Village Soup-Herald Gazette: This coming Labor Day weekend’s Windjammer Festival in Camden is more than boats, fireworks, entertainment and maritime heritage. For those looking for interactive challenges, Camden’s Public Landing and harbor plays host to a variety of activities...

Select fishing reports from New England. Connecticut: Capt. Gene Kelly out of Montauk reports that there are yellowfin tuna scattered around the 40-fathom area, about 30 miles or so from Montauk Point. In addition to the yellowfins, there are...

Village Soup-Herald Gazette: Fishermen in Camden, Maine, have been cautioned to remove or relocate gear in advance of the arrival of the Navy’s fast frigate USS John L. Hall on Friday, September 2. The vessel’s arrival will signal the...

Tips from a Maine boating veteran on accessing this great destination. Boothbay Harbor’s immense popularity sometimes makes it hard to enjoy. But with a little “local knowledge” of anchorages, entertainments and eateries, you can avoid the crowds (mostly) and...

A new exhibit at Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, ME, will chronicle how for centuries Maine’s residents used that most ancient form of energy – wind power – to propel commerce, and how the growing need for additional and...

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Dodge Morgan’s solo, nonstop circumnavigation voyage. Morgan was not only the first American to accomplish the feat, he did it in 142 days less than the previous record time. Morgan passed away...

People interested in seeing some of Maine’s finest craftsmanship will have plenty of options this August, with the 9th annual Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors Show in Rockland on August 12-14, followed immediately by the second annual Open Boatyard...

The U.S. Coast Guard responded to a Canadian sailing vessel and its crew of 2 whose boom had broken in rough seas approximately 40 miles east of Southwest Harbor, Maine. A 47′ motor lifeboat was dispatched after watchstanders received...

The Kennebec Journal reports that a South Korean vacationer drowned on Tuesday while kayaking on Beech Hill Pond in Otis. Hong Sohn of Seoul was paddling approximately 300′ from shore when his kayak overturned. The 75-year-old Sohn, who was...

Kennebec Journal: Maine officials have launched a new program that is aiming to reopen some of the tens of thousands of acres of clam flats that are closed to harvesting because of poor water quality. The Department of Marine...