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The Boating Magazine for Coastal New England Volume 16 Number 6 September 2013 F E AT U R E S

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Cruising with kayaks

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Eleanora to the sea, Part 2

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“Let’s not take a dinghy, just the two kayaks,” I suggested as my daughter and I were provisioning my Coastal 27 powerboat, Whimbrel, for a five-day cruise .

By Judith Johanson

To Maine, then home: When we left David and his pregnant wife Eleanor in the August issue, they had sailed their 23-foot sloop from Martha’s Vineyard to Provincetown, and were bound offshore for points north.

By David Stanwood

Back home in Texas, Letters.

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Boots save fisherman, News.

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Dory races, Racing Pages.

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Late summer action, Fishing Reports.

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Crunching the fuel numbers The author has kept distance and fuel-consumption logs during seven cruises on five boats, power and sail, and shares the stats.

By Bill Hezlep

The hurricane of ’38 Seventy-five years ago this month, across Long Island, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, 688 people lost their lives, 4,500 were injured, 75,000 buildings were destroyed or seriously damage by this epic storm.

By Matthew Goldman

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David Roper

Just a spoonful of solitude The relationship of solitude and psyche.

Herb Parsons

Look Ma, I now own a yacht!

What if I touch bottom with her?

W.R. Cheney One is to avoid doing dishes.

News..........................................24 A MOB floats eight hour with boots; SSV Perry officially R.I.’s Tall Ship; Whaleship Morgan afloat once again.

The Racing Pages ........................64 Bermuda One-Two report; Edgartown Race Week a blast; Monhegan Race’s new format rocks.

Yardwork ...................................66 Back Cove Downeast 37 launched; Compass Project’s Boatbuilding Fest; Paine unveils 14-foot “yacht.”

Publisher Joseph Burke Editor Nim Marsh

Ad representatives Lynn Emerson Whitney Gerry Thompson, David Stewart Ad design Holly St. Onge

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Mystery Harbor...........................19 It’s a marina in the Connecticut River.

New Mystery Harbor on page 90.

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A solo sailor’s galley strategies

Letters..........................................9 PE’s fuel guru is back home in Texas; History of Bolster’s old Magic; She’ll take Waterlily concept to Florida.

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Fetching along.............................74 Finding shelter in Love Cove.

Fishing reports............................76 Maine: Stripers, blues, big tuna, sharks Western L.I. Sound: Lots of bait and gamefish; Rhode Island: Big-eye, yellowfin, albies, bonita.

Calendar.....................................88 Festivals, tours, races, seminars.

Final passages ............................90 George Hall Dixon, Robert J. Charbonneau, Sidney W. Rosen, M.D. Tides .....................................92-93 Last word ...................................90 “Ghost of the Piscataqua” by Jeff Bolster Distribution ..........................98-101

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Neither time nor tide. . . called a meeting with Publisher Joe to discuss the since gundalows depended on the tides to take them upnext few issues. “Great,” said Joe. “You and Naomi river on the rising tide and downriver on the falling tide.” meet Joanne and me at the Piscataqua motored out beyond gundalow landing in Portsmouth.

New Castle, past NOAA’s newly We’ll have our meeting on the arrived 124-foot hydrographicwharf, then catch the 3 o’clock run charting catamaran, the Ferdiout the Piscataqua and back.” nand R. Hassler, which will sail out Before Joe bought Points East in of the University of New Hamp2006, and moved the magazine’s shire’s Judd Gregg Marine Reheadquarters to Portsmouth, search Complex.

N.H., I’d never heard of a gunWe turned around, raised the dalow. When I first saw a gunsail (passengers hauling on the dalow tied up alongside a float halyard), and headed for the barn there, at first glance I thought the with the flood tide, a fair wind, and bargelike vessel was a rounda deliciously darkening sky that bowed, flat-bottomed, shoal-draft portended rain.

Thames spritsail barge. The spritThe “auxiliary engine” gave sail barges are those legendary 80Mother Nature a boost as a foot (give or take) coastal traders, crewmember related the incredible crewed by the traditional “man history of these function-specific and a boy,” that carried farm prodPhoto by Nim Marsh cargo vessels, “ . . . the equivalent ucts, hay, lumber and bricks and Aboard the Piscataqua, passengers help raise of today’s tractor-trailer rigs . . . other building materials along the the sail and take the helm while sailing on some they could navigate shallow rivers, east coast of England and the En- of the six estuaries of the Piscataqua River. carrying freight of up to 50 tons beglish Channel in the 18th, 19th and tween oceangoing schooners and early 20th centuries. the growing towns of the Piscataqua region.”

But the stout coasting vessel I’d spotted was instead a I contemplated a cargo ship that not only exploited the round-bowed, flat-bottomed, shoal-draft gundalow that tides to do its work over centuries, but depended upon carried farm products, hay, lumber and bricks and other them to ply its trade, transporting supplies to villages at building materials along New Hampshire’s Piscataqua the head of tidewater. And I thought of today’s mariners River, its numerous tributaries, and the surrounding — recreational and commercial – who, despite cuttingcoastline. She was the Captain Edward H. Adams, built edge boat designs and construction materials, and everunder the auspices of the Piscataqua Gundalow Project more-sophisticated electronics, still pore over in 1982 at Strawbery Banke to honor the skipper of the http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov or the “Eldridge Tide and Fanny M, the region’s last commercial gundalow.

Pilot Book” for favorable ebbs and floods and heights and Joe and I dispensed with our meeting in less than 10 stages of each for their pleasure and commerce. minutes, and, with our wives and a couple of dozen other And I recalled a provocative line in William Faulkner’s marine-history zealots, boarded the Piscataqua, a replica “Requiem for a Nun:” “The past is never dead. It’s not of the Fanny M. She, too, was built at Strawbery Banke, even past.” I believe Faulkner was suggesting that indiin 2011, for The Gundalow Company, a nonprofit formed viduals’ pasts are ever-present, their life experiences forto purchase the gundalow I had seen in 2006. We were ever engrained in their psyches, for all time a factor in welcomed aboard by Capt. Paul Pelletier and his gracious their thought processes and decision-making. But standcrew, and by The Gundalow Company’s executive direc- ing on this replica, whose history spans that of the countor Molly Bolster. try in which it worked, I thought of Faulkner’s sentiment, Piscataqua left the wharf, heading out toward the river borrowed it, bent it a little, and came away with the sense mouth – under power, something no 18th- to 20th-century that our collective past, our history, also remains a part gundalow had ever done. “From the 1700s into the 1900s, of our present. And it dawned on me that the inspired efgundalows evolved into fully decked, flat-bottomed cargo forts of such enterprises as The Gundalow Company carriers with a cabin and lateen sail that could be low- prompt us to brush a few layers of dust from our souls to ered to ‘shoot’ under bridges,” the website (www.gun- reveal our many close links to yesteryear. dalow.org) told us. “The sail acted as an ‘auxiliary engine’

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Letters

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Nauset, seen here in St. Pete, Fla., was fine, but the Mississippi wasn't. Midwestern rain had caused the river to rise and run fast.

PE author is back home in Texas Nauset, the traveling Nauset 28 (see “Crunching the Fuel Numbers,” page 44), has reached Seabrook, Tex. (on Clear Lake, off Galveston Bay) after a rather taxing trip from Islamorada in the Florida Keys. During the trip we had several periods of waiting on the weather, had to run west fast because of Tropical Storm Andrea, and the final bit, New Orleans to Seabrook, was completed on a truck.

The boat was fine – the Mississippi wasn’t. We got to New Orleans and found that all the rain in the Midwest had caused the river to rise. At New Orleans, the Mississippi was 10.5 feet above normal stage; 100 miles upriver at Baton Rouge, it was up 26 feet, and the Corps of Engineers was dumping water into the Atchafalaya to take the pressure off New Orleans.

When the big river is up and running fast, the current reaches eight or nine knots, and it is full of debris, cross eddies and whirlpools. Small pleasure craft have no business out there. To get across, pleasure craft go through the Industrial Lock (east side) and then run five miles upriver to the Harvey Lock.

The Harvey Lock’s gate opens directly into the river – there is no fore bay – and if the lock is busy and you have to wait, there is nowhere to dock or tie-up, so you orbit out in the river. Then, as if high water wasn’t enough, the large Algiers Lock, through the levee on the west bank, was closed, under repair (I think a www.pointseast.com

barge hit one of the gates), so all the commercial tows were forced to use the smaller, older, slower Harvey Lock, and the wait time to get through the Harvey Lock was 85 hours.

The Corps and the commercial vessel captains really did not want any pleasure craft mucking around. That meant a truck or the long march out and around the Louisiana Delta; been there/done that/no-fun. I guess relatively easy trucking could be called a smaller boat advantage.

Anyway, we now get to enjoy Hurricane Season on the Gulf Coast. At least the boat is only 100 miles from the house and in a nice marina, and Gulf Coast rates are cheap compared to the Northeast. Still, this time of year I wish I was farther north – say north of Cape Ann. At the house today the forecast high is 106 degrees. For this summer and Fall, your Gulf Coast correspondent, Bill Hezlep Round Top, Tex.

Her nephew is on August cover I am the proud aunt of Tim Jacobus who is one of the Apprenticeshop whaleboat crewmembers featured on the cover of your August 2013 issue (back row on left, wearing straw hat). Not only is he dashing with a neat smile, his personality and heart are just as big.

We have been kept up to date with all of Tim’s projects at the Apprenticeshop, and this was the pinnacle project of his time there. It is wonderful to see that the entire crew has gotten such good press as they are the backs that the Apprenticeshop can stand on.

It was an exciting day when I saw my nephew and the crew row into the harbor at Mystic on June 28 after setting out on June 16. His mother, another aunt and I were there to see it, and we were overwhelmed.

It was a great accomplishment, and I hope the entire crew does well in their futures. We know where their whaleboat will be – aboard the Charles W. Morgan – and we can visit it anytime we want.

Aunt Joanne Golski Hillsborough, N.J. Points East September 2013

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Skinny on Jeff Bolster’s old Magic I was back for a few weeks (from cruising in the Caribbean) and picked up a couple of issues of Points East and saw in the May issue a piece about yawl Magic (“Trials with the F-Word,” by Jeff Bolster). I knew her original owner well; he commissioned her design and sought out Paul Luke to build her.

She was built for Herb and Allie Owen of Old Saybrook, Conn., who were great friends of my parents. As a youngster, I had the pleasure of racing on her, and, in fact, did my first “big-boat” sailboat race on her at the age of 12. Herb was very involved with Off Soundings for many years, and I sailed with him numerous times in those events – on Magic and her successors, all named Magic.

Herb and Allie found her too small for their purposes and moved from the Luke boat to an Allied XL-42, then to a Hinckley SW50. Herb lost Allie many years ago, and he sadly passed two years ago while residing in Forida.

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Desperately seeking puffins . . . .

Elusive puffins, electronic charts Six pairs of eyes peering through the rain for those damned puffins off of Petit Manan Island on a recent July day. What are we thinking? Did you know that you have to get additional Canadian charts for the Garmin if you go east of Petit Manan and Milbridge?

I do now.

Tim Plouff Otis, Maine

She is a Waterlily want-to-be While my husband and I were introducing our product, the WaveFront TillerClutch, at this year’s Woodenboat Show in Mystic, Conn., I was pleased to 10 Points East September 2013

discover and read Points East. I was particularly drawn to the story, “On Becoming a Waterlily” by Marilyn Brigham (July 2013). That story hit home because I, too, am a not-so-skilled over-40 sailor who lets her husband do most of the work (and occasionally gets yelled at).

I love the idea of forming a club of other, more skilled sailors of the same sex (namely Waterlilies) to help me and other women brush up on our sailing skills. It would boost my confidence and certainly make my husband proud. I like this idea so much so that I intend to suggest it to my local marina in Oriental, N.C., known as the sailing capital of the state.

Thanks for opening my eyes to this fun and helpful program. Maybe one day we will make it back to the area by water, versus the road. And I’ll be at the helm.

Katherine Smart Pittsboro, N.C.

New Mini-Boat fleet to set sail Educational Passages plans to launch multiple mini boats simultaneously off Jamestown, Va.; the Caribbean; and either Portugal or the Azores this fall to represent the old trade triangle between Europe, the Caribbean, and the new world. This will be a very hands-on, international learning experience for people of all ages and walks of life.

We use unmanned mini-sailboats equipped with GPS tracking dePhotoc ourtesy Educational Passages vices to study ocean and Five-foot “mini-boats,” wind patterns and much equipped with GPS tracking more. These five-foot units, can sail downwind for mini-boats need no out- months. side assistance, and will sail directly downwind month after month. When these boats make landfall, they create lots of excitement, and everyone wants to add a message to the watertight compartment and assist these little boats in any way they can.

We collaborate with many organizations such as the Maine Maritime Academy, NOAA, Harbor Pilot Associations, Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding, The Mid-Coast Technical School, and many others to put on events like this. If any businesses or individuals would be interested in participating in any way, I’m sure we can find a way for a joint sailing adventure such as this to benefit all parties.

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Call them eastern quahog skiffs The picture of the “Narragansett Bay quahog skiff” in Greg Coppa’s very interesting piece on the subject (“Behold the Traditional Narragansett Bay Quahog Skiff,” August) sure reminded me of the clammers’ skiffs I grew up with on Shinnecock Bay, Long Island.

I think the type was everywhere on the East Coast where hard shell clams were to be found. So I’m wondering if, with all due respect to our friends in Rhode Island, we shouldn’t just call them Eastern Quahog Skiffs?

W. R. Cheney Swans Island, Maine

A call to citizen-scientist sailors I am a marine plankton scientist and the project leader for the Secchi Disk project that aims to enlist sailors to become Citizen Scientists to help create the biggest global study of the marine plankton, starting now and carrying on forever. The project’s website is www.secchidisk.org. I am writing to ask you to kindly write about the project in Points East to help us raise awareness among sailors.

Some brief background to the project: Two years ago a group of Canadian marine scientists reported that the phytoplankton in the oceans had declined globally by 40 percent since the 1950s due to climate change.

Their study provoked controversy among marine scientists, however, as some thought they saw contrary results.

Part of the controversy stems from a lack of data about the marine phytoplankton. This dearth of data is because the oceans are so vast and there aren’t that many scientists to cover them. Because of the important role played by the phytoplankton in underpinning the whole marine food chain, we need to know if, how and why they are changing, and this is where we believe citizen science can help.

Seafarers are encouraged to take part in a unique global study, using a mobile phone app to record the effects of climate change. The public science project will measure the amount of phytoplankton, minute or-

ganisms at the very start of the marine food chain, currently residing in the world’s oceans.

The project is being spearheaded by Plymouth (England) University’s Marine Institute, which hopes to build a map of the oceans that charts the seasonal and annual changes of phytoplankton from now and into the future. Plankton biologist Dr Richard Kirby, who is leading the study, said: “As the phytoplankton live at the surface of the sea, they are being affected by rising sea temperatures due to climate change . . . . Since the phytoplankton begin the marine food chain, we need to know more about if, how, and why they are changing in order to understand the effects on the ocean’s biology.”

Because the phytoplankton – each thinner than a strand of human hair – exist at the sea’s surface, mariners can carry out a simple experiment using an easy to make “Secchi Disk.” Attached to a measuring tape, the Secchi Disk is lowered over the side of a boat and the depth at which it disappears from sight estimates the amount of phytoplankton in the sea. This depth can then be uploaded to a database using the Secchi app.

The free app is called Secchi after Father Pietro Angelo Secchi, an astronomer who invented the disk device in 1865 to measure water turbidity in the Mediterranean. You can find out more about the project at www.secchidisk.org.

Dr. Richard R. Kirby Marine Institute Research Fellow Plymouth University Plymouth, U.K.

CORRECTION “Outside” magazine has its “Woodshed” in which to punish recalcitrant editors and proofreaders. Points East has “The Brig,” in which editor Nim Marsh briefly resided for calling the wife of author David Stanwood “Betsy” in the introductory blurb of “Eleanora to the Sea: Part 1,” in the August issue, instead of her given name of Eleanor. The Stanwoods’ warm forgiveness brought him an early release.

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

It’s “one of the best-kept marinas in the area” Jeff Krause, of Old Saybrook, Conn., is the winner of the August Mystery Harbor contest. “I was flipping through the August 2013 issue and found this local marina featured in your Mystery Harbor column ,” he wrote. “It’s Ragged Rock Marina, located on Ferry Road in Old Saybrook.” Its coordinates are: 41/18/40 N, 72/21/34 W. One ‘resident reported: “It’s been a great place all winter long for a few years. . . one of the best-kept marinas in the area.”

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Perspectives Just a spoonful of solitude Elsa, my boat’s namesake, was a remarkable woman.

My wife’s late mother was amazingly resilient, with a level of fortitude rarely found. Like Elsa the boat, she could climb to windward unwaveringly in life, standing up to some serious adversity, rarely, if ever, complaining.

She was, I believe, carried forward by an inner core that I’m sure was passed down through her mother, Jessie Amalia, a pioneering woman from Fargo, N.D., who, after being married in 1903, lived alone year-round in a sod hut in unpopulated Balfour, N.D., for five years in order to meet the homesteading requirements for obtaining title to land. Her new husband stayed 225 miles away in Fargo to build his fledgling seed company.

I never believed this story until an old photograph was uncovered of Jessie in front of her sod hut.

This young lady could handle more than a spoonful of

solitude, and I think that’s how my wife’s mother Elsa came to it. After Elsa’s husband of 61 years died, I asked her if she minded being alone now. “Alone?” she replied. “I’m never alone. I have the stars, the sky, the wind blowing through the corn fields, and my thoughts and memories to keep me company.” She smiled and gave that confident laugh of hers. “No, never lonely. I have solitude, but I’m never alone.”

It occurred to me when I sailed to Maine alone this year that I never got lonely. Looking back, I realized I spoke only one word to one person in three days. (That word was “yes” in answer to the caretaker on Star Island on the Isle of Shoals when he asked if I knew the rules of the island.)

For some time, I have been fascinated by the relationship of solitude and the psyche. At age 17, I took off alone on a 23-foot sloop for 39 days and experienced

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh, who endured her share of solitude, admitted it was hard. “And yet,” she said: “Once it is done, I find there is a quality of being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into

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limited periods. In the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, “There are voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.”

One of the kings of solitude may well be sailing adventurer and author Alvah Simon, though I think he may have overdone it. In 1994, he sailed with his wife to the Arctic to intentionally let his 36-foot steel sloop freeze in for the winter off Baffin Island, near Greenland, 100 miles from the nearest human. Shortly after their arrival, his wife had to be flown out due to a family emergency.

Except for a kitten named Halifax, he was now alone for the winter.

There are two things the human psyche can’t endure for extended periods: deprivation of all light and all humanity. For months in perpetual darkness (zero hours of daylight) he lived alone, frozen into the ice. Polar bears waited outside, committed to Alvah as their next meal. Meanwhile, as drifting snow continually buried him from above, the ice pack inexplicably began to pull his boat down from below, down lower and lower, halfway to the rails. Then a cabin heater leak poisoned him into sudden blindness.

To make matters worse, during his blind period he awoke in his bunk, frozen into a coffin of ice. A bad night of condensation inside the hull had saturated his sleeping bag; an hour later, when the heater stalled out, the entire bag had frozen solid to the bunk, with Alvah inside. After that, as you might imagine, his mind began to unravel.

Ultimately, he survived, but right about then I think what Alvah needed was less solitude and more experienced company. Maybe Jessie Amalia, Elsa, Anne Lindbergh, and good old Ralph Waldo, just to keep things grounded.

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Look Ma, I now own a yacht! n the April 2013 issue of Points East, I described the zoned blue blazer with an emblazoned captain’s cap. Purrestoration of my 26-foot, gaff-rigged, Crowninshield- chase a four-decker powerboat to be my mother-ship, designed, Dark Harbor 17 with canvas and plastic awnings to knockabout, Shadow. She reshield me from sun, wind and waturned home this late July, reter. Hire a paid hand to ensure the built by Josh Howard’s upkeep of my modest little fleet. You Northeast Boat crew in Northknow, become all those things I’ve port, Maine – especially by lead sneered at for so many decades. carpenters Zachary Fowler and How many prejudices did I just Greg Bauer. tap into; how many readers have I Her restoration is a tribute to alienated?

