SailMaine

Mighty Mary, the inspirational new documentary directed by Mary Mazzio, tells the remarkable story of the only all-women’s sailing team to compete for the America’s Cup, a groundbreaking team that included Maine sailor Merritt Carey, who is featured in the film. The documentary has another strong Maine connection: Olympic, America’s Cup sailor and SailMaine board member Jim Brady competed in the historic 1995 America’s Cup campaign chronicled in the film.

The screening is Thurs, Nov 5th 5-8:30PM at USM Hannaford Hall

More details and tickets:

https://web.portlandregion.com/atlas/events/9254/details

Wind and rain incoming! SailMaine is closed today for rentals and lessons.

South Portland Middle School in action! Two awesome days of sailing so far and three more next week. The whole SoPo 6th grade will get on the water with SailMaine this fall! They also have a chance to do some STEM activities, learning about blocks & tackle and buoyancy. Thank you for coming!

Social Sail! Last of the season. Come enjoy a nice evening on Thursday. Good for newbies or any skill level, $25/person!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050C4CADAE2FA0FC1-65482531-social #/

Awesome stuff in Camden!

A fleet of eight J/22 sailboats broadened what the Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program (CAYSP) offered this year. For the first time, children could learn to sail on keelboats instead of dinghies, and adults took lessons and raced the boats in Camden Harbor.

Story link in the comments.

Big week of racing in Maine!

Lots of photos posted from the SailMaine Festival & Regatta! Check them out on the website: https://www.sailmaine.org/sailmainefest

High School Sailing starts next week! Have you signed up yet?!
https://www.sailmaine.org/high-school

It has been about 2 weeks since our huge summer fundraiser, the SailMaine Festival & Regatta. We have lots of photos to share and will send them out soon!

But first: HUGE thanks to our sponsors, volunteers, staff, and all of YOU! Thanks to everyone's amazing efforts we raised OVER $130,000 to support community sailing. Honestly, we are still in shock! This was our most successful year ever and feeling wildly grateful for our wonderful community. Onwards!

We have raised over $111,000! Every year our SailMaine community ups the ante and impresses us with their enthusiasm and generosity at this annual event! Huge thanks to all of you for supporting sailing access for all! See you Saturday for some awesome racing and an epic after-party!