Maine Boats, Homes and Harbors

Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors offers a celebrated print magazine, an engaging online version packed with original articles, and hosts a yearly boat and home show every August on the second weekend. All of these highlight the distinct lifestyle associated with living, working, and enjoying the beautiful Maine coastline. Originally established in Camden, Maine, in 1987 by publisher John K. Hanson, Jr., the company now operates from Rockland, Maine.

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The Art of Safeguarding the Shoreline

Nov 29, 2024 | maineboats.com | Letitia Baldwin

Jesse Salisbury didn’t focus much on his own stone creations this past year. Instead, the Steuben sculptor’s eyes were trained on Mother Nature’s works wrought by multiple storms that ravaged and dramatically reshaped Maine’s coastline, from Kittery to Lubec. In the Pine Tree State, Salisbury is known for spearheading the Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium, held from 2007 to 2014 on the Schoodic Peninsula and the University of Maine campus in Orono.
Bass Harbor

Sep 24, 2024 | maineboats.com | Mimi Bigelow Steadman

Standing atop a jumble of pink granite on the very edge of Mount Desert Island’s southwestern shore, Bass Harbor Head Light Station has always been a welcoming beacon when we’ve cruised up Jericho Bay toward the island. But we’d never visited the small white tower and its red-roofed keeper’s house. Last summer, I decided it was time we did. Besides, I’d been wanting to go to Bass Harbor.
The Birdman of Northern Maine

Sep 21, 2024 | maineboats.com | Ronald A. Joseph

Bill Sheehan was 10 when he fell in love with birds. It happened at the end of a long, hot June day in 1973 when his family moved from Long Island, New York, to an abandoned Patten, Maine, farmhouse on 180 acres of played-out potato fields. “Moving to northern Maine was culture shock,” said Sheehan, now 61. “The house was in very bad shape. Chokecherries were growing up through the steps, and overgrown bushes blocked views from first-floor windows.
South Bristol

Jul 27, 2024 | maineboats.com | Mimi Bigelow Steadman

All photos by Mimi Bigelow SteadmanWhen the pocket-sized South Bristol Gut drawbridge raises its bascule arm skyward, we wave a thank-you to the bridgetender and slip through the narrow, walled passage between the mainland and Rutherford Island. Arriving in the small harbor to the east, we’re surrounded by a fleet of handsome fishing boats resting near the salty docks of Osier’s Wharf and the South Bristol Fisherman’s Co-op.
See the Light, Save the Light

Jul 27, 2024 | maineboats.com | Mark Pillsbury

Located just shy of a mile from shore, Rockland’s lighthouse stands like an exclamation point at the end of the harbor’s long and popular granite breakwater. For well over a century, it’s been a valued aid to navigation, an iconic site on the horizon, a year-round destination for any and all who care to hike out to it, and a mark of pride for the Rockland Community. Erected in 1902, the light and adjacent boathouse were deeded to Rockland in 1998.
North Haven’s Swordfish

Jul 26, 2024 | maineboats.com | Courtney Naliboff

The swordfish arcs across the sky, smaller fish dancing in its wake. Penobscot Bay gleams at its back and rows of lettuce and artichokes spread out at its sides. Bigger than anything that swam the seas, even in the ancient past, Billy Ray Sims and Ann McClellan’s 21-foot steel armature and willow sculpture graces the field at Turner Farm, inviting conversation and connecting past and present. “Our general concept was to build a largescale piece of land art with community involvement,” Sims said.
What a SHOW they put on!

Jun 3, 2024 | maineboats.com | Mark Pillsbury

About the third week of July, an armada of classic sailing yachts will make its way along the Maine Coast, first to Boothbay Harbor, then on to Camden. From there, under billowing sails, they’ll fly to Castine for an afternoon and evening of pre-race festivities and then trade tacks the next morning back to Camden before a final dash to Brooklin for the granddaddy of them all, the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta. For sailors, it’s a three-week festival drawn straight from a Golden Age of sail.
Opportunity Knocked

Jun 2, 2024 | maineboats.com | Mark Pillsbury

Mark Brouillette is a guy who can tell you all about being in the right place at the right time. His place was a dock in Portland, Maine. And his time was August 2018, when he and some pals were helping a friend get a sailboat with a recalcitrant engine in shape for sea trials.
Blue Hill: Where the Past is Present

May 29, 2024 | maineboats.com | Mimi Bigelow Steadman

If you go to Blue HillOn the WaterHarbormaster Nick Niehoff says larger vessels should anchor closer to the mouth of the harbor. To proceed into the inner harbor, follow the well-marked channel and, after clearing the last buoy (Red Nun 8), continue on a heading of 300 degrees (true) to the anchorage, with about 14 feet at low. Niehoff advises carefully consulting a chart as there are several ledges near the anchorage that might not be readily apparent.
Well-aged Rusticator Rum Makes a Splash

May 29, 2024 | maineboats.com | Stephen Rappaport

It’s the rare relationship that endures for 40 years, especially one that involves an old wooden runabout and a restorer for whom boats are just one of many fascinations. Even the mind-boggling restoration of the historic Swedish warship Vasa, sunk immediately after launching in 1628 and raised from the bottom of Stockholm harbor in 1962, was completed in less time. But then again, the naval vessel wasn’t a vintage Hacker, and the craftsman at work on her wasn’t Bob Bartlett.