Maine boatbuilders’ wellLook, I try not to be a crank. But earned reputation for craftswhen I read ads, for instance, for manship. She came out of the sailboats with air conditioning, a shop with solid structural infull complement of electronics, tegrity, gloss finishes and varpower winches, one head and a nish trim so resonant you could shower for every crewmember, I shave in their reflection, plus verge on the disgruntled. As you new, rust-free wire rigging halmight have guessed, I grew up beyards and sheets from Loric Photo by Amanda Green fore fiberglass had perhaps even Weymouth, owner of Weybeen invented. Back then, those of I should start by describing my first sail aboard mouth Yacht Rigging, Inc., a us living along the Fox Islands Thothe “new” Shadow by waxing poetic. Get real. mobile rigging company based Any rebuild starts with the wallet. rofare, between North Haven and in Rockland, Maine. Did Vinalhaven islands, could identify Shadow look this sharp when first launched, perhaps as almost every cruising sailboat, sardine carrier, windjamfar back as 1914? mer, and lobsterboat passing through, because each was So I should start by describing my first sail aboard the wooden and, therefore, unique. And there were fewer “new” Shadow by waxing poetic about gentle zephyrs boats. and cat’s paws and mists of an early morning. Get real.

Nowadays that’s all shot to hell. Well, along with a lot Any rebuild of an old wooden boat starts with the wallet. of other stuff. Don’t get me started.

And I feel I’ve done my bit for the Maine economy. ExYes, dear, I know these generalizations are unfair and pensive? Well, duh. In my smug little way, as an inveter- uncalled for. But I was lucky enough to have experienced, ately frugal New Englander, with my last 30 years as a for instance, racing small wooden sailboats and crewing year-round Maine island resident, I’m expecting a cer- on big wooden sailboats – yes, real yachts – racing in the tificate of commendation from Maine’s Governor LePage early ’60s just about when electronics began to take over any day now. so much of seat-of-the-pants, eyeball sailing. So reacting And there is one, um, major problem with the rebuild. to wind shifts, wave action, and sail trim relied entirely Boats are often extensions of ourselves, and my old, on human sensitivity and skill. scruffy but dearly beloved Shadow was clearly a reflecThe knockabout is all about seat-of-the-pants and eyetion of me. But after this winter’s facelift – okay, full body balls and paying attention because of her sensitive helm, lift – the boat has become so luxurious, so sleek, so so- her shallow cockpit sitting you at sea level, the hum and phisticated – you know, 18 coats of varnish, etc – that I gurgle of the ocean as you slice through it. But now that thought, I can’t sail that thing. My beloved knockabout I, too, own a yacht, must I retire from sailing and just is no longer just a sailboat. She has become a yacht. I shuffle and mumble off into the sunset? Oh, pshaw. might scratch her. She might touch bottom. It’d be a Herb, a professional artist and retired art teacher, ran shame to sail her.

Calderwood Hall, a gallery and gift shop on North Haven If I do, I’m gonna have to, you know, upscale my Island for 29 summers. A lifelong sailor, Herb worked as wardrobe, get a proper haircut, and socks that match. a paid hand on the 56-foot sloop, Caper, and served briefly Brush my teeth twice a day, floss, apply body moisturizer, as pilot/guide to the Maine coast for Walter Cronkite and trim my nails. Join a major yacht club, wear an embla- his family.

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A solo sailor’s galley strategies Theories abound as to why some sailors choose to go it alone, eschewing the warmth of human company as they venture forth on the waters. Serious misanthropy is often suspected, or a simple lack of friends or mates, but, more often than not, I think it is really only the desire for complete freedom.

This quest for freedom usually includes a desire to be as free as possible from the recurring drudgery of daily tasks – like cooking and cleaning up afterwards. Our singlehander is willing to do the necessary to eat reasonably well, but strives to keep the whole process simple. He would rather have a glass of wine after dinner than do the dishes.

Managing this can become an art and a sport in itself.

Let’s start with provisioning. While almost anything tastes good after a strenuous day on the water, fresh or frozen foods are definitely preferable to

the stuff that comes in cans or plastic boxes. An efficient system is required to provide a steady supply of these better victuals on a regular basis.

Let’s say we are going for a cruise among the islands of the Maine coast for a week or so. We are not going to visit towns or stores, so, if we want to avoid a diet of corned-beef hash and baked beans, a small but acceptable amount of planning and preparation are necessary.

At the heart of our strategy will be a large cooler of the type advertised to keep ice for five days in 95-degree weather. This claim may be exaggerated, but, properly managed, these coolers will definitely keep ice for considerably more than five days when located out of the sun and somewhere near the cool bilges of a boat in New England waters.

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gallon plastic jugs nearly full of frozen water (allow some room for expansion). Ice made in jugs will not flood the cooler as it melts, and the continued presence of very cold water around the remaining ice inhibits the thawing process.

Next on this lowest level will be the frozen ingredients for a meal planned for the last day of our voyage – a half a bag of frozen peas, let’s say, and some frozen, boiled potatoes ready to make home fries when thawed, and a couple of nice frozen fillets of haddock.

Next comes a layer, many sheets thick, of newspaper.

This protective layer will not be disturbed again until it is time to prepare that meal. Frozen ingredients for each preceding meal are then layered above the first, each separated by an insulating layer of newspaper.

The coldest layer will be down at the bottom with the ice, and as we go upwards, each layer will be just a little less cold. Thus the highest layer (first meal) will thaw first, becoming ready to cook, and so on as we uncover new layers each day, much in the manner of an archeological dig.

In contrast, a randomly stocked cooler will not function adequately because the contents will be continually exposed to warm air while one rummages for desired items with the lid open. It is important, by the way, to keep the cooler mostly full, so add more newspaper, sail bags, or even some of the less offensive

items from your laundry, as successive layers come out.

Using our system, it may actually occur that things do not thaw fast enough. So check your upcoming evening’s meal each morning, and transfer it to the bilge if it is still frozen hard. There it will gently thaw by dinnertime.

Not everything we eat need come from the cooler.

Bags of fresh spinach, for example, will last quite well if simply kept in the bilge. Ditto for onions, tomatoes, eggs, butter, mayonnaise, mustard and so forth. Bread, pasta and donuts will keep well almost anywhere.

We have not mentioned, but also use, food items that can be obtained from our surroundings. Fish, particularly mackerel, are often easy to catch, and mussels are frequently available for the taking (be sure to check for any red-tide alerts in your area). Most lobstermen are willing to sell some of their catch right off the boat, frequently at wholesale prices. There’s an oyster farm along one of my cruising routes, and I never go by there without adding a sack full of those ambrosial mollusks to my larder. I keep a clam hoe on board, too, but, sadly, opportunities to use it are ever fewer.

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Take a large stainless pot two-thirds full of seawater, bring to a boil, and add a fistful of angel hair (cooks faster than regular spaghetti, so saves fuel). When the pasta is half-done, add fresh spinach to the pot. When the pasta is ready, the spinach will be also. When discussing such economies, F.B. Cooke, the early- 20th-century British boating writer, mentioned making coffee from water that had just been used to boil eggs, but I’m inclined to think you have to draw the line somewhere.

Drain the cooked contents of the pot into a colander held over the side, then add them to the frying pan in which your steak has been frying in olive oil on the other burner. Swirl the pasta and spinach in the meat juices and oil, and season to taste (you won’t need salt). Eat from the frying pan. The pot is already clean and ready to heat water for coffee in the morning, and the frying pan and utensils will be easy to wipe off with paper towels after they have soaked in seawater overnight.

If you want bread, or something else, along with the meal, use of a plastic-coated paper plate is permissible.

I had one paper plate, used in this auxiliary capacity, that lasted for three years of extensive cruising. I only had to part with it after I made the mistake of slicing onions on it. The knife blade penetrated the plastic,

and mold eventually got into those cuts. I had become quite fond of my plate, and enjoyed speculating on how far into the future we could go together (an item for the Guinness Book of Records?), so was really sorry to say good-bye.

Breakfast will be black coffee and blueberry donuts, or a mouthwatering kind of semi-sweet oatmeal cookie my wife knows how to make; and lunch might be skinless and boneless sardines on bread, with mayonnaise and sliced tomatoes (the paper plate comes into play here).

Finally, it should be noted that while fresher foods are always preferred, no well-found vessel leaves her mooring without a backup supply of certain old favorites of the canned or, possibly, the freeze-dried variety. Dinty Moore, Chef Boyardee and others can all step in and provide an acceptable, or even a memorable, meal on occasion, and Newman’s Own Mango Salsa has added zest to many a seaborne repast.

Someday I may write about the wonders of the Spamburger with Vermont cheddar cheese, Vidalia onion, and Louisiana hot sauce, but that is another story.

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Found, but not actually “missing” The Coast Guard “found” Stephen Crane, who was reported overdue Aug. 8 aboard his 31-foot sailboat Austina, 70 miles south of Long Island, N.Y. Friday at 7 a.m. A Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod HC-144A Ocean Sentry crew located the vessel and confirmed with Crane that he was not in distress and did not need assistance. Crane, 61, was sailing from Portland, Maine, to Fernandina, Fla., when his sister contacted Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville, Fla., reporting that her brother did not arrive “in Cape Hatteras, N.C.,” as expected Thursday. Crews from Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod and Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City conducted aerial first-light searches across the 1st District and 5th District span. FMI: www.coastguardnews.com.

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Rhode Island Lt. Governor Elizabeth Roberts was among a half-dozen local, state and Navy dignitaries to speak. “With my power and with these words, I dedicate the Oliver Hazard Perry as Rhode Island’s official sailing education vessel,” she said, “and wish her fair winds and smooth seas as she spreads the wisdom of our forefathers and modern scholars to all who visit and study aboard her.”

At the end of her speech, Roberts ordered the ship’s commander, Capt. Richard Bailey, to “set the first watch,” which meant hoisting the American flag at the ship’s stern, followed by a gun salute from the Artillery Company of Newport and the manning of the rails by nine Navy sea cadets. A final flag – declaring “Don’t Give up the Ship,” just as Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry’s did in 1813 when he captured the British fleet and its flagship in the Battle of Lake Erie – was raised to the highest point of the ship’s three lower masts.

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The coordination between the vessels and the Coast Guard allowed them to cover an area of 660 square miles, approximately the size of 378,000 American football fields. “I’d like to thank all the agencies, fishermen and friends for their efforts to find my brother,” said Cathy Patterson, Aldridge’s sister.

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The ship was christened by Sarah Bullard, the great-great-great granddaughter of Charles Waln Morgan, one of the original owners of the ship and the man after which she was named. The bottle Bullard broke across the bow was filled with waters from the oceans over which the vessel sailed during her 80-year whaling career. Samples were gathered from the North and South Atlantic, the Pacific, and Indian oceans. Water from New Bedford, Mass., and Mystic were added to represent her original and current homeports.

“This launch is a milestone in the life of this great ship,” said Steve White, president of Mystic Seaport.

“Today she turns 172 years old, and we hope this restoration will help preserve her for another 172, so that future generations will be able to walk her decks and hear her tell the important story of our nation’s shared maritime heritage.”

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Floating pump-out station awaits in Damariscotta-Newcastle A floating pump-out station was installed in Damariscotta-Newcastle Harbor in southern Maine. The station is being funded by a grant through the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). The $31,000 station was built by Harbor Technologies, in Brunswick, Maine. It can be used by both commercial and recreational mariners at no charge. The pump itself is operated manually, with easy-to-understand instructions provided on the float.

The grant provides reimbursements of up to 90 percent of the initial capital cost and ongoing operating costs of the pump-out station. The local match for the grant consists of cash donations from members of the aquaculture community and the Edward A. Myers Marine Conservation Fund, as well as in-kind services provided by the two towns and the Damariscotta River Association (DRA).

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MORGAN, from Page 26 dress the hull below the waterline, the majority of which dated to the ship’s original construction. The final phase that begins now will involve rigging, restoring her interior, and installing temporary systems necessary to take her back to sea for a ceremonial 38th Voyage in late May 2014 (the ship completed 37 voyages during her whaling career).

The 38th Voyage will take the Morgan to historic ports of New England. After a period of fitting out and sea trials based in New London, the ship will sail to Newport, Vineyard Haven, New Bedford, and Boston.

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went the kayaks, and we paddled around the many small islands and emerging rocks.

Numerous ospreys fussed at us, revealing their nests; a kingfisher swooped over a cove, and a snowy egret splashed along the shore. As we returned to Whimbrel, an eagle flew over, raising further outcries from the osprey. The full moon rose over the treetops as mother and daughter finished a cocktail Scrabble game and ate supper.

Sunday dawned clear, and I realized that the tide was coming in, and was perfect for a trip up the Kennebec River. Twelve miles later, we were off Popham Photo courtesy Judith Johanson Beach, and going on up the Mother’s and daughter’s kayaks were neatly nested in one side of the cockpit as the river, with the tide giving us a Coastal 27 motored from one destination to the next. two-plus-knot boost to Bath. We had a moment of consternation when we faced the rail- docked and enjoyed lunch under the awning while the road bridge in the down position, but we decided we tide turned.

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Numerous ospreys fussed at us, revealing their nests; a kingfisher swooped over a cove, and a snowy egret splashed along the shore. As we returned to Whimbrel, an eagle flew over, raising further outcries from the osprey. and no mast would make it under the easterly spans.

The fearsome Sasanoa River, with its Upper and Lower Hell Gates, was almost benign as we sped down on the newly turned tide, coming into Hockamock Bay and down to Ebenecook Harbor on Southport Island.

The anchorage provided a nice lee from the now southwest wind, and offered several coves and rocks to explore. The harbor is quite heavily built up, but we could have gone ashore at the marina if we had wanted to. Again, ospreys were our neighbors, including one that perched on a nearby sailboat mast and made a swift and successful dive into a school of fish.

It was a lovely Monday morning, and we motored out the Sheepscot River to Damariscove Island, a conservation area and park. I was happy to see that the large, old Coast Guard Station is now a private home and is in good repair. We took a mooring, kayaked to

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navigating the wrecked boat – or is it an old wharf? – in Mill Cove. We got back to Whimbrel as the rain began and decided to move on. One of the pleasures of a motorboat is being under cover when you travel!

Just out of the harbor we heard a splash, and not 10 feet away was a startled and half-submerged osprey, wings splayed and wondering how he could possibly take off with us right in front of him. We moved out of the way, and he managed to rise and fly off, clutching the fish he had caught.

Dark clouds greeted us as we turned west, bringing some wind, rain and fog, which required use of our GPS. We rounded Small Point, expecting a bumpy ride up the bay, but were pleasantly surprised to find the current slack and the seas very manageable.

We threaded our way through the narrow entrance and into The Basin off the New Meadows River, where we picked up a mooring, and lo, the weather cleared. Most of the land surrounding The Basin was recently given to the Nature Conservancy by a most generous landowner, and the tranquil enclosed bay is still very much as it was 50 years ago, though miraculously with fewer mosquitoes!

Now it was time for a walk, so in went the kayaks, and we paddled ashore to the north, near rugged cliffs. An old path led up hill through a lovely forest with ferns and mushrooms, two pools in deep crevasses, mica-laden rocks and granite ledges, and an occasional blueberry bush. When we returned to shore the wind was up, and we had a serious paddle back to Whimbrel.

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We paddled noiselessly around small islands and emerging rocks, in harmony with ospreys, kingfishers, egrets, and this great blue heron.

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Friends came in to camp ashore, and we had a brief visit from three hardy teenage swimmers. Having had plenty of morning exercise, we opted to stay aboard, continuing our Scrabble contest (about eight games so far, pretty evenly matched) and cooking a final meal. The day’s blustery west wind subsided and it was a quiet night.

We rose early Thursday and went ashore to wade about in the Punchbowl at low tide before heading back home to Merepoint. It had been a grand time for both mother and daughter. Vicki and I share a love of nature, boating and the sea (also Scrabble and ice cream), and our time together provided it all. It was a very special trip.

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Eleanora to the sea, Part 2

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By David Stanwood For Points East To Maine, then home: When we left David and his pregnant wife Eleanor in the August issue, they had sailed their 23-foot sloop from Martha’s Vineyard to Provincetown, and were bound offshore for points north. The bold voyage of the Eleanora continues. e settled in for a long day’s sail streaming along at a good clip, and soon we were over the Stellwagen bank, a place rich in wildlife

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“I think I see a spout,” she hollered.

I got up, poked my head out of the companionway, and peered ahead into the haze. Sure enough, I saw spouts and then the dark color of whale backs arching out of the water. They were dead ahead, and we held to our course. As we closed in on the pod we realized there was quite a bunch of all sizes, many very large.

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up and out of the deep trapping clouds of krill in their cavernous mouths straining with baleen.

They were all around us. Then a very large whale seemed to be on a collision course, approaching our little boat from the starboard side. I held my course and watched. As we came close, the whale turned its head down, arched its back, and went under us in the finest, most relaxed way.

We could feel that they were well aware of our presence and we felt safe among them. The hull of our boat has a distinct whale-like shape, and with no motor, they were comfortable with our intrusion as we sailed through.

They showed us their tails and flippers, and one eyeballed us curiously.

We left the whales far behind on our downwind trail, and as I gazed back into the wind and haze, I spied a dark, oblong object rising out of the sea, then a flash of white spray. I had seen a whale breaching.

We made good speed, and soon we were in Massachusetts Bay, with Boston on our port beam. The haze began to clear, revealing the tops of skyscrapers. We listened to the news on the radio, and a powerful thunderstorm was forecast, with possible tornadoes working across the Boston area toward the east. Soon we could see the dark and dangerous clouds working up toward Marblehead and across Cape Ann, which was now in view.

We witnessed huge bolts of lightning and much rumbling of thunder and a large anvil cloud forming. It soon became clear that the storm would pass well in front of us, but we had front-row seats as it roiled over Gloucester and eastward off to sea as the sun fell.

With the storms passing, the wind now turned against us and freshened, and we downed the genoa and hanked on the working jib. Then we lit the kerosene running lights and beat past the tip of Cape Ann. Lots of rocks and sunken breakwaters here, but the navigational aids are well lit and showed us the way. We sailed into Rockport harbor well after dark and www.pointseast.com

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Then a very large whale seemed to be on a collision course, approaching our little boat from the starboard side. I held my course and watched. As we came close, the whale turned its head down, arched its back, and went under us in the finest, most relaxed way. tied up to a float at the head of the harbor.

The next day we could see we had arrived in the land of bedrock. No sandy spits or dunes around here.

Space was so much at a premium in this harbor oasis that boats moored with bow and stern tackle to hold them in tighter positions. We spent several days in this scenic resort town, exploring in the beautiful September light.

We departed Rockport and headed around Cape Ann with a light and fair wind. A fine sunny day to pass by places such as Rockport Granite Co., Pidgeon Cove, Pidgeon Hill, Pidgeon Rock, Hoop Pole Cove, Halibut Point and Folly Cove. Late in the day, we tried for the Essex River, a sinuous snake of a channel and folly to attempt with night falling. It was hard to imagine that many a great Gloucester fishing schooner was built up this serpentine river, to be floated out on moon tides.

Today the wind was too light, and the tide turned against us, so we tacked back toward the Annisquam

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We were in mid-channel and drifting into the bridge, a hundred yards distant, but the bridge was up, and we drifted through the opening.

Once through, we paddled and clawed our way to a float, and, with great relief, tied up on the Kittery side. We had made it to Maine. interior, down this river, and out to sea to wash up on a far-flung beach. We tied up to next to the city on public floats along the river, and found a wonderful riverside restaurant by following wandering whiffs of garlic in the air.

