Maine Small Craft Celebration

The goal of the MSCC is to share the joy and appreciation of small boats: how they can be built by a

2021 we are collaborating and co-hosting with the Maine Boatbuilders Show!

01/30/2023

Word salad and the benifit of the way back machine.

Hamilton 68: Brief Addendum Comparing their response Friday to the site's original mission statement

09/16/2022

Gray Maine Radar Out of Service September 22-28th, 2022 Beginning Sept 22nd, the KGYX WSR-88D radar operated by the NOAA National Weather Service in Gray, Maine will be down for approximately seven days for the replacement of the generator, fuel tanks, and accompanying components. This activity is important to support the radar’s operation during perio...

11/30/2020

Stay tuned for more info on how the Maine Small Craft Celebration plans to shine in 2021.

09/02/2020

Virtual Wooden Boat Festival - Virtual Wooden Boat Festival Join us for the first-ever Virtual Wooden Boat Festival—hours of wooden boat and adventuring footage, including fascinating stories from our global wooden boat community, with fresh, exclusive video content you’ve never seen before.

03/13/2020

Stay well!

Press release - March 12th 2020

MAINE BOATBUILDERS Show 2020 POSTPONED

We hereby respond to the Governor’s request to postpone all non-essential events!

We will be canvassing our exhibitors and attendees for their thoughts on rescheduling the Maine Boatbuilders Show.

• The unprecedented and rapidly evolving public response to containing this virus pandemic demands commensurate cooperation.

• The effort to attend the Maine Boatbuilders Show is dependent upon the strength and quality of the sum of the exhibitors and the attendance that the exhibitors draw.

• Consulting with exhibitors, we find that given the sum total of this economic disruption, our exhibitors prefer not to put their employees at risk and make the additional financial investment in hotels and travel.

Three days ago we were looking at our years of experience with winter viruses and proceeding confidently to hold the event. This public panic will pass. Never the less almost instantly, the containment efforts for this virus have become a clear and present economic condition that all businesses must address. We are massively disrupting our society.
The H1-N1 “swine” epidemic in 2009 appears worse than what is going on now. The Maine Boatbuilders Show has weathered bomb threats after 911, Civil unrest, market collapses in the spring of 2008 all addressable because we could keep calm as a society and carry on. A solid foundation of calm and determination to not be disrupted doesn’t appear to be the case this time around.

These are Joanna’s and my thoughts at this time.

Howling into the wind!

Phin Sprague

10/04/2019

The 3rd annual MSCC has a date, September 26-27, 2020. Portland Yacht Services (PYS) and the Traditional Small Craft Association (TSCA) are proud to be hosting the 3rd annual Maine Small Craft Celebration (MSCC). We are striving to have the MSCC become a fall tradition and will continue to improve the event by adding quality programs, exciting races and, of course, lots of great small boats.
http://smallcraftcelebration.com/

Maine Small Craft Celebration