Maine Boat Show

We returned to Rockland for the Maine Boats, Homes and Harbors Show. Our primary motivation was to meet friends we have known since graduate school at Berkeley (40 years ago).

We have become tired of most boat shows where one sees the same production boats and array of products. However, the Maine Boat show is unique in our experience. It has none of the mass market boats, instead names like Sabre, Hinkley, Morris, and other custom builders.

In some respects the photo to the left looks like any boat show, until you notice that the first boat on the right is a well kept wooden Concordia yawl. The boat ahead (hard to see) is a Morris sailing yacht, and the one to the left is a custom wood powerboat by a Maine builder.


The boat in the photo to the left is a small powerboat built by Richard Pulsifer. He cuts the wood from his own land, saws and mills it himself and turns out these great little inboard launches (Yanmar 4-cyl diesel). He is a friend of our friends, so later we got a ride around the harbor in this boat.









There are displays of historic boats such as this Downeast Peapod built around 1935.











The Aprenticeshop "a school for traditional boat building" put on a demonstration spiling and fitting a plank on a cedar lapstrake hull fastened with copper rivets.









The local passenger schooner fleet put on a "Parade of Sail". The photo is the AMERICAN EAGLE, Capt. John Foss.










Even the entertainment is unique. The Univ. of Maine at Machais, Ukelele Band played all afternoon from a book of several hundred songs covering virtually all genres.