ROCKLAND, Maine — The 13th annual Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors Show is set for Friday through Sunday on the city’s waterfront.
The annual event will feature more than 100 boats on Harbor Park and adjacent harbor, showcasing the state’s boat builders and craftspeople. There also will be nearly 200 exhibitors including home wares, fine builders, custom-made jewelry and furniture.
Builders bringing yachts to the show include Artisan Boats, Back Cove, Classic Boatshop, Hinckley, Hunt, Kittery Point Yacht Yard, Lyman-Morse, Morris, Port Harbor Marine, Robinhood Marine, Sabre, John Williams and more.
This year’s show will feature a food truck rally, a rendezvous of vintage Boston Whalers, a fleet of model boats built by young sailors, docks filled with brand-new and refitted yachts, and the World Championship Boatyard Dog Trials on Sunday morning at 10:30.
Also over the weekend several signature vessels will visit the waterfront including the Maine Maritime Academy’s sail-training schooner Bowdoin, the Maine Seacoast Mission’s Sunbeam V and a fleet of classic wooden lobster boats.
Among boats on display will be a 1968 Allied XL 42 yawl, a shoal-draft beauty that has been redone stem to stern at Robinhood Marine, and a 1985 Wilbur 34 flybridge cruiser built by Lee Wilbur himself that has undergone a total refit at Kittery Point Yacht Yard.
This will be the show’s first-ever gathering of privately owned Whalers — like-new and well-used — trailered in from near and far. Brand-new Boston Whalers will be on display as well, and there will be restoration information and advice galore. The fun will include the first-ever “Whaler Tales” party, a pig roast and music fest on Saturday evening (vegetarian options available). Party tickets are $25 per person and should be reserved in advance at www.maineboats.com/boatshow/bostonwhaler.
The Bowdoinham branch of the U.S. Power Squadron will set up in the Rockland Yacht Club’s facility on show grounds, where they will host the Boating Skills Virtual Trainer, an interactive, simulation-based boating safety program. The BSVT allows students to maneuver a “Boston Whaler” on a “lake” in a virtual mode.
Event hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.to 4 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $12; children under age 12 get in free. Please note: No strollers are allowed on the docks and no pets are allowed on show grounds (all service animals should be marked as such).
For more information and a full list of exhibitors and activities, visit www.maineboats.com/boatshow.