Maine Sailing Partners

On the floor

Some of the projects passing through these days:

More progress

Now, the new loft is really taking shape.  Too bad we're too busy at this time of year to really appreciate every step of the process.  This taken from the top of a big pile of dirt in the yard... mud season in Maine

Fast Start

We are amazed how quickly a snow-covered pile of steel is turning into the skeleton of our future home.

25 Years

In the second week of March in 1983, Maine Sailing Partners was born when we opened the doors of our first loft on Commercial Street in Portland (now a parking lot).    Today, we marked the 25th return of that occasion with a quiet celebration and a piece of carrot cake.

Still, we are proud to have made it through 25 long years.  We'll save the big celebration until we're in our new home.

Sprouting

The seeds we planted almost a year ago when we started to look for a new permanent home for MSP have finally taken root.  Now steel is rising out of a field in Freeport.

Our new building will be a 9600 square foot steel shed. She is being erected by Greg Patterson and his team at Patco Construction.  We're hoping to be in sometime this summer...  We'll keep you posted.

Maine Boats Homes and Harbors

Maine Boats Homes & Harbors Magazine has recently upgraded their website.  Now it's up there in quality with their magazine (which has always been excellent.  We like it so much we are supporting it with a listing in their Coastal Directory Check it out.

Sailmakers wanted

MSP is looking for help.  We have opening for full- or part-time sailmakers.  Here at MSP employees work at all aspects of sail manufacture and repair.  We offer competitive wages, a pleasant work environment, flexible work hours once you're up to speed and generous health, vacation and IRA benefits. If you'd like to apply, send us a resume and put "Sailmaker"in the subject line.

Update:  We've now filled our openings.  Thanks all who responded.

Attention Race Committees

Not much for race committees to do in Maine this time of year, except maybe get a bunch of organizational details out of the way so you don't find you are missing an important piece of the puzzle  in the middle of your big summer regatta.  In addition to a good group of people, running races properly requires collecting a bunch of stuff.  The Desert Sea  - New Mexico Sailing blog has a pretty exhaustive list of what that stuff is. (Thanks to Scuttlebutt for the link)   If you are going to be running a regatta this year, you might want to make a copy of this list as a starting point for your own equipment check list.

On the floor

Here's a few of the sails passing over the table recently

MSP Parking

This is the Maine Sailing Partners parking lot in the valley between the front door and a growing mountain of snow.  Anyone need crew in Key West or Miami?