia; Royal Bermuda Yacht Club; Royal Canadian Yacht Club; Real Club Nautico de Barcelona (Spain); Nyländska Jaktklubben (Finland); Itchenor Sailing Club and Royal Yacht Squadron (Great Britain); Royal Cork Yacht Club (Ireland); Yacht Club Capri , Yacht Club Italiano and Yacht Club Punta Ala (Italy); Japan Sailing Federation; Clube Naval de Cascais (Portugal); Royal Cape Yacht Club (South Africa); and Eastern Yacht Club (Marblehead, Mass.); Annapolis Yacht Club (Annapolis, Md.); Newport Harbor Yacht Club (Newport Beach, Calif.); and New York Yacht Club (Newport, R.I.).

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with various classes and types of boats, there will also be a “Picnic Fleet,” both power and sail, composed of those who don’t want to race. These boats are encouraged to take aboard cancer patients and family members for a relaxing time watching the race. Donations can be money as well as items of value that may be auctioned off at the Shore Party.

Boats will be encouraged to sail in honor of someone who has or had cancer. FMI: www.mysticriveryachtclub.com.

Bermuda 1-2 starts on June 3 The singlehanded leg of the 2011 Bermuda One-Two, a biennial offshore yacht race for monohulls whose length-on-deck (LOD) cannot exceed 60 feet, will start Friday, June 3, from Newport, R.I. The doublehanded return leg to Newport from St. George’s, Bermuda, will start Thursday, June 16. The Bermuda One-Two is organized by the Newport Yacht Club and the Goat Island Yacht Club in Newport, with support from the Rhode Island State Yachting Committee, the City of Newport, and the Town of St. George’s, Bermuda. Host club in Bermuda is St. George’s Dinghy & Sports Club. It is intended to be a sporting event encouraging seamanship, competition and fellowship in the tradition of shorthanded sailing. The deadline for applications, entry fees, and skipper/crew resumes is May 14. Notice of race and application can be downloaded from http://www.bermuda1-2.org.

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For a tough schoonerman, he was downright lyrical With Reckless Abandon: Memoirs of a BoatObsessed Life

By Capt. Jim Sharp, Down East Books, 2011 (first published in 2007 by Devereux Books), 272 pp., 19.95.

Reviewed by Sandy Masters For Points East When we lived in middle of the woods, before moving to the big city (Portland, Maine), I could look out my window and see seven boats in my yard. OK, they weren’t big boats, but they were boats nonetheless, and most of them floated, and I was damned proud of my armada.

So imagine my envy when, in the appendix of Maine Windjammer Capt. Jim Sharp’s wonderful book, “With Reckless Abandon,” I counted 35 boats in his lifetime collection. And that didn’t include two iceboats, a pontoon seaplane, canoes, kayaks, skiffs, dories, “and a handful of nondescript sailing and rowing dinghies.”

And these weren’t just ordinary boats.

Some of them – like the 122-foot ex-Grand Banks fishing schooner Adventure and the 112-foot gaff-topsail schooner-yacht and former Boston Harbor pilot boat Roseway, and the engineless 68-foot wooden ex-coasting gaff schooner Stephen Taber – have come, with the rest of the schooner fleet, to define Penobscot Bay’s summer landscape. There is nothing like watching one of these beauties emerge from the fog on a run down Eggemoggin Reach, her rails deco-

rated with happy passengers, her huge sails working effortlessly in the breeze. You can thank Capt. Jim Sharp for much of that.

Back to the boats: There were also the famous Bowdoin, the 88-foot Arctic exploration gaff schooner, or his first sailboat, Bay Wolves, a 20-foot wooden knockabout sloop, or Spodie Odie, a 26-foot twin-screw powercat whose purpose in life was “fishing and goin’ like hell.”

And that seems to have been the purpose in life of Sharp, as well, especially the “goin’ like hell” part. Nothing slowed him down. Need a new mast?

Well, then, we’ll cut it down and carve it and step it with the straining old crane.

Sharp just couldn’t stay away from boats. He claims once to have made a rational decision about a boat, but I doubt it. His record is one of utter impulsiveness.

So this is a book about a guy who just loves boats. Old boats. Challenging boats. Romantic boats. Useful boats.

Useless boats. Big boats. Little boats.

Medium boats. Power. Sail. Wood. Steel.

Whatever.

Chapter by chapter, boat acquisition by boat acquisition, the reader revels in the joys, the frustrations (epic head clogs), and the terrors (piloting an old tug in the launch of a huge new container-ship in Bath on one of the last “gravity” launches, in which the ship

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slides sideways into the water at very high speed: “The image has been cast indelibly on my retina. That huge stern, covered with a wall of plank, plunging deep into the water, the 1,000-foot ship tobogganing down the ways, smoke pouring from the skids pushing a veritable tidal wave, water cresting, curling high, cascading down all white with froth and breaking like some unrestrained rogue wave of a North Atlantic perfect storm. Yikes!”

The reader will cringe at the trials – the March trip home from Gloucester with the newly acquired Roseway, with three crew, including a dairy farmer who must have missed his cows terribly, taking turns at the wheel: “It was so cold, we had to trade positions each 20 minutes – one in the engine room checking gauges and warming between the roaring hot engines, one in the galley freezing with cold and getting a snack to keep up the caloric intake, and one steering, stamping feet, beating breasts, freezing, standing just to leeward of the two unmuffled, raging exhaust pipes with the decibel level equaling the leeward end of a 747 on takeoff . . . .”

Where were we? Oh yes, reveling in the joys of boating, specifically boating in Maine, and specifically boating in Penobscot Bay. For a tough old schoonerman, he can be downright lyrical. “We kept her nose to it, plowing northward, and, finally, when we broke out of the Muscle Ridge Channel, passed Owls Head Light, and gazed again at the beauty of blue Penobscot Bay with the Camden Hills all humped up and stretching northward, the sight of it gave each of us a great lump in the throat and a bad case of the goose bumps. There is no place like home – no place like Maine.”

Ain’t it the truth.

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Guide covers lesser-known side trips along Great Loop Great Loop Side Trips: 20 Cruising Adventures on Eastern North America’s Waterways Raven Cove Publishing, 336 pp., $21.95. By Ron and Eva Stob

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According to Ron, navigating these amazing side trips may be done either in “your big tubby or trailerable boat.” Information is included on charts, guidebooks, marinas and launch ramps needed to cruise these side trips. Side trips cruised are the St. Johns River, Potomac and Patuxent rivers, Erie Canal, Little Triangle Loop, Lachine Canal, St. Lawrence and Saguenay rivers, North Channel’s North Shore, Wisconsin’s Door Peninsula, Upper Mississippi River, Arkansas River, Ohio River and tributaries including the Monongahela, Allegheny and Great Kanawha Rivers, the Cumberland River, Tennessee River and tributaries, Upper Black Warrior River, and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway from Mobile to Mexico.

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Donelson C. Glassie, Jr. 76, Newport, R.I.

The sailor, entrepreneur, and real-estate developer, who owned and ran three local inns in Newport in addition to other hotels in New York and Miami, died, Feb. 3 at the Sloane Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

A well known and colorful figure in Newport, he was often seen with paint-splattered boat shoes and a baseball cap on Bannister’s Wharf, working on his 1926 schooner Fortune, or visiting Arabella, the 160-foot windship that plied the New England-Caribbean route. His day-charter boats, the schooner Madeleine and the powerboat Rum Runner, gave harbor tours in

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the summer. He established used-boat shows in Newport and Annapolis, Md., and ran the Yankee Peddler and Harborside inns. He converted the old Newport police station into the Jailhouse Inn, and unveiled hotels in Miami Beach and New York City.

William B. Cooper, Jr. 83, Sandwich, Mass.

Mr. Cooper, a renowned seaman and wooden-boat builder, died Jan. 5 after a brief illness. When, in 1944, he sailed into Quissett Harbor while a hand on a schooner, the Brooklyn, N.Y.-born Cooper wrote that he had found “a little bit of heaven,” and he stayed on the Cape. Later in the 1940s, while employed at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, he sailed as able-bodied seaman on the original research vessel Atlantis, voyaging to Cuba and the Mediterranean. He worked for his father-in-law Charles Eldred at the Eldred Boatyard in Quissett, then joined Luders Marine Construction in Stamford, Conn., before starting his

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own boatbuilding and repair business in 1965. Among his accomplishments were helping build the 12-meter boat Intrepid in 1967, building an ocean-voyaging catamaran in 1979, and crafting a replica of a 1925 Gold Cup racing powerboat in 1986. In 2000, he helped organize the Woods Hole Museum Small Boat Restoration Program and was an instructor for it until his death.

nual giving, ran the woodshop, started the sailing club, and coached polo. Ever an outside-the-box thinker, he designed and built the Maltese Cat, his own 30-foot racing yacht, and then created his lifelong dream, Cayuse, a 36-foot cruising boat capable of 20-knot speeds. Donations in his memory may be sent to Cape Cod Maritime Museum, 135 South St., Hyannis, MA 02601 designated for the “McPherson Sailing Skiff Project.”

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Flounder fishing in the back Here’s to tight lines after a long ponds on warm sunny days seems northern winter! to be the best. Sandworms are the ticket for these flatfish. Mid-May, Elisa Jackman, a Point Judith the scup should start moving into Shallow, sandy bottom areas are locations to look for fluke during the early season, Pond native, has managed the Narragansett Bay and then to the as witnessed by these two doormats south shore as water temperatures caught off Little Rhody’s barrier beaches. tackle shop at Wakefield, R.I.’s Snug Harbor Marina rise. Rocky bottom areas are the best locations to find these fish. Tautog fishing will (www.snugharbormarina.com) for over 16 years and begin to improve daily, with the first fish caught off has spent her life fishing the waters of Block Island Matunuck’s rocky shore areas. Sandworms tend to Sound.

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True North’s building a new diesel-electric hybrid True North Yachts, in Warren, R.I., Canopy-mounted solar panels is building the 34G, a diesel-electric charge the 34G's constantly hybrid that can run for over four hours battery banks when the engine at up to six knots exclusively off an isn't running. electric motor, with the only sound coming from the calming ripples swirling through the wake. The turn of a key fires up her Steyr 280-horsepower diesel engine for “conventional” power, and with a 19-knot cruise (22knot top end) she has a 250-mile range.

