EASTPORT, Maine — Organizers of the Eastport Pirate Festival have released the names of winners of competitions that accompanied festivities here over the Labor Day weekend. Among the winners were:
Business awards
Best Dressed Window, Most Creative: Raye’s Mustard.
Best Dressed Window, Most Interesting: Port O’ Call.
Best Dressed Employees: The Pickled Herring and The Eastport Chowder House (tie).
Most Authentic Costume: Lindsay P., The Barber Shop.
Honorable Mention: Eastport Area Chamber of Commerce Pirate Festival Committee display.
Pirate Ball
King: Doug Murphy of Phippsburg.
Queen: Rose Stevens of Pleasant Point.
Pirate parade
Best Business Float: Husson-The Boat School “Pirates & Wenches.”
Best Individuals Float: Cook-Stanhope “The Empty Flask.”
Most Thrilling Entry: The Baileyville Ship “Leapin Lena.”
Best Child Costume: Maximus Morang.
Best Adult Costume: Daryne Rockhet “Rat Pie” & Leighton-Stevens Group (tie).
Best Dressed Family Group: Justason Crew “The Canadian Invasion.”
Farthest Traveled: Yarmouth Men’s Book Club, Yarmouth, and The Neptune Float, Augusta.
Pirate kids games
Street Race Winners: Kyle Walch, 8, Waterville, and Dillon Townsend, 12, Eastport.
Raisin Spitting Winners: Antonio V., 5; Kyle Walch, 8; Timmony Olson, 10; Jeromy Rouleau, 9; Allison Rouleau, 8; Brandon Norton, 13; Alexa Allard, 13.
Sack Race Winners: Kaitlyn Smith, 6, Perry; Kyle Walch, 8, Waterville; Jeromy Rouleau, St. Stephen, New Brunswick.; Brandon Gillespie, 11, Calais; Dillon Townsend, 12, Eastport.
Treasure hunt
Kaitlin and A.J. McCullough, Ellsworth.
Youth children events on library lawn
Evelyn Maraseo, Bangor; Breccon Golding, Calais; Brayden Cane, Addison; Daniel Moores, Perry; Alex Pinnay, Baring; Alex Fein, Calais; Ashley Morang, Edmunds; Colby Moholland, Robbinston; Gorden Welton, Canada.
Pirate bed race
First Place: “Foggy Bottom,” The Boat School Boys — Pat Fogg of Portland, Zach Sapp of Weems, Va., George Barrios of Provincetown, Mass., Jason Herbert of Alton Bay, N.H., and Kalob Raymond of Lincoln.
Pirate kids & youth pageant
Under 2: Leah Wright, Campobello, New Brunswick.
Ages 2–10, boys: Wyatt Weaver, 3, Frankfort.
Ages 2–10, girls: Riley Yates, 3, Windham.
Ages 11 and up, boys: Wyatt Daigle, 11, Bangor.
Ages 11 and up, girls: Kaylie Robertson, 11, Edmunds.
Pirate pet pageant
Best Stuffed Animal: Renae Howgliton “Blueberry,” Swan Creek, New Brunswick.
Best Dressed Small Dog: Saraft Mounsey “Duffy,” Moncton, New Brunswick, and Skylar Richardson “Reese,” Eastport (tie).
Best Dressed Medium-Large Dog: Capt. Vance Brown, “Annie Boney,” Fairfield.
Best Other Animal: Tyra Critchley, “Nibbles,” North Carolina and Eastport.
Best of Show: Skylar Richardson “Reese,” Eastport.
Pirate boat parade
Winner: Jacqueline, Chick Moore, Baton Rouge, La.
Runner-up: Zeporah, Capt. Bob Peacock, Eastport.
Pirate crate race
Event winner: 12 crates, Isaiah Chevrier, 12, Eastport.
Youth winner: Six crates, Bradley Baxter, 13, Bangor.