Award-winning adventure sailor Steve Brown departed Camden in the summer of 2014, sailed around North America via the Northwest Passage and Antarctica, climbed a few mountains along the way, and returned 5 years later to Camden in early June. He will speak at the Camden Yacht Club on June 21 at a special Friday version of the club’s popular “Sunset Seminars.” Steve’s sailboat, Novara, is uniquely equipped for such a rugged passage: she is a 60-foot aluminum-hulled yacht built in…

One of our country’s most acclaimed contemporary artists, Barbara Ernst Prey, will give a talk on insights and inspiration highlighting her four decades of painting Maine. New York–based but long-time summer resident, Barbara has a deep connection to the islands of Maine. Her family were the first settlers of Vinalhaven and North Haven, as well as the midcoast and other Maine islands, and it is these islands and the structures that she is drawn to.

Have you been dreaming about cruising the Caribbean? Bob Osborn, Board Member of the Salty Dawg Sailing Association, will talk about the Salty Dawg Fall Rally to the Caribbean and Antigua as a starting point for cruising the islands from there to the Grenadines to the south. The Salty Dawg Fall Rally is the largest organized flotilla of cruisers leaving the East Coast for the Caribbean. Some say that the “Real Caribbean begins in Antigua” and the farther south you…

Ever wonder where some of the fastest, most beautiful sailing yachts on Penobscot Bay come from? To learn the answer come to a presentation at the Camden Yacht Club on July 24 at 7:00 p.m. by Bob Stephens, one of the foremost designers of classic yachts. Bob is co-owner of Stephens Waring Yacht Design in Belfast, Maine, a custom naval architecture and engineering firm whose sailing and motor yachts elegantly blend the heritage and traditions of classic designs with the…

Come and hear about the future of lobstering and the Gulf of Maine from the foremost expert on July 31st at the Camden Yacht Club. Richard Wahle is the director of the University of Maine’s Lobster Institute and a research professor in the School of Marine Sciences. He is based at UMaine’s coastal laboratory, the Darling Marine Center, where he teaches and conducts his research. He received his PhD in zoology in 1990 at UMaine. After postdocs at Brown University…

To date, Earth is the only known planet with intelligent life, occasioned by a remarkable coincidence: we have a planet at just the right distance from its parent star, provided with abundant water that remains the backbone of life as we know it. Aside from these cosmic benefits, water also floats our boats, rains on our crops (and sometimes our picnics), creates some of the most beautiful images in nature, and provides countless other blessings that we tend to take…

For decades, scientists have been defeated in their attempts to find a treatment that reverses the life-threatening damage caused by heart attacks. Now, thanks to scientific research taking place in Bar Harbor, Maine, that may all be changing. To find out how, come to the Camden Yacht Club on Wednesday August 14th at 7 PM to hear from Dr. Kevin Strange, CEO and Co-Founder of Bar Harbor-based Novo Biosciences. Dr. Strange will explain how a tale of shark bites at…