The lightweight Steyr hybrid has a zero-emissions electric motor. While the diesel engine is operating, it works in unison with the gear-mounted electric motor to increase fuel efficiency during acceleration while sending 48Photo courtesy True North volt power to recharge the battery bank. With the Mastervolt inverter/charger, this pro- panels constantly charge the 34G’s battery banks vides ample AC power to supply the hot-water heater, when the engine isn’t running. The 34G’s light dismicrowave, and even an air conditioner, thus render- placement requires less power and fuel to reach cruising a generator unnecessary. Canopy-mounted solar ing speeds. FMI: www.tnyachts.com

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Searsport teaches science while building boats A boatbuilding program is being used to teach physical science to a small group of high school students, thanks to collaboration between Searsport (Maine) District High School and Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport. As they learn how to sharpen chisels, mix epoxy, and run a band-saw, seven sophomores, juniors and seniors are studying concepts such as vectors, drag and torque, with the help of a professional boatbuilder and educators from the school and the museum.

“It’s an alternate path to meet core academic standards,” says Michelle Andre, a physical science teacher at Searsport District High School, who stressed that the program is a science elective, not vocational training. “Some students learn best through hands-on activities outside of a traditional classroom environment. The ones who requested to be in this program are taking it seriously, learning rapidly, and having a great time.”

The project was conceived jointly

by Kathleen Jenkins, an English teacher at the high school, and Betty Schopmeyer, the museum’s education director. Greg Rossel, boatbuilder and boatbuilding educator, leads the hands-on part of the project, while Andre designed the academic components to align it with Maine’s standards for science education. “There are some classroom elements to the program,” says Andre. “We use the dynamics of a boat on the water to illustrate concepts such as center of gravity, center of buoyancy, drag, lift, and stability. For some of the students, it’s the relevance to the hands-on component that makes the classroom lessons engaging.”

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Learning to sail The Apprenticeshop, in Rockland, Maine, has developed workshops and shorter boatbuilding programs that require less of an investment in time and money.

The new programs include evening maritimecraft workshops, where participants can build a pair of oars or a half-hull model, or learn the basics of hand-sewing and marlinspike work.

Adult learn-to-sail classes will be available this summer. In the shop, participants can spend a weekend learning how to loft, plank or fit out the interior of a wooden boat.

Weeklong intensive skill building workshops are also offered in traditional wood boatbuilding. FMI: www.apprenticeshop.org.

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There are days when just sitting down and quietly absorbing the drama of wild places is enough, as Leigh finds out at Holbrook Island Cove, Cape Rosier, Maine.

A Holbrook Island Cove respite t had been a week of sullen southerlies, dungeons of fog and rain. Worrying our way through the wooly mists day after day, suited up in foulweather gear, and pretty much being confined to the cabin otherwise, was wearing thin. And now that clearing was in the forecast – but glacially slow in arriving – the chronic dullness was vexing.

We knew we couldn’t afford not to improve upon the day, but were in need of the organic perspective of wild places. Thus, it was a relief when at last we come into Holbrook Island Cove, just south of Castine, Maine.

Sniffing about off a shingle beach on the Cape Rosier shore, it was good to get the anchor down and silence the engine. We’d have 14 feet at low. I thought of creeping in closer, but had no ambition for it, the mate and I becoming occupied with how we might address the day.

The skiff’s long spruce oars were soon leaving bubbling eddies in their wake as we rowed for shore, the bow grating upon a sweep of smooth stones. To not have the press of time upon us was extravagant. We shuffled along, picked up a seashell or two, skipped rocks across the smooth water, watched an osprey arc purposefully across the sky, and lived in the moment.

Across a meadowy sward we wandered, and soon were greeted by the vista of Smith Cove to the east.

Much of this section of Cape Rosier is part of the Holbrook Island Sanctuary State Park. Striking out along a well-worn trail, chickadees, gulls and crows

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sang out the news of our arrival. Coming upon a grassy knob offering dramatic island views, we had lunch. Afterward, lying back on the warm earth, I closed my eyes. Being absorbed by the thrum of the wild was calming.

As the afternoon waned, we returned to the sloop and tuned in a forecast that called for a southwester to breeze up overnight. Sounding the slender gut between nearby Ram and Holbrook islands, we settled under the protecting shore. Light and shadow capered about, but barely a breath of wind fluttered the flag.

The stillness of eventide, splashes of pink and plum, gulls, terns and swallows on the wing, going about their eternal business. The comfort of a sweater and a cozy cabin. Cheddar cheese on crackers, chicken soup, a crust of bread, the flickering lantern, North Star alone in the sky, and chill of night. Then, long silences, the contentment of a quiet berth, a good book . . . and sleep.

Morning came bright and blue, and found us contentedly wandering the dark paths and bold shore of Holbrook Island. What could be sweeter? There’s solace to the wilds, and much to recommend patience and silence.

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Skin & Bones: Tattoos in the Life of the American Sailor An exhibit that explores the origins, traditions and symbolism of tattoos in American maritime culture. Over two centuries of ancient and modern tattooing tools, flash (tattoo design samples), and tattoo-related art, historic photographs, and artifacts to tell the story of how tattoos entered the sailor’s life, what they meant, and why they got them. www.mysticseaport.org Shoreline Sailing Club Open House The Westbrook Elk’s Lodge #1784, Westbrook, Conn., 7:30 p.m. If you are an active singles over 35, skippers and sailors, check out our activities which include sailing, fishing, kayaking, dances, dockside parties, skiing, and more. Lite Bites/cash bar. For info call Wayne. www.shorelinesailingclub.com 860-652-5000

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CBF’s Will Baker to Speak at Save The Bay Save The Bay’s 41st Annual Meeting, in Newport, R.I. Will Baker is president and CEO of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF), an environmental organization supported by over 200,000 members and e-subscribers hailing from every state in the Union and 14 countries. Discover our Exploration Center and Aquarium, then mix and mingle with drinks and hors d’oeurvres upstairs in the rotunda. www.savebay.org

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Preview, Penobscot Marine Museum Opening Day Penobscot Marine Museum opens for 2012 featuring two new, year-long exhibits: 75/75! 75 Favorites from PMM’s First 75 Years: Curator’s pick of the best, most interesting, oddest, most important, most beautiful, and most valuable items in the collection. And The Art of the Boat: A juried art show featuring works in varied media, exploring the boat as a work of art and the boatbuilder as an artist. www.penobscotmarinemuseum.org bholtzman@pmmmaine.org

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Started by local residents and business owners in the Stamford Harbor area, the goal of the festival is to attract, entertain and engage an audience from Manhattan to Mystic and across the sound in Long Island. People will be able to attend the festival by boat or by land. SHL will benefit the Young Mariners Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing academic and life skills achievement of low income students through after school and summer education programs. www.stamfordharborlive.com

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10th Annual Women’s Sailing Conference Corinthian Yacht Club, One Nahant Street, Marblehead, Mass. National Women’s Sailing Association (NWSA) and the Corinthian Yacht Club of Marblehead, Mass. A day-long conference for women designed to introduce them to and/or enhance their skills in recreational sailing through seminars on water and on land. www.womensailing.org marcia.bennet@verizon.net

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2nd Annual Star Island Gosport Regatta Star Island Corporation in partnership with the Piscataqua Sailing Association (PSA), Portsmouth, N.H. Race day will begin at 11 a.m. June 11 at the mouth of the Piscataqua River. The pursuit race also kicks off the summer conference season at Star Island, Isles of Shoals, six miles off Rye. This is a renewal of a sailing race around the Isles of Shoals first held in the late 19th century. www.wentworthmarina.com

17th Annual Leukemia Cup Regatta Newport, Rhode Island, New York Yacht Club. 401-9438888. www.leukemiacup.org/ri joyce.muir-pastore@lls.org IYRS Launch Day IYRS Newport Campus (449 Thames Street, Newport, R.I.). Instead of picking up diplomas that prove hours of learning, students will climb aboard the boats they spent the past year building, refitting and restoring and test

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157th NYYC Annual Regatta presented by Rolex New York Yacht Club, Newport, R.I. Racing starts on Friday, June 10. with the Around-the-Island Race, a 19-mile race around Conanicut Island.

IRC, One-Designs, 12 Metres, 6 Metres and Classics will compete in a two-day series on Saturday and Sunday, June 11-12. The Swan 42 Class is planning a one-day regatta on Friday and the twoday series over the weekend. http://nyyc.org/157th-annual-regatta sailingoffice@nyyc.org Penobscot Bay YMCA Annual Boat Auction Second Saturday in June each year. One of the Penobscot Bay YMCA’s largest fundraisers of the year.

