Sailing | Whale Watching | Cabbage Island Clambakes
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APPLEDORE CRUISES
presents:
Schooner
EASTWIND
a 65-foot Windjammer
Herb and Doris Smith are back with their newest traditional wooden schooner, Eastwind. This 65-foot windjammer was built by the Smiths on their farm in central Maine and is a sister-ship of Appledore III, which the family also built and sailed around the world via the Straits of Magellan and Cape of Good Hope on their second world voyage. In 2000, the Smiths returned on Eastwind from a six month voyage to the Caribbean and South America.
Join world voyagers
Herb and Doris Smith
Recently returned from voyages to South America and the Carribbean for the
summer of
2004.
3 years in the building |
| A 2½ hour cruise gives you time to relax and get a feel for the Maine coast. You will be sailing aboard a traditional wooden windjammer that was built to sail all oceans. We will be sailing to the outer islands off Boothbay Harbor. You will see lighthouses, lobstermen, wildlife, birds, and remote islands that are accessible only by boat. On every cruise we take you to Seal Rocks. If the seals are there, you will see them and our quiet windjammer will get you close. |
Eastwind departs from Fisherman's Wharf - Pier 6
2½ hour cruises to the
Outer Islands & Seal Rocks
9:30 AM - July 3 to September 5
12:00 PM - May 29 to October 11
3:00 PM - May 29 to October 11
6:00 PM - June 19 to September 19
$25 per person |
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"Herb Smith shut down the engine of Appledore V off Spruce Point and aimed her for Ram Island on a starboard reach. I found a place to sit on the windward side of the schooner so I could watch the white houses in the hills above Boothbay Harbor sliding away behind us, and the sparse scattering of islands growing closer and closer up ahead. Beyond those islands, there was nothing but the open Atlantic. I knew we were going to turn around and come back to Fisherman's Wharf before the sun went down, but it was exciting to think that, for the present, we were flying along towards Gibraltar. We sailed past thousands of lobster buoys in the outer harbor, tidily aligned like rows of corn for easy harvest. We glided through a deep, narrow passage between Fisherman's Island and Ram Island. I admired the Ram island lighthouse, and even more the abandoned keeper's dwelling, with an outhouse on the point which must have afforded the prettiest east-west view of any outhouse in New England."
-Charles Kuralt, sailing with Herb & Doris
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Eastwind's construction is traditional with 2-inch carvel planks (port orford cedar) over white oak frames. The vessel is 65 feet overall and 56 feet on deck. The beam is 14 feet with a draft of six feet six inches. Eastwind has 18,000 pound of ballast and carries 1600 square feet of sail. Designed by Bud McIntosh with sails built by Dave Bierig of Erie, PA.
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| Eastwind takes it name from U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Eastwind that Herb served on in the Antarctic: En-route, the ship called at Tahiti, Pitcairin Island, Fiji, Samoa, Australia, and New Zealand, which nourished Herb's dreams of sailing all three oceans. |
Herb and Doris's book,
Sailing Three Oceans,
is sold onboard for $15.
To order by mail, please send $20 to:
Herb Smith
20 Commercial Street
Boothbay Harbor, ME 04538
207-633-6598
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Welcome Aboard
We hope to share the beauty of our homeport with you this summer. Reservations are held up to 10 minutes before departure. Minimum of 4 passengers total for a trip. Jackets and rain gear are provided onboard |
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