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Shouldered Oar Films posted a Video Gallery
"There is a balance between the science and the art. You have to be able to row away from your boat at the end of the day and enjoy looking back at it, or you're not getting anywhere." -- Nat...
Boat Jones posted a Video Gallery
In the megayacht market, getting to and from the dock in style is just as important as getting to your destination. And Hodgdon Yachts, of East Boothbay, Maine, has created a floating limousine that...
Boat Jones posted an Image Gallery
One of the aspects of boating that I appreciate the most is that it serves as the great equalizer: the handyman on his five-thousand dollar yard sale special may be having just as much fun on the bay...
Peter Ralston posted an Image Gallery
I love fireworks...I mean I really love them. As a boy my brothers and I made our own (our poor mother!) and later we were very good at procuring some fantastic bootleg stuff. In my headier days as a...
Sail Newport posted a Video Gallery
After fifteen years, Sail Newport is delighted to retire the mortgage on its building at Fort Adams in Newport. But instead of the usual mortgage-burning ceremony that many homeowners perform when...
Shouldered Oar Films posted a Video Gallery
"If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most." - E. B. White This brand-new trailer for our latest film "Wood/Sails/Dreams"...
US Harbors posted an Image Gallery
Never mind that silly groundhog and his shadow, the real signal that winter will come to an end eventually is when the first boat of the year hits the water. The Hinckley Company gave us all hope for...
Catherine Schmitt posted a Harbor Report
At Matunuck Oyster Farm & Bar near Point Judith Harbor, veteran oysterman Perry Raso grows Eastern oysters in a saltwater lagoon behind the barrier of East Matunuck State Beach and the waves of...
Peter Ralston posted an Image Gallery
This is one of my all-time personal favorite images. Couldn't be more simple and that is a big part of why I like it. Back in the mid-80's I was running the boat through a gut and passed this skiff...
Shouldered Oar Films posted a Video Gallery
We met George Hill at the party following the 2009 Opera House Cup, on Nantucket. He told us the story of how he found Weatherly in disrepair in Seattle. What it took to sail her back to Newport and...
Peter Ralston posted an Image Gallery
Through my work at the Island Institute, I became involved with the creation of a 4.5 megawatt wind farm on Vinalhaven Island, out in the middle of Penobscot Bay in midcoast Maine. It was an...
Boat Jones posted an Image Gallery
For me, winter is a time to fantasize about "the next boat" and what exactly it will be. When it's snowing outside and I'm sitting warm and toasty by the fire, somehow I find myself freed from the...
Peter Ralston posted an Image Gallery
Temperatures have been hovering in the single digits along the Maine coast in recent days, and as these frigid temperatures have hovered above forty-degree water, the result has been some impressive...
Boat Jones posted a Video Gallery
The breeze didn't completely cooperate at the 2011 Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta, held Columbus Day Weekend in Larchmont, NY, but that didn't keep the young sailors from making the event memorable...
Sabre Yachts posted a Harbor Report
The manufacturing of fiberglass parts for the recreational boating market has seen many changes over its more than fifty-year history, but none has improved the quality and durability of boats more...
US Sailing posted a Harbor Report
Etchells World Champion Bill Hardesty (San Diego, CA) and ISAF (International Sailing Federation) Sailing World Champion Anna Tunnicliffe (Plantation, FL) have been named as US Sailing's 2011 Rolex...
Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island posted a Video Gallery
The SSV Oliver Hazard Perry was towed to SENESCO Marine In North Kingstown, RI, in late December. Here's a great video of the first of what will be many ocean voyages in the ship's future....
Boat Jones posted an Image Gallery
Talk about 360-degree water views. This Airstream travel trailer, spotted by Bentley Collins in his Sabre 36 last summer on Islesboro Island, Maine, may be the ultimate in seaside getaways. Lest the...
US Harbors posted a Video Gallery
The rise and fall of the tides is one of the few constants in our lives on the coast, and yet even some of the most seasoned boaters will admit to not understanding exactly why certain tides are...
Sabre Yachts posted a Harbor Report
This week we start the 2012 Boat Show season with the New York Boat Show. The show runs from the 4th through the 8th of January and is situated in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, right in the...
Date High Low sun moon
am ft pm ft am ft pm ft rise set moon
1 Wed
1:52
2.9
2:22
2.5
8:12
0.7
7:46
0.4
6:55 5:03
2 Thu
2:50
2.9
3:24
2.6
9:25
0.6
8:50
0.3
6:54 5:04
3 Fri
3:54
3.0
4:24
2.8
10:18
0.4
9:47
0.1
6:53 5:05
4 Sat
4:51
3.2
5:17
3.0
11:04
0.2
10:38
-0.1
6:52 5:06
5 Sun
5:39
3.5
6:04
3.3
11:46
0.0
11:26
-0.3
6:51 5:08
6 Mon
6:23
3.9
6:47
3.6
12:25
-0.2
6:50 5:09
7 Tue
7:06
4.1
7:30
4.0
12:13
-0.5
1:03
-0.4
6:49 5:10
8 Wed
7:49
4.3
8:14
4.2
12:59
-0.6
1:38
-0.6
6:47 5:12
9 Thu
8:33
4.3
9:00
4.3
1:45
-0.7
2:14
-0.6
6:46 5:13
10 Fri
9:20
4.2
9:48
4.4
2:30
-0.7
2:51
-0.7
6:45 5:14
11 Sat
10:09
4.1
10:39
4.4
3:15
-0.6
3:29
-0.6
6:44 5:15
12 Sun
11:01
3.9
11:33
4.3
4:03
-0.5
4:12
-0.5
6:42 5:17
13 Mon
11:56
3.5
4:56
-0.2
5:01
-0.3
6:41 5:18
14 Tue
12:30
4.1
12:54
3.3
6:03
0.1
6:00
-0.1
6:40 5:19
15 Wed
1:31
4.0
1:56
3.2
7:50
0.2
7:16
0.0
6:38 5:20
16 Thu
2:37
3.9
3:03
3.2
9:23
0.2
8:46
0.0
6:37 5:22
17 Fri
3:45
3.9
4:10
3.3
10:23
0.1
10:00
0.0
6:36 5:23
18 Sat
4:49
4.0
5:11
3.6
11:11
-0.1
10:57
-0.2
6:34 5:24
19 Sun
5:45
4.1
6:04
3.9
11:51
-0.2
11:44
-0.3
6:33 5:25
20 Mon
6:34
4.2
6:51
4.1
12:24
-0.3
6:31 5:26
21 Tue
7:18
4.2
7:34
4.2
12:27
-0.4
12:53
-0.3
6:30 5:28
22 Wed
8:00
4.1
8:15
4.2
1:06
-0.4
1:23
-0.4
6:29 5:29
23 Thu
8:40
4.0
8:55
4.1
1:44
-0.4
1:54
-0.4
6:27 5:30
24 Fri
9:19
3.7
9:34
4.0
2:21
-0.4
2:27
-0.3
6:26 5:31
25 Sat
9:58
3.4
10:12
3.6
2:57
-0.2
3:02
-0.3
6:24 5:32
26 Sun
10:37
3.2
10:49
3.4
3:34
-0.1
3:38
-0.1
6:23 5:34
27 Mon
11:16
3.0
11:28
3.2
4:12
0.2
4:16
0.0
6:21 5:35
28 Tue
11:58
2.8
4:55
0.4
4:59
0.2
6:19 5:36
29 Wed
12:10
3.0
12:45
2.7
5:47
0.6
5:51
0.4
6:18 5:37