You’re standing on our top deck, and the Harbor is a churning mass of small vessels . . . Fishing boats, sail boats, tour boats full of passengers. Kids in row boats and dorys.

All of a sudden, someone spots the first prow to appear from behind Spruce Point in Linekin Bay and gives a shout. One after another they sail into Boothbay Harbor. First the American Eagle. Then the Heritage, the Eastwind, the Lazy Jack, and the Lewis R. French. Then comes the Spirit of Massachusetts, the Nathaniel Bowditch and the Sherman Zwicker.

Talk about taking your breath away.

This year is the 48th Annual celebration of Windjammer Days in Boothbay Harbor, and we’ll have eight Windjammers sailing into the Harbor for the two-day festival to be held on June 22nd and June 23rd. You can take a cruise on the Schooner Heritage, tour the Spirit of Massachusetts or just kick back and enjoy the live music.

We will even have an old-fashioned parade, (this year’s theme is “Our Happy Harbor”) and if it like previous festivals, there will be floats, marchers, bands and the Shriners in their little cars. Really!

Is that wicked cool or what? Nothing says “good times” like those guys and their little cars.

Finally, the two-day extravaganza will crescendo with fireworks and I can tell you with certainty that there is no better vantage point in Boothbay Harbor for watching the fireworks.

Click Here for the full two-day schedule of events.

Click Here for a full list of Schooners participating in this year’s Windjammer Days Festival.

Take a look at our “Cure for the Summertime Blues” Special and enjoy a reduced room rate AND a $50 dinner gift card at McSeagulls.

(Thanks to the Boothbay Harbor Chamber of Commerce for putting together the schedule of events and the list of participating Windjammers.)

Well, the results are in . . . What are Yankee Magazine’s Top 20 best attractions in Maine? Well, you’ll find 2 of the right here in the Boothbay Region.

The Burnt Island Lighthouse here in Boothbay Harbor was rated the best Lighthouse tour, and with more than 60 Lightouses on our coast, that’s a pretty big deal.

Only accessible by boat, you can join a small cast of interpreters that represent the last lighthouse family to live on the island circa 1955. Thursday and Sunday evenings from June 28 through August 30.

Best Seaside Fragrance goes to The Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. More than 250 acres of beautifully planned and maintained gardens, sculpture and access to the Sheepscot River.

Free tours, an excellent cafe and georgous gardens and forests that seem to go on forever.

And talking about their Top 20 choices, 2 of the Top 20 Events are right here, too.

June 23rd - 24th is Windjammer’s Days, with fully rigged schooners that sail into the harbor. There are tours, waterfront concerts and fireworks. Plus some really fine food.

Last, East Boothbay’s Boatbilder’s Festival is held August 1st & 2nd.

Art sales, demonstations, nautical lectures, both working and pleasure craft on display and a seafood festival. Come and see how we build boats in Maine!