Proceeds help send local kids to camp. Contact: Marcia Roberts @ 207.236.3375 or mroberts@penbayymca.org. Boat donations needed. We’re seeking all things nautical and we’ll come and haul them away. After any merchandise sells, you’ll get tax deduction if it’s your property or a 10% Finder’s Fee if you refer an owner who chooses to donate to us. www.penbayymca.org swhytock@penbayymca.org Free SailMaine Sailing & Open House SailMaine, Commercial Street extension, Portland, Maine, 10 a.m. -- 3 p.m., rain or shine. Free sailboat rides, shoreside boat rigging, and knot-tying demonstrations. Learn what this nonprofit community sailing center is all about. Adults, teens and kids (age 8 & up) are welcome. SailMaine will provide life jackets for those who don’t have them. www.sailmaine.org sarah@sailmaine.org, 207-650-2085

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J-Class Regatta Sail Newport, Newport, R.I. The first competitive J-Class regatta in the United States since the 1937 America’s Cup. For originals built in the 1930s (like Shamrock IV and Velsheda) and J-Class replicas, which are about 140 feet LOA and 200 tons displacement. www.jclassyachts.com www.sailnewport.org

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140th Windjammer Birthday Party The main event is The 1871 Schooner Showdown. The Schooners Lewis R. French and the Stephen Taber - both built in 1871- will go head to head in a race from Maine’s Camden harbor to the Rockland Breakwater lighthouse. The race will be followed by an awards ceremony and cocktail reception at The Pearl. The ships will be dockside for public tours, and on June 18th, both will be offering day sails. www.windjammerbirthdays.com info@windjammerbirthdays.com

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U.S.A-Team Hydroplane Racing Hubbardton, Vermont. www.ateamboatracing.com

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Storm Trysail Club’s 24th Biennial Block Island Race Week The regatta serves as both the 2011 IRC East Coast Championship (held for the previ-

ous six years in Annapolis, Md.) and the J/122 National Championship. The event also will feature the debut of a new J/111 class and has eliminated former PHRF restrictions that will open up the event to more sailors. FMI: Contact event chair Nick Langone. www.blockislandraceweek.com 914318-6356 JULY 9

Searsport Lobster Boat Races and Antique Power Day A town-wide day of activities: Lobsterboat races, antique engine and lobsterboat exhibit, radio-control model racing, crafts for children, rowing race and more. Taking place at Penobscot Marine Museum, Mosman Park, and Town Dock, Searsport penobscotmarinemuseum.org or bholtzman@pmm-maine.org

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Edgartown YC Round-the-Island Race The Edgartown Yacht Club Round the Island (RTI) Race will be held at Edgartown, Massachusetts on Saturday, July 9, 2011. The Edgartown Yacht Club (EYC) is the Organizing Authority. Normally it is possible for both cruising and racing boats to finish the 52nautical mile course by late afternoon or early evening. If the tidal currents or wind conditions make going slow, the Race Committee will finish the race just north of Menemsha. www.rtirace.org

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U.S.A-Team Hydroplane Racing Thompson, Connecticut. www.ateamboatracing.com

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2011 Marblehead to Halifax Ocean Race This is an offshore 360 mile Category 2 event held every two years, alternating with the Newport to Bermuda race. It includes divisions for IRC, ORR, PHRF and Multihull yachts. The total fleet size is approximately 100 boats. Contact Geoff Smith, Boston Yacht Club Marblehead to Halifax Race Committee. 508.358.7542 (H) 508.361.0202 (Cell)

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Downeaster Days Summer Day Camp Penobscot Marine Museum, 40 E. Main St., Searsport, Maine, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Maritime-themed summer camp for kids from 5 to 11. Six oneweek sessions are offered. Each camp include arts, crafts, field trips, science, outdoor activities and lots of fun in a safe, educational environment. http://www.penobscotmarinemuseum.org bschopmeyer@pmm-maine.org

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2011 Vineyard Cup The Vineyard Cup Regatta will be held on the waters of Nantucket Sound and Vineyard Sound off of the Island of Martha’s Vineyard on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, July 15th, 16th and 17th, 2011. Sail Martha’s Vineyard ( SMV ) is the Organizing Authority www.sailmv.com and invites vessels 18

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Boatbuilding and Restoration Program Newport Campus of IYRS, Newport, R.I., 4-7 p.m. www.iyrs.org

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Marine Systems and Composites Technology IYRS Training Program, Bristol Campus of International Yacht Restoration School, 4-7 p.m. www.iyrs.org

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Penobscot Bay Day: Special 75th Birthday Edition 10:00am - 5:00pm Free museum admission, cake, crafts, music, balloons, presentations, demonstrations, exhibits and more. http://www.penobscotmarinemuseum.org bholtzman@pmm-maine.org

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69th Annual Hyannis Regatta Hyannis Yacht Club, Hyannis Mass. The Ocean Racing Class (PHRF) will compete July 23-24. One-design races will be held July 29-31. More than 230 one-design boats will race. FMI: Contact Greg Deegan, regatta chair. regattachair@hyannisyachtclub.org

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CDSOA 2011 Maine Cruise Casco Bay Region.

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J/105 North American Championship Regatta Hosted by fleet # 2 and the Eastern Yacht Club, Marblehead, Mass. EYC’s professional Race Committee will be complemented by event PRO Ken Legler and the Club’s staff (as well as Marblehead’s many local watering holes). www.j105.org or email j105@regattapromotions.com

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Corinthian Classic Yacht Regatta The courses will be tailored to the NO SPINNAKER format; we will try to avoid or limit dead down legs, but instead apply courses that offer fantastic reaches and few beats if at all possible. We will be racing under the Classic Rating Formula (CRF). If you do not have a CRF handicap contact Chris Wick at 860-536-1840 or by email: mischief@snet.net www.corinthianclassic.org

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Penobscot Bay Rendezvous: A New Regatta for Sail and Power Yachts Camden, Maine. Hosted

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MS Harborfest Auction & Reception Portland Yacht Services, 6 - 10 pm. Come support a great cause. 207-781-7960 www.MSmaine.org

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7th Annual Ida Lewis Distance Race Ida Lewis Yacht Club, Newport, R.I., 177- and a 150-mile courses, with turning marks at Castle Hill, Brenton Reef, Block Island, Montauk Point, Martha’s Vineyard and Buzzards Tower, and back to Newport. Classes for IRC, PHRF (including Cruising Spinnaker and a Youth Challenge division), One Design and Double-Handed boats of 28 feet or longer. www.ildistancerace.org racechariman@ildistancerace.org

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MS Shoreside Festival Ft. Allen Park/Eastern Prom, 10:30 - 3:30. Live band - vendors - children’s programs. 207-781-7961 www.MSmaine.org

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MS Regatta Parade of Sail, 10:45 from Handy Boat Services. First gun 12:30. BBQ and awards 6pm. 207-781-7961 www.MSmaine.org

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29th Annual Antique & Classic Boat Festival Brewer Hawthorne Cove Marina, 10 White St., Salem, Mass. A crafts market, artists, old-time band music, children’s activities, Blessing of the Fleet, Parade of Boats, and more. www.boatfestival.org 617-666-8530, 617-868-7587

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U.S. A-Team Hydroplane Racing Haverhill, Massachusetts. www.ateamboatracing.com

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Right here in Boston Harbor, we have a designated island park, managed by federal, state, municipal and nonprofit agencies. For a comprehensive list of activities on the harbor islands visit the Boston Harbor Islands website (www.bostonharborislands.org). The Boston Harbor Islands National Recreational Area’s mission is to protect the islands and their resources while improving access and public knowledge. Park islands range from remote and undeveloped, to those that provide a full set of services.

Boston Inner Harbor itself is active with commercial vessels and yachts of every design and size. On our weekend sails, we can count a hundred boats coming and going. Sailing schools and clubs offer five evenings of racing. While the Inner Harbor is busy, it is never too crowded. By comparison, the Outer Harbor is peaceful, with its expansive views of the harbor islands and the Atlantic Ocean beyond.

Even though we have sailed Boston Harbor for years, our harbor cruising lately has been limited to what we see on our way out or on our return from our long vacation trips. We’ve daysailed, sailed with friends, raced at various venues within the harbor, but could we say we have ever treated our home as our destination? It was time to investigate our own backyard, and we began to plan a three-day cruise with no long legs, no reservations and no schedule.

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To prepare, we checked various websites for scheduled fireworks displays during the period July 2-5. We found celebrations every night in every direction.

Without traveling much more than five miles from Averisera’s mooring at Piers Park in East Boston, we could take our pick of harbors where we could sit back and relax in our cockpit under a light show.

Friday night, we got under way around 7 p.m. I find that Friday night departures can be somewhat stressful. The tensions from a whole week of work, and now the end of a long day, are difficult to shed while preparing the boat and ourselves to sail away. This time we had the additional stress of wondering if we were making the right choice to not sail far away. Would we find stimulating days, entertaining evenings and quiet nights? Or would we be disappointed with our first urban cruise?

We motored most of the way. “Thumper” kept up a rhythm as we navigated in the last hours of sunlight, down Nubble Channel between Long and Gallops islands, around Hospital Shoal, keeping Peddocks Island to port. As we rounded the western tip of Peddocks, we looked back at a view of Boston skyline, lit up by the low, red rays of the sun as it dipped toward the horizon. We navigated through West Gut, and kept Pig Rock and The Piglets off to starboard, as we began to make out the lights at the entrance to Weymouth.

We had chosen a spot off the mouth of the Weymouth Back River as our anchorage for the first night, just off Grape Island near Hingham. Right on schedule, at editor@pointseast.com

9 p.m. the fireworks started exploding over the tree line of Crow Point, Hingham. We relaxed and viewed the celebrations being launched over Hingham Harbor, while we had a picnic dinner in the cockpit. We were one of three boats in this particular anchorage. A flotilla of small powerboats watched the display from the other side of Grape.

Soon after the display was over, we rolled and rolled as one small motorboat after another roared past us to their moorings and slips in Weymouth Back Creek. Oops!

We gathered that the preferred place for watching the fireworks was the other side of Grape, and even though our anchorage, on the chart, looked like it was out of the way, this area was in reality used as a thoroughfare for small boats.

Saturday morning dawned bright and hot, with nary a breath of air: a perfect day for walking ashore on Grape Island. We looked at the tall trees a short distance away and immediately thought, shade. Into the dinghy and off we went. Families on power cruisers awoke, kids migrated to the beach for swimming, and kayakers appeared and landed on Grape. Numerous kids dinghied ashore, but never ventured beyond the water’s edge. Few sounds say “summer” as do the splashing and laughter of children on a beach.

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Grape has well-manicured trails, campsites, and eco-friendly toilets. Access is via park ferry or shuttle from Hingham – or your own boat if you have one.

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abound. From some vantage points on Grape, the view matched anything one might see in Penobscot or Casco bays. On the northwest side of the island, the Boston skyline loomed large.

Emerging from the tangle of shrubs on the walking path and catching a view of the city from such a private place, we felt very clever.

Grape Island was used for farming or grazing up until the 1940s. Part of the Grape Island history is that an old ship captain turned hermit and lived on the island for some years in the 1800s. We think he picked a nice place to go for his escape. The natural spring provided enough fresh water, a garden provided his vegetables, and the bay provided his seafood. At 10 miles distant, Boston was a long way off. Today, Boston is close but not too close.

We dinghied back to Averisera for lunch and rest. Abrasive noise came from helicopters circling above and sirens on the harbor, and we watched one of the large island ferries race out of Weymouth.

