Day Time Event/Activity Location
Saturday, 9/4/10      
  4pm Festival officially starts  
  4pm Pirates Invade Camden Harbor Harbor
  12-5pm Arrival of the Windjammers Public Landing/Harbor
  4pm Formal welcome to the fleet Public Landing
  7:30pm Free Rock Concert: Paranoid Social Club Opera House
       
Sunday, 9/5/10      
  7-10am Pancake Breakfast Public Landing
  9am-4pm Maritime Heritage Fair* See detail below for time/dates.
Booths & displays of maritime history, traditions and skills
Ongoing Presentations include:
  • Adirondack Guide Boat
  • Artist-In-Residence
  • Birch Bark Canoe
  • Blacksmithing
  • Boating Safety & Navigation
  • Boat Building
  • Bollard Line Toss
  • Building Half-Hull Models
  • Building-a-Boat Contest
  • Children’s Learn-To-Draw Class
  • Coastal Heritage Childhood Booth
  • Donkey Engines
  • Early Marine Engines
  • Fisherman’s Family Reenactment
  • Knot Tying
  • Lobster Traps
  • Mast Hoop-Making
  • Model Boats
  • Ocean-Going Mini-Sailboats
  • Project Puffin
  • Reading to Children
  • Schooner Sail Repair
  • Shelter Box
  • Solar Power Cube
  • Storytime with Miss Amy
  • Timberframe Cutting
  • Traditional Pinkie Schooner
  • Toboggan Building
  • Wind Turbine
  • Wood Turning
  • Woodburning Cookstove
Public Landing
  9am Chadwick Cup R/C Boat Race Public Landing
  9am-12pm Family Scavenger Hunt Throughout town
  10am Sea Dog Show Harbor Park
  10am Storytime with Miss Amy Public Landing
  10am-Noon Schooner Sail Repair Public Landing
  10am-3pm Harbor Rowing (Sign up Required) Harbor
  11:30am-2pm Chowder Challenge Public Landing
  12-5pm Music in the streets Throughout Town
  12pm Pirates of the Dark Rose attack Camden Harbor Park
  1pm Children's Drawing Class Public Landing
  2-4pm Schooner Open House Harbor
  4pm All Comers Boat Parade Harbor
  7:00pm Camden Windjammer Festival Presents: GORDON BOK with guests The January Men and Then Some
Plus an opening set by Rockland's own singer/song-writer Mehuman Jonson.
Harbor Park
  9pm Fireworks over the harbor Harbor

*Maritime Heritage Fair & Schedule Details

Event Name Presenter Date/Times Topic/Additional Information
Adirondack Guide Boat Joe Spadaro Sun. 9am-4pm Adirondack Guide boat "show and tell"
Artist-In-Residence Buckley Smith Sunday Buckley Smith leads two drawing classes exclusively for children. Later, he'll complete a drawing during the Schooner Crew Talent Show for auction that evening.
Coast Guard Auxiliary staff provide information on boating safety classes and vessel safety checks.
Birch Bark Canoe Penobscot Marine Museum Sun. 9am-4pm Birch bark canoe built in traditional Native American style.
Blacksmithing Joel Wentworth Sunday Blacksmithing presentation
Building a boat with originally designed kit
Building half-hull models Jason Morin
Maine Maritime Museum
Pending Demonstrating half-hull model building and building boat models with children
Bollard Line Toss Ronnie Hawkins Sun. 9am-4pm Try your hand at heaving the eye of a dock line onto a bollard
Chadwick Cup Scott Rollerson
Al Strout
Sun. 9am-12 noon Radio-controlled sailboat race
Chowder Challenge West Bay Rotary Sun. 11:30-2pm West Bay Rotary offers up a taste of Maine’s best chowder recipes under the big tent… and then cast your vote for this year’s Blue Ribbon.
Coastal Heritage Childhood Booth Susan Junge and various child focused schools and individuals Sunday pending Local pre-school childcare providers share their nautical themes for engaging young children.
Children’s “Learn To Draw” Class Buckley Smith
Moon Sailors
Sun. 1pm Art: drawing, display and children's drawing class
Donkey Engines Capt. Jim Sharp
Sail Power and Steam Museum
Sun. 9am-3pm Donkey, Steam Engines, display and operation
Early Marine Engines Doug Teel Sr. Sun. 9am-4pm Early marine engines, display and operation
Fisherman's Family reenactment Hannah
Joshua Miller
Pending 18th Century fisherman's everyday life, demonstrating net making, etc.
Jen Conover choreographs a troop of hoola hoopers with hand decorated hoops.
Knot Tying George Orestis
Les Bex
Sun. 9am-4pm Knot tying
Lobster Hauling Demo Alan Philbrick Pending Captain Alan Philbrick hauls up traps. Learn to ID hard shell, soft shell, male or female… measuring, and why fins are notched.
Lobster Traps Sheila Dassatt
Mike Dassatt
Downeast Lobstermen's Association
Sunday Traditional lobstertrap building, trap head knitting, acoustic music
Mast Hoop-Making Saphrona and Richard Stetson Sun. 9am-4pm Discover the magic of bending oak into hoops by “cooking” it in a steam box and then shaping it to fit.
Model Boats Harry Lauer
Jerome Morris
Sun. 9am-4pm Model boat display
Ocean-Going Mini-Sailboats Dick Baldwin Pending Scale Sailboats with GPS capable of making major ocean passages
Pirate Invasion Pirates of the Dark Rose All Weekend Sun.
 12pm-Ship attack on Camden
 1:30pm-Weapons demo
 3pm-Pirate duels
 4pm-Pirate songs.
Project Puffin Project Puffin Sun. 10am-4pm Puffin interactive information and educational material
Reading to Children Capt. Neal Parker Sunday Children's book author will read to children
Shelter Box West Bay Rotary Sun. 9am-4pm Elements of shelter in one box donated as Humanitarian relief in times of flood, earthquake type disasters.
Solar Power Cube Lyman Morse Sun. Power Cube providing power to presenters & build-a-boat participants.
Timberframe Cutting Charlie Conlan Pending Timberframe cutting
Toboggan Building Stewart Young/Tom Cox
Toboggan Nationals
Sun. 9am-4pm Toboggan building/Steam-bending wood
Traditional Pinkie Schooner Tom Siski Sun. 9am-4pm, waterfront Pinky Schooner presentation, hand-built vessel
Rigid 25 ft. inflatable rescue boat OR Wet trainer
Woodburning Cookstove Bridget Qualey Sun. 9am-4pm Functioning woodburning cookstove
Wind Turbine CHRHS Windplanners Sun. 9am-4pm Off-shore, island and on-shore wind turbine research presented by CHRHS students.
Wood Turning Gary Kitchen
Wood turning School
Pending Wood turning on a lathe