Last Saturday evening, the club hosted a great gathering for skippers and crews of the Seguin Island Trophy Race. Members and families joined them on a lovely summer evening. Jen Baker and her…
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Southport Junior Yacht Club
The Southport Junior Yacht Club Sailing Foundation is grateful for support of our new 420 fleet and Boat Endowment Campaign.
Last summer, the Campaign began in July and in less than two…
Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club
The Maine State Opti Junior racing championships will be held in the waters of Boothbay Harbor on August 1 and 2. This annual Regatta is hosted by the winning yacht club from the previous year.…
Southport Yacht Club Column
Last Saturday evening, the club hosted a great gathering for skippers and crews of the Seguin Island Trophy Race. Members and families joined them on a lovely summer evening. Jen Baker and her…
Down East Yacht Club
45 members and their families gathered to start their adventure on Friday evening, July 12, at Sprucewold Lodge. Hosted by P/C Sandy and Karen Young, we enjoyed cocktails and appetizers while…
Boothbay Sea and Science Center
Building on a very successful first week, community sailing operations continued at the Boothbay Sea and Science Center’s Sailing Program at Wotton’s Wharf with all participants returning for a…
Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club
Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club’s Payton Thompson was a regular at the awards podium at the U.S. Optimist Dingy Association National Sailing…
SYC Junior Sailing
The 2013 sailing season has begun at the SJYCSF. Monday morning, July 1 was foggy as the new sailors prepared to take their swim test. Despite the foggy conditions a crowd of parents and…
Lincoln County
The National Weather Service in Gray has announced that strong thunderstorms are approaching Lincoln County from the west. Heavy rainfall may be expected, with local ponding in streets and low-…
On the Waterfront
After taking top honors in 2012 for the 10th running of the annual Shipyard Cup regatta, hometown favorite Schehrezade will be returning to defend the Cup. One of the finest superyacht…
Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club
Neither rain nor fog will keep die hard sailors from racing and this was the case at the Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club on June 29.
Ten boats in three classes came to the…
Local Business
When Forrest Faulkingham checks the forecast before taking a fishing client out of Wiscasset Harbor, he isn't just determining whether or not to bring rain gear.
…
BHYC Junior Sailing
Last week, as we all know, we did not have the best sailing weather. In the morning class, the turnabout sailors continued to progress, specifically Sydney, Jackson, Casey, Peter,…
Local History
The boat that wouldn’t float fills up with water at high tide near Hodgdon Island bridge. On board is owner Myron McLellan as he works to keep the vessel tethered.
For…
Sailing coach Gray Ferris will be heading up the Boothbay Sea and Science Center's new keelboat sailing programs for area pre-teens and teens. Ferris was the former Sailing…
BHYC Column
The second week of our season is now well underway and on water events are moving ahead with enthusiasm and much learning experience. Tuesday night was the always fun Ice Cream Social…
BHYC
The BHYC Racing Committee would like to invite all area sailors to participate in the Classic Boat Race and the Commodores Cup. These races are organized to be fun and include a wide…
Windjammer Days 2013
Maine Maritime Academy’s training vessel, the schooner Bowdoin, a national historic landmark and the official vessel of the state of Maine, will sail into Boothbay…
Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club
The Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club is pleased to announce that it will offer two high level clinics as prologues to two major sailing events this summer.
Sally Lloyd, junior…
Video: Lobster Boat Races 2013
Mother Nature delivered perfect weather June 15 for the opening day of the 2013 Lobster Boat Race season in Boothbay Harbor and the lobster boats delivered a fine show. …
Get To Know...
Jackie Paskal said her addiction began in 1948 with a hot dog and a bamboo rod.
It was summer in St. Louis and the yellow fish in Forest Park were plentiful. She hadn't…
Windjammer Days 2013
Alert, a 70-foot schooner out of Bailey Island, is one of the 11 vessels signed up to arrive in Boothbay Harbor for the 2013 Windjammer Days celebration on June 25 and 26. Captains Perry…
Bowdoinham
The class, Practical on the Water Training, is a one-day, 8-hour seminar. It includes four hours of classroom training and four hours of training and practice behind the wheel of a boat…
Windjammer Days 2013
Eleven tall ships will be at this year's Windjammer Days Festival, according to the Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce. The 2013 Windjammer Days is scheduled to take place…
On the Waterfront
Although Memorial Day is more than a week away, preparations are underway for the unofficial start of the summer season.
