News Focused on Activity in our Coastal Waters

An ‘elegant’ pontoon from Harris FloteBote

When a sailboat magazine editor raves about a powerboat, it must be something special. Practical Sailor’s Ann Key and a panel of colleagues honored the Harris FloteBote Crowne 250 with an Innovation Award in a marine industry competition earlier this year.

Down East Morn

Photo by Billy Black

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II

Shutter speed: 1/125 second

Lens focal length: 24mm

Aperture: f/16

ISO: 400

May 2013 issue

Talkin' boats with David Hensel of Grand Banks Yachts

Since 2004, David Hensel has been the director of brand and marketing for Grand Banks Yachts, an internationally known name in cruising trawlers.

Hero tow captain acted on ‘instinct’

Susan Strasser swallowed so much water after a large wave swept her from her family’s center console in Hillsboro Inlet that staff at the hospital that treated her found it hard to believe she survived.

Maine’s quietest lobster boat

The Sarah Mead is being refitted as an all-electric boat with a $5,000 grant from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection. Randy and Nate Jones’ sailing lobster boat just got greener. Owner/captain Nate, of Westport Island, Maine, and his father, Randy, who co-captains the Sarah Mead, are changing out the 42-foot Friendship sloop’s 20-hp Volvo diesel with an electric turbine, turning what is Maine’s last sailing lobster boat into what the Joneses believe is the state’s only zero-emissions lobster boat.

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