Later, we learned the reason for the hubbub: A whalewatching vessel had run aground. At the time, we discounted the sounds as typical city noise. Cities and siren sounds do go together, you know.

That afternoon, Elizabeth and I explored ashore on a neighbor to Grape, aptly named Slate Island. The island virtually tinkles as broken slate chips shift beneath your feet. We enjoyed a walk along the rocks and marsh, spotting birds that represented a completely different population from what we saw on Grape. Slate Island is also part of the National Island Park. Due to

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Averisera picked up a mooring in Winthrop just before dinnertime, and the crew settled in to watch the harbor activity before dusk and the fireworks that followed.

an abundance of poison ivy, it has no trails. If the tide is right, you can just about circumnavigate it on foot, avoiding the brambles by keeping feet on the slate beach. In days of yore, it was occupied seasonally by Native Americans, and was used for a source of slate by the colonists.

During lunch aboard, the traffic of small powerboats zipping between Grape and nearby Slate rocked Averisera hard. Urban cruising is all about knowing

Boston Harbor resources directory Nautical references: Dependable references include: Eldridge Tide and Pilot Book, (www.eldridgetide.com); Maptech Embassy (www.maptech.com) guide: New England Coast, Block Island, RI to the Canadian Border, 6th edition, including detailed descriptions of the Boston Harbor Islands, key coordinates, page-size charts and suggested activities; Maptech Waterproof Chartbook Cape Cod to Cape Ann, MA, 2nd edition, with Lat/Lon for GPS and pre-plotted courses, full-color charts, marina listings; Maptech Chartbook Block Island, RI to the Canadian Border, Region 2, 14th edition, with large-scale charts and photos; for those not planning to cruise multiple states, Maptech’s foldable, waterproof chart No. 21, Massachusetts Bay and Boston Harbor, 5th edition, handy in size, durable, and packed full of navigational information.

The Boston Sailing Center (http://bostonsailingcenter.com) has a cruising guide for the area that may be helpful.

Boston area marinas and rental moorings: Boston Water Boat Marina (617-523-1027, VHF Channel 9, http://www.bostonwaterboatmarina.com); Boston Yacht Haven (617-523-7352, www.bostonyachthaven.com); Constitution Marina, Charlestown (617-241-9640, www.constitutionmarina.com); Boston Harbor Shipyard and Ma-

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rina (www.bhsmarina.com); Admiral’s Hill Marina (www.admiralshillmarina.com). Piers Park (http://piersparksailing.org) has a few moorings for rent.

Fuel and pump-out: Mystic Marine and Fuel (www.mysticmarinediscounts.com.

Boston marine supplies: Boxell’s Chandlery (617-241-2800); Mallard Discount Marine (617-269-6699); Robert E. White Instruments (weather and marine instruments and Eldridge Tide and Pilot Book, 617-742-3045).

Boston Harbor information: Boston Harbor Islands (617-2238666, www.bostonsislands.org); for more specific information about mooring and anchoring, visit www.bostonislands.org/trip_getthere2.html. National Park Service (www.nps.gov/boha/index.htm); Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (Boston Harbor water quality, Deer Island Tour Line (617-660- 7607, http://www.mwra.state.ma.us); U.S. Coast Guard Local Notice to Mariners (www.navcen.uscg.gov/lnm/default.htm).

Emergencies: Sea Tow Boston office (617-567-1881); Tow Boat US Boston office (800-391-4869); U.S. Coast Guard (VHF Channel 16); Boston Police/Fire/Medical (911).

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where the small-boat channels are and not going there to anchor. The shallow water closer to Grape did not accommodate our six-foot draft.

To ensure a quieter night, we had a new idea: up anchor to head into Hewitt’s Cove Marina in Weymouth Back River for a night alongside and ringside seats for Saturday’s fireworks, courtesy of Weymouth.

Weymouth’s fireworks appeared at dusk, offering a fine display. The absolute joy of the young children on the dock added greatly to the evening. Children at the beach are classic summer sounds, and so are the exclamations of children thrilling to fireworks. “Wow, that was the best ever!” exclaimed one small boy at least a dozen times.

At the end of the night, moms and dads carried sleepy children home or tucked them into berths.

Grown-ups quietly continued their celebrations. The returning smallboat flotilla complied with the nowake rule. The harbor was still.

Lights out aboard Averisera.

Sunday, we woke up to blue, blue skies and wind. To take advantage of this windfall, we committed to an all-day sail; no motor, we promised ourselves. Our destination, by six o’clock that evening, was Winthrop, on the north side of Boston Harbor, where we planned to raft with friends at their mooring.

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May 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 31

04:47AM 0.5 05:25AM 0.3 06:01AM 0.2 12:13AM 9.8 12:47AM 9.9 01:24AM 9.9 02:04AM 9.9 02:48AM 9.8 03:38AM 9.7 04:32AM 9.6 05:32AM 9.6 12:24AM 0.8 01:28AM 0.4 02:32AM -0.2 03:31AM -0.7 04:28AM -1.2 05:22AM -1.5 06:14AM -1.6 12:38AM 11.5 01:29AM 11.2 02:21AM 10.7 03:14AM 10.1 04:08AM 9.6 05:04AM 9.1 06:02AM 8.7 12:52AM 1.7 01:49AM 1.5 02:41AM 1.3 03:30AM 1.1 04:14AM 0.8 04:54AM 0.5

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10:58AM 11:36AM 12:12PM 06:35AM 07:11AM 07:49AM 08:30AM 09:15AM 10:04AM 10:58AM 11:55AM 06:35AM 07:40AM 08:44AM 09:44AM 10:41AM 11:36AM 12:29PM 07:06AM 07:57AM 08:49AM 09:41AM 10:34AM 11:27AM 12:20PM 06:59AM 07:56AM 08:49AM 09:38AM 10:23AM 11:05AM

8.8 8.8 8.8 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 9.6 9.6 9.8 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.1 -1.4 -1.1 -0.6 -0.1 0.4 0.8 1.1 8.4 8.3 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5

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04:54PM 05:28PM 06:02PM 12:48PM 01:25PM 02:03PM 02:45PM 03:32PM 04:22PM 05:18PM 06:16PM 12:54PM 01:53PM 02:51PM 03:46PM 04:40PM 05:32PM 06:23PM 01:22PM 02:14PM 03:07PM 04:00PM 04:54PM 05:48PM 06:41PM 01:12PM 02:02PM 02:49PM 03:33PM 04:13PM 04:52PM

Bar Harbor, Maine 1.1 1.1 1.1 8.8 8.7 8.7 8.6 8.7 8.8 9.0 9.3 0.1 0.0 -0.2 -0.3 -0.4 -0.4 -0.2 9.9 9.7 9.4 9.1 8.9 8.7 8.7 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.5 1.5 1.4

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11:05PM 11:39PM

9.6 9.7

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06:36PM 07:13PM 07:53PM 08:37PM 09:25PM 10:20PM 11:20PM

1.1 1.2 1.2 1.3 1.3 1.2 1.1

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07:15PM 08:13PM 09:09PM 10:03PM 10:56PM 11:47PM

9.8 10.3 10.8 11.3 11.6 11.6

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07:15PM 08:07PM 09:01PM 09:56PM 10:54PM 11:53PM

0.1 0.4 0.8 1.2 1.5 1.6

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07:32PM 08:21PM 09:06PM 09:48PM 10:28PM 11:06PM

8.8 9.0 9.2 9.4 9.6 9.8

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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 31

04:29AM 05:07AM 05:44AM 06:19AM 12:30AM 01:07AM 01:47AM 02:31AM 03:20AM 04:15AM 05:15AM 12:08AM 01:13AM 02:15AM 03:14AM 04:10AM 05:04AM 05:56AM 12:20AM 01:11AM 02:02AM 02:55AM 03:50AM 04:45AM 05:43AM 12:33AM 01:29AM 02:21AM 03:10AM 03:54AM 04:36AM

0.4 0.2 0.1 0.0 11.3 11.3 11.2 11.2 11.1 11.0 10.9 0.8 0.3 -0.3 -0.9 -1.5 -1.8 -1.8 13.1 12.7 12.1 11.5 10.9 10.4 9.9 1.6 1.5 1.3 1.0 0.7 0.4

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Corrections for other ports Port Reference Maine/ New Hampshire Bar Harbor Stonington Rockland Bar Harbor Boothbay Harbor Portland Portland Kennebunkport Portsmouth Portland

Height Corrections

High +0 hr. 8 min., Low +0 hr. 6 min., High +0 hr. 9 min., Low +0 hr. 6 min., High -0 hr. 6 min., Low -0 hr. 8 min., High +0 hr. 7 min., Low +0 hr. 5 min., High +0 hr. 22 min., Low +0 hr. 17 min.,

High *0.91, Low *0.90 High *0.93, Low *1.03 High *0.97, Low *0.97 High *0.97, Low *1.00 High *0.86, Low *0.86

Massachusetts Gloucester Plymouth Scituate Provincetown Marion Woods Hole

Boston Boston Boston Boston Newport Newport

High +0 hr. 0 min., Low -0 hr. 4 min., High +0 hr. 4 min., Low +0 hr. 18 min., High +0 hr. 3 min., Low -0 hr. 1 min., High +0 hr. 16 min., Low +0 hr. 18 min., High +0 hr. 10 min., Low +0 hr. 12 min., High +0 hr. 32 min., Low +2 hr. 21 min.,

High *0.93, Low *0.97 High *1.03, Low *1.00 High *0.95, Low *1.03 High *0.95, Low *0.95 High *1.13, Low *1.29 High *0.40, Low *0.40

Rhode Island Westerly Point Judith East Greenwich Bristol

New London Newport Newport Newport

High -0 hr. 21 min., Low +0 hr. 3 min., High -0 hr. 1 min., Low +0 hr. 32 min., High +0 hr. 13 min., Low +0 hr. 3 min., High +0 hr. 13 min., Low +0 hr. 0 min.,

High *1.02, Low *1.00 High *0.87, Low *0.54 High *1.14, Low *1.14 High *1.16, Low *1.14

