Here in Maine boatyards and marinas are seen as essential businesses. Good thing, too, because there is always work to be done on boats. Between sheltering in place last weekend we spent a quick afternoon dropping the keel of AKC Hound, a 1959 Melody 34 yawl, designed by CharlesRead More

I’m a New Englander who enjoys boating our shores and visiting our storied lighthouses. If you enjoy the same you might consider reading Eric Jay Dolin’s book, Brilliant Beacons. Published 2016, 510 pages including notes. Eric lives in Marblehead, has an engaging writing style and has done his research. GreatRead More

The following is a response we received from a subscriber who lives in Minnesota after receiving a note from publisher Joe Burke about the digital-only version of the magazine: Thanks for this visit to the Downeast via Points East online. I love it. The ability to go directly to aRead More

By Frederick Findlen One beautiful October morning, my wife and I, both novice mariners, decided to take our last boating trip of the year. We checked the marine forecast, then launched our 17-foot motorboat in the New Meadows River in Brunswick, Maine. The plan was to run down Harpswell SoundRead More

I married this man because, well, sailing was part of his fabric, and I was determined it would be part of mine, too. Little did I know then that I also had a magic boating key to pass on to my family.

A lot of coasters curse the fog. I miss it. Though a lifetime of sailing may be too brief a span to draw any reliable conclusions, it seems that the Gulf of Maine fog stocks are in decline, particularly during the last decade. During one cruise back in the ’80sRead More

Anniversary celebrated there It’s Edgartown, on the island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. My family chartered a boat out of Newport, R.I., a few years ago and on the trip we eventually went from Cuttyhunk to Edgartown. We spent two nights there and got to celebrate a wedding anniversary, asRead More

After nearly 40 years of flying I have a serious side, and approached boating with an eye toward safety and situational awareness.

As normal life on the mainland began to close down in response to the spreading virus in late March, I made a run out to the Isles of Shoals in Utopia with an especially large supply order for the caretakers. In a normal season there would be a day inRead More

By Bob Muggleston The good news? The lights are on, there’s still plenty of food and the internet works. All those house projects and Netflix series’ you would tackle if you just had the time? There’s time now. The bad news is that, as a nation, we’re embroiled in aRead More