Invited Visiting & Private Boats

Advent

Advent

Homeport: Rockland, Maine
Owner: Ken Rich

Designed and built by Bud McIntosh in 1956, she was completely restored in 2008. She is currently privately owned, although she occasionally participates in the sailing programs of the Atlantic Challenge (www.atlanticchallenge.com) in Rockland, ME.

Appledore

Appledore


Owners: Rick Bates & Robin McIntosh

Designed by Bud McIntosh and built by Herb and Doris Smith in Portsmouth, NH, she is the first and smallest of five Appledores. Featured in Smith's book, Sailing Three Oceans, she is now privately owned and sailing the coast of Maine.

Must Roos

Must Roos

Homeport: Rockland, Maine
Owner: Tom Tomlinson
www.darkrosepirates.com

A 55' foot overall gaff topsail yawl, the Must Roos was built for buccaneerin'. With cannon on the upper deck and carronades on the lower, the Must Roos flys a square topsail, and works well for pirate attacks on harbor festivals.

Prophet

Prophet

Homeport: Camden, Maine
Owner: Thomas Siske

After 9,000 hours of labor, Captain Tom's handiwork is clearly evident in this Pinky schooner, Prophet. A true labor of love, just about everything on board has been hand crafted by this talented woodworker who lives aboard, year round, in Camden harbor.

Sweet Chariot

Sweet Chariot

Homeport: Greens Island, Maine
Owner: Buckley Smith

A double ended west coast working trawler, she was built in 1951 on Vancouver Island at the Whitney Boat Yard. Now converted to a private boat, she is the traveling home of artist Buckley Smith whose artwork has been a feature of the Windjammer Festival for many years.

Winfield Lash

Winfield Lash

Homeport: Friendship, Maine
Owners: Dave Clark & Marge Grigg

Launched in June 2000, the lines of the Winfield Lash were drawn by William Atkin for the Chantey built in 1927. Her hull was built in the Lash Brothers yard in Friendship, Maine and then completed in David's backyard in Hancock, NH over a period of seventeen years. She now cruises the coast of Maine every summer.

USS John L Hall

USS John L Hall

Homeport: Bath, Maine
Owner: US NAVY
Captain Richard M. Meyer
www.hall.navy.mil

General Dwight D. Eisenhower gave him the nickname "Viking of Assault". General George Patton, a ough critic of fellow military leaders, heaped high praise on him. He was one of the toughest and best athletes of the U.S. Naval Academy.