In a strong ebb tide we fairly rocketed out of the place and burst out into the ocean, heading up the coast and offshore to the Isles of Shoals. We were happy not to anchor in this rocky outpost, and gratefully picked up a mooring in between Star Island and Smuttynose Island. We were well protected by the surrounding islands, which was a good thing because a nor’easter was coming the next day. We read an account of the murder of two young women in 1873 on Appledore Island, just north of us in the rocky archipelago, and dreamed of times here past.

We woke to an overcast day with wind blowing 30 knots out of the northeast. The rain held off, so we headed into Portsmouth, about six miles away on a

broad reach. Eleanor took the helm for the crossing.

The ocean waves were large and wide, and it was thrilling. For the first time, we experienced such a sea together, and we felt at ease in our sturdy little vessel.

Into busy Portsmouth we sailed, past the Navy base with its submarines and thermonuclear tipped missiles visible. We tied up to a dock along the big lift bridge on the south side of the channel. This bridge was built by my great-grandfather, Frederick Snare.

The river current was a little tricky, and we hung a spreader on a high piling, but got in OK. We spent several days in this fascinating little city.

When we were ready to leave, there was no wind, and we waited all morning to depart. Finally a whisper of a breeze came into the river, and we pushed off into the stream with a light flood tide against us. Then, to my horror, the wind gave up completely.

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we drifted through the opening. Once through, we paddled and clawed our way to a float, and, with great relief, tied up on the Kittery side. We had made it to Maine.

We were just coming down off our adrenaline rush when I saw a lady coming down the path toward us from her house. She figuratively had a rolling-pin in her hand and intended to use it on us. “This is a private dock! I’m sick of you people, blah blah blah,� she ranted. “We have a right to take refuge for our safety,� I explained. “We have no motor,� to which the response was more yelling: “Blah blahh, I’ll call the police, blah blah.� I finally lost my patience and blared, “Go ahead and call the police!� She shut right up and hurried back to her house to make the call. We pushed off to friendlier places.

We paddled down-current to a marina dock and we tied up to a large barge that had a house on it with flower beds. A man came along, and we told him our story. When I said my name, he responded with delight, “David, I’m Charlie Patten.� Charlie was a friend of old, from our Cape Cod summer-vacation days in West Falmouth. Charlie was running the boatyard, raising a family, and making good money doing machining work for the nuclear power plant nearby.

The next day, we borrowed their peapod and rowed up the Piscataqua River on the flood tide, to return on

the ebb, about 10 miles. We rowed under huge tankers and freighters and high bridges, then under auto bridges and train bridges, eventually arriving at Great Bay. We picnicked and rested on Goat Island until the tide changed, then made our way back to Kittery – a precious day’s adventure.

Eventually, we sailed Eleanora out into the open ocean, bound northward to Kennebunkport. It was late in the day, but the wind was fair and strong from the south, and we had a chance to get in by dusk. We got halfway, and the wind came around from the north and started to blow. We took a long port tack, then went over onto a starboard tack. Eleanor came up on deck, looked at the mast, and said, “Should it be doing that?�

I looked up and saw that the leeward spreader was disconnected from the mast and was dangling from the shroud. Apparently it had been damaged when it caught on the piling coming into Portsmouth. We had no choice but to bear off and stay on a starboard tack or the mast would surely break.

We took refuge in the lee of Cape Neddick, the only protruding neck of land on that part of the coast. We were anchored on an open roadstead, with very little protection off a long stretch of beach. I knew it was a long sloping bottom and we had to be careful not to drop in too close or we’d find ourselves in the surf when the tide ebbed.

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In the morning, as I lay in my bunk, I could feel the motion of the boat as the tide went out farther and farther and the swells got steeper and steeper in the shallowing water. Finally, I said: “Time to go,” and we sailed around into York harbor in a light breeze.

With the light wind and swift incoming tide, we managed to tie up at the yacht-club dock. There was no one around. We spent several days hanging around, walking the cliff walk, and fixing the spreader.

We pumped up our inflatable and paddled inland on the York River with the flood tide, taking the right-fork estuary after passing under Route 95, and snaking around tall reeds like Moses. We got all the way up into farm country and headed back on the ebb.

It was time to turn south toward home, and the best part of sailing south from Maine in September is that storms are more frequent, and when they come through they bring strong northerly winds, which are perfect for sailing “down” home with a following breeze.

Our first run back took us all the way from York, around Cape Ann, and into Manchester-by-the-Sea, a

run of 40-odd miles. Coming in by the twin lighthouses off Thacher Island, we saw a large finback whale. Manchester-by-the-Sea is a perfect place to wait out bad weather, and this we did as another even stronger storm was moving in. It blew a strong gale for two days, and we hunkered down in our cabin to wait out the hard rain and wind.

Finally the weather cleared, and we listened to the weather reports for wind speeds along the coast.

When the northwest wind dropped to a mere 30 knots, we headed out the harbor.

It was a Saturday, and many weekenders were out and about.

As we sailed out the harbor, a line of boats was coming in. As each one passed us, the crews would look as if they had seen a ghost.

One waved us off, yelling, “Don’t go out there,” and motioning toward the harbor entrance. When we turned the corner, we could see why. Off this coast are many rocky islands and ledges. The storm had brought in great ocean swells and the sea was dotted with breakers everywhere. Even in depths that normally don’t break there were breakers.

As each one passed us, the crews would look as if they had seen a ghost.

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This reminded me of the “Milky Way” that Joshua Slocum wrote about in his book “Sailing Alone Around the World.” He had successfully navigated the Magellan Strait into the Pacific Ocean, only to be blown back around Cape Horn in a fierce storm: “It was daylight, and the sloop was in the midst of the Milky Way of the sea, which is northwest of Cape Horn, and it was the white breakers of a huge sea over sunken rocks which had threatened to engulf her through the night. It was Fury Island I had sighted and steered for, and what a panorama was before me now and all around! It was not the time to complain of a broken skin.

“What could I do but fill away among the breakers and find a channel between them, now that it was day? Since she had escaped the rocks through the night, surely she would find her way by daylight. This was the greatest sea adventure of my life. God knows how my vessel escaped ... The great naturalist Darwin looked over this seascape from the deck of the Beagle, and wrote in his journal, ‘Any landsman seeing the Milky Way would have nightmares for a week.’”

Well, the sight before us was incredible. Huge surf seemingly everywhere. I studied the chart carefully, and there was a deep channel in behind Bakers Island called Eagle Island Channel. I watched this place in the oceanscape before us for a long while and saw no breakers in the channel, so we decided it was safe to run the gauntlet. It was very exciting – just the sound alone was awesome. I remember thinking, with such big surf so close at hand this is not the time for a rigging failure.”

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We were off Minot’s Light, off Cohasset, Mass., when Eleanor came up the companionway. A look of horror on her jaw-dropped face shocked me. I wheeled around see the huge bow and fore section of an empty coastal tanker riding high up over a huge swell very close behind us. Most of the ship seemed to hang in the air at a wild angle; then it crashed down like a breeching submarine and bore away past us.

We were both headed for the entrance to the Cape Cod Canal. We made 50 miles that day and tied up in the Harbor of Refuge, that man-made harbor by the canal power plant we had visited a month earlier.

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s/v Walkabout Boat: Mariner 36 Engine: 32 hp diesel Cruise hours: 212.5 Fuel consumption: 129.6 gal the house, I started going through our pile of cruising logs looking for comparable cruises on our various boats. I keep detailed, maybe obsessive, logs. They tend to be combinations of logbook, journal and scrapbook. In addition to the usual daily from-to, weather, maintenance, and events notes, each diesel purchase is recorded in detail: date, gallons, cost per gallon, total cost, tachometer hour-meter reading, where purchased, and any off-the-wall comments.

Eventually, I found seven comparable cruise segments that were long enough to be relevant. Unfortunately, none were in New England. All seven were straightforward, down-the-ditch (the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway) fall cruises south to Miami, with no long side trips. Since I was looking at fuel consumption, I tried to use a common refueling stop as the origin point of each cruise, rather than an arbitrary point like Atlantic ICW Mile Mark 0 in Norfolk. So, tanks full, five cruises began in Solomons, Md., Photo by Bill Hezlep

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s/v Walkabout Boat: Mariner 36 Engine: 40 hp diesel Cruise hours: 217.5 Fuel consumption: 129.3 gal. and two in Baltimore, 74 on-the-water statute miles north of Solomons.

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1. s/v Walkabout: A 1981 Mariner 36 Ketch with the original 32-horsepower 1981 Universal 5432 diesel; LOA 36 feet., Beam 11’3”, Draft 5’ 8”, Displacement 22,000 lbs.; single 45-gallon fuel tank.

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m/v Walkabout Boat: Atlantic 32 Engine: 150 hp diesel Cruise hours: 195 Consumption: 413.1 gal.

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We departed Solomons on Oct. 11, 2000, reached Miami Dec. 7, waited for weather until Dec. 18, and then left for The Bahamas. Between Solomons and Miami, we put 217.5 hours on the engine, used 129.3 gallons of diesel (.59 gph) and were under way all or part of 30 days. The lowest price paid for diesel on this

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cruise: $1.29 per gallon at the Blue Water Point Marina, Sunset Beach, N.C. on Oct. 22.

Observation, trips 1 and 2: Repowering with a somewhat more powerful although physically smaller and lighter engine made no difference in fuel use or travel time.

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m/v Walkabout Boat: Duffy 35 Engine :375 hp diesel Cruise hours: 148.4 Consumption: 536.8 gal.

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later, we left for Marathon, Fla. Between Solomons and Miami, we put 195.0 hours on the engine, used 413.1 gallons of diesel (2.11 gph) and were under way all or part of 23 days. The lowest price paid for diesel on this cruise: $1.12 per gallon at the Atlantic Yacht Basin in Great

Bridge, Va., on Nov. 1.

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m/v Walkabout Boat: Cape Dory 28 Engine: 200 hp diesel Cruise hours: 165.7 Consumption: 337.5 gal.

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We departed Solomons on Oct. 23, 2004. After three multi-week layovers, we reached Miami on Jan. 4, waited for weather until Jan. 22, and then crossed to The Bahamas. Between Solomons and Miami, we put 148.4 hours on the engine, used 536.8 gallons of diesel (3.61 gph), and were under way all or part of 19 days. The lowest price paid for diesel on this cruise: $1.79 per gallon at the Atlantic Yacht basin in Great Bridge, Va., on Oct. 25.

5. m/v Walkabout (blue Walkabout): We departed Baltimore aboard the second m/v Walkabout on Oct. 8, 2006, reached Miami Dec. 22, and left the same day for The Bahamas. Between Baltimore and Miami, we put 170.4 hours on the engine, used 558.6 gallons of diesel (3.27 gph), and were under way all or part of 32 days (six of the 32 were in and around Oxford, Md., and totaled less than 20 miles).

The lowest price paid for diesel on this cruise: $2.12 per gallon at Coinjock, N.C., on Oct. 16. Of all our southbound cruises, this is the only one that neither started from, nor passed through, Solomons, Md. Observations, trips 4 and 5: On the www.pointseast.com

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m/v Nauset Boat: Nauset 28 Engine: 315 hp diesel Cruise hours: 145.8 Consumption: 422.9 gal.

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to account for the increase in engine hours and fuel used.

6. m/v Walkabout (red Walkabout): This, the third and last m/v Walkabout, was a 1988 Cape Dory 28 Hardtop with its original 200-horse Volvo TAMD41A diesel; LOA 28’, Beam 9’ 11”, Draft 3’ 2”, Displacement 9,000 lbs.; single 120-gallon fuel tank.

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We departed Baltimore on Oct. 13, 2013, passed through Solomons, and reached Jacksonville Beach, Fla., on Nov. 9. For reasons beyond our control, the boat stayed in Jacksonville Beach until March 28, and we did not reach Miami until April 9, 2013. Two days later, we left Miami for some quality time in the Florida Keys, and on May 17 we departed Marathon, westbound to Texas. Between Baltimore and Miami, we put 145.8 hours on the engine, used 422.9 gallons of diesel (2.9 gph) and were under way all or part of just 20 days. The lowest price paid for diesel on this cruise: $3.73 per gallon at both the Atlantic Yacht Basin in Great Bridge, Va., on Oct. 23.

Dates and days under way Most southbound cruisers reach Norfolk and start down the ICW between mid-October and early November. This is partly a result of insurance company restrictions that are placed on most cruisers because of the insurance industry’s current perception of hurricane-season risks.

Most policies contain clauses stipulating that you can’t be south of here before, and south of there until . . . etc., etc. “Here,” “before,” “there” and “until” varying from company to company, year to year. But it is also because of good fall cruising on the Chesapeake and the Annapolis Boat Shows and their related social scene: the SSCA

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GAM, Trawler Fest, Cruisers University, and the like.

By that time of year in southern Virginia and the Carolinas, the days are short and the autumn cold fronts have started, so the weather is often less than ideal. In addition, the geography of the ICW – the spacing of neat places and good anchorages – favors short travel days. For example, from Oriental, N.C. (ICW Mile 182), to the Beaufort (N.C.) Docks Marina (Mile 204) is just 22 miles.

The inside trip south, on the Atlantic ICW, whether sailboat or powerboat, is a motor trip. If the wind is favorable most sailboats will pull out a furling jib, but the motor generally stays on and in gear. Weather permitting, some waterway cruisers, sail and power, will do a leg or two on the outside – more often northbound in the spring, when the weather is good, than southbound in the fall, when it frequently is not. All seven of the listed cruises were southbound fall cruises, and we stayed inside on the ICW. A professional cartographer, Bill’s lifelong infatuation with the sea, ships and boats began in 1961 when, at 17, he went to sea on a square-rigged Norwegian school ship.

He met Betty – an aerospace engineer, mathematician, pilot and experienced sailor – in a sailing club in Annapolis in 1993. A year later, they left the Chesapeake on what was supposed to be a one-year, round-trip cruise, south to the Florida Keys, over to the Bahamas and back to the bay.

They never returned to their former lives. They spend half the year cruising the East and Gulf coasts and the Bahamas aboard Nauset, their retirement cruising boat.

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The hurricane of ’38 Seventy-five years ago this month, across Long Island, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, 688 people lost their lives, 4,500 were injured, 75,000 buildings were destroyed or seriously damaged by this epic storm.

By Matthew Goldman For Points East ere in New England, we get few real hurricanes, and we’re proud of the ones we survive, and get our money’s worth in recollecting them. The Hurricane of 1938 is now remembered by only the eldest.

Seventy-five years ago this month, this whim of nature ravaged the Northeast. I thought I should put this terrible storm into some sort of perspective.

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Most of the fishing fleet in New Bedford went to the bottom. Countless pleasure boats were smashed or driven far inshore. Both large commercial vessels and railroad cars were tossed by heaving ocean. In today’s currency, the value of property lost approached five-

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billion dollars.

In 1893, six hurricanes struck the USA, 4,000 lives were lost. The hurricane of 1900 that inundated Galveston, Tex., took 6,000 to 8,000 lives; the lone forecaster predicting a tidal wave was ignored. Hundreds of sightseers went to the beach to watch the ocean’s wrath and were swept away. The Great Labor Day Hurricane of 1935, a Category-5 powerhouse, left 408 dead in the Florida Keys.

The Second World War boasted even more casualties. The end of September 1938 found the heads of state of the world powers at a conference in Munich. Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier convened in hopes of maintaining world peace. On Sept. 21, the ears of the world were tuned to the Munich Agreement. Few citizens in America were concerned with reports of a storm ascending the coast.

The Hurricane of 1938 originated in the equatorial currents that flow toward the Americas from Africa.

On Sept. 16, the storm was reported 350 miles north of Puerto Rico. By the 20th, it was headed north, parallel to the coast. But the U.S. Weather Bureau assumed that the storm would head out to sea off Cape

Hatteras, as so many hurricanes do.

Instead, this storm clung to the coast and built up speed and power. By the following day, it hit New Jersey hard enough to ruin the crops of tomatoes and apples still in the fields, hard enough to uproot trees; to tear down bridges. To make things worse, the entire Northeast had had heavy rains most of the previous week and more than average rainfall that entire summer. The sodden ground would accept no more water.

Torrential rain and gale-force winds uprooted trees in New York City. Just before noon, a weather report from the city warned residents of Connecticut that they were in for a good northeaster. By 2 p.m., the sun had disappeared from the lowering sky.

By the time the storm made landfall in southern Long Island, it had strengthened to a Category-3 storm with winds of 115 to 120 mph. But the forward speed of the storm was an unusually rapid 50 mph.

As hurricanes revolve counterclockwise, this means the wind on the eastern side of the storm exceeded 160 mph. The barometric pressure dropped to 27.94 inches, or 946 millibars. Just the eye of the storm was

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30 miles in diameter – the size of some of our counties. Few of them were at all prepared for the devastation to follow.

The morning of the 21st, the sky was offcolor, the air too calm, the humidity intense.

Most commercial fishermen had premonitions and refused to go out. The ones who did returned shortly.

The calm before the storm put the waterfront on its guard, but much too late to haul its boats or board up its buildings.

The force of the storm, combined with a greater than normal Map courtesy www.nhc.noaa.gov high tide, pushed a 20-foot wall of water This hurricane was a Category 5 storm east of the Bahamas, but over Long Island and struck Long Island as a Cat. 3, the eye passing over Bayport, the low-lying New then making a second landfall just east of New Haven, Conn.

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doom, unprepared residents fled their houses, most of them just in time to escape being drowned. Some watched, amazed, as a wall of water swept over their homes. Some lived to tell about it.

By 2 p.m., the hurricane pummeled Connecticut; by 4 p.m., it surged up Narragansett Bay and Buzzards Bay. It demolished the sizable harbor of New Bedford. It flooded Providence. A local journalist, Everett Allen, covered the waterfront that day, and collected amazing accounts of the storm in his impressive book, “A Wind to Shake the World.�

No one in New England had ever experienced such a storm.

Bodies and building were flung ashore in its wake. The scream of the wind drowned all conversation. Floating houses crashed onto rocks, but the sound could not be heard above the din.

Along the Connecticut shoreline, Clinton, Old Saybrook, Old Lyme, New London and Stonington were destroyed.

New London caught fire and burned the rest of the day. The rampant Thames River demolished its com-

mercial piers. The 240-ton lightship at the harbor mouth dragged her massive anchors and settled on a sandbar two miles away.

At 3:50, the storm struck Napatree Point, beside Watch Hill.

Forty-four summer homes, the yacht club, and 17 people were swept away in minutes. The hurricane scoured four miles of beach in Misquamicut and destroyed 500 homes. Dozens of survivors rode the heaving roofs of careening houses. Westerly, Charlestown, Green Hill, Matunuck, Jerusalem, and Galilee: None were spared. Hundreds of summer residents disappeared into the sea.

The storm encountered Narragansett Bay. It tore away the 71foot steel-reinforced light tower on Whale Rock at the mouth of the Bay and drowned its elderly keeper. Five people drowned at the Prudence Island Light Station.

A wall of water accompanied the wind, and East Greenwich, Barrington, and Warwick all suffered

Providence experienced one of the worst storm surges ever known in America: 14 feet of water ripped through the city at 4:45, just as people left work. Most took refuge on upper floors and watched as their cars disappear beneath the flood.

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massive destruction. On Conanicut Island, seven schoolchildren were drowned when their bus was swept from a causeway. Providence experienced one of the worst storm surges ever known in America: 14 feet of water ripped through the city at 4:45, just as people left work. Most took refuge on upper floors and watched as their cars disappeared beneath the flood.

The storm invaded New Bedford and roared up Buzzards Bay. Most of the huge fishing fleet of New Bedford went to the bottom. Westport, Dartmouth, Mattapoisett, Wareham: The seas flattened these towns and more. It ascended the coast and caused destruction and flooding as far as Maine.

The Connecticut River backed up for days and flooded Hartford 40 miles from the sea. The river spread a mile out of its bed. Six to eight inches of rain accompanied the storm, and exhausted workers piled sandbags round the clock.

On the following day, as New Englanders stumbled about the wreckage, searching for their dead, Adolf Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia. World War II began, with its Blitzkrieg, its Holocaust, its death camps, its atomic bombs. Tens of millions of people would perish. Art and architecture would be reduced to rubble.