Connecticut Stamford New Haven Branford Saybrook Jetty Saybrook Point Mystic Westport

Bridgeport Bridgeport Bridgeport New London New London Boston Newport

High +0 hr. 3 min., Low +0 hr. 8 min., High -0 hr. 4 min., Low -0 hr. 7 min., High -0 hr. 5 min., Low -0 hr. 13 min., High +1 hr. 11 min., Low +0 hr. 45 min., High +1 hr. 11 min., Low +0 hr. 53 min., High +0 hr. 1 min., Low +0 hr. 2 min., High +0 hr. 9 min., Low +0 hr. 33 min.,

High *1.07, Low *1.08 High *0.91, Low *0.96 High *0.87, Low *0.96 High *1.36, Low *1.35 High *1.24, Low *1.25 High *1.01, Low *0.97 High *0.85, Low *0.85

2 0 1 1

10.3 10.3 10.3 10.3 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 11.0 11.1 11.3 11.6 11.8 11.8 11.8 -1.6 -1.2 -0.7 -0.2 0.4 0.8 1.2 9.7 9.5 9.5 9.6 9.7 9.9

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04:39PM 05:15PM 05:50PM 06:25PM 01:04PM 01:42PM 02:24PM 03:10PM 04:01PM 04:56PM 05:55PM 12:38PM 01:37PM 02:35PM 03:31PM 04:25PM 05:17PM 06:09PM 12:59PM 01:51PM 02:43PM 03:36PM 04:30PM 05:24PM 06:17PM 12:54PM 01:45PM 02:33PM 03:18PM 04:01PM 04:41PM

1.0 1.0 1.1 1.2 10.2 10.1 10.1 10.1 10.2 10.4 10.7 0.1 0.0 -0.3 -0.5 -0.6 -0.6 -0.4 11.5 11.2 10.8 10.5 10.2 10.0 10.0 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.5 1.5 1.4

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1.3 1.2 1.2 18.2 18.1 18.0 17.9 17.8 17.9 18.1 18.5 0.3 0.0 -0.5 -0.9 -1.1 -1.2 -1.0 20.0 19.4 18.8 18.2 17.6 17.3 17.2 2.3 2.4 2.4 2.2 2.0 1.7

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10:46PM 11:21PM 11:56PM

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07:01PM 07:39PM 08:22PM 09:11PM 10:05PM 11:05PM

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06:54PM 07:53PM 08:50PM 09:45PM 10:37PM 11:29PM

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07:00PM 07:53PM 08:46PM 09:41PM 10:38PM 11:36PM

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07:09PM 07:59PM 08:45PM 09:29PM 10:10PM 10:49PM

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10:50PM 11:28PM

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06:44PM 07:23PM 08:04PM 08:48PM 09:36PM 10:29PM 11:26PM

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07:02PM 08:00PM 08:57PM 09:51PM 10:44PM 11:35PM

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07:16PM 08:07PM 08:57PM 09:49PM 10:42PM 11:37PM

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07:06PM 07:57PM 08:46PM 09:32PM 10:15PM 10:57PM

17.3 17.5 17.9 18.3 18.7 19.0

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Time Corrections

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10:36AM 11:15AM 11:51AM 12:27PM 06:55AM 07:33AM 08:13AM 08:58AM 09:47AM 10:41AM 11:38AM 06:18AM 07:23AM 08:25AM 09:24AM 10:21AM 11:15AM 12:07PM 06:47AM 07:38AM 08:29AM 09:22AM 10:15AM 11:08AM 12:01PM 06:40AM 07:35AM 08:28AM 09:17AM 10:02AM 10:44AM

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 31

04:32AM 05:12AM 05:51AM 12:05AM 12:43AM 01:22AM 02:03AM 02:47AM 03:36AM 04:30AM 05:29AM 12:26AM 01:28AM 02:28AM 03:26AM 04:21AM 05:15AM 06:06AM 12:26AM 01:16AM 02:07AM 02:58AM 03:51AM 04:46AM 05:41AM 12:32AM 01:27AM 02:19AM 03:09AM 03:56AM 04:40AM

0.8 0.4 0.1 19.2 19.2 19.2 19.1 18.9 18.8 18.6 18.6 1.1 0.4 -0.5 -1.4 -2.1 -2.6 -2.6 21.7 21.1 20.3 19.4 18.5 17.7 17.2 2.6 2.5 2.1 1.7 1.2 0.7

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18.0 18.1 18.2 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.5 18.7 19.0 19.5 20.0 20.3 20.5 20.3 -2.4 -1.8 -1.0 -0.1 0.7 1.5 2.0 16.8 16.7 16.8 17.0 17.3 17.6

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BOSTON, continued from Page 77 thought so, too, and we looked through the binoculars to see if the anchored cruisers were rolling. Nope, there was no rolling on this windy day, and dinghies were up on the beaches. We placed little anchor symbols on our chart for future use.

Our friends with the mooring called: “Engine trouble; proceed as planned but we will not be rafted,” they said. They remained anchored at Spectacle Island for July Fourth. Averisera picked up the Winthrop mooring as planned, just before dinnertime. A rescue plan for our friends was formulated for the next day, Monday. We settled in to watch the harbor activity before dusk and the fireworks that followed.

Winthrop is a gem of a harbor. It is divided into two sections by Snake Island, which is a marsh surrounding a little hill covered with trees. West of the island is Cottage Park Yacht Club. East of the island is Winthrop Yacht Club and a town dock.

As the very day itself, July 4th, turned into evening, a procession of boats filled the harbor. Some raft-ups were four wide. Kids played; adults settled into snacks and deck chairs; teens all studied their cell phones.

The harbor was active with dinghies and kayaks. Official boats kept the fireworks area clear of anchoring vessels. The fireworks team scurried about on the shore, finishing their preparations. Folks on land filled

in piers and beaches.

Our mooring was a front-row seat from which we watched Winthrop’s Independence Day celebrations. It was fun, orderly and polite. The fireworks were first class. The fire on the beach during and afterwards only added to our amusement. We settled into our berths for a well-deserved sleep.

The next day, we rafted up with our friends at Spectacle Island, between Thompson and Long islands, where they hosted a grand breakfast. They had been able to see another whole set of fireworks displays from their anchorage the previous night. After failing to bring the engine back to health, we slowly towed them back to Winthrop. By mid-afternoon Monday, we were heading back to our home mooring, glad for the short ride from Winthrop to Piers Park.

As we plan our next harbor cruise, there is no shortage of destinations. The harbor is bigger and more interesting than we had thought. We found a dozen anchorages available for different wind and weather combinations, which begged an age-old cruising conundrum: Go back to re-explore old favorites or find new favorites?

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Augusta: Mr. Paperback.

Baileyville: 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.

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Boothbay: Boothbay Mechanics, Boothbay Resort, Cottage Connection.

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

Bucksport: Bookstacks, EBS Hardware.

Calais: EBS Hardware.

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Deer Isle: Harbor Farm.

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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.

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Freeport: Gritty McDuff’s, True Value Hardware.

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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.

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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 Bristol: 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.

Wiscasset: Market Place Café, Wiscasset Yacht Club.

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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-By-The-Sea Marina.

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

Seabrook: West Marine.

Tuftonboro: Tuftonboro General Store.

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

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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.

Cuttyhunk: Cuttyhunk Town Marina.

Danvers: 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, Jeffries Yacht Club, 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: Bayline Boatyard and Transportation, 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.

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, Wind-

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North Falmouth: 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.

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 Barnstable: 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: 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.

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

Warren: Country Club Laundry, Warren River Boatworks.

Warwick: Appanoag Harbor Marina, Brewer Yacht Yard at Cowesett,

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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.

Chester: 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.

Greenwich: Beacon Point Marine, Indian Harbor Yacht Club.

Groton: Pine Island Marina, Shennecossett Yacht Club, Thames View Marina.

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.

West Haven: West Cove Marina.

Westport: Cedar Point Yacht Club.

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Flotilla boats leave the city of Saint John behind and head for the Reversing Falls, which is the entrance to the river.

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The daysail aboard Kitty resulted in a $150,000 commission. A worthwhile road trip, and it’s what Brainerd believes is the way to treat people shopping for a museum-quality, seaworthy boat.

Chad Myers is building a special-order lightweight dinghy, foam core with wood veneer and trim, for a price that’s, well, a secret. It’s a custom Stephens, Waring and White design with high-tech strip composite construction. Josh Anderson and Mike Rogers are scarfing in mahogany planks to replace butt blocks on the hull of the Glory, a 1957 Sparkman and Stephens yawl undergoing full restoration. Justin Ward and Ben Loveless are refinishing the hull of a Dark Harbor 20 sloop, from Islesboro.

As spring and sailing season arrives, Artisan will likely hire more workers. It’s another day at a young company that keeps on growing, building and restoring classic wooden sailboats from daysailers to ocean racers. Office manager Larrain Slaymaker is fielding inquiries via Internet in a business that sails on profitably despite the slumping economy.

The shop also stores, trailers and maintains these gleaming yachts for their affluent owners, some of whom have homes on nearby Islesboro, North Haven and Vinalhaven. Others live farther away but value Artisan’s meticulous maintenance and full service.

Brainerd, 35, grew up around boats in Brooksville,

Maine, and sailed the world before attending a nowclosed Rockport, Maine, boatbuilding school, then settling into boatbuilding, marriage, and raising a family.

“Half of what we do is restoration and maintenance; half is new construction,” he said. “We’re busier now than we’ve ever been.”

Brainerd, who worked for Taylor Allen at Rockport Marine, said his standards go beyond careful craftsmanship to the ethics of restoring historic boats. He said if someone came to him with a classic boat and wanted to severely alter its appearance, he would probably decline to take on the job. “The moral implications are important,” he said. But he is pragmatic, too. “It’s important to take a holistic approach with restoration work, which can otherwise be very inefficient. We aim to restore structural integrity and hull shape, while preserving as much original material and character as possible.”

