If you can correctly identify this harbor, you’ll be on your way to winning a fine Points East designer cap. To qualify, identify the harbor AND tell us something about the harbor, such as how you recognized it and some reasons you like to hang out there. We’ll pick aRead More

Winthrop, Mass. Joe, a legendary Star Class racer, died Aug. 7. He was a U.S. Navy veteran, serving during 1956-58. He won the 1963 North American Star Class Championships, and, within three weeks, moved on to win the 1963 World Star Class Championship. His victory in 1963 brought the 1964Read More

The Offshore 160 is a single-handed sailboat race 160 nautical miles long that started at noon on Friday, July 15. The race is run by the Newport Yacht Club and starts in Narragansett Bay just outside of Newport Harbor and runs south into open waters past Block Island. Seven skippersRead More

Reviewed by Sandy Marsters For Points East My grandson, Lewis, achieved his first birthday recently, and, with it, came mobility. Suddenly, navigation became a big concern. He needed to know how to get places, and he needed to remember how he got there so he could get back to hisRead More

Pulpit Harbor reminds me of a favorite aunt of mine, there being a pleasing disposition, interesting character, old-school charm, and sense of style to it that has aged well, and is a pleasure to behold. Though hardly wild, there’s a pleasing ruggedness to the spruce-crowned shore, and a sense thatRead More

Capt. Bob Brown Ultimately, this is a story about a boat. But it has to start as a story about our marina – Cove Marina, in Salisbury, Mass. For 19 of our 20 years of boating, we have begun our journeys from Cove Marina and, more or less, have endedRead More

Hank Garfield My favorite passage on the Maine Coast is between Rockland Harbor and Naskeag Point. I keep Planet Waves, my Cape Dory 25, in Rockland in the summer, but visit family on the other side of the bay once or twice a season. Their place is easier to getRead More

As I was rigging some new jib sheets on board Elsa last week, a fleet of little 420 sailboats, each crewed by two young teens, sailed by me in Marblehead Harbor, headed in after a race. These kids were happy, smiling, and very polite to this old sea dog asRead More

This 3rd annual regatta, referred to this year as Penobscot PHRF, was held July 16 & 17 between Rockport and Belfast, Maine. The host Front Street Shipyard was joined by Rockport Marine for the two days of racing and camaraderie.  Lynnette, which placed first at the Hospice Regatta took theRead More

Huntress holds the distinction of being the first wooden Hinckley Pilot #1 seen here passing through the Fox Island Thorofare after a night on Mooring & Muffins in ‘the creek’. Captain and Mrs. Harris dropped off an invitation to their celebration for Huntress‘s 60th year later this summer. The eventRead More