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Here in New England, we wrestled with an enemy beyond our comprehension. Mere hours sufficed to convulse the sea and demolish a thousand miles of placid shoreline. Rotting corpses were buried by tons of wreckage. Years would pass in restoration. Some beaches today remain devoid of dwellings. New coves and inlets created by the storm abound.

Both Providence and New Bedford have since built mighty seawalls to repel further inundations. The three miles of The Hurricane Barrier around New Bedford, guarded by massive sea gates, is the largest masonry project on the East Coast of America. It has since repelled two Category-2 hurricanes, Gloria and

Bob; the wrath of Irene and Sandy; and numerous winter gales. It stands high enough to withstand a 20-foot surge. New Bedford, with the largest commercial fishing port in America, and home to 100,000 people, should be secure from almost any storm. We pray it is never put to its ultimate test.

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THERACIN Dory victors

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Tracy Sawtelle, Derek Lyons and Brian Brodie, from Lubec, won the Fisherman’s Dory Race (see story on page 63).

Rough seas, high winds mark B1-2 singlehanded leg

By Roy Guay For Points East Stanley Paris – in the Farr designed Paris 63 Kiwi Spirit, built by LymanMorse Boatbuilding – raced in an Experimental Class of the Bermuda One-Two singlehanded leg, and finished 1st on elapsed time off St. George’s, Bermuda.

Stanley has big plans to race around the world alone in this boat, leaving St. Augustine, Fla., in November this year.

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Resolute, with Scott Miller and George Haselton aboard, at the start of the doublehanded leg of the B 1-2.

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NGPAGES Edgartown’s Weekend: big waves, much strong wind

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Ned Joyce, from Cataumet, Mass., won PHRF B class in the Big Boat Buoy Races with his J/105 Dark ’n Stormy, edging Paul Ulyatt’s “backyard-built” Sophie, out of Edgartown.

After notching only eight knots of breeze on opening day, July 18, Edgartown Yacht Club’s three-day Race Weekend cranked into high gear for a subsequent two days of action. The weather gods loaded up 25 teams with 20 knots of breeze for a second day of the event’s Big Boat Buoy Races, giving 62 teams an exhilarating run for their money in 25 knots-plus during the 54.7-mile ’Round-the-Island Race, which was scored separately and comprised the final day of racing July 20.

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The PYC Monhegan Race returns with a new format

By Ann-e Blanchard For Points East The 79th Monhegan Race kicked off in Hussey Sound, Casco Bay, Maine, a few minutes after 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 20, with 28 boats in five divisions. There were flat seas, and the wind blew warm and light, as the racers passed south of Long Island and headed into the open Atlantic.

Isobel, a custom boat with a rating of -72, finished 1st and won Monhegan Class A. The minus rating meant that owner Richard Schotte had corrected time two hours longer than the actual elapsed time. PYC member Rich Stevenson finished second in Buzz, a Sydney 38.

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The seas were flat, and the wind blew warm and light, as the boats crossed the line and headed for the open Atlantic.

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which kept him from starting his motor and using his electrics the rest of the way. Then his triple reefed Twenty-three boats started in Newport Saturday, main was blown out of the mast slot. Serif limped to June 8, after the passing of the Tropical Storm Andrea, Bermuda with only her genoa. the smallest Bermuda One-Two fleet in many years. return, doublehanded leg started on June 20, The The first boat to finish in the regular classes (as well the skippers racing back to Newport with a crewmemas first corrected time in fleet) was John Lubimir’s ber.

However, Douglas Shearer on Nimros and Michael Class 2 Flight Risk, a Quest 30 Modified designed by Schum on Kontradiction raced back singlehanded.

The Rhode Islander Rodger Martin. This is John’s second return conditions were quite different from the first Bermuda One-Two race, however the first in Flight leg; there were long periRisk, which he sailed in the ods of no wind and light Singlehanded Transpac in wind, especially for the 2012. Class 1 winner was slower boats in the fleet.

Resolute sailed by Scott Stanley Paris raced the Miller. Class 3 winner was doublehanded leg with his Aggressive sailed by Rayson Alan Paris of Around mond Renaud. Class 4 winAlone fame, and again was ner was Windswept sailed by the first boat to finish.

The Rick McCally. first non-experimental The conditions this year class boat to finish (as well were very demanding for the as first corrected time in singlehanded leg to fleet) was Class 1 Resolute, Bermuda, and seven boats crewed by Scott Miller and dropped out for various reaGeorge Haselton, both sons, mostly due to the Photo courtesy Bermuda 1-2 from Maine. Class 2 wintough wind and sea condiner was Wildeyes, another tions. Most of the fleet fin- Gust Stringos’ Bluebird, Peter McCrea’s Panacea and Quest 30, sailed by Michael ished Thursday, June 14, Rick McCally’s Windswept at the start of the Bermuda-toMillard and Bjorn Johnson. with a couple more on Fri- Newport leg.

Class 3 corrected-time day. winner was Island Girl sailed by Brian Flynn and Solid Air, a Columbia 32C, was abandoned due to Craig Olsen.

Class 4 winner was another Maine boat, keel problems, and the skipper was picked up by new Bluebird, crewed by Gust Stringos and John Bell. skipper Dan Alonso on Halcyon. Mirari, a Bristol 39 Bluebird finished 2nd on corrected time in the whole sailed by Dan Stadtlander, turned back with a broken fleet for the return leg, and Wildeyes finished 3rd. Only boom and torn main and genoa, leaving only a storm 15 boats started from Bermuda, and all 15 finished. jib. Mirari was able to start motoring, and then the The St. George’s Dinghy and Sports Club is the host propeller shaft broke. Stadtlander devised a coupler club on Bermuda and the Newport Yacht Club is the and motored to Martha’s Vineyard, then home to Conhost club in Newport, R.I. The complete results as well necticut. as a running commentary are posted on the race’s Serif, a Tartan 30 sailed by first-time entrant website, www.bermuda1-2.org.

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Fruit Cakes, Mad Max win classes in Whaleback Regatta Fifteen sailing boats participated in two classes — the Racing Fleet and Cruising Fleet – in the 2nd qualifying race of the Hoist Away Bags 2013 Commodore’s Cup Series, the Whaleback Regatta, Aug. 3. Kittery Point Yacht Club, in Portsmouth, N.H., and the Piscataqua Sailing Association and Portsmouth Yacht Club hosted the event.

The course took racers, sailing under PHRF handicap rules, from Whaleback Light north, halfway to Boone Island, on to the northern tip of Appledore Island, then the return to Whaleback Light. The wind was brisk and consistent out of the southwest between 60 Points East September 2013

10 and 15 knots. The competition was tight throughout the race with the top five yachts in the cruising class finishing within a two-minute period, with 2nd and 3rd place finishes decided by just one second. The top three yachts in the racing class, all J/24s, finished within 19 seconds.

Following the race, participants and members of KPYC, PSA and PYC met at KPYC for a New England Chowder Fest and awarding of trophies to the top three yachts in each class. FMI: www.kpyc.net, www.regattanetwork.com.

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Dorymen -- and women -- compete in Lubec races A highlight of this year’s event was the participation Three Lubec men took home the top prize of $1,000 in this year’s Fisherman’s Dory Race on July 7. After com- of an all-female crew in the July 6 eliminations. Though ing in second in the eliminations held the previous day – not fast enough to qualify for Sunday’s race – only the top three crews which saw seven were allowed to three-person teams compete in the ficompete against nal – Carlie Wolf, each other to round Molanna Oei and red buoy No. 8 in Tamara Scurci the Lubec Narrows paved the way for – Tracy Sawtelle, other women to enDerek Lyons and ter next year’s race, Brian Brodie resaid Jimmy turned on Sunday Buehner of the with renewed deterLubec Fishermen’s mination.

Dory Race ComFighting flood mittee. tides, the men “I hope this rowed from Lubec Photo by Sam Winch year’s women’s landing, round Pope’s Folly and A highlight was an all-female crew in the eliminations. Though not fast enough crew will serve as back again in 12:10 to qualify for the final, Carlie Wolf, Molanna Oei and Tamara Scurci paved the an inspiration for way for other women in next year’s race. others to compete minutes, beating out last year’s winners and this year’s 2nd-place finishers in the 3rd Annual next year, and give the men a real run Brannin Buehner, Brian Bel, and Ethan Plaut. Third for the money,” he declared. place went to Jeff Jones, Bram Williams and Sheldon Tyler.

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MONHEGAN, from Page 59 finishing almost an hour ahead of 2nd-place Zubenelgenubi, a Norlin 2ton owned by Clifford Goudey. Cat’s Paw, a Lindenberg 28 skippered by Butch Minson of Verona Island, took 1st in the Manana Race. Portland Yacht Club member John Wilkinson placed 2nd in Omega 36 Impulse.

Randy and Gail Rice, from Freeport, drove Imagine, a Pearson 34, to victory in the Cruising Class;

2nd place went to Marc Lorraine in the C&C 110 Hightail. Marc won the prestigious Geoffrey Emanuel Spirit of Monhegan award for facilitating the arrangements for the finish. The Multi-hull Class started with two boats, and only one finished: Casey Mulligan in Supply & Demand, a Reynolds 33 catamaran.

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event on the Maine coast. The course has basically remained unchanged since its 1927 conception, with a few minor modifications, as offshore buoyage has changed. However, the shape of sailboat racing has changed with the expansion of other family recreation opportunities, and the number of boats competing has been on the decline.

Looking for a ways to engage boat owners and a new generation of sailors, the course was changed dramatically and finished just outside Camden Harbor. PYC racer officer, Stephanie Helms, had researched other successful regattas around the country and found destination races popularity was on the rise. “The challenges in adapting a great tradition to changing times are many and we knew we might face a few challenges, which we did,” said Stephanie.

“The other key to increasing boat entries was the lifestyle of the people participating, both owners and crew,” said Bill Newberry, PYC rear commodore and Monhegan chair. “We wanted to make it possible to work Friday afternoon, attend the Friday night party, race on Saturday and Sunday, and be back to work on Monday. We provided bus transportation to help with logistics, gear, and crew and make it easy for owners to stick around to cruise Penobscot Bay.” The due diligence process to alter the course was not easy, and the race committee wrestled with the movethe-finish-to-Camden decision for months. “We didn’t know if finishing in Camden would change racers’ perception that the race was no longer the Monhegan Race,” Bill said. “But after sailing the new course, my fear was greatly diminished.”

Steve Ribble, from Bangor Maine, crewing Hightail, a C&C 110, gave the new format a thumbs-up. “Hightail had a perfect start and led the cruising fleet out of Hussey Sound, and all the way to Two Bush Light,” Steve said. “With a handicap in the middle of the fleet, it took roughly 50 miles for a faster boat to pass Higheditor@pointseast.com

tail, which happened rounding the Two Bush turning mark as we began our way up Penobscot Bay. From there it was cat-and-mouse between two of the faster boats in the fleet, with Hightail finally putting distance on one, and finishing only minutes behind the other.”

Portland Yacht Club member and veteran racer, Tim Hussey, sailing his 39th race, agreed the new course offers new and memorable experiences. Tim crewed aboard Resolute, a J/44, skippered by Fred Maderia, from Falmouth Maine. “Early Sunday morning, we were sailing downwind in light air, coming up Two Bush channel in very thick fog,” Tim said. “All of a sudden we heard a long, low, and loud blast dead ahead. We checked our AIS that’s hooked into our chartplotter and identified the 600-foot tanker New England, coming out of Searsport. She was going about 14 knots, only five miles away, and coming right at us. We were right in the middle of the shipping lane, and decided we needed to leave; however, the light air made it difficult to maneuver too

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quickly. . . . We heard him pass close by, but never saw him.” Resolute went on to win 3rd place in Cruising Class.

Multihull racer Casey B. Mulligan said the new format offered his crew a new port to visit, his primary reason for participating in the Monhegan. Supply & Demand, a Reynolds 33 catamaran, sailed from New York for their second Monhegan Race. They sailed home from Camden by way of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, then across the Gulf of Maine, with stops in Salem, Provincetown and Nantucket, Mass. Casey, who finished 1st in the Multihull Class, said he is “definitely returning next year.” For complete results: www.portlandyachtclub.com.

Ann-e Blanchard, who lives in Scarborough, Maine, is Portland Yacht Club director of Monhegan Public Relations, club photographer, and GMORA website and marketing director. She and her husband Tony and son Nico cruise the Maine coast in their J/32 Enchantress.

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EDGARTOWN, continued from Page 59 “In the light air, after the first day, we were in last place overall,” said Ned Joyce (Cataumet, Mass.), who won PHRF B class in the Big Boat Buoy Races with his J/105 Dark ’n Stormy, “but in the heavy air we turned in three 1st-place finishes to win. That’s what we are more used to having on Buzzard’s Bay where we usually sail.”

Joyce’s closest competition, Paul Ulyatt (Edgartown, Mass.), aboard his “backyard-built” boat Sophie, was tied on final points, but the tie-breaker went to Joyce, who also took home the John J. Trask Trophy for his efforts. As well, Joyce went on to win his class in the ’Round-the-Island Race. Sophie was dismasted in the ’Round-the-Island Race, but limped home safely, making him one of only two racers to claim victory in both of the weekend’s double-header events.

The other was Jim Swartz (Park City, Utah/Edgar-

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Swartz and his crack crew handily won IRC 1 in the ’Round-the-Island Race, taking home the Alexander Orr Trophy and the Great Venona Trophy for best performance overall. Second in class for both events was Tokyo’s Takashi Okura, skippering the TP52 Sled.

The buoy races, which were inaugurated last year as a one-day adjunct to the decades-old ‘Round-the-Island Race, were expanded this year to two days, and the move proved to be popular, especially when the race committee chose to run them close to the mouth of Edgartown Harbor. “I think they hit it out of the park,” said Gavin Brady (Annapolis, Md.), Vesper’s tactician.

“On Friday we sailed three and a half hours, got three races in, and were back to the dock by 1:30 to enjoy the island. Other yacht clubs should take note that short courses close to shore are okay, and that sailing doesn’t have to be an all-day sport where you race all day and you’re so exhausted when you get home that you can’t do anything else!” Brady said that Vesper clocked 24

knots on the back side of the island. “It was like Hawaii, with big waves and heaps of wind.”

Joining the IRC fleet for Saturday’s ‘Round-the-Island Race was George David’s (Hartford, Conn.) 90foot maxi yacht Rambler, which won the Concord Cup for fastest elapsed time around the island. The team’s time of four hours and 10 minutes is now officially the fastest recorded time for the circumnavigation of the island in the Edgartown Yacht Club Race Weekend, breaking Rambler’s record in 2009 of just over five hours. “Our top speed was 27 knots on the north side of the island, after the final corner to the finish,” said Rambler’s Team Manager Mick Harvey (Newport, R.I.) “The boat just lit up! We were ripping along with flat water and no waves. George was driving, and he was having the time of his life. We were all pinching ourselves in the end.” For complete results, visit www.rtirace.org and www.edgartownyc.org.

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Boat Building Festival celebrates first decade Compass Project’s Boat Building Festival, in Portland, Maine’s Back Cove, celebrated its 10th anniversary on July 12-14. Over the course of the weekend, 11 teams built 12-foot Bevin’s Skiffs, launching them from East End Beach at the close of the festival.

This year’s festival welcomed teams from as far away as Birmingham, Alabama. “The Southern Seniors” team, captained by Susan Wilder White, featured three generations of her family. They vacationed in Maine, making the festival a key stop in their travels. The Perkins, House and Stevens crews rounded out the family entries.

The festival also welcomed several youth groups.

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Portland High School’s Mentoring Alliance. Aucocisco School in Cape Elizabeth and Breakwater School in Portland also entered teams.

Several nonprofits supported Compass Project as they strengthened their own teamwork skills. The Pixel Fund, which strives to save the lives of shelter pets, built a skiff to display at the Maine Boats and Harbors Festival in Rockland. The Daniel Hanley Center for Health Leadership sponsored two teams of staff from Portland and Lewiston nonprofits that work directly with the immigrant and refugee communities. These teams used the weekend as a networking and team-building exercise in hopes of deepening relationships between these agencies.

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Briefly SW Boatworks, in Lamoine, Maine, launched the 44-foot Calvin Beal Jr.-designed Kayla Anne for 22-year-old fisherman Josh Beal of Milbridge. She is Josh’s second Calvin Beal hull and top from SW Boatworks. Specifications: LOA 44’; Beam 17.5’; Power 2.5 to 1 gear ratio, ZF Gear, Iveco 750; Speed 26 knots; Hull solid fiberglass; Top molded foam-core; Fuel tanks 2 80-gal. Fishery lobster fishing. FMI: www.swboatworks.com.

Brooklin Boat Yard, in Brooklin, Maine, has launched Lynette and Iris, hulls Nos. 3 and 4 of the Eggemoggin 47 series.

Lynette went in the water first in June, and Iris followed closely behind in July. Both boats have already been out racing on the Spirit of Tradition circuit throughout Midcoast Maine. The boats were designed by Stephens, Waring & White, and her appendages were redesigned and optimized by yacht designer Jim Taylor of Marblehead. The yachts are built of wood and carbon fiber with epoxy resin. FMI: www.brooklinboatyard.com.

Chuck Paine Yacht Design’s new project is the Paine 14, a slightly scaled-down Herreshoff 12 ½ with a fin keel for greater performance.

It is trailerable behind a standard-sized automobile. Its mast is of carbon fiber and requires no stays, so it is easy to deploy. Paine has invented a nifty way to attach the sails to the spars quickly, with no tedious fitting of little slides to little tracks, so the boat can be launched and on its way in a matter of minutes. Its cruising grounds are anywhere one might like to sail that is reachable by road. Study plans are available for $40; full plans without loftings or offsets for $475; and full plans including a full-size

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BRIEFS, continued from Page 69 Mylar hull lofting and right to build for $1,500.00 Finished boats, with a fiberglass hull, hand-finished in epoxy-based fine-wood construction, are now available. Chuck’s mission is to get people actually using their boats again. “I’m tired of seeing thousands of big boats sitting in marinas unused,” explained Chuck. “This one is small enough to get going quickly and to trailer rather than have to sail from one beautiful sailing destination to another, and elegant enough to make its owner proud.” FMI: www.chuckpaine.com.

Great Harbor Boat Works, in Manset, Maine, is working on the 1902 Charles Morse Friendship sloop Westwind. They will be installing the engine, chain plates, and rails, and are hoping to launch her next summer. Also in the shop is a 1979 Ralph Stanley-designed and built powerboat, getting her annual maintenance. She may also be getting a new engine.

FMI: www.greatharborboatworks.com.

General Marine, in Biddeford, Maine, is nearing completion on a General Marine 36, lengthened by two feet and finished

out as a pleasure cruiser, for a customer from Nantucket, Mass. She is powered with a 700-hp V-12 Caterpillar diesel.

The interior is all cherry. FMI: http://www.generalmarine.com.

Great Island Boat Yard, in Harpswell, Maine, has formed a service relationship with Bruckmann Yachts. Great Island will learn the Bruckmann designs, catalogue their drawings, interface with their team efficiently, and give priority response to Bruckmann owners. FMI: www.greatislandboatyard.com Morgan Bay Boat Company, in Surry/Penobscot, Maine, after taking over the molds for the Northern Bay 38 from Downeast Boats & Composites, has received interest in these boats. The 38 in the shop in Surry is halfway completed and the interior started. Owner Gerald (Gary) Kief has over 30 years of boatbuilding experience. He started with the Hinkley Company in 1979 and then worked with some of Maine’s finest builders including Wilbur Yachts, Ellis Boat, and Able Custom Yachts. At Able Custom Yachts, his position was production manager, where he oversaw the construction of power and sail boats up to 91 feet in length. FMI: morganbayboatcompany.com.

