By Sugar Flanagan (owner) When we think about boats, we often wonder, “Is she a keeper?” Alcyone is definitely a keeper. She was designed and built by Frank Prothero in

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Sockeye is an Ed Monk Sr. design, built by Jacobson Brothers in Ballard, WA. She started a long trolling career in 1944. Known back then as Nestor, she retired from

The excitement is building… You can feel it in the air… Wooden Boat Festival is coming… We are BACK and ready to celebrate Wooden Boats! Here’s a taste of what’s

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Written by Lin Pardey “An amazing sailor. He did it all,” wrote one magazine editor. “Raced boats, delivered boats, built two boats, sailed them engine-free around the world, both east

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Written by Susan Brittain and Catherine Collins photography by Elizabeth Becker and Cindy Brittain It’s Maine, the dead of winter. A young shipwright at Rice Brothers Shipyard in East Boothbay