CASTINE – Teams from Marblehead, Mass., and Blue Hill were the big winners at the eighth annual Downeast Fleet Racing Championship in Smith Cove Saturday and Sunday. The two-day event attracted 23 sailing teams and 130 high school-age sailors from five New England states (Maine,… Read More
PORTLAND – The first American sailor to complete the Vendee Globe solo round-the-world race announced plans Tuesday to build a new vessel in Maine to compete in the next race in 2008. Bruce Schwab, who has made Portland his adopted home, said the new racing… Read More
Fired by books such as “Moby Dick” and “Around the World in 80 Days,” pirate tales and sailing magazines, and fueled by summers on the islands of Penobscot Bay, Cam Lewis dreamt about sailing as a child and became an actual, real-life high-seas adventurer as a grown-up. Read More
CASTINE – After a cold, blustery Saturday of sailing, Sunday dawned bright and warm for both the high school teams in the 2001 Downeast Fleet Racing Championships and George Stevens Academy senior skipper J.M. Modisette. Modisette had struggled at times Saturday, including trouble at the… Read More
The State of Maine High School Sailing Championship will be up for grabs when George Stevens Academy of Blue Hill hosts the 2001 Downeast Fleet Racing Championship this weekend. George Stevens, Mount Desert Island, and Freeport are among the schools sending their sailing teams, and… Read More
The schooner Bowdoin plunged into what looked like a deadly squall last summer – figuratively, anyway. But the sturdy wooden ship, the official sailing vessel of the state of Maine, has come through the crisis just as handily as she emerged from 30-foot seas and hurricane winds on… Read More