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NAME THAT BOAT! We've removed *most* of the names from trailboards and burgees, to make you work a little harder. Photo:...
08/23/2026

NAME THAT BOAT! We've removed *most* of the names from trailboards and burgees, to make you work a little harder. Photo: Jack O'Connell

Depth-sounding the old-fashioned way! Pride II deckhand Sam checking the depths around our stern at the Rockland Public ...
08/22/2026

Depth-sounding the old-fashioned way! Pride II deckhand Sam checking the depths around our stern at the Rockland Public Landing. FYI, it was 18’ at low tide.

Rockland, ME memorial to those lost in the EL FARO sinking.
08/22/2026

Rockland, ME memorial to those lost in the EL FARO sinking.

NAME THAT BOAT! We've removed *most* of the names from trailboards and burgees, to make you work a little harder. Photo:...
08/22/2026

NAME THAT BOAT! We've removed *most* of the names from trailboards and burgees, to make you work a little harder. Photo: Yves Gioffrion

No trip to Rockland ME is complete without a visit to Jim Sharp’s Sail Power and Steam Museum. The Pride crew got a pers...
08/21/2026

No trip to Rockland ME is complete without a visit to Jim Sharp’s Sail Power and Steam Museum. The Pride crew got a personal tour from 93-year-old Capt. Sharp. The object in his hand is the Bowditch family astrolabe.

08/21/2026

Schooner Mercantile docked in Rockland, Maine. Andrew Egge of New Day is fundraising to haul her this fall for major work on her backbone.

https://www.mercantile-newday.com

Good morning from Rockland Harbor. Breeze light and easterly.
08/21/2026

Good morning from Rockland Harbor. Breeze light and easterly.

NAME THAT BOAT! We've removed *most* of the names from trailboards and burgees, to make you work a little harder. Photo:...
08/21/2026

NAME THAT BOAT! We've removed *most* of the names from trailboards and burgees, to make you work a little harder. Photo: Mike Rutstein

Is there a Fredonia tattoo you earn if you’ve sailed on both? Maybe add the Thomas Lannon in there for good measure.
08/20/2026

Is there a Fredonia tattoo you earn if you’ve sailed on both? Maybe add the Thomas Lannon in there for good measure.

Did you know...Lettie G. Howard is one of the last remaining Fredonia model schooners in the world?

The Fredonia was a fishing schooner built by Edward Burgess in the 1880s for fishing the Georges Banks, and the design proved so successful that hundreds of ships were built off the same plans. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Fredonia model was the standard for American offshore fishing.

Today, two Fredonias remain: Lettie G. Howard and the 1894 Grand Banks schooner Ernestina-Morrissey, shown here sailing with Lettie in Presque Isle Bay.

Lettie is still sailing through August and September, so come with us and step aboard a piece of history. Tickets available at www.lettieg.org or at our ticket booth on Dobbins Landing. See you on the water!

Photo credit: Joseph Grimaldi

Harpoons & dogbones.
08/20/2026

Harpoons & dogbones.

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