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Rockland is known as Maine’s art capital, and we’ll stop at the Farnsworth Museum, featuring works from artists including Gilbert Stuart, Winslow Homer, and the Wyeth family. Dinner will be back at our lodging.ĭay 3 brings us arts and charm in Rockland, a quintessential small town along Maine’s rocky and scenic Mid-coast. Beautiful rocky shorelines, hidden mansions, small islands, lighthouses, seals, bald eagles, and other magnificent ships are just a few of the amazing sights to look forward to while sailing in this beautiful part of the bay. Then, after a picnic lunch, we head down to one of the highlights of the week–a two-hour schooner ride on Penobscot Bay. First, we take a short drive up Mount Battie for a stunning view of Camden’s harbor.

#FOOD TOURS IN MAINE FULL#

Monday, our first full day, we will experience where “the mountains meet the sea” from both sides in nearby Camden, Maine, an idyllic seaside town with a lovely harbor. Once we arrive, Mark will whip up a welcome dinner, giving you time to settle in and explore our home base for the next six nights. If you don’t arrive until late in the day, we can pick you up at the airport before heading up the coast it’s a two hour drive to our houses. You can take a taxi to the downtown area, and if you have time, you may want to have a wander around this fun and historic waterfront city.

We’ll coordinate arrival times and set a meeting place downtown. Oh, the canvas can do miracles, just you wait and see.Try to arrive in Portland early in the day on Sunday. Well, it’s not far down to paradise, at least it’s not for meĪnd if the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility September 30-October 3: Fall Color Getawayįor 2020 cruise dates, check the Maine Windjammer website and stay in touch via the monthly newsletter, “Windjammer News”, subscribe to the Riggin blog, and Annie Mahle’s blog At Home & At Sea. September 25-28: Main Slow Sewing & Quilting Cruise with Rhea Butler September 20-23: Maine Lighthouses & Lobsters September 16-19: Sawmill Creek Fiber Events Knitting Cruise September 2-7: Maine Knitting Cruises with Margaret Radcliffe If you love being on the water, love food, love to cook, love to travel, this is the culinary getaway you’ve been looking for. I knew nothing about sailing and enjoyed trying my hand at six common sailing knots and helping the crew furl the sails, lower the jib, and raise the anchor. Click the link to read about the lobster bake and enjoy more details and mouthwatering photos from this incredible Maine food tour. Riggin is a traditional lobster bake on the beach.

On one day we gathered on deck for an interesting talk on Maine foodways with both chefs and, on another, a knife skills demonstration by Annie Copps. Take me to the Blueberry Lemon Coffee Cake recipe now! On Day 2, the blueberry lemon streusel coffee cake, baked from a recipe in Annie Copps’s “The Little Local Maine Cookbook”, was irresistible. Blueberry season in Maine lasts only a few short weeks and we were lucky to hit it. I saw several roadside stands selling blueberries on my drive to Rockland. Wild Maine blueberries are smaller, sweeter versions of blueberries commonly found in grocery stores and they are in season in August. However, the fresh baked goods were hard to resist!īesides lobster, Maine’s other best-known food is blueberries. I especially appreciated the abundant, beautifully presented locally-grown fruit which allowed me to eat a light breakfast. With three meals a day served, no one was going hungry.

Scrumptious Blueberry Lemon Coffee Cake from Chef Annie Copps’s Maine cookbook.

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