In other…
BHYC Junior Sailing
The Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club's high school club sailing team made some impressive marks on the Maine Junior sailing scene at the Breakwater Blast held in Rockland last weekend. The…
Get To Know...
Dick Reedy knows Cangarda well.
He knows where the historic steam yacht has been. He knows its trials at sea and at harbor. He knows from what brink the 126-foot…
Junior Sailing and Tennis Program
The High School Club Sailing Team continues its busy spring season with a series of weekend Regattas at various venues in the state. Last Saturday’s event at Rockland was a last minute…
Fishermen's Festival
As a Coast Guard color guard stood smartly at attention holding flags whipping in the Sunday afternoon sea breeze, the Boothbay community paid a reverent tribute to the 231…
Adult Education
Boothbay Region Adult is offering two U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary boating courses in early May taught by certified instructors.…
On the Waterfront
From the bottom of Boston Harbor, to a boatyard in California, to Boothbay Harbor Shipyard, the Cangarda has had a long voyage.
The 126-foot luxury steam yacht…
Windjammer Days 2013
The Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce has announced that the Antique Boat Parade is back for the 51st Annual Windjammer Days, with an added feature for the avid boat enthusiast…
BHYC High School Sailing
On April 9, the Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club-sponsored High School Sailing Club braved the 39 F waters of Boothbay Harbor for their first practice of the season. Sailing the club's 420…
Ocean Classroom: On the 'Harvey Gamage'
Maracas Beach was surely one of the most enjoyed day trips we’ve had so far off the Harvey Gamage. The trip started with a beautiful two-hour drive through the mountains to the beach’s…
BHYC Junior Sailing
Sally Lloyd, director of the Junior Sailing program at Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club, has announced the schedule of regattas that the High School Sailing Club will participate in this…
BHYC Column
Summer is nearly here! For many it is the crocus or daffy that heralds spring. For folks in Boothbay Harbor, it is the sight of sails on the waters inside Tumbler and the daily presence…
Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club
The sailing season in Boothbay Harbor is underway heralded by a meeting of participants yesterday (Wednesday, April 3) at the Yacht Club. Coach Sally Lloyd met with young sailors and…
Southport
In a tradition that spans back more than a decade, swimmers will take to the chilly waters of the Midcoast to support another group of swimmers.
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Cap’n Fish’s Whale Watch has acquired Boothbay Whale Watch at 22 Commercial Street, Boothbay Harbor. The vessel, Harbor Princess of Boothbay Whale Watch, will…
Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club
Neil Newton, Commodore of the Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club, and Past Commmodore Andy Holmes, Chair of the Junior Program, announce the appointment of Sarah “Sally” Lloyd as Director…
Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club
BHYC Junior sailors can never get away from sail competition it seems! Jax and Emma Vanderveen have just completed competition in the Orange Bowl Regatta, hosted in Florida by the Coral…
Boothbay Harbor Junior Yacht Club
The Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club Junior sailing and tennis programs are now open and available for registration for the 2013 summer season.
Learning to sail and, if desired, to race sailboats…
Photo: Boothbay Harbor Shipyard
The Boothbay Harbor Shipyard will work with the Boothbay Region Boatyard to replace two generators aboard the 123-foot Galileo. The Galileo, which is at Boothbay Harbor Shipyard…
BHYC Column
Many hands have made light and quick work of some mighty important projects for the club in preparation for the 2013 season. Seen helping the Ghost cover the club's whalers and J-22…
Photo: HMS Bounty
The HMS Bounty is off the railway at Boothbay Harbor Shipyard on Friday, Oct. 19 after undergoing four weeks of repairs…
BHYC Column
The Thursday night party was excellent. Folks who attended were understandably slow to leave, realizing that it was the last party of the 2012 season. It really has been a wonderful…
At its October 4 meeting, the Shipyard Community Sailing and Science Center managed to pack a lot into one warehouse.
There were scientists and teachers, community members and sailors. There…
BHYC Column
If you haven’t called Sandy Gillespie for a reservation tomorrow, Friday evening, for the potluck supper, do it. I left the impression last week that the potluck supper was Saturday…