Much boatbuilding work is still done by hand, and designs are lofted full-sized in the loft. Brainerd has 1898 plans for Herreshoff’s gaff-rigged Buzzards Bay 15, of which the 25-foot Kitty is a marconi-rigged example. Although it has the same hull as the Buzzards Bay design, it’s called the Watch Hill 15. These graceful, swift centerboard boats are 24 feet, 6 inches in length overall, 15 feet long at the waterline. It will take the Artisan Boatworks team three months to build and deliver the latest one to its Florida owner.

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A replica of Kitty, a 24-foot, six-inch,Watch Hill 15 designed by Nathanael Greene Herreshoff in 1898, took three months to build and deliver to her Florida owner.

Artisan Boatworks opened its doors in 2002, and has since managed to grow sustainably and expand substantially. The barn-style shop beside the house now includes a 5,600-square-foot boat storage building, and Brainerd said he is about ready to add still more space with another building.

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Before starting his own business, Brainerd signed on the 137-foot Grand Banks fishing schooner Roseway, built in 1925, which took cruises out of Camden.

He rose to first mate, sailing Roseway to the Virgin Islands. Over the next 10 years, he sailed private yachts to ports from the Galapagos to New Zealand, where he spent a year working on the refit of a 100-foot wooden yawl.

He crewed aboard the 94-foot William Fife ketch Sumurun, built in 1914, taking first place in a 1997 race from New York to Falmouth, England. He later skippered the 83-foot schooner Appledore III, taking paying passengers for twohour sails from Camden.

Between family and shop work, Brainerd doesn’t have much time to sail any more. He has a Pearson Ensign sloop and an Eastern 18 runabout.

Both are made of fiberglass, he admitted a bit sheepishly. “They’re the only fiberglass boats here.”

Steve Cartwright is a freelance writer and occasional sailor living in Waldoboro. He can be reached at writer@midcoast.com. Alec Brainerd has been added to the board of directors of The Apprenticeshop, where he teaches boatbuilding.

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Located in Maine. $6,950. Email or call Alan, 207-633-5341. alan@winterisland.com

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19’ Cape Dory Typhoon Typhoon Weekender keel sloop, Alberg design. Working jib and genoa, 6hp Tohatsu 4-stroke, good condition. Asking $3,000. Rick Freeman, 207-371-2447 rfreeman@bowdoin.edu

20’ Legnos Mystic Catboat 1977. Fiberglass, 20 ft. overall.

Fully refitted with new Awlgrip paint, Thoosa electric motor, and electric hoisted tabernacle mast.

Located Tampa, Fl.. $19,500.

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20’ Alden, 1979 Classic wooden gaff-rigged sloop, full keel. New sails. Cedar/oak, canvas deck; trailer. $19,000. 207775-1005. www.adayinmaine.org nbarba75@gmail.com

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21’ Pocket Cruiser, 1985 Perfect pocket cruiser. Crocker gaff sloop, cedar on oak, impeccable pedigree. Galley, rebuilt diesel, etc. $15,000. 603-828-2411 Seacoast NH. bellantonedesign@comcast.net

23’ Sonar, 1983 3 main sails (one reefing), 2 jibs, spinnaker. Includes trailer, motor bracket, berth cushions. $8,500, 207-865-4098 cliffgeorge1@gmail.com

23 Foot Classic Plastic 1962/2007 Refurbished Pearson Electra Alberg/Cuddy, 2 bunks 5.5 Fisherman outboard, stereo, VHF, head, with Venture Adjustable Trailer. Call Captain Don at 617828-9005. $11,900 or best offer.

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24’ Bridges Point, 1989 A cuddy cabin version of the popular Bridges Point 24. Roomy cockpit and a unique interior layout.

New diesel in 2007. A lovely boat to sail. 207-244-7854. billw@jwboatco.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

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

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27’ Hunter 27, 1977 Furling sail, dingy, new halyards. In Warwick cove, launch paid. $6,000. 401-487-2004. kathynaughton@msn.com 25’ Cal Sloop, 1968 Fast, easy handling, with Schaefer roller furling, main halyard fed to cockpit. Large 7.5’ cockpit, poptop, sleeps 4. 1998 9.9hp outboard, VHF radio, stereo system, depth meter, etc. Fully equipped.

Rhode Island mooring available until November. $2,500. Call 401783-1582.

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

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’ 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’ Cape Dory Cutter, 1987 SANDRA LEE is a very well maintained Cape Dory 30 Cutter. The present owner purchased her in 2006, and is now offering her for sale as he wishes to downsize. $39,500. Gray & Gray, Inc, 207363-7997. www.grayandgrayyachts.com graygray@gwi.net

27’ Catalina Sloop, 1985 Nice example of this popular small cruiser. Well equiped and cared for. $14,900. 207-799-3600. www.theyachtconnection.com

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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.

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

32’ Mahogany Sloop Norwegian built, Tripp design, mahogany sloop. Excellent. Recently rebuilt everything. New tanks, electrical, electronics, decks. Refrig, cabin heat, TV etc. Nice inside and out. Near Portland. $20,000. 860912-6748. rwfinders@yahoo.com

33’ Contention, 1978 Classic Contention sloop, Doug Peterson design - points beautifully.

Instruments, 6 berths, 10 bags sails, comfortable for racing/cruising, enclosed head. Well cared for.

Appraised $20K, asking $18,500 or best reasonable offer. Midcoast Maine, 207-415-4439. semrib@gmail.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’ Pacific Seacraft Sloop 1995 Scheel keel, which provides 4’ of draft. This vessel shows excellent, caring ownership. Extras include 12V refrigeration, Espar diesel heat, an oiled teak interior, and attractive forest green cushions. $105,000. Gray & Gray, Inc. 207-363-7997.

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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

34’ Tartan Sloop, 1972 Solid classic 1972 Tartan. All systems lovingly upgraded/rebuilt.

Many extras including spare working engine. Wonderful sailor/racer. $30,000. Call 207-646-3758 for details. www.sailthegift.com mainiacperkins@msn.com

mahogany deck joinery and varnished spars. New Beta diesel. A sailor’s cruising boat. Contact Islesboro Marine Enterprises, Islesboro, Maine. 207-734-6433.

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

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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 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, displacement 8 tons. Teak planking on iroco frames, teak decks, varnished

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 al-

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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

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

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Any condition considered. Please call John at, York Harbor Marine Service at 207-363-3602 or email sales@yorkharbormarine.com Seaway and Key West, New New Seaway & Key West Boats in Stock. Suzuki & Tohatsu Outboards From 2.5hp to 300hp. Contact Lake & Sea Boatworks, Bar Harbor, Maine 207-288-8961. www.lakeandsea.com sales@lakeandsea.com 15’ Key West 152, 2006 Center Console. Only one owner.

Powered by a 2006 Honda 50hp 4Stroke. Only $10,500. Call York Harbor Marine Service, 207-3633602. sales@yorkharbormarine.com

Black & Tan Lumber Yard Skiff 1000lb capacity. Completely refit in 2010 with lightly used 25hp 4 stroke Yamaha, NuTeak decks, teak floor grates, custom console, mahogany bench. Comes with cooler seat, custom boat cover, console cover, bimini, anchor and rode, fenders, fish finder, swim platform,

16-1/2’ Pete Culler Wood Workboat, 1969 Complete with original post, light wood frame for cover, and manual bailer.

Plaque reads, R.D. Culler 1969 for Concordia Boat. $2,000. 207-7480836 17’ Sunbird Corsair, 1994 with very nice trailer. Add an outboard and a little cosmetic work for a great little runabout. $1100. 207223-8885.

17’ Key West 176CC, 2010 New 2010 Key West 176CC w/Suzuki 90hp 4-stroke & trailer $24,730. Contact Lake & Sea Boatworks, Bar Harbor, Maine 207-2888961 www.lakeandsea.com sales@lakeandsea.com 17’ Sea Hunt 175 Escape, 2002 New listing. Powered by a 2002 115hp Evinrude. Call for details at York Harbor Marine Service, 207363-3602. sales@yorkharbormarine.com

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

18’ Seaway Sportsman, 2011 Seaway 18 Sportsman, Suzuki 70hp 4-stroke & Trailer. Claret Red, varnished teak. Contact Lake & Sea Boatworks, Bar Harbor, Maine 207288-8961 www.lakeandsea.com sales@lakeandsea.com

19’4 Skiff, 2010 2010 Dealer Demo 19’4” X 8’4”.

2010 Suzuki 60hp four stroke, under 50 hrs., large center console, leaning post w/4 flush mount rod holders, casting platform, rear seats, nav. lights, compass, trim tabs, SS destroyer wheel, plexiglass door frames, TrexÆ rails, trim and spray rails. All original warranties. $22,895. Call Gene: 207-418-0387. www.alliedboatworks.com gene@alliedboatworks.com

20’ Modified Skiff, 2010 2010 Dealer Demo - Modified skiff, 20’x 8’10”. 2010 Evenrude E-Tec 90hp, under 30 hrs., large center console, casting platform, rear seats, nav. lights, compass, trim tabs and heavy duty rub rails. All original warranties. $21,995. Call Gene: 207-418-0387. www.alliedboatworks.com gene@alliedboatworks.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. www.bamforthmarine.com salesandservice@bamforthmarine.com 21’ Seaway Seafarer, 2011 New Seaway 21 Seafarer, Suzuki 115 4-stroke & Trailer. Dark Blue, GPS/Fishfinder, Bimini top, stern seat. Contact Lake & Sea Boatworks 207-288-8961 www.lakeandsea.com sales@lakeandsea.com 21’ Key West NEW Key West 211CC, Suzuki 175,

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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.

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 WA 2400, 2001 225hp Saltwater Series Yamaha Plus 9.9hp 4 Stroke Yamaha - Fish finder, radar, GPS, VHF radio, autopilot, downriggers, rod holders, marine head, sink, saltwater wash down. Includes double-axle Continental trailer - 2 Owner boat in great condition $22,000. - Please call 603-964-7087 or email for more details. LMTT4@yahoo.com

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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.

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

This boat has radar, GPS, and full enclosure. Yamaha 250hp. $22,000. 207-799-3600. www.theyachtconnection.com tyc@southportmarine.com 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 25’ Pacemaker, 1969 Center Console, total refit. MercCruiser 454. Asking $32,000.

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

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

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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 25’ Boston Whaler 255 Conquest, 2002 Like new.