Farrin’s Boat Shop, in Walpole, Maine, has sent their eighth boat to the West Coast. Steady, a Calvin Beal 38 finished off as a pleasure cruiser, is California-bound. This is the fourth boat for the same owner. His first boat was a 38 Wesmac, followed by a 36 Wayne Beal and 35 Mitchell Cove, all finished

by Farrin’s. FMI: www.farrinsboatshop.com.

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The Leight lies placidly the morning after the tempest in Love Cove, at Ebenecook Harbor, a few miles west of Boothbay.

Sheltering at Love Cove he abrupt turn of weather left us breathless.

We’d been visiting the lighthouse museum perched atop the heights of Seguin Island when a glowering convention of clouds gathering to seaward withdrew the sun’s warmth, and soon afterwards blew up a snotty southerly, stirring up a siege of seas trailing streamers of foam in their wake.

The leaves of alders alongside the rocky trail rattled nervously as Leigh and I scurried toward the sloop, which was tossing about in the exposed teacup of a cove under the east shore. Once aboard, a few keystrokes confirmed the sea change, the forecast promising heavy rain, thunderstorms and wind gusting into the 30s as the afternoon wore on.

The urgency of the moment was upon us, and 10 intense minutes later, the Leight was scuttling across seas ribbed with swells, under reefed main and jib, errant streaks of sun penetrating rents in the clouds and

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We felt like prey among predators, a pack of whitecrested wolves nipping at our heels as the remorseless fang of sea broke sharp and spray flew. Shaping a northerly course for Love Cove, nine miles distant, the ebbing tide took full measure of every minute and mile.

Dipping and corkscrewing our way through the melee, we kept looking over our shoulders, awaiting the lash of gale.

Rushing into Ebenecook Harbor at dead-low tide, we gave wide berth to shoals radiating from the two islands midstream, tacked into the narrow slant of Love Cove, and a few minutes later were under power, the sails hanging disheveled as we poked about single-digit soundings at the head of navigation. Rigging an anchor trip line, for there is old mooring gear on the bottom, the mate played out the CQR and 10 fathoms of chain, in a single fathom of water. editor@pointseast.com

The cabin seemed all the more snug for the flurry of weather.

Darkness came early, sheets of rain slashed, wind raged, the mast shuddered, and treetops whipped about furiously. The spinnaker halyard rattled, and the flame of the kerosene lantern danced, casting a warm glow across the mahogany cabinetry. Above it all, the fury of wind and rain droned. We felt like iron filings, attracted and subdued by the magnetic madness of it. We kept watch and held fast.

Ham, beans, a ruby merlot, music, and a light at the head of navigation were a comfort.

Later I donned foul-weather gear and went on deck to throttle the flag, which was snapping away madly. The civility of the cabin, a few feet away, seemed almost surreal. I heard thunder rumble in the distance, saw the sky light up along the shore of the Sheepscot River, and imagined folks in its “winged villages,” as Thoreau called river towns, dashing about madly, greatly annoyed by the inconvenience of the storm, and feeling little of the epic drama playing out.

Rest did not come easily in the uproar, but sometime in the nether hours of night, the wind and rain took off and we slipped into soft billows of sleep. Morning dawned mirror-still, mist rising from the spruce ashore – the world washed clean, and Love Cove bathed in an ethereal light that looked like a Fitz Hugh Lane painting. What a lovely furor it had been. It’s an ill wind that blows no good.

David Buckman sails out of Round Pond, Maine, aboard a Swedish-built sloop. His book, “Bucking the Tide,” is about muddling along and discovering the New England and Fundy coast in a decidedly improper, $400 yacht.

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Maine Stripers, blues will be blitzing; big tuna, shark and cod hitting

By Capt. Marco Lamothe For Points East Fishing conditions on the south coast of Maine are perhaps their best in September. In a final rush to energize for their long journeys south, striped bass, bluefish, sharks, and bluefin tuna all take advantage of the abundant forage found in our coastal waters.

Expect to find striped bass transitioning from their summer feeding patterns of late day, overnight, and early morning feeding into all-day feeding routines, often turning into feeding frenzies. Bluefish are at their most abundant early in the month, with possibilities for huge surface blitzes as the blues feast on sand eels, spike mackerel, and small herring available along area beaches.

Likely spots include Popham Beach, near the mouth of the Kennebec River. all the way down to the beaches in the towns of York and Kittery. Target these blitzing

bass and blues with trolled artificials like Bomber deep-divers, Deadly Dick spoons, and Yo-Zuri swimmers in a variety of sizes and styles. On days when the fish are not showing on the surface, try trolling a deep diving Magnum Rapala for suspended bluefish. Increase your speed up to about four to four and a half knots to excite the blues and gain more diving depth.

For surface casting excitement, try tossing a Ranger plug to busting fish.

Bluefin tuna action increased throughout August, and this trend should continue into September. Fish will be found from Isle au Haut to Boone Island, and from Monhegan Island in toward the ledges off of Biddeford and Scarborough. Many of the fish harvested in August came from humps that were often out of site of land.

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targeting bluefin on a stand-up outfit of this type.

Shark fishing will stay strong until the first frosty Typically these late-season fish are caught within mornings of October. This season has started strong, four or five miles of land, often within range of the and similar success for local shark hunters should consmall-boat fleet. These are heavy fish, usually in the With the exception of an occasional thresher, tinue.

300- to 500-pound mako, or porbearange, so 130gle, this Maine pound class gear fishery is focused and an experion blue sharks. enced crew are These “blue dogs� needed to find sucare a steady prescess. For bait recence on the offommendations, shore grounds and most who find sucrespond readily to cess use live macka properly preerel or herring. sented dead bait in Occasionally, a an oily chum slick. smaller bluefin Area bait-and(under 200 tackle shops like pounds) is landed Saco Bay Tackle on by casting a CarlRoute One in Saco son Spoon or CripPhoto courtesy Keeper Charters can provide fisherpled Herring jig on Jake Eberhardt hung this sag-belly off the Maine coat in August. Stripers will men with all the a souped-up spin- be transitioning from their summer feeding patterns in September. gear and knowlning rig. These edge necessary to spinning rigs can feature a Penn Spinfisher 950 with test out this exciting fishery.

Most fish are harvested a custom spinning rod built to handle the 80- to 100in 400+ feet of water.

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Groundfishing has been particularly steady throughout the spring and summer, and September has traditionally been a really productive month. My expectations are high for this fall. Cod in the 25- to 30-inch range have been the norm this season on humps like Jeffreys Ledge, West Cod Ledge, and Tantas Ledge. Jeffreys has been a steady producer of haddock as well this season along with strong numbers of slammer pollock.

Cod jigs like Sea Wolfe jigs in 12-, 14- and 16-ounce sizes are my favorites. Place a cod-fly teaser on a dropper loop 15 to 18 inches above the swivel used to attach to your jig, and bait the teaser with a half-cooked Maine shrimp. Most hits typically come on the teaser, and sweetening the teaser with a shrimp greatly enhances your chances of hooking into a delectable haddock.

September is perhaps the best time of year to fish

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By Richard DeMarte For Points East Coming off a strong, steady showing of bait and solid fishing action in August, the outlook for September and this year’s fall fishing overall couldn’t be better. Bay anchovies, peanut bunker, snapper blues, glass shrimp, spearing and other small baitfish are keeping the ravenous hordes of predatory fish on the feed. Taking the time to toss your cast net this time of year can result in ample supplies of bait for chumming, live-lining and drift-fishing.

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Snappers can be found in just about every shallow water area as they feast on spearing and other small baitfish along docks, shorelines and piers.

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Harbor blues of one to four pounds can also be found just outside harbors and even in deeper waters where they can be caught using three- to six-ounce metal jigs.

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You’ll cover a lot of ground, and no doubt come across schools of baitfish with harbor blues feeding on them, which will usually appear in the lower portion of the water column. As soon as you find fish, mark the spot by quickly entering a waypoint on your depth sounder, then shift your boat into neutral, drop your jig down to the bottom, and crank it back 10 to 15 turns of the reel as fast as you can. This fast retrieval works your jig so it mimics bait fish scurrying away from feeding fish and triggers spectacular attacks. If you don’t get a hit, immediately drop your jig back down again and give the reel another 10-15 cranks.

This is the epitome of fast action fishing, and if you’re lucky, you may even get into a few fish near the 10pound mark or heavier. This time of year, some bruiser blues at can run in the 12- to 18-pound range.

Jigging, nighttime chunking, daytime trolling, and livelining adult bunker are the most productive ways to get into these beasts. Remember to watch out for those razor sharp teeth.

Fish for blues of all sizes from the shores and mouths of the Housatonic River, Greenwich, Stamford and Norwalk harbors, and also out to the deeper waters in the middle of the sound.

The striped bass action has slowed a bit in the westernmost Long Island Sound, but has been steadier along the east end, in Connecticut and into Rhode Island. As the weather begins to cool a bit, water tem-

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peratures start to drop, the angle of the sun begins to shift, and these linesiders will begin fall-migration feeding habits, bulking up for their migratory journeys. Fresh bunker, if you can find it, is by far the bait of choice for striper fishing this month, and since they’re mixed in with sizable choppers, be sure to switch over to using wire leaders, since bluefish teeth will slice through fluorocarbon leaders like a hot knife through butter.

This is also a great time to get into some smaller schoolie stripers in the 20- to 32-inch range (three- to 10-pounders) using top-water lures, like the Storm Chug Bug, along rocky shorelines, at the break walls, and at mouths of harbors and rivers. Likely spots include the Byram River, Greenwich Harbor, the Mianus River in Cos Cob, and Stamford Harbor. Fishing dawn, dusk and nighttime is key when bait fishing for larger stripers, while daytime is best for using top-water lures for schoolies.

cordingly. The most productive lure and bait choices include the new Ebi Jigs by Rapala, tipped with TriggerX scented baits, strips of squid or bunker. I’m a believer in the “big baits catch big fish” theory. so I’m generous in the size of what I tip my jigs with.

Porgies, or scup, will be found inside coves and harbors, in shallow waters, along rock piles and in deeper waters near wrecks or any type of structure.

They seem to be running larger than average, with dinner-plate size three- and four-pounders prevalent.

Chum will help start and keep the bite going, and baits of sandworms, clams, and bunker cubes will produce.

Seabass are mixed in with porgies, concentrated near structures in deeper waters from the wrecks and rock piles outside Stamford (around buoy 32A) all the way out to the middle grounds. Use the same gear and bait you’re using for porgies, and try to time your fishing to catch a moving tide.

Fluke fishing has been strong all summer long and shows no signs of slowing down. Moving out into a bit deeper waters this time of year – such as outside Captain’s Islands in Greenwich and buoy 32A outside Stamford – will produce best results. Summer fluke fishermen found mantis shrimp in the bellies of the bigger fluke, and this month more are found with squid and spearing, so tailor your bait selection ac-

Richard is starting his sophomore year at Binghamton University this fall, where he’s majoring in biology with a minor in environmental studies. His fishing, boating, birding, photography, environmental activities, and outdoor writing continue “full steam ahead,” so you can count on seeing more of his articles in upcoming issues of Points East. Contact him at Richard@nyctfishing.com, www.nyctfishing.com.

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Anglers interested in tournament fishing can enjoy two great September tournaments. The Billy Carr Striped Bass Tournament will be held Sept. 7-8, and the Galilee Fishing Tournament and Seafood Festival is Sept. 2022.

Big game fishing has been spotty; however, anglers making the run south of the Dump, and to areas like Jenny’s and Ryan’s Horns, have been lucky with yellowfin tuna and albacore landings. Joe Mariani led Pat Barberet of Coventry, R.I., to the Dump to land an awesome 70pound yellowfin on the troll.

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Bonita made their first appearances early August at Block Island’s North Rip, and Sue Lema landed a green bonita on an Acme XL the first week of August. Fishing will improve along the south shore with false albacore, and will move east as the season progresses. Green Bonita action started around the island; deadly dicks and Swedish Pimples work best casting; trolling fast track can also be productive.

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Chris Gudik weighed in a 5.04pound fluke from outside the Center Wall of the Harbor of Refuge.

Tautog fishing has been great, and it will only improve as water temperatures decrease. Anglers fishing the rock piles near Scarborough Beach are doing well.

Fluke fishing remained consistent through August, with many anglers continuing to limit out.

The North Rip of Block Island, Clay Head, and the South Side are best spots to try this month as the south-shore fishing becomes more difficult near Point Judith, Matunuck and Green Hill.

The bluefish and striped bass fishing is productive around the Point Judith Light, Charlestown Breachway and, of course, at the North Rip and Southwest Ledge of Block Island. Live eels have been the bait of choice since mid-

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CALENDAR/Points East planner SEPTEMBER 1 29th annual Gloucester Schooner Festival This highly anticipated weekend is expected to draw particularly large crowds as the Bluenose II from Nova Scotia will be participating in the Festival, the Adventure will be sailing, and nearly two dozen schooners have signaled their intent to return to Gloucester. The Mayor’s Welcome reception for arriving schooners and the host community is 5-7 pm at the U.S. Coast Guard Station on Harbor Loop. Maritime Heritage Day all day Saturday at Maritime Gloucester on Harbor Loop with activities, vendors, food and fun on the harbor. Parade of Sail on Sunday morning followed by the Schooner Race. FMI: www.maritimegloucester.org, tbalf@maritimegloucester.org 2-7

US Sailing’s International Women’s Keelboat Championship Eastern Yacht Club, Marblehead, Mass. The 15th edition of this Championship will be raced in the International J/22 class keelboat, suitable for four-person teams. The official Notice of Race has been posted. Held biennially, the event provides women keelboat and offshore sailors high-quality racing and an opportunity to compete with top national and international

sailors. www.ussailing.org. www.ussailing.org. jakefish@ussailing.org” 5

Cruise & Lighthouse Visit: Beacons of Boothbay Maine Maritime Museum, Bath, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2:30 pm. Explore one of Maine s harbor lighthouses and island. Visit the lantern room and meet those who lived at the light and were responsible for keeping the light shining, circa 1950.

View three or more other lighthouses during this 5hour cruise. www.mainemaritimemuseum.org

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Kayak Adventure: Merrymeeting Bay Guided Paddle 8 a.m. to Noon (Registration closes Sept. 4).

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The Around Islesboro Race Northport Yacht Club, Northport, Maine. www.northportyachtclub.org

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Newport Bermuda Race Seminar The first of Brewer's Newport Bermuda Race Seminars will be held Saturday, Sept. 7, at the Brewer Pilots Point Marina at Westbrook, CT. Speakers will include Rives Potts, owner-skipper of the 2010 and 2012 St. David's Lighthouse Trophy winner Carina, and meteorologist and ocean racer Bill Biewenga.

Among the topics are: entering the race, preparing for mandatory boat inspection, optimizing your boat for performance, winning strategies on the race course, and guidance on navigation, weather, and crew management. www.byy.com/NBR loliver@byy.com

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New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup The 2013 New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup, presented by Rolex, returns to Newport, R.I. From the first edition in 2009, the tradition of international Corinthian competition between yacht clubs has been reignited. The biennial event fuses five days of intense racing with a glamorous social schedule to deliver an unrivaled event for competitors from around the globe. The 20 yacht club teams will race one-design NYYC Swan 42s on Narragansett Bay and Rhode Island Sound. Contact Event Chairman Paul Zabetakis. nyyc.org/yachting-public paul.zabetakis@gmail.com

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New Bedford Yacht Club Whalers Race New Bedford Yacht Club, 208 Elm St., South Dartmouth Mass. The traditional 105 nautical mile Category III dates back to 1932. The race starts and finishes at Padanaram and includes marks at Cuttyhunk, Noman's, Block Island and the Buzzards Bay Tower. All points of sailing are involved. Notice of Race posted on NBYC website. www.nbyc.com/racing/club-racing/whalers-raceinfo@nbyc.com

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Maine Rocks Race Rockland Yacht Club, Rockland, Maine. The Maine Rocks Race covers a distance of about 112 nautical miles, from Rockland to Matinicus Rock, then to Mount Desert Rock, then around Matinicus Rock again before a return to Rockland. The event is designed for shorthanded racing, and is open to boats crewed by one or two people. www.rocklandyc.org

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Civil War Lecture: Preserving the Union: The Maine Sailor s Experience Maine Maritime Museum, Bath, 6:30 p-.m. Historian and Civil War reenactor David Nelson will discuss the lives of Navy men during our country s most deadly war. www.MaineMaritimeMuseum.org 207-443-1316, ext. 0

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FINAL

PASSAGES/they

George Hall Dixon 92, Exeter, N.H.

George died unexpectedly at home on June 28. He received his MBA from the Harvard Business School on the GI Bill in 1947. He proposed marriage to Peggy Freeman during a moonlight sail in a Herreshoff 12 1/2 in Narragansett Bay, and they were married for almost 63 years, until her death in 2011. George worked as an economist and banker in Boston, Providence, New York City, and Minneapolis.

With his wife, Peggy, George led an adventurous life. He traveled to every continent and set foot on both the North and South Poles. He played competitive tennis into his 80s, and loved to hike, canoe and sail. In his retirement, he had a boat built in England, which he sailed across the Atlantic with Peggy and friends. In his late 70s, he backpacked into the Beartooth range of Montana with his boys and son-inlaw and his fly-rod, and camped under the stars. He kept bees for the last 60 years. At the time of his death, he was reading Dickens’s “Great Expectations” and “Hyperspace” by Michio Kaku.

Robert J. Charbonneau 75, Barrington, R.I.

Bob passed away at home on July 19. He was a member of the New York Athletic Club and the Barrington (R.I.) Yacht Club. He was an avid sailor who spent many hours on

will be missed

his sailboat, Spellbound. He participated in the Newport and Marion to Bermuda races for several years, at times with his children. His many volunteer activities included frostbite sailing, serving on the Barrington Harbor Commission, and working at Ronald McDonald House and the Herreshoff Marine Museum in Bristol, R.I. The family of Robert Charbonneau request donations be made to Ronald McDonald House, 45 Gay Street, Providence, R.I. (www.rmhprovidence.org) or the Herreshoff Marine Museum, Bristol, R.I. (www.herreshoff.org).

Sidney W. Rosen, M.D. 95, Fall River, Mass.

The distinguished internist and gastroenterologist passed away on at home Aug. 5, surrounded by family. A U.S. Navy Medical Corps veteran of WWII and the Korean War, he served on submarine tender Howard Gilmore, then at the American Naval Hospital in Panama, and as Commander at Chelsea Naval Hospital. He published numerous articles in “Journal of the American Medical Association,” served Fall River’s Charlton Memorial Hospital as chief of staff.

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September Tides New London, Conn.

Bridgeport, Conn.

