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Way Back Wednesday - 2013. We can only imagine it was on a cold, frosty night that plans were made for the first Stand-up Paddleboard Jousting Tournament, held during the Maine Boat & Home Show in 2013. Watch for announcements regarding the 2026 Show at buff.ly/z0VgpPi.

There is perhaps no more quintessential line of Maine-built production boats than those designed and conceived by Hinckley Yachts. Taking a Picnic Boat for a spin is something like setting out for an excursion on a high-end condominium. Read more here: buff.ly/g9P8tm8

There were 11 women who gathered last spring in Port Clyde to be ferried by lobsterboat out to McGee Island, 3 miles off Maine’s Midcoast, for the 10th annual The Salty Quill Writers Retreat for Women. Read our full story at the link: buff.ly/r9dbU2i

Moments in time caught on the fly. 🪶 These photographs by Duane Lowe capture the dynamic movement of his signature moment-in-time action images. Enjoy his spectacular photography and read more about his technique and style at the link: buff.ly/QBHynVv

Thousands of New England mariners spoke, and at least for now, the Coast Guard seems to have listened. The federal agency abruptly announced in October that it had suspended a controversial plan to remove hundreds of navigational buoys and markers along the Northeast coast.

You know what time it is! It's mud time. Maine is the lucky recipient of one extra season- sandwiched between winter and spring- we get the gooey season that really makes you rethink that trip to a friend's house down a dirt road Story 🔗 buff.ly/ERXxcB0

These skiffs were built to teach, although their hardiness makes them wildly useful even in their retirement. Built at the Landing School in Arundel these are Jericho Bay Lobster Skiffs. Read more here: buff.ly/hPlS9q4

Solar-powered ferry Lyman-Morse Boatbuilding, which has a division that produces metal-hulled workboats, has won a contract to design and build three solar-powered, aluminum ferries that will run on the Merrimack River in Massachusetts.

Statue honoring seafarers A new 9-foot bronze statue erected this fall at the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport honors the town’s seafaring heritage. Cast in bronze in Hong Kong, the statue traveled aboard a ship to the U.S. eastern seaboard.

News from the Town Dock - Lobsters overfished A new report says America’s lobsters are being overfished off New England, according to a story by the Associated Press.The report by the Atlantic states Marine Fisheries Commission found that lobsters have declined by 34 percent.

Maine artist Medora Atwood grew up in comfortable circumstances in a household that consisted of her parents and her younger sister Nancy. Period accounts describe her proficiency in oils, watercolors, china painting, and photography. See more at the 🔗 buff.ly/ttvABVK

Mimi Steadman toured Maine's oldest lighthouse, the Portland Head Light, last year. A bit of modern art reminds visitors of the historic wreck ANNIE MAGUIRE, which managed to run aground on the rocks on Christmas Eve in 1886. Full article here: buff.ly/83SMVJI

For the past three years, Project Ouzel had been the talk of the area’s boatbuilding community, and rightly so. At 95 feet LOA, the superyacht tapped the skills of artisans and shops across the state and beyond. Read the full story at the link: buff.ly/TkrE2yH

The Maine I Love - our continuing photographic series features photos by Brad Burns this month. See them all at the link: buff.ly/3BabQSI

Way Back Wednesday this month remembers the Lombard steam log-hauler. Invented and manufactured by Waterville’s Alvin O. Lombard and patented in 1901, it was the first commercially successful track-laying vehicle. buff.ly/Jl8rb18

Freedom artist J. Rae Pictou is hard to put in a box artistically. An ever-evolving creative spirit, she is an artist, activist, storyteller, and business owner. Pictou, who is a Mi’kmaq tribal member, is sometimes controversial, but always connected: buff.ly/KUl9Q5P

Charge it ⚡️ Advocates for electric boat propulsion are celebrating the installation of a new fast charger at Wright’s Wharf on the Portland waterfront. Read more news from Maine in our Town Dock excerpt at the link: buff.ly/dRUuIM0

Do you know this man? He was very tall and clad in sea boots and yellow oilskins, with a sou’wester rain hat to keep water from running down his neck. He was known as Big Jim and he welcomed Maine-bound motorists to “Vacationland & Sardineland” buff.ly/KF7leqr

Love on the dock ❤️ Won't you be our Valentine Riptide 🐶 💌 🔗 buff.ly/mqfvUm8

The newsroom, a mystical and chaotic place, is where contributing writer Earle G. Shettleworth Jr. spent his collegiate summers writing for the Portland Evening Express. He was hired as a summer reporter for $60 a week. 'On the Beat' at the link: buff.ly/qYfa8bA