Powered by twin 200hp Hondas.

Loaded with factory BW options. $49,500. Call York Harbor Marine Service, 207-363-3602. sales@yorkharbormarine.com 26’ Somes Sound 26 Open launch “Salt Ponds”. Classic launch look with plenty of teak and bronze. $100,000. Call 207-2557854 or email bill@jwboatco.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.

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27’ Devlin Surfscoter 27, 2006 Pocket Trawler - trailerable plywood/epoxy composite power cruiser, Volvo D3-160, beautiful, fast and efficient. Details at website or 603-358-1003. www.keenesignworx.typepad.com/alsek Alsek2@gmail.com

27’ Hydra Sport, 2000 With Raymarine electronics. Just reduced to $39,900. Call York Harbor Marine Service, 207-363-3602. sales@yorkharbormarine.com 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, 207 691-1637.

30’ Bunker & Ellis, 1962 Built by the famed duo of Raymond Bunker & Ralph Ellis. Lovingly and professionally cared for by two families over the course of her life. $60,000. 207-255-7854 or email billw@jwboatco.com

30’ Rampage Sportsman Custom, 1988 Offshore sport fishing boat. Beam 11’, draft 2’6. Twin inboard GM 350s. Cabin has enclosed head with shower and overnight sleeping amenities. Well maintained. Under-used and looks great. Located in southern Maine.

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32’ Jonesport Lobster Boat 1968. Clinton Beal, cedar on oak, Chevy 235. $18,500. www.jonesportshipyard.com info@jonesportshipyard.com 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-thesea.com/karbottboatbuilding/ jmkarbott@aol.com 32’ Wilbur/Newman Sedan, 1977 New Yanmar. Refit. Old style charm. Asking $125,000. Biddeford, Maine. 207-691-1637.

32’ BHM Flybridge Cruiser 1985. 250hp Volvo diesel with only 1600 +/- engine hours. Numerous, recent upgrades which include new electronics, new teak cabin sole, new galley with varnished teak cabinets, new Tundra refrigerator, new fiberglass cockpit sole, and new aft pilothouse bulkhead, awlgripped white. $87,500. Gray & Gray, Inc. 207-363-7997. www.grayandgrayyachts.com graygray@gwi.net

34’ Wilbur Flybridge, 1988 Wilbur Flybridge Long Range Expeditionary Cruiser. Caterpillar.

Turn-key. Asking $149,000.

Florida. John Morin, 207 6911637.

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 Hardtop, 1990 Two boats offered, from $113,000.

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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

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meticulously maintained. Cummins 350hp, bright and airy main saloon/wheelhouse, galley-down, vberth, head. $349,000. www.atlanticboat.com brokerage@atlanticboat.com

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

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.

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38’ H&H Hardtop Cruiser, 1998 Wheelhouse in 2010, all new Diamond Sea Glaze windows. DONNA JANE is powered with a single Cat 435 hp diesel, which allows her to cruise easily at 15 knots. She’s quiet and economical. $190,000.

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36’ 10.8 Meter Trojan Convertible, 1989 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 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

38’ Stanley, 1984 Stanley 38 “Fishwife”. First Stanley 38 built in 1984 and owned by the same family since her launch. She is in excellent condition. $285,000.

207-244-7854 or billw@jwboatco.com 38’ Young Brothers/Pettegrow 1984. Custom flybridge cruiser.

Volvo diesel, low hours. Electronic controls. Recent radar. Located Conn. Will deliver. $89,000. 860535-8424. mnpeterle@att.net 39’ Smith & Gray Cruiser Cassic, well maintained, great layout, new carpets, awning & cushions. $28,500 with good terms. www.jonesportshipyard.com info@jonesportshipyard.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 and numerous other upgrades make Voyager a desirable vessel in a classic Hatteras. $179,000. 207371-2899. www.robinhoodmarinecenter.com perry@robinhoodmarinecenter.com 40’ Steel Tug, 1948 Built by Marine Supply in Ontario.

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version to a trawler yacht. $60,000.

207-255-7854 or email billw@jwboatco.com

42’ Matthews Classic, 1956 Double Cabin Flying Bridge (DCFB) Cruiser. Beautifully restored cruiser, a sea-going summer home. Repowered with 2 twin GM V6 220hp delivering 4.5gph @9knots. Complete new plumbing, electrical including Lewmar anchoring system, Garmin chartplotter/GPS and Ritchie binnacle. $59,000. More information and pictures available. Contact: herliebarnes@yahoo.com

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

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’ 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’ 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

Other 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

Pre-purchase surveys Insurance surveys Damage surveys

207.232.8820

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Appraisals Marine Consulting New Construction surveys

Cape Elizabeth, Maine

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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 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 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.

www.theriaultmarine.com

Delivery Captain - Professional Crewing • Deliveries • Charters • Training • Passages

Capt. Mike Martel Mobile: +401.480.3433 E-mail: CaptMikeMartel@yahoo.com Safe, Reliable, Reasonable.

Delivery - Mate aboard 1926 Classic Wooden 85’ LOA Staysail Schooner Mary Rose - Newport, RI to Tortola, BVI via Bermuda - Nov. 2010.

98 Points East May 2011

10 1/2’ & 12’ Skiffs Maine style and quality. Epoxy bonded plywood/oak, S/S screws.

Easy rowing and towing, steady underfoot. Primer paint. $1,250 and $1,600. Maxwell’s Boat Shop.

Rockland, Maine. 207-594-5492.

Internet supplier of multi-vendor epoxies (as low as $33/gallon); low temperature epoxies; high temperature epoxies; epoxy paints; underwater epoxies; thickened epoxies; industrial epoxies; barrier coat epoxies; LPU polyurethanes; graphite-teflon™ - copper powder fillers; fumed silica & microfibers.

MUCH, MUCH MORE!

Progressive Epoxy Polymers, Inc.

Handcrafted Tide Clocks The Chesebro Gallery in New Harbor is offering handcrafted tide and time clocks functional & beautiful. Rustic barn board frames, stained glass, and the faces have images of coastal Maine from Mark Chesebro’s original paintings. www.chesebrogallery.com mandl@roadrunner.com

Canvas Cleaning This year, have Gemini Canvas service your bimini or dodger. Professionally cleaned w/ water-repellent treatment. No dip-dunk tanks, 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

&

Transmission New England’s Largest Stocking Distributor Call for prices and delivery New & Rebuilt

1-800-343-0480

603-435-7199

HANSEN MARINE ENGINEERING

www.epoxyproducts.com/marine.html

Marblehead, MA 01945

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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 C W Johnson, Inc. Secure heated boat storage building in Harpswell, Maine. Professional service/maintenance or do-it-yourself space available during the off-season by moving the boat into the isolated work area. Storage area doors measure 14’x14’. Call Chip at 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 Offshore Passage Opportunities #1 Crew Networking Service. Further your horizons. Sail free. Since 1993. Call for brochure and membership application. 1-800-4-PASSAGe. Join online at www.sailopo.com 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.

and boatyard. Please send resume with cover letter summarizing work experience to www.yankeemarina.com deborah@yankeemarina.com

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.

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

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

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.

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

Moorings Available Boothbay Region Boatyard has seasonal moorings available, $950.

We are located in well protected Ebenecook Harbor, with free

Mercury, Yamaha Service Kennebunkport Marina has the only factory trained Mercury and Yamaha technicians located on the water in Kennebunkport to service

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 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 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 2011 summer

FREE

Cruise to Jonesport, Maine Enjoy pristine country and unsurpassed beauty • Expert Wood & Fbg • Jonesport Peapod • LoadRite Trailers • Showers-Laundry • Moorings • Boat Storage S/V Thalassa 35' Alden 1960 For more information

www.jonesportshipyard.com

(207) 497-2701 Jonesport, Maine

Marine Referral Service

Need service, repairs, modifications, installations, refits or maintenance of any kind on your motorboat, dinghy, sailboat or yacht at a reasonable hourly rate?

Ocean Master, Motor 40 years in big boats and small ships, BOATWISE instructor. Deliveries, training, management. 401885-3189. capt_bill@cox.net

Representing a co-op of qualified experienced professional independent marine contractors providing numerous services such as boat restorations, aluminum-fiberglass-wood repair, power washing, bottom painting, yacht delivery, and more...

Fiberglass Repair Position Permanent, year-round position available for Fiberglass/Composite Structure Repair Technician. Yankee Marina is a full-service marina

Serving all of New England

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www.gordonsmarinereferral.com Call Gordon at (207) 229-9413 for immediate assistance

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all of your mechnical needs. www.kennebunkportmarina.com managerkport@roadrunner.com Docking Available Kennebunkport Marina has the newest docks on the river with all new power pedestals and water hook ups. Call today to reserve a slip 207-967-3411. www.kennebunkportmarina.com managerkport@roadrunner.com 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

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 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

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

Compass Adjustments Adjusting compasses for all vessels from Kittery to Castine. Dave Witherill at 207-829-3046 or cell 207-318-0345. www.mainecompassadjuster.com penbaydw@maine.rr.com

Kennebunkport Marina Kennebunkport Marina is a full

Sails Wanted Flying Scot, good condition used

Boat Lover’s Paradise Deep Water Mooring in Morse Cove, Penobscot, Maine (near Castine). Includes renovated 1795 Schoolhouse with 3-plus bedrooms, 3-season porch, 73 feet of frontage and large outbuilding.

Come watch spectacular sunsets across Penobscot Bay or the activity at the boat yard next door. All for $255K. Call Carol 207-8121832. lovelymermaids@gmail.com

Buy or Charter • Power or Sail

www.mecat.com

Call now for availability!

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

888-832-2287 Charter Maine Cat 30 & 41

Live Aboard Sailing Instructions - Casco Bay, Maine For Women -- By Women, Aboard 44’ AVATRICE “ If you can learn to sail in Maine, you can sail anywhere.”

e-mail: sailing@gwi.net

www.womenundersail.com 207-865-6399

Charter Phoenix 40’ C&C Maine & Caribbean Boat is well equipped with in-boom furling main and electric furling jib.

UNDER SAIL, NO PART OF THE COASTLINE WILL BE, EITHER.