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1.26 1.02 0.73 0.45 0.21 10.29 10.32 10.28 10.15 9.94 9.68 9.43 9.28 0.08 -0.05 -0.29 -0.57 -0.79 -0.89 11.14 10.92 10.57 10.11 9.61 9.12 8.71 8.42 1.49 1.53 1.4

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September Tides Portland, Maine 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

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1.13 0.91 0.68 0.45 0.25 0.1 9.87 9.83 9.71 9.52 9.28 9.03 8.86 0.14 0.02 -0.23 -0.53 -0.77 -0.87 -0.8 10.55 10.17 9.71 9.2 8.72 8.31 8.04 1.41 1.44 1.32

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09:05 AM 8.14 09:51 AM 8.41 10:33 AM 8.72 11:10 AM 9.04 11:45 AM 9.35 12:19 PM 9.63 06:43 AM 0.01 07:20 AM -0.01 08:01 AM 0.04 08:46 AM 0.17 09:35 AM 0.37 10:31 AM 0.57 11:33 AM 0.71 06:39 AM 8.87 07:46 AM 9.08 08:50 AM 9.48 09:48 AM 9.95 10:41 AM 10.37 11:29 AM 10.66 12:15 PM 10.76 06:47 AM -0.55 07:31 AM -0.17 08:15 AM 0.3 09:00 AM 0.79 09:47 AM 1.26 10:38 AM 1.64 11:33 AM 1.89 06:34 AM 7.93 07:30 AM 8.0 08:22 AM 8.24

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1.55 1.27 0.96 0.65 0.37 0.13 9.88 10.07 10.19 10.23 10.18 10.09 10.03 0.7 0.47 0.09 -0.35 -0.72 -0.94 -0.95 10.68 10.43 10.07 9.66 9.26 8.91 8.68 1.97 1.87 1.6

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10.07 10.24 10.5 10.72 10.84 10.78

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8.6 8.67 8.86

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1.12 0.86 0.57 0.31 0.11 -0.02 11.4 11.37 11.24 11.03 10.75 10.47 10.28 0.13 -0.03 -0.34 -0.71 -1.0 -1.13 -1.05 12.21 11.78 11.23 10.64 10.07 9.61 9.29 1.45 1.46 1.32

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1.87 1.38 0.82 0.29 -0.14 -0.41 19.58 19.58 19.43 19.13 18.71 18.26 17.91 0.27 0.07 -0.42 -1.05 -1.6 -1.92 -1.9 20.71 20.16 19.41 18.54 17.68 16.91 16.36 16.11 2.38 2.13

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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

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1.61 1.28 0.93 0.6 0.31 0.07 11.47 11.65 11.75 11.74 11.65 11.52 11.44 0.82 0.53 0.05 -0.47 -0.9 -1.15 -1.17 12.34 12.03 11.59 11.1 10.62 10.23 9.97 2.11 1.97 1.66

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Bolster

Photo by Jeff Bolster

We turned a corner at dead-slow, and came bow-to-stern with as compelling a chunk of Piscataqua history as we had ever seen.

Ghost of the Piscataqua unning dead-slow, we were skirting the north edge of Spruce Creek, past a shoreline subdued in the flat light of a late November day. My hand rested lightly on the curved oak grip of our West Pointer skiff, more from habit than for balance. West Pointers are steady.

Originally built by Alton Wallace for inshore lobstering around Phippsburg, Maine, West Point skiffs had brought the seakindliness of Downeast lobsterboats to small-craft operators. This strip-planked 16-footer charmed my wife and me from the moment we had first seen her, just a few months before. Not a new boat by any means, she was still new to us and our kids. So we didn’t quite know what to expect when we cast off that steely November morning, on what likely would be one of the last days of the season.

Late autumn in Maine has special charms. Fewer boats mean more of a sense of proprietorship for those under way, and Spruce Creek felt like ours alone that

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day. But summer was over. That was apparent from shuttered cottages, empty moorings, and docks whose floats had been hauled and stored. The estuary seemed still. A few great blue herons, their gazes directed downward, didn’t even acknowledge our presence.

Spruce Creek flows into the Piscataqua River, the southern border between Maine and New Hampshire.

The Piscataqua’s current is the second fastest of any American river navigable by commercial ships, second only to the storied Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. Except for slack water, which occurs for a paltry few minutes four times a day, the mighty Piscataqua can be a handful, especially in a kayak, a peapod, or under sail. And that’s how I knew the river best.

Despite living for years on one of the most powerful rivers in the nation, I had come late to motorboats. Our new West Pointer promised to make the river more accessible. The 30-horsepower Honda outboard pushed her easily. Compared to my peapod and kayak, she flew. editor@pointseast.com

We had no plan or itinerary that morning, just the sense that we would savor a few hours on the water. I felt like I knew the river pretty well by then, like I had discovered most of the secrets associated with those cross-grained and wily waters – the abandoned shipyards on Long Reach, their World War I hulks settling into the mud; the slippery back eddies along the Eliot shore; the hermit island in Little Bay; the wooden trestles in Kittery from a long-gone electric trolley that had carried beachgoers to the shore a century ago. Throughout the Piscataqua region, no matter where you look from the water, snapshots of the past appear, interspersed by glimpses of a persevering nature.

Those who know it don’t regard the Piscataqua as simply a river, but as more a kingdom of rivers, defined by a labyrinth of tributaries – and characterized by salt marsh, rocky shores, tiny islands, frightening currents, industrial piers, colonial houses, and working waterfronts. Every inch of its shore contrasts the present with the past.

So maybe I shouldn’t have gasped – or smiled that smile of discovery – when I confronted Ernest Hemingway’s wrecked boat on the shores of Spruce Creek. She came up out of nowhere. We turned a corner at deadslow, rounding a point, our West Pointer tracking true – and came bow-to-stern with as compelling a chunk of Piscataqua history as I had ever seen. This wreck had class.

Of course, she wasn’t Papa Hemingway’s boat, though her vintage was about right, and she was dying to tell us her stories. My snap association to Hemingway’s boat had been involuntary – and instantaneous.

Decades earlier, I had seen Hemingway’s Pilar in Cuba.

At the time, I was skipper of a 200-ton brigantine, crewed by American University students making a voyage to Havana, and tops on my to-do list was a pilgrimage to the great author’s house. Propped on blocks outside, Pilar was Hemingway’s talisman, a piece of Papa left for us who savored his sea stories. Now here, on Spruce Creek, an equally venerable old boat seemed poised to reveal her secrets.

There was nothing “gold-plater” about her – not a speck of varnish, for instance, nor evidence that she had ever been gussied up. Simple and sturdy, she was a remnant from an age when sedan cruisers had flat-head gasoline engines and single props, long before the flying bridge made its debut.

I knew instinctively how she had smelled and felt that last summer or two before she had been left on the slipway, an honest boat, a bit musty and worn, one whose pilothouse doors jammed some times, never quite true. I knew exactly what it had felt like to heft the engine-room hatch, peering down on that proud row of sparkplugs and the big reduction gear.

In my mind I could see her plumb stem and flared bow carving an arc through the Piscataqua; hear the www.pointseast.com

clank of the ice-cold bottled beer; feel the throb of the engine, probably an old Gray Marine or a Palmer; and sense the welcome heat from that engine compartment against the chill of a Maine morning. She had been special to a fellow or a family here on the shores of the creek, of that I was sure. Only something so special would endure so long after her time had passed.

She’d been stripped to the bone. Propeller, steering wheel, portholes, and controls: All were gone. The paint had peeled, so her name and hailing port had long since receded into the mists, though a solitary “K” suggested Kittery. But her spirit remained. She would never sail again, but back in the day, she had put in her time, done her duty, steamed her crew towards the horizon and brought them home again safely.

The wreck snapped my kids out of their quiet-morning reveries. It fired their imaginations, and they peppered us with questions. How old was the boat? How long had it been there? Who owned it? Why didn’t they take care of it? None of which we could answer. All I knew is that the old gem belonged to the Piscataqua, part of that chain of heritage linking the past to the present. She was a treasure precisely because she could be discovered. Bob Ballard and his gang searching for the Titanic had nothing on us.

We poked around a bit more, checking out the wreck from different angles. Even with the leaves off the trees, we could not see a house or any path from the boat. It was as if she had her own place, separate from the here and now, a monument to a simpler time. One last look, then I spun the skiff around and we headed for home.

It snowed a few days later, time to haul our motorboat and put her under cover. Come spring, I thought, we would return to the wreck. The kids wanted to show their friends. And I was certainly game to let my imagination roam again in her presence. Maybe I would do a bit of research, try to find out who had built her, and when.

The chainsaws beat us to it. By the time we launched our skiff next spring and returned to investigate, nothing but a few splinters remained. Like the schooners Hesperus and Luther Little, which had adorned the Wiscasset waterfront for decades until deemed “menaces to navigation,” the old cruiser and her memories were carted away.

I never did learn whose boat she had been, or how old she was. But it didn’t matter. We had stumbled onto a late-season discovery that thrilled all hands. In a place as magical as the Piscataqua, you never know what’s around the next bend.

Jeff Bolster has been messing about in boats for more than 50 years. A licensed master mariner and awardwinning historian, he edited the local best-seller, “CrossGrained and Wily Waters: A Guide to the Piscataqua Maritime Region,” which was published in 2002.

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

South B ristol: 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 H arpswell: Dolphin Marina, Finestkind Boatyard, Ship to Shore Store South P ortland: Aspasia Marina, Bluenose Yacht Sales, Centerboard Yacht Club, Joe’s Boathouse Restaurant, Port Harbor Marine, Reo Marine, Salt Water Grille, South Port Marine, Sunset Marina.

Southw est H arbor: 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, Island Fishing Gear & Auto Parts, Shepard’s Select Properties.

Sullivan: Flanders Bay Boats.

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

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

Thom aston: Jeff’s Marine, Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding, Slipway.

Turner: Pompodora’s Italian Bistro.

Vinalhaven: Vinal’s Newsstand, Vinalhaven Store.

Waldoboro: Stetson & Pinkham.

Wayne: Androscoggin Yacht Club, Wayne General Store.

Wells: 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.

Woolw ich: 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.

N EW HA MPS HIRE Dover: Dover Marine.

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Dover P oint: Little Bay Marina.

East Rochester: Surfside Boats.

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.

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

Newington: Great Bay Marine, Portsmouth: New England Marine and Industrial, Northeast Yachts (Witch Cove Marina), West Marine.

Seabrook: West Marine.

Tuftonboro: Tuftonboro General Store.

MAS SAC HUS ETTS Am esbury: Larry’s Marina, Lowell’s Boat Shop.

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

Beverly: Al’s Bait & Tackle, Bartlett Boat Service, Beverly Point Marina, Jubilee Yacht Club.

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

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

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

Cataum et: 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: Port Norfolk Yacht Club, Savin Hill Yacht Club.

Duxbury: Bayside Marine.

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

East Dennis: Dennis Yacht Club, North Side Marina.

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

Fairhaven: Fairhaven Shipyard, West Marine.

Falmouth: East Marine, Falmouth Ace Hardware, 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 Bait & Tackle, Green Harbor Marina.

Harw ich P ort: 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.

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Ipswich: Ipswich Bay Yacht Club.

Manchester: Manchester Marine, Manchester Yacht Club.

Marblehead: Black Rock Sailing School, Boston Yacht Club, Corinthian Yacht Club, Eastern Yacht Club, Marblehead Yacht Club, The Forepeak, West Marine.

Marion: Barden’s Boat Yard, Beverly Yacht Club, Burr Bros.

Boats, Harding Sails, New Wave Yachts.

Marston’s Mills: Peck’s Boats.

Mattapoisett: Mattapoisett Boatyard.

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

New Bedford: Bayline Boatyard and Transportation, C.E. Beckman, Cutty Hunk Launch, Hercules Fishing Gear, Lyndon’s, Niemiec Marine, New Bedford Visitors Center, Pope’s Island Marina, SK Marine Electronics, Skip’s Marine.

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

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.

Provincetow n: Harbormaster.

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

Rockport: Sandy Bay Yacht Club.

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

Salisbury: Bridge Marina, Cross Roads Bait & Tackle, Withum Sailmakers.

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.

South D artmouth: Cape Yachts, Davis & Tripp Boatyard, Doyle Sails, New Bedford Y.C. Vineyard H aven: Owen Park Town Dock, Vineyard Haven Marina.

Watertow n: 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, Tern Harbor Marina.

Winthrop: Cottage Park Y.C., Cove Convenience, Crystal Cove Marina, Pleasant Park Y.C., Ward Marine, Winthrop Harbormaster’s Office, Winthrop Lodge of Elks, Winthrop Y.C. Woburn: E&B Marine, West Marine.

Woods Hole: Woods Hole Marina.

Yarmouth: Arborvitae Woodworking.

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R HOD E ISLA ND 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: 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.

Jamestow n: Conanicut Marine Supply, Clark Boat Yard, Dutch Harbor Boatyard.

Middletow n: West Marine Narragansett: Buster Krabs, West Marine.

Newport: Brewer Street Boatworks, Casey’s Marina, Goat Island Marina, IYRS, Long Wharf Marina, Museum of Yachting, New York Yacht Club, Newport Harbor Hotel & Marina, Newport Maritime Center, Newport Nautical Supply, Newport Visitor Information Center, Newport Yacht Club, NV-Charts, Old Port Marine Services, Sail Newport, Seamen’s Church Institute, Team One, The Newport Shipyard, West Wind Marina.

North K ingstown: 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: Apponaug Harbor Marina, Bay Marina, Brewer Yacht Yard at Cowesett, Greenwich Bay Marina, Pettis Boat Yard, Ray’s Bait Shop, Warwick Cove Marina.

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

CO NNE CTICU T 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.

Cos Cob: Palmer Point Marina.

Darien: E&B Marine, Noroton Yacht Club.

Deep R iver: Brewer Deep River Marina.

East Haddam: Andrews Marina East Norw alk: Rex Marine.

Essex: Brewer Dauntless Shipyard, Boatique, Conn. River

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Marine Museum, Essex Corinthian Yacht Club, Essex Island Marina, Essex Yacht Club.

Fairfield: J. Russell Jinishian Gallery.

Farm ington: Pattaconk Yacht Club.

Greenw ich: 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.

Milford: Milford Boat Works, Milford Landing, Milford Yacht Club, Port Milford.

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., Hannah Macs Bait and Tackle, Hellier Yacht Sales, Thames Shipyard and Ferry, Thames Yacht Club, Thamesport Marina.

Niantic: Boats Inc., Harbor Hill Marina, Marine Consignment of Mystic, 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.

Norw alk: Norwest Marine, Rex Marine, Total Marine, West Marine.

Norw ich: The Marina at American Wharf.

Old Lyme: Old Lyme Marina.

Old S aybrook: Brewer’s Ferry Point Marina, Harbor Hill Marina & Inn, Harbor One Marina, Island Cove Marina, Maritime Education Network, 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 N orwalk: Norwalk Yacht Club, Rex Marine Center, Surfside 3 Marina.

Stamford: Czescik Marina, Halloween Yacht Club, Hathaway Reiser Rigging, Landfall Navigation, Ponas Yacht Club, Stamford Landing Marina, Stamford Yacht Club, West Marine.

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

Stratford: Brewer Stratford Marina, West Marine.

Waterford: Defender Industries.

Westbrook: Atlantic Outboard, Bill’s Seafood, Brewer Pilots Point Marina, Duck Island Yacht Club, Pier 76 Marina, Sound Boatworks.

West Haven: West Cove Marina.

Westport: Cedar Point Yacht Club.

NE W YOR K New York: New York Nautical Ossining: Shattemuc Yacht Club Rockaw ay: Hewlett Point Yacht Club Sag Harbor: Sag Harbor Yacht Club.

West Islip: West Marine.

FLO RIDA Key West: Key West Community Sailing Center.

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36.5’ Carver Mariner 350, ’01

132,000

16’ SportCraft (no engine) & trailer $1,500

38’ Bayliner 3818 Motoryacht

59,900

18’ Duffy Snug Harbor ’11 22’ Angler ’01

39,900 19,500

43’ Marine Trader ’84 twin diesel

95,700

22’ Century Raven ’59

27,500

25’ Dusky Marine twin Suzuki 150's & trailer ’11 115,000

Sail 25’ Cape Dory ’76

$5,995

29’ Hughes ’70

5,000

28’ Cape Dory FB ’90 diesel

67,500

30’ Pearson w/diesel engine

8,000

30’ Mainship Pilot 30 ’99 34’ Calvin Beal Jr. Custom Fishing Boat ’04

69,500

33’ Coaster Motorsailer ’88

68,900

34’Tartan ’71 w/diesel engine 135,000

36’ Alley Built Lobster Boat ’73

6,000

34’ Sabre 34 Classic ’ 78 40’Ta Shing Baba ’84

9,500 25,900 125,000

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1980 Flye Point 25, nicely appointed small day boat with overnight capabilities. Very well maintained with many recent upgrades including a Yanmar diesel. $49,000

33’ Robinhood HT Cruiser 2006 $269,500

POWER 2005 Stanley 38

36’ Cape Dory Cutter 1983 $79,500

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36’ Robinhood Cutter 1996 $139,500

36’ Ellis Flybridge Cruiser 2001 $329,000

30’ Cape Dory MK II Sloop 1987 $49,000

30’ Mainship Sedan 2007 $119,000

33’ Cape Dory 1981 $57,500

30’ Luhrs Alura 1986 $29,500

32’ Westsail Cutter 1975 $49,000

32’ Grand Banks Sedan 1985 $97,500

SAIL $675,000

1997 Gozzard 36D

$209,900

2007 MJM 34z Downeast 430,000

1996 Pacific Seacraft 34 129,000

2004 Stanley 38

375,000

1983 Whistler 32

45,000

1998 Stanley 36

350,000

1978 Tartan 30

12,500

2003 Stanley 39

325,000

DINGHY

1984 Stanley 38

285,000

2013 15’ Gotts Isl. Peapod $9,900

1974 Robert Rich runabout 65,000

2010 Cold-molded 11’ dinghy 6,000

1948 Custom Steel Tug

2009 10’ RIB w/6hp Suzuki 2,500

35,000

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36 York Street York,Maine 03909 E-mail: graygray@gwi.net

Tel: 207-363-7997 Fax: 207-363-7807 www.grayandgrayyachts.com

Specializing in Downeast Vessels, Trawlers & Cruising Sailboats 1983 PEARSON 530 KETCH, fresh Perkins Tier 3 85 HP diesel, incredibly equipped and maintained blue water vessel $292,900

2003 DUFFY 42, CAT C-18, very fine and fast craft, very well maintained, single owner $250,000

38.8' BRISTOL, 1986, $104,500

35' FIVE ISLANDS HT CRUISER, 2009, $178,500

34' KAISER GALE FORCE CUTTER, 1980, $59,500

34' PACIFIC SEACRAFT CUTTER, 1988, $89,500

32' GRAND BANKS HT, 1989, $94,500

28' HERRESHOFF ROZINANTE, 1965, $39,500

1966 HINCKLEY PILOT, very nice condition throughout, Westerbeke, fresh sails $80,000

1998 SAKONNET 23, one owner, Joel White designed beauty, in fine condition $28,500

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2007 WAYNE BEAL 36, CAT C7, split wheelhouse, exceptional condition, fishing now $159,500

1998 ALBIN 31 TE, one-owner, twin Cummins, excellent for serious fishing or cruising $124,900

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22’ Norwegian Snekke 26’ Webbers Cove ’99 diesel 30’ Cape Classic Flybridge, ‘04 30’ Flush Deck Wooden classic

17,000 74,900 98,000 29,900

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35’ Millennium, ’04 299,000 Sail 23’ Sea Sprite ’75 Gorgeous New Price $6,500 24’ Eastward Ho ’74 9,900 25’ Cheoy Lee ’62 Frisco Flyer 12,900

25’ Eastsail Cutter building now 29’ Hunter 290, ’01 New Price $38,000 30’ Frers ’87 (fast racer) 29,500 33’ Beneteau Oceanis, ’04 89,500 34’ C&C, ’80 12,999 34’ Pacific Seacraft 83,800 35’ Pearson CB, ’71 29,900 35’ Ta Shing Baba, ’80 78,000 36’ Bayfield Cutter, ’87 67,500 37’ Alden Sloop, ’48 44,000 43’ Montevideo, ’88 114,750

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22’ Scout 222 Abaco, ’08

55,000

22’ Scout 222 Abaco, ’04 w/ Yamaha 200hp

Sale Pending

24’ Passamaquoddy Eastporter, ’99 new 60hp Etec w/trailer.

8,500 28’ Maxum 2700, exc. cond.

Freshwater cooled, ’98 32’ Bayliner 3288, ’89

41’ C&C Custom Racer, ’84 $64,000

38’ Cruiser Inc., ‘88

SAIL 22’ Cape Dory Senior w/trailer, ’85 SOLD 23’ Seasprite,’79. New Sails, AWLGRIP & engine

7,000

25’ Schock Santana 525, ’79

5,500

27’ Tartan Sloop, ’65

6,500

28’ Sabre Sloop, ’75 21,900 25,000

$14,900

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29’ Ericson Tall Rig, ’76

SOLD

38’ Northeast LeComte Sloop, ‘63 36,000

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12’ Skiff from Compass Project This Bevin’s Skiff was built by the Alternative Learning group from Wescott Junior High School. Length: 12 ft. Width: 4.5 ft. Weight: 120 lbs. $1,750 (plus tax). 207-774-0682. info@compassproject.org

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15’ Apprentice 15, 2011 Traditionally built double-ended daysailer designed by Kevin Carney. Cedar on white oak, lapstrake construction. Dynel deck, white oak trim. Sitka spruce spars. Nat Wilson sails. All bronze fastenings and hardware.

