It was mid-July and only the third trip of the season, as the summer of 2023 was proving to be unusually wet and gray. Too many days had been overcome by fog on the coast of Maine, but this particular day was warm and sunny as we headed south on the Kennebec River. My 2000 SeaRay 215 Express Cruiser, Tegoak, was working fine – until it wasn’t.

Wouldn’t it be great if your berth stayed level while the boat swings? Well, it can.

Most people who spend any time on boats in this corner of the New England coast have a story to tell about this unique section of waterway, and here’s one:

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Winter 2024 The 95-foot pilothouse sloop known as Project Ouzel reached a major milestone on a snowy day in Maine at the end of last November. The hull emerged from the build shop at Rockport Marine with all structural bulkheads in place, was raised and carefully inverted in a Travelift,Read More

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The manual had offered a warning of the problem that was to come.

“I can do that,” I replied to my boat partner, Geo. It was the end of the sailing season, and someone needed to go up the mast on a friend’s boat.

Part 1: So many small, simple implements – a fine chisel, the perfect rigging knife, even a small boat – can nurture heritages that live and breathe, like this 1968 O’Day Mariner that has brought joy and fellowship to generations.

Forget the oil in your 2-stroke outboard and you may be rowing home.