Maine Boats, Homes and
Harbors Show #11

Lauren Catlett, left and Leslie Harlow of Maine Arts Publishing. Contemporary Maine painters on high-quality, digital prints of Maine scenes and themes. www.maineartspublishing.com. Fishermen's Voice photo

 

Bruce Farrin right talking boats. Bruce has built boats in Walpole since the 1960’s. His boats can be found in ports around the world. He’s sent a lot of boats to California in recent years. Fishermen's Voice photo

 

The Gertrude Steele is a recently launched boat built by SW Boatworks in Lamoine, Maine. Captain Stewart Workman, the exclusive builder of Young Bros. and Calvin Beal boats, has been very busy trying to keep up with demand. Fishermen's Voice photo

 

Babbitt Wood Works, Mattapoiset, MA. This 13' fiberglass hull is a single seater with wood topsides. It runs a 40-HP outboard, does 36MPH and turns on a dime. Fishermen's Voice photo

The 11th annual Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors Show began in intermittent rain on Friday August 9th and went on to two of the best weather days of the summer to date. The Friday rain was not enough to keep away visitors. Saturday and Sunday drew crowds.

The show featured a wide range of exhibitors including marine engines, custom furniture, boats and gear of all kinds, carved wood and granite, paintings and Peter Ralston’s iconic photographs of Maine’s islands and coastal life.

Booths were set up under tents on the Rockland waterfront and 83 vessels from a 16’ boat to an 59’yacht were tied up at just south of the exhibit tents. Wood, fiberglass, sail, row, paddle, power and speed boats were all represented.

There was live music most of the day. A couple of classic well-practiced pitchmen demonstrating their wares lent a carnival air among the tents of exhibitors. However, no wooden milk bottles to knock over with softballs at this event. Vendors exhibited finely designed and made items for home and boat, as well as homes and boats for those items.