Launched June 2011. Price: $20,000. Call Eric Stockinger at 207-594-1800 or email www.apprenticeshop.org info@apprenticeshop.org

24’ Dolphin Sloop

by Lunn Laminates #200. Centerboard, 6 sails, roller reefing Genoa, Palmer Husky 8hp rebuilt ‘96 & 2006. Includes unused GPS new 2009 and an inflatable dinghy. $5,500. www.jonesportshipyard.com info@jonesportshipyard.com 24’ Quickstep, 1988 This 24’ Quickstep RFP sloop has had one owner and has had very good care. She has accommodations for two with a head and small galley. Sail inventory includes North Sails with a main and a 150% genoa as well as a cruising spinnaker. Running rigging is new. Power includes a 10hp Yamaha O.B. She is fully founded and needs just a modest amount of cosmetic work on the topsides. She is a sound vessel with many years of enjoyment remaining for the new owner as a day sailer or small cruiser. Location Maine. Price $5,500. nclapp1@verizon.net

24’ Allied Greenwich, 1969 Full keel sloop. Total refit in 2005 incl. decks. Johnson OB in a well. Includes a 2008 custom trailer. $8,000 www.jonesportshipyard.com info@jonesportshipyard.com

24’ Quickstep Sloop, 1987 Beautifully designed by Brewer for day, weekend, or longer, sailing in rough Narragansett Bay waters. Yanmar diesel engine, large cockpit. New sails. Very well equipped with three berths, sink, ice box, stove, portapotty, anchors, gps chart plotter, radio, depth sounder, compass, much more. Easy handling. Well maintained. Real head turner. Shellback dinghy available. $14,500.

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23’ Sea Sprite, 1975 It’s gorgeous. Offered at $6,500.

Call 207-831-3168, Gulf of Maine Yacht Sales. www.boatinginmaine.com 23’ Sea Sprite, 1979 New sails, AWLGRIP & engine.

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25’ Cheoy Lee Vertue , 1960 Kainui, #106 Teak hull, extensive rebuild, In-board Yanmar 12hp , In the water year round. 207322-9293. cooneyfineart@gmail.com

25’ Cheoy Lee Frisco Flyer 1957. 10hp Beta diesel. 25’ length, 4’6 draft. Available for viewing any time, stored indoors Brooklin, Maine. Phone 508378-7080 or 617-896-3598. $15,000. Phone to arrange viewing, other photos and or details available on request. ockerspaul@yahoo.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

30’ Island Packet 27, 1988 Cutter, 30’x10.5’x3.67’, full keel, 6’ 2 headroom. Easy single handler. Engine hours 554. Selling Price: $35,900. www.jonesportshipyard.com info@jonesportshipyard.com 30’ Aage Nielsen-Walsted K/CB Yawl, 1960 A lovely CCAera yawl designed by Aage Nielsen, built to very high standards by the Walsted yard in Denmark. $45,500. Call Gray & Gray, Inc. 207-363-7997. www.grayandgrayyachts.com

30’ Pearson 30, 1972 Hull #100 by Fairhaven Yacht Works, all orig. equipment onboard, and has a diesel engine and a new jib. Well maintained.

New price, $9,500 OBO. www.jonesportshipyard.com info@jonesportshipyard.com

30’ Knarr Class, 1955 Skoal is a 1955 Knarr Class. See for details. www.northeastboat.com 26’ Pearson 26, 1971 Great boat for day sailing or cruising for a couple or young family. Harken roller genoa in great condition, full-batten Hallett main, large cockpit, jack stands, 9.9 Johnson Sailmaster outboard, handheld GPS, ready to sail. $7,000. 207-595-8967. katie@univoicehistory.com

31’ Grampian, 1967 Full keel sloop, made in Canada, Atomic 4 engine. Auto helm,

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roller furling, sleeps 4, GPS, plotter, radar, depth sounder, propane stove. $16,500. 207497-2701 info@jonesportshipyard.com 32’ Whistler 32, 1981 Designed by CW Paine and built by the highly regarded Able Marine. Deep bulwarks and a cat ketch rig make her an easily driven, comfortable vessel.

45,000 207-244-7854 or email billw@jwboatco.com

33’ Crowninshield Sloop, 1919 Sir Tom is a 1910 Crowninshield design. See website for details. www.northeastboat.com 34’ Pacific Seacraft Stoutly built this easily handled blue water sailer is ready to head offshore backed by the strength, quality and safety inherent in these vessels. $129,000 call 207-244-7854 or email . billw@jwboatco.com

34’ John G. Hanna Gulfweed Yawl In excellent condition. Stored indoors in Belfast.

Very fine construction throughout. Owner needs to sell. $21,500. David Etnier Boat Brokerage, 207-522-7572. www.etnierboats.com david@etnierboats.com 34’ J34 Sloop, 1989 This is no average J-Boat. She is

very well maintained and it shows. $69,900. Call Gray & Gray, Inc. 207-363-7997. www.grayandgrayyachts.com 34’ Tartan, 1971 With diesel engine. $9,500. Call 207-633-0773. www.oceanpointmarina.com info@oceanpointmarina.com 34’ Pearson, 1984 $37,500 In the water and ready to sail. Call David Perry Robinhood Marine Center 800-2555206 www.robinhoodmarinecenter.co m 34’ Beneteau, 2004 Clean, lightly used, well instrumented, equipped & maintained with low engine hours. In-mast main, RF jib, radar, GPS, wind, depth, speed, auto-pilot, windless, dodger, etc. See complete listing & photos @ Yachtworld. $77,000 (priced to sell). 207299-3483; rob@bluenoseyachts.com http://www.yachtworld.com/boat s/2004/Beneteau-3312514712/Rockland/ME/UnitedStates#.UXv3SBmhAis pwmail@comcast.net

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

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36’ Gozzard 36D A well found example of the H. Ted Gozzard designed Gozzard 36D. Both modern and traditional she boasts many upgrades and special features inherent in the design. $209,900. Call 207244-7854 or email billw@jwboatco.com

36’ Cheoy Lee, 1969 Classic Cheoy Lee Luders. Fiberglass hull and deck. Volvo diesel, roller furling main and jib, full keel, two-burner stove, new head and holding tank. Sleeps 6, good condition. $37,000. 603433-2238 or 603-828-2524.

36’ Robinhood Cutter, 1999 $139,500. Call David Perry, Robinhood Marine Center 800255-5206 www.robinhoodmarinecenter.co m 37’ Gulfstar Sloop, 1977 The 37’ Gulfstar is known as a safe, lively performer and this owner has owned her for approximately 30 years. He has maintained her well along with the help of one of Maine’s finest boatyards. $35,900. Call Gray & Gray, Inc. 207-363-7997. www.grayandgrayyachts.com 38’ Northeast LeCompte Sloop 1963 $36,000. www.theyachtconnection.com tyc@southportmarine.com

flare, anchor, pump. $3400. 207439-9582 www.kpbb.net jglessner@kpyy.net

38’ Seafarer, 1977 Davits, 180 gal. water, 70 gal. diesel, head w/13 gal. holding tank, shower/tub, ice box, inflatable, 6 gal. hot water, gas range w/oven, Perkins 4-108, roller furling, VHF. $34,000. OBO 207657-4054. kw26@tdisp.com

39’ Cabo Rico, 1981 Cabo Rico 39 cutter sloop. Beautiful blue water boat with full keel, chart plotter, depth & wind, auto pilot, radar, VHF, generator, solar, AC/furnace, cold plate, roller head sail, teak decks, windlass, 8’ hard dinghy w/ 3.3 Mercury. $69,900. 207938-5816.

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9’5 Caribe C9X, 2006 with 2005 Suzuki 9.9hp 4-stroke outboard and trailer. Comes with extras, oars, lights, patch kit,

19’ Maritime Skiff 1890 w/Yamaha 70hp & trailer. 2013. $28,500. 207-799-3600. www.theyachtconnection.com tyc@southportmarine.com

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

17’ Boston Whaler, 1967 Classic 17’ Boston Whaler Eastport in showroom condition.

1996 75hp Mariner Engine w/ less than 250hrs on it . Great running condition with trailer and many extras including, new GPS, VHF, canvas cover, dock lines, nav lights, rod holders and spray dodger. Epoxy barrier coated hull and all rails were rebedded last winter. $16,000.

207-439-3967 www.kpbb.net jglessner@kpyy.net 18’ Tidewater 180CC LOA 17’8, beam 7’9, draft 10, fuel cap. 40 gal, Max HP 115. An 18 footer that feels much bigger with a very dry ride running 40 mph. For further details, stop by Scandia Yacht Sales at Bath Subaru. 116 Main Street (Route 1), Woolwich, Maine. 207-4439781 www.scandiayachts.com

19’ Backman, 2003 Winter Harbor Design, SS fastened cedar over oak. 8Ft beam, 130 Merc Curser inboards. Boat/ trailer $15,000. 207-475-6139, 207-439-2853. saltyboatsofmaine@comcast.net 20’ Allied Fisherman, 2012 Dealer demo 90hp E-tec, full transom, full aft bench seat, full warranties. FMI Call John @ Hitchcock Landmark Marine 888-416-9291 20’ Eastporter, 1990 New 60hp Etec, w/trailer. $8,900. 207-799-3600. www.thetyachtconnection.com tyc@southportmarine.com

20’ Allied Sportsman, 2012 Dealer demo 75hp E-Tec, well equipped. Contact Dick or Mike, at Crossroads Bait and Tackle Salisbury, Mass 978-499-8999 FMI.

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18’ Runabout, 1996 Glass over marine plywood. All plywood coated with epoxy. Two 40hp Honda outboards with 145 hours. Radar, GPS, depth sounder, full mooring cover, trailer. $7,500. Islesboro Marine, 207-734-6433.

20’ Shamrock Pilothouse John Deere 4045 TFM diesel, 135hp, 1502 hours, Garmin 210 GPS, JRC 1800 Radar/GPS, Furuno FCV600L sounder airmar 50/200 hz transducer, setup for tuna fishing with 5 vertical rod

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Asking $9,000. 207-659-3060 or 207-439-2853. saltyboatsofmaine@comcast.net 21’6 Tidewater 216CC Beam 8’6, draft 14, fuel capacity 70 gal., max. HP 225. A smooth, dry ride with big fish features; dual livewells, large fish boxes, gunwale rod storage and large console for electronics. For further details, stop by Scandia Yacht Sales at Bath Subaru. 116 Main Street (Route 1), Woolwich, Maine. 207-443-9781 www.scandiayachts.com 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’ Bristol Harbor Center Console LOA 21’3-5/8, beam 8’5, draft 14. The 21CC has classic lines and is great for fishing and family cruising. For further details, stop by Scandia Yacht Sales at Bath Subaru. 116 Main Street (Route 1), Woolwich, Maine. 207-443-9781 www.scandiayachts.com

able now for 2013 season. Yanmar diesel engine, 30hp, 190 hours. Garmin Nav 440S, bow thruster, spotlight, cabin heater, refrigerator, marine toilet, electric cooktop, bimini. æ GPH at 7 knots, range 180 knots. Located in Salem, MA, at Winter Island Yacht Yard. http://www.wiyy.net/rangertugs.html#r2141 rangertugs@wiyy.net

22’ Patten 22 Maine designed and built Patten 22 models for sale. Closed molded, full liner, fast, fuel efficient, incredibly stable, and beautifully finished. Fisherman base price $41,900. Picnic-style base price $69,900. 207-4393967. Ask for George or Tom. www.kpbb.net jglessner@kpyy.net.

22’ Pulsifer Hampton, 1995 Great condition. Offered at $27,500. Call 207-831-3168, Gulf of Maine Yacht Sales. www.boatinginmaine.com

21’ Ranger Tugs R21EC, 2008. $38,900. Popular R21EC avail-

22’ Century Raven, 1959 Never Moor is a classy piece of American History. Maintained in

Bristol fashion. With a modern gas powered engine, beautiful teak and holly floor boards, complete varnished interior and newly recovered cushions. She has a full canvas cover as well as bimini and custom trailer. $27,500. 207-633-0773. www.oceanpointmarina.com info@oceanpointmarina.com

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Allankmiller@comcast.net 24’ Mahogany Runabout, 1974 Bass Harbor Boat Company built mahogany runabout, reconstructed 2006-2008. Recently repowered with 350hp Mercruiser. $65,000. 207-244-7854 or email billw@jwboatco.com

22’ Norwegian Snekke Huge cockpit. Diesel inboard. Offered at $17,000. 207 831-3168, Gulf of Maine Yacht Sales www.boatinginmaine.com 23’ Tidewater 230CC LOA 23’, beam 8’10, draft 15, fuel capacity 103 gal., a big 23 footer designed to be a great offshore fishing machine. For further details, stop by Scandia Yacht Sales at Bath Subaru. 116 Main Street (Route 1), Woolwich, Maine. 207-443-9781 www.scandiayachts.com

23’ Kubota Launch Traditional Kubota Diesel Launch, cedar, oak, teak. Beautifully built by Jimmy Jones 2002 East Boothbay. Like new condition with trailer. $25,000. In wa-

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 207729-3303. www.bamforthmarine.com salesandservice@bamforthmarine,com

24’ Seaway Offshore, 2012 Factory demo/photo boat. Nicely equipped and geared for the offshore fisherman. 150hp Yamaha. Call for complete specs: 603 652-9213.

Easternboats@metrocast.net 24’ Stamas V-24 Clearwater Beautifully restored. $14,900.

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Honda 4-stroke auxiliary. Plotter/radar, sonar, weather, depth.

Located in Maine, $69,000. www.atlanticboat.com brokerage@atlanticboat.com

24’ Grady White Offshore, 1986 End of season reduction. 350 Mercruiser. Alpha1 outdrive, 2011 Load-Rite, Furuno radar/GPS, fully enclosed helm, low hours, exceptional condition. $14,000 or BO. Call Don at 978-761-5464. dmarsolini@yahoo.com 25’ Hydra-Sports 2450, 1997 Walk-around, with a 2007 225hp Evinrude E-Tec. $37,000 Contact Bamforth Marine at 207-7293303. www.bamforthmarine.com salesandservice@bamforthmarine.com 25’ Rosborough, 2006 Volvo D-3 400hrs. Garmin. Separate head, V-berth, galley. Asking $79,900. Contact John Morin 207-691-1637. www.wilburyachts.com 25’ Maritime Skiff Challenger 2009 Cuddy cabin w/double berth, marine head w/holding tank. Pilot house has galley unit, helm & companion seating, stowage. 2 aft-facing cockpit seats, transom bench seating, stowage. 83 gallons/fuel, 225 Honda 4-stroke outboard, 20hp

25’ Ranger Tugs R25 Classic 2009. $117,500 or $122,500 with trailer. Great condition, well-maintained, one owner, garage kept. Cummins diesel engine, 150hp, 177 hours. Garmin Nav 5212, VHF, Mase 2.5KW generator, cabin heater, A/C, marine head, electric stove, refrigerator, bimini. 2GPH at 7.5 knots, Range 250 knots. FloatOn Trailer, 2-axle with electric disc brakes. Located in Salem, MA, at Winter Island Yacht Yard. www.wiyy.net/rangertugs.html#r2524 rangertugs@wiyy.net

26’ Webbers Cove PB26 1999 Yanmar diesel. Offered at $79,000. Call 207-831-3168, Gulf of Maine Yacht Sales. www.boatinginmaine.com

26’ Pacific Boats Supercab 2009. Yamaha 350, trailer. Only 65 hours since new. Fast, durable and versatile. $84,900.

Contact David Etnier Boat Brokerage for details. 207-5227572. www.etnierboats.com david@etnierboats.com 27’ Eastern Lobster-style, 2005 $52,500. Call David Perry Robinhood Marine Center 800-2555206. www.robinhoodmarinecenter.co m 28’ Wellcraft 2800, 1987 Coastal Offshore Fisherman with twin MerCruiser inboards (fairly new) loaded with extras. $10,000. Call Bamforth Marine at 207-729-3303. www.bamforthmarine.com salesandservice@bamforthmarine.com 28’ Cape Dory Open Fisherman Softtop, 1989.

The best-maintained Cape Dory 28 that we have seen. $59,900.

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28’ Albin 28, 2003 Flush Deck Gatsby Edition, Transom Bench Seat, Raymarine Plotter/Radar, Yanmar Diesel, new Awlgrip paint job 2011. $96,900, Belfast, ME 207-4156973 www.curtisyachtbrokerage.com 28’ Crowley Beal, 1998 6.5 Liter 300hp 1200hrs. Great commuter, Midcoast, Maine.

Asking $61,000. Contact John Morin, 207 691-1637. www.wilburyachts.com 28’ Maxum 2700, 1998 Excellent Condition. Freshwater cooled. $21,900. 207-799-3600 www.theyachtconnection.com tyc@southportmarine.com 28’ Cape Dory FB, 1990 Traditional Downeast cruiser, built with a great reputation and highly sought after. Single diesel. $67,500. 207-633-0773 www.oceanpointmarina.com info@oceanpointmarina.com 29’ Back Cove Hardtop, 2005 A well equipped example of the very popular Back Cove 29. Her optional equipment list includes a full electronics package with a Raymarine C120 12 color display, an autopilot, GPS and radar, as well as air conditioning, Navy blue hull, windlass, inverter and much more. $143,900. Call Gray & Gray, Inc. 207-363-7997. www.grayandgrayyachts.com 29’ Dyer Hardtop, 1978 315hp Yanmar 225 hours. Galley, separate head, stored inside.

Rockland, Maine. Asking $79,000. Contact John Morin, Wilbur Yachts Brokerage, 207691-1637. www.wilburyachts.com

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31’ Eastern, 2007 Factory Demo, equipped for lobstering w/pot hauler and offshore fishing. Volvo 370 - Full Electronics. A fisherman’s dream. $115,000. Call for complete specs 603-652-9213 Easternboats@metrocast.net 31’ Duffy 31, 2006 Sportfish. Yanmar 440hp, trolling valve, bow thruster, windlass. 190 gallons fuel & 30 gallons water capacity. Compass, radar/chart plotter/sounder, VHF. Galleydown, v-berth, enclosed head.

Shore power, inverter/charger, hot/cold pressure water. Life raft. Located in New Bedford. $190,000 www.atlanticboat.com brokerage@atlanticboat.com 31’ Duffy 31, 2005 Cruiser. 370 Yanmar. Bow thruster, generator, shore power.

Compass, Furuno chart plotter w/ depth sounder, VHF. Galleydown, enclosed head, 200 gallons fuel and 60 gallons water capacity. Located in Maine. $145,000 www.atlanticboat.com brokerage@atlanticboat.com

32’ Nordic Tug, 2007 Red, sleeps 4, Volvo 280 electronic turbocharged diesel (850 hrs.), 2 gph@ 8 kts, 4 large solar panels on pilot house roof, Raymarine: radar, chart plotter, autopilot, wind direction/speed.

AC/Heat, bowthruster, Seagull water purifier, teak/ultra suede/leather interior, Lewmar windlass, 110/12v frig, propane stove. Solidly built, dependable,

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32’ Down East New 32’ Carroll Lowell Down East design, cedar on white oak, silicon bronze fastenings, hull, trunk, deck, done, fuel tanks, shaft, rudder installed, will finish to your custom design, work or pleasure. 508-224-3709. www.by-the-sea.com/karbottboatbuilding/ jmkarbott@aol.com

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. 207-7346433.

34’ Sabreline, 1997 $149,500. Call David Perry, Robinhood Marine Center 800255-5206 www.robinhoodmarinecenter.co m

34’ Mainship Pilot, 2003 Green hull, 900 hrs., Gen, AC, bow thruster, Garmin GPS and radar. 370hp Yanmar. In the water, Boothbay Harbor. $119,900.