Contact Jan at Bayview Rigging & Sails Inc.

207-846-8877

NorthPoint

HINCKLEY YACHT CHARTERS

100 Points East May 2011

Abaco, Bahamas

Women Under Sail

ONBOARD, NO DETAIL HAS BEEN LEFT UNEXPLORED.

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

Cheap Power Today Run your boat with economical aircooled Briggs and Stratton type engines. Marine conversion manual includes methods for forwardneutral-reverse gearing. From cheap, easy to find local parts.

Only $10.95. Capt. Woodie Owen; P.O. Box 32172-PE; Charleston, SC 29417. rogerowen52@aol.com

Inflatable Dinghy Avon 310 Lite Inflatable Dingy, includes storage bag, seat, oars, lifting davit points, foot pump, 3 towing points. Excellent condition.

2006 model, 603-888-0164 bshap72181@aol.com

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

Offshore Swan Sailing Program Change your life - sail a Swan Offshore: Newport - St. Maarten in the NARC Rally Oct 30th 2011. Every year since 1998. Professional skippers. Very reasonable. Small crew means lots of wheel time. Fun! Call 1-800-4-PASSAGe (800-472-7724) www.sailopo.com

mainsail or full suit. Bullseye sails may also work. jwallace.3@comcast.net

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

Power & Sail

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Boats for charter

Larrain Slaymaker PO Box 252 Rockport, Maine 04856 (207) 557-1872 info@northpointyachtcharters.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

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

__ __

__ __

Yes

30’

Yes __

50’ __

Yes Yes __

50’ 36’ __

100’ 50’ 125’ 60’ 40’ 70’

__ Yes __ __ __ __

__ 40’ __ __ __ __

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.niemiecmarine.com

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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Advertiser index Allied Boat Works Bamforth Marine

26 60, 68

Hampton River Marina Handy Boat Service

32 3, 104

Paul Giroux Rigging & Marine

27

Penobscot Marine Museum

50

Bayview Rigging & Sails

47

Hansen Marine Engineering

Beta Marine

19

Haut Insurance Agency

20

Boat US

23

Hinckley Yacht Charters

18, 100

Boatwise

80

IMP Fishing Gear, Ltd.

64

Points East Flotilla

84

Bohndell Sails

80

Islesboro Marine Enterprises

19

Pope Sails

54

Boothbay Region Boatyard Boston Harbor Shipyard and Marina Bowden Marine Service Brewer Plymouth Marine Brewer Yacht Yards

9, 67, 104

J & S Marine Services

38

J-Way Enterprises

16

J.R. Overseas

9, 104 103

Jackson’s Hardware & Marine Jeff’s Marine

Broad Cove Marine Center

64

John Williams Boat Company

Brooklin Inn

86

Journey’s End Marina

Buck’s Harbor Marine Charters

92

Kanberra Gel

Burr Brothers Boats Capt. Jay Michaud Marine Surveys Carousel Marina

9, 104 95 38, 60, 67

Kennebunkport Marina

66,98,104

73 9, 104 94 61,77 69 34,89 9,24 87 45, 61

Pickering Wharf Marina

59

Pierce Yacht Co.

55

Points East 4th of July

40, 41

Port Clyde General Store

46

Port of New Bedford

39

Portland Yacht Services

104

Progressive Epoxy Polymers

98

Regatta Promotions

51

Robinhood Marine

9, 17, 34, 48, 89,104

Royal River Boatyard

38, 47

Russell’s Marine

94

SailMaine

48

Kent Thurston Marine Surveyor

96

Sailmaking Support Systems

59

Key West

50

Samoset

12

Casey Yacht Enterprises

96

Kingman Yacht Center

9, 17, 104

Scandia Yacht Sales

90

Cay Electronics

17

Kittery Point Yacht Yard

9, 63, 104

Sea Tech Systems

96

Charter Phoenix

100

Chase, Leavitt & Co.

72

Kramp Electronics

17

Seal Cove Boatyard

49

Lake and Sea Boatworks

50

Seaway

36

Coastal Marine Canvas

94

MacDougalls Cape Cod Marine

17

SK Marine Electronics

Coastal Marine Care

93

Maine Cat

37

Snug Harbor

Concordia Company

9, 104

Maine Sailing Partners

13

Sound Marine Diesel

Maine Veterinary Referral Center

59

South Port Marine

Maine Yacht Center

25

Spike Haible Century 21 Baribeau Agency

75

Maptech

35

Spruce Head Marine

59

CPT Autopilot

92

Crocker's Boatyard

104

Crosby Yacht Yard

9, 38

94 38, 88 19 9,20,60

Curtis Yacht Brokerage

93

Marblehead Trading Company

Custom Float Services

58

Marine Engines

56

CW Johnson, Inc.

73

Maritime Marine

Dark Harbor Boat Yard

77

Marston’s Marina

DiMillo's Yacht Sales

38

Merri-Mar Yacht Basin

Dockwise Yacht Transport

31

Mike Martel

98

Warren Pond Boatworks

Dolphin Marina & Restaurant

15

Miliner Marine Services

93

Webhannet River Boat Yard

Duchak Maritime Services

95, 96

17, 104

Standout Yacht Fittings

85

Stanley Scooter

86

68

Theriault Marine Consulting

98

60

Triple M Plastic Products

9, 104

77

URLS

Milton Cat

85

Wesmac

Dumas Welding

27

Mobile Marine Canvas

30

West Marine

Eastern

21

Moose Island Marine

68

Whiting Marine Services

70, 71 27 61,73 60 11 19,27

Eastsail Yachts

66

Moose Landing Marina

Ecovita

92

Morris Yachts

Enos Marine

68

Mystic Shipyard

Finestkind Brokerage

91

Navtronics

17

Winterport Marine

88

Fogg’s Boatworks

75

New Bedford Whaling Museum

39

Withum Sailmakers

72 77, 100

Fred J. Dion Yacht Yard

9, 104

New England Boatworks

66,91

Wichard, Inc.

9

Wilbur Yachts

104

33 18

Winter Island Yacht Yard

9, 72

3, 9, 104

Women Under Sail

Furuno

62

New England Burials at Sea

97

WoodenBoat Show

24

Gamage Shipyard

94

New Meadows Marina

50

Yacht Connection

90

Gannon and Benjamin, Inc.

19

Niemiec Marine

9, 104

Yacht North Charters

Gemini Marine Canvas

88

Noank Village Boatyard

19

Yacht Sales Network

Gordon’s Marine Referral Service

99

Norm Leblanc

97

Yankee Boat Yard & Marina

104

Yankee Marina & Boatyard

†9, 17, 104

Gowen Marine

9, 68

Gray & Gray, Inc.

91

Great Bay Marine

9, 57, 104

North East Rigging Systems

17

North Point Yacht Charter Co.

100

North Sails Direct

16

Yanmar Yarmouth Boatyard

Gulf of Maine Yacht Sales

91

Ocean Point Marina

89

YMCA Auction

Hallett Canvas & Sails

44

Ocean Pursuits

75

York Harbor Marine

Hamilton Marine

2

Padebco Custom Yachts

22

Hamlin's Marina

9

Parker’s Boat Yard

75

102 Points East May 2011

100 89

8 17 86 22,90

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SUMMER lasts 94 days ...

MEMORIES last a lifetime! ... let Brewer create great boating memories this summer!

With 22 locations in ‘vacation’ destinations from New York to Maine, Brewer Yacht Yards will make your experiences most memorable! Secure a slip at Brewer, and enjoy free dockage and discounted fuel.

New York Greenport Stirling Harbor Glen Cove Port Washington Mamaroneck

Whether looking for a seasonal slip or a year-round ‘home’ for your boat, Brewer provides you more.

Call or visit a Brewer yard today.

(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

www.byy.com

* our newest location

Westerbeke™ and their dealers let you cruise coastal New England with confidence. & Engines & Generators

Marine Propulsion Engines

RUGGED Westerbeke Digital D-NetTM Diesel Generators

QUIET

SMOOTH

Westerbeke 65A-Four Spare Parts Kits That Float!

Universal Diesel Engines

Kingman Yacht Center Cataumet, MA 508-563-7136 www.kingmanyachtcenter.com

MAINE Boothbay Region Boatyard W. Southport, ME 207-633-2970 www.brby.com

MASSACHUSETTS Brewer Plymouth Marine Plymouth, MA 508-746-4500 www.byy.com/plymouth

Handy Boat Service Falmouth, ME 207-781-5110 www.handyboat.com

Burr Brothers Boats Marion, MA 508-748-0541 www.burrbros.com

Kittery Point Yacht Yard Kittery, ME 207-439-9582 www.kpyy.net

Concordia Company South Dartmouth, MA 508-999-1381 www.concordiaboats.com

Portland Yacht Services Portland, ME 207-774-1067 www.portlandyacht.com

Crocker's Boat Yard Manchester, MA 978-526-1971 www.crockersboatyard.com

RHODE ISLAND New England Boatworks Portsmouth RI 401-683-4000 www.neboatworks.com

Robinhood Marine Center, Georgetown, ME 800-443-3625 www.robinhoodmarinecenter.com

Forepeak/Marblehead Trading Co. Marblehead, MA 781-639-0029 www.marbleheadtrading.com

CONNECTICUT Mystic Shipyard Mystic, CT 860-536-6588 www.mysticshipyard.com

Fred J. Dion Yacht Yard Salem, MA 978-744-0844 www.fjdion.com

Yankee Boat Yard & Marina Portland, CT 860-342-4735 www.yankeeboatyard.com

Yankee Marina & Boatyard Yarmouth, ME 207-846-4326 www.yankeemarina.com NEW HAMPSHIRE Great Bay Marine Newington, NH 603-436-5299 www.greatbaymarine.com

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J-Way Enterprises Scituate, MA 781-544-0333 www.jwayent.net

Merri-Mar Yacht Basin Newburyport, MA 978-465-3022 www.merri-maryachtbasin.com Niemiec Marine New Bedford, MA 508-997-7390 www.niemiecmarine.com

Hansen Marine Engineering, Inc Marblehead, MA 781-631-3282 www.hansenmarine.com

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