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34’ Mainship, 1979 170hp Yanmar diesel, 300 hrs.

Major refit all systems 2005 Garmin chartplotter and radar.

See at Midcoast Marine, Winterport, Maine. Owners moving on. $39,000. 207-848-4977 34.5’ Avanti Flybridge, 1996 Dual control stations, twin 454 gas engines, fresh water cooled, w/many options included, yacht condition. Asking $33,500. Located at Carousel Marina, Boothbay Harbor, Maine.

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35’ Bruno Stillman, 1980 2001 355hp CAT 1,000 hrs, bow thruster, windlass, with major refit in 2010 incl. heat & a/c, Raymarine E120, new steering & rudder, and new salon interior.

All systems updated; this is a must see. $99,500. in Portsmouth, NH. 207-363-9212 www.grayandgrayyachts.com

35’ Novi Lobster Boat 3208T Cat, 5650 Hrs. 18’ open deck. All electronics, port-side haul, 6’ trap rack. Bristol, RI. $45,000. Call 206-920-6230 or email zarnetske@gmail.com

36’ Tiara Open Express, 1987 Twin 385 Crusaders (2005). Annual upgrades, very clean inside & out. A speedy and comfortable cruiser. $90,000. Call Newman Marine Brokerage for questions at 207-244-5560, cell 207-2665574 or e-mail www.jarvisnewman.us info@jarvisnewman.us 37’ Paul Chapman Workboat 2011 New. Cedar on oak, CAT. Contact John Morin, 207-6911637 www.wilburyachts.com 37’ Duffy 37, 2002 Sportfish w/flybridge. Cat C7 445hp. 320 gallons fuel and 80 gallon water capacity. VHF, autopilot, multi-display, radar, compass, radar/plotter depth sounder. six-person liferaft, (4) offshore PDFs. Located in Maine. $234,900

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38’ Atlantic Duffy, 2003 Recent (2009) John Deere repowered 300hp diesel. Fiberglass hull and Airex Core deck & superstructure. Long range cruiser, galley up, 2 double berths, very well maintained.

Turnkey boat $198,000. Call 401-239-0349. hscheidt@nvcharts.com 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’ Holland, 2004 Holland 38 tuna/lobster, CAT 660hp, extensively equipped and impeccably maintained. $195,000. David Etnier Boat Brokerage, 207-522-7572. www.etnierboats.com david@etnierboats.com

38’ Bayliner 3818, 1982 Well maintained boat with lots of room. Great for cruising or cottage on the water. $59,900. Call 207-633-0773. www.oceanpointmarina.com info@oceanpointmarina.com 38’ Jarvis Newman, 1996 Cummins. Proven expeditionary 1600 mi. range. Many spare parts. Bring offers. Contact John Morin, Wilbur Yachts Brokerage, 207-691-1637. www.wilburyachts.com

38’ Fisher Fairways Trawler 1978 Twin Ford Sabre diesels, roomy, comfortable, economical, stable. Many upgrades 20102011. $97,500. call 207-4972701 or email info@jonesportshipyard.com

41’ Present Europa Sedan 1983 41’ overall. See buythistrawler.com. Very well found.

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Excellent liveaboard trawler and cruiser. Twin Lehmans that purr and sip. All the goodies that are on the newer boats... just a lot less expensive. buythistrawler.com G.herkster@gmail.com 42’ Duffy 42, 2006 Flybridge w/tuna tower. C28 1000hp Cat. 730 gallons fuel and 125 gallons water capacity. Five helm control stations, depth/speed/fishfinder, autopilot, Loran, GPS, temperature/depth, (2) VHF, SAT phone, weather receiver, compass. (2) reverse cycle air and heat systems. Bow thruster, windlass. Eight-person liferaft, SOLAS safety equipment. $569,000 www.atlanticboat.com brokerage@atlanticboat.com 43’ Marine Trader, 1984 Very roomy live aboard, low hours on twin 165 Volvo diesels. $95,700. 207-633-0772. www.oceanpointmarina.com info@oceanpointmarina.com Seaway Boats Now taking orders for new 2013 models. If you boat in the northern half of Maine, please contact Lake & Sea Boatworks for a quote on your new Seaway. We have been in business since 1991 and have been a Seaway dealer since 2005. Lake & Sea Boatworks offer full powerboat service & storage including Suzuki & Tohatsu outboards, fiberglass repair, wood maintenance and electronics installation. Call 207-288-8961, email, or visit our website. www.lakeandsea.com sales@lakeandsea.com

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10 1/2’ & 12’ Skiffs Maine style and quality. Epoxy bonded plywood/oak, S/S screws. Easy rowing and towing, steady underfoot. Primer paint. $1,150 and $1,500. Maxwell’s Boat Shop. Rockland, Maine.

207-390-0300. jmax@midcoast.com 14’ Piscataqua Wherry, 2008 With oars.

Sailing capability. Almost like new. Designed by Bay of Maine Boats. Generously donated to Camp Waban; get yourself a wonderful boat and support our non-profit at the same time. Valued at $5,000. 207-324-7955 x644.

Ask for the Camp Director. arossignol@waban.org Abandoned Boat Sale Pearson 30, $3,800, 26’ Paceship $2,500. Handy Boat Service, 207-781-5110. handyboat.com info@handyboat.com Delivery Captain Your power or sail boat delivered wherever you need it. Owners welcome on deliveries. Also available for instruction. Captain Tim. 603-770-8378. dotgale38.googlepages.com tphsails@comcast.net

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Pre-purchase, insurance and damage surveys.

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Canvas Cleaning This year, have Gemini Canvas service your bimini or dodger.

Professionally cleaned w/ waterrepellent treatment. No dip-dunk tanks, only industry approved cleaners that work. We ship UPS, call us at 207-596-7705. www.geminicanvas.com Offshore Passage Opportunities Your Offshore Sailing Network.

Sail for free on OPB’s. Learn by doing. Gain Quality Sea time towards your lifetime goals. Sail on different boats with different skippers to learn what works and what does not. Want to be a paid skipper? Build seatime and

network with pro skippers. We are the crew network for the ARC, Caribbean 1500, NARC, World ARC Rally, Salty Dog Rally, Newport/Bermuda Race and delivery skippers worldwide.

Helping Sailors Sail Offshore Since 1993. Learn more and join online at www.sailopo.com or call-1800-4-PASSAGe (1-800472-7724). Keep the Dream Alive for the cost of a good winch handle. www.sailopo.com

14’9 Canoe Classic American Traders Canvas Sliver Canoe, purchased new 2006, red cedar planking, white cedar ribs, maghogany trim,

14’9 length, 52 lbs., beam 31 1/2. Blue hull, excellent. Asking $1500. 2 paddles, seat back.

Southport, Maine 207-633-7933. pdoelp@roadrunner.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.

Fiberglass Repair Position Permanent, year-round position available for Fiberglass/Composite Structure Repair Technician.

Yankee Marina is a full-service marina and boatyard. Please

send resume with cover letter summarizing work experience to www.yankeemarina.com deborah@yankeemarina.com 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: 207-4399582 or email jglessner@kpyy.net.

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Handyman Service Besides residential and commercial construction, Maine Coast Construction also offers a Handyman Service to take care of those maintenance jobs on your list so you’re free to pursue your passion - boats & boating.

Contact us with your to-do list today. Serving Mid Coast Maine since 1968. 207-236-6000. 107 Elm Street, Camden, Maine wwwmainecoastconstruction.co m Moorings Available Boothbay Region Boatyard has seasonal moorings available, $950. We are located in well protected Ebenecook Harbor, with free launch service, parking, showers, laundry and a well stocked ship store. Email Amy or call us at 207-633-2970. www.brby.com dockmaster@brby.com Mercury, Yamaha Service Kennebunkport Marina has the only factory trained Mercury and Yamaha technicians located on the water in Kennebunkport to

service all of your mechnical needs. www.kennebunkportmarina.com managerkport@roadrunner.com 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 207-967-3411. www.kennebunkportmarina.com managerkport@roadrunner.com

More Heated Storage Worry-free heated storage, conscientious care in new building.

South Bristol offers ideal location amid Midcoast Maine’s spectacular cruising grounds.

Competitive rates. Fine repair services, too. Reserve now: 207644-8181. gamageshipyard.com gamage@tidewater.net

Dockage Portland Harbor Seasonal/transient slips available for 2013. Slips include power, water, clean showers/laundry facilities, restaurant on site & dinghy dock in Portland’s Old Port. Call (207) 767-4729. www.sunset-marina.com info@sunset-marina.com Seasonal Moorings Handy Boat as one of Maine’s premier boat yards, located in the heart of Casco Bay, has seasonal moorings available for up to 65’. Enjoy all our new restaurant and marine facilities have to offer. Call now for this great opportunity. 207-781-5110 http://handyboat.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

Selling or Buying?

We are always happy to discuss either when it comes to quality, well-maintained boats. Both recreational and commercial.

Consider utilizing the services of a broker who shares your passion for boats and boating.

David Etnier Boat Brokerage.

Contact David at 207-522-7572. www.etnierboats.com david@etnierboats.com Moorings Available Atlantic Boat Company has moorings available for the 2013 season. Nightly, weekly, and seasonal. Located in Brooklin on Herrick Bay at 44*15.65N 68*31.90W. Call 207-359-4658 or e-mail www.atlanticboat.com service@atlanticboat.com

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

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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

Spend the day, or a few hours

Reserve YOUR Island Now! www.island40.com Charles Andrew

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Tessie Ann

Georgetown, Maine 800-255-5206 Sundeck model now available

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

Contact Jan at Bayview Rigging & Sails Inc.

207-846-8877

Women Under Sail

Live Aboard Sailing Instructions - Casco Bay, Maine For Women ~By Women, Aboard 44’ Avatrice

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cluding stainless steel arms.

Asking $1,000. wilking1@comcast.net

Listings Wanted Quality commercial fishing vessel listings wanted. Maine fishermen should consider listing their vessels with David Etnier Boat Brokerage for prompt service and knowledgeable and effective sales effort. Reasonable commission. Please contact David directly to learn more. 207-5227572. www.etnierboats.com david@etnierboats.com

Selling your boat?

Do you have a boat to sell or looking to buy? Call 207-8313168. Gulf of Maine Yacht Sales www.boatinginmaine.com

Gill Net Roller Starboard rigged 12 rebuilt stainless steel (SS) Hubs are casted coated with marine epoxy. New SS shaft with Bronze bushing. Shaft is Aquamet 22 in-

Boat Transport Best rates, fully insured. Nationwide and ocean freight. Reliable service. Rob Lee, Maritime. 508758-9409. www.marinasandtransport.com boattransport@comcast.net Business for Sale Kayak, canoe, bike rental (delivery) service. Great location in Blue Hill, Maine. 70 kayaks, 9 canoes, 15 bikes, paddles, life vests, etc. Furnished house and storage. 2 pick-ups. Additional equipment. Seasonal or yearround, your choice. Extensive customer base. 207-374-3600.

Help Wanted - Rigger Eastern Yacht Sales is looking for a rigger/installer. Sailboat ex-

perience a plus. Pay with benefits according to experience.

Hingham location. Email resume to ellen@easternyacht.com

Deliveries, Training Assisted voyages, deliveries, onboard training. 100K+ miles in small ships and big boats. Retired motor vessel ocean master can show you the tricks of the trade. No hustle. No hassle. I treat your boat as if it were mine.

Flexible time and price. Professional references, call 401 527 7913 capt_bill@cox.net capt_bill@cox.net

Points East Crew Match Points East crewmatch is a free service provided by Points East Magazine that connects captains and crew for racing and cruising events. Below is a partial list of those who have signed up. For a complete list, see our website, www.pointseast.com/crewmatch.shtml

NEED CREW Week long trips Young Licensed Captian with 28' Sea Sprite, looking for a young crew member to sail week long trips from Rockland to areas around Penobscot Bay and down east. The boat is immaculate, just needs a sailing partner.

Starting the begining of September. Most expenses paid. Some expirence required but not nessasary. Feel free to email or call with any questions. Telephone: 6037857376 Email: S.motta@comcast.net Cruise Penobscot/Blue Hill Bay Marsha, 58, with many years of boating experience, looking for crew for leisurely cruising in August on Cape Dory 30' cutter.

207-233-8714 mjlawson118@gmail.com Delivery Crew Short Notice delivery crew to

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bring a 40' Catamaran from St. Martin to Kennebunk Maine.

207-216-0104 Email: duffyd04043@gmail.com Looking for 1 crew O'Day Daysailer II for lake and bay day sailing. Flexible schedule, weekdays and weekends.

Just looking for 1 crew, experienced in rigging and sailing DS II. Telephone: 207-342-3161 Email: jalden@aldenet.net Young & Old Beginners Cruise Penobscot Bay aboard 30'cruisng sloop with retired cruising couple? Experienced / non experineced welcome. Learn to tie a bowline behind your back or just enjoy the sailing. 207323-9058, Captcielo40@aol.com Rockland to Norfolk I will be moving my 36' cat to Norfolk in mid September(dates are flexible). Looking for a crew member to assist. I typically do the trip in 7 days, weather per-

mitting. Telephone: 207-9683304, trime47@yahoo.com Adventure Experienced, retired sailor seeks partner for year long cruise from Maine south. Prefer creative simple life person, financially able to share costs. Live the dream. Telephone: 207- 604 4911, ogunquitskip@gmail.com

WANT TO CREW Isle of Shoals and beyond Experienced blue water and coastal cruiser recently relocated to NH Seacoast looking for opportunities to sail. Extensive experience cruising, overnight watches and day-sailing from MV to Bar Harbor. Prefer cruising but experienced racer, too.

Able at the helm, deckhand and engine hand, great cook, easy going style. waterwoman@ymail.com Heading South?

Hello my name's Marina Hogan,

19yr, and an avid sailor. Currently looking to be hired on as crew in mid October on a S.V. ducking south for the winter. Intermediately experienced and ready to jump in response to anything, I feel I'd be a great addition to any crew and I hope you'd feel the same. Working at "The Boston Sailing Center" Thanks:) wish81294@yahoo.com Mother/Teen Looking for ways to be closer to my daughter. We have no experience sailing but would love the chance to help out in the midcoast area. 207-449-6631 Penobscot Bay/Points East Former sailor returning to the sport after years in the mountains. Former boat owner (Pearson Triton, Pearson 30, Bristol 35.5). Cruising, round the buoys racing. Flexible schedule. Male, age 61, fit, personable. Located Tenants Harbor. 415-845-5783 jefoley3@gmail.com

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Advertiser index Allied Boat Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

Gray & Gray, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103

Navtronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38, 67, 85

Apprenticeshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95

Great Bay Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3, 29, 49

New England Boatworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3, 29, 50

Arborvitae Woodworking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95

Great Provincetown Schooner Regatta . . . . . . .62

New England Marine & Industrial . . . . . . . . . . . .84

Atlantic Boat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

Great Water, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Newport Boat Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Atlantic Outboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Gulf of Maine Yacht Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103

Niemiec Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3, 29, 69

Bay of Maine Boats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94

Hallett Canvas and Sails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

North East Rigging Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67

Bayview Rigging & Sails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22,95

Hamilton Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2

North Sails Direct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Beta Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89

Hamlin's Marina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29,43, 63

Ocean Point Marina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102

Blackrock Sailing School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

Handy Boat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Ocean Pursuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65

Blue Hill Chamber of Commerce . . . . . . . . . . . .56

Hansen Marine Engineering . . . . . . . . . .3, 68, 104

Ocean's Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73

Blue Hill Fair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

Harbor Embroidery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107

Oceanlink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Bluenose Yacht Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Harraseeket Lunch and Lobster Co. . . . . . . .73, 75

Padebco Custom Yachts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

Boatwise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Haut Insurance Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70

Parker’s Boat Yard, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Bohndell Sails & Rigging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64

Herreshoff Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94

Passagemaker Magazine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Boothbay Harbor Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

Hinckley Yacht Services . . . . . . . . . .29, 67, 69, 85

Paul E. Luke Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94

Boothbay Region Boatyard . . . . . . . . .3, 21, 29, 69

Holbrook’s General Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111

Paul's Marina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90

Bowden Marine Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Islesboro Marine Enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89

Penobscot Marine Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . .82, 95

Brewer Plymouth Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . .3, 29, 69

J & W Marine, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Pierce Yacht Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Brewer Yacht Yards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95, 115

J-Way Enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3, 29

Piper Boatworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Brooklin Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

J.R. Overseas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106

Pope Sails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Burr Brothers Boats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3, 29

Jackson’s Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86

Port Harbor Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

Capt. Jay Michaud Marine Surveyor . . . . . . . . .105

John Williams Boat Company . . . . . . . . . . .68, 102

Portland Yacht Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3,23

Carousel Marina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34, 72, 90

Jonesport Shipyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Regatta Promotions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

Castine Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88

Journey's End Marina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29, 64, 69

Rhode Island Yacht Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94

CCMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95

Kennebec Tavern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

Robinhood Marine Center . .3, 29, 67, 76, 95, 102

Charter Phoenix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112

Kennebunkport Marina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38, 83

Rocktide Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

Chase, Leavitt & Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

Kent Thurston Marine Surveyor . . . . . . . . . . . .106

Royal River Boatyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22, 90

Chebeague Island Boat Yard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70

Kingman Yacht Center . . . . . . . . .3, 29, 67, 69, 85

Rumery’s Boat Yard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25, 29

City of Newport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Kittery Point Yacht Yard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3, 29, 32

Russo Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Conanicut Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Landfall Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

SailMaine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21, 94

Conn. DEP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70, 82

Linda Bean’s Maine Lobster . . . . . . . . . . . .73, 116

Salty Boats of Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

Constitution Marina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Lock One Marina & Shipyard, LLC . . . . . . . . . . .89

Sawyer & Whitten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38, 67, 85

CPT Autopilot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104

Lowell Boat Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95

Scandia Yachts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102

Crocker's Boatyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3, 29

Mack Boring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11, 68

Seal Cove Boatyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29, 56

Crosby Yacht Yard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52, 90

Maine Coast Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71

Shape Fabrication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107

Custom Float Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Maine Pumpout Stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80, 81

SK Marine Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67

CW Johnson, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Maine Sailing Partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47, 94

Sound Marine Diesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89

Dark Harbor Boatyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65

Maine Veterinary Referral Center . . . . . . . . . . . .40

South Port Marine Yacht Connection29, 68, 83, 103

David Etnier Boat Brokerage . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103

Maine Yacht Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51, 90

Sudbury Boat Care Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

David Virtue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109

Maine-ly Titles, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108

The Island Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111

DiMillo's Yacht Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90

Manchester Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29, 67, 89

The Manor Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88

Dolphin Marina & Restaurant . . . . . . . . .72, 75, 95

MapTech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

The Niblic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111

East Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90

Marblehead Trading Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67

Theriault Marine Consulting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110

Eastern Yacht Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Marples Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110

Tugboat Inn Marina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

Eastern Yacht Sales of Maine, LLC . . . . . . . . . .71

Marston's Marina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83

Turnstone Marine Survey, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . .105

Eastport Chowder House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73

Mattapoisett Boatyard, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

Vacu Wash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

Edgewood Yacht Club . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84

Merri-Mar Yacht Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3, 29, 69

Wayfarer Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26, 29, 85

Farrins’ Boatshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Mid-Coast School of Technology . . . . . . . .87, 110

Webhannett River Boat Yard . . . . . . . . . .70, 83, 94

Fatty Knees Boat Co. LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95

Midcoast Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Whiting Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3, 89

Forrest Pirovano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91

Miliner Marine Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108

Wilbur Yachts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Fred J. Dion Yacht Yard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29, 69

Milton Cat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86

Winter Island Yacht Yard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29, 66

Front Street Shipyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

Mobile Marine Canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42, 94

Winterport Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86

Gamage Shipyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109

Moose Island Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Women Under Sail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87

Gemini Marine Canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

Morris Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Yacht North Charters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34, 112

GMORA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94

Mystic Shipyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3, 16, 112

Yankee Marina & Boatyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29, 67

Golight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

Nauset Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Yarmouth Boatyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63, 67

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