Eastport Windjammers of Eastport, Maine Yankee Magazine's 2004 Travel Guide to New England Editor's Choice HOME SYLVINA W. BEAL SCHOONER CRUISES Halie & Matthew SCHOONER CRUISES QUODDY DAM SALTWATER FISHING CHARTER & GROUP TOURS

Enjoy a cruise on the new schooner Halie & Matthew.

Schooner Cruises, Saltwater Fishing, and SummerKeys Water Taxi Tickets
available at Sylvina W. Beal Gift Shop, 104 Water Street, Head of the Breakwater.
207-853-2500

SummerKeys Ferry to Lubec begins Wednesday, June 25, 2008, and continues each Wednesday this summer. The Ferry will leave the Eastport Breakwater each Wednesday at 6:30 PM and return following the concert. All concerts begin at 7:30 PM. Season passes (10 trips) are $120. Single tickets, in advance: $14; on the boat: $17 (depending on space). Season passes and single tickets may be purchased at the Sylvina W. Beal ticket office or on the boat.

2 Daily Cruises from Historic Downtown Eastport
Whale Watching: 1:30 - 4:30 PM      Sunset: 7 - 9 PM Times for all Eastport Windjammers cruises and fishing trips are subject to change.
Sylvina W. Beal All Cruises
To sail aboard the 50 passenger Sylvina W. Beal is to step back in time. Passengers are encouraged to "pitch in and help hoist the sails" or they may relax and enjoy the quiet cruise. Passengers may bring along a picnic lunch and are encouraged to bring extra clothing because it may become cool on the open deck. You'll enjoy having your binoculars and camera. The pictures will be worth a thousand words.

Captain Butch Harris knows these waters well. After being born in Eastport, Captain Butch's early memories at about the age of three are of the joy of boarding the Quoddy Dam most summer mornings with his father for a day of fishing. After obtaining his 100-ton captain's license, he has worked on and captained a number of vessels. During the past eighteen summers he has been the captain of the Quoddy Dam fishing trips and the whale watching excursions while the rest of each year was spent in the fishing and aquaculture industries. Since his entire life has been spent on the Eastport waters, he is an expert at navigation as well as extremely well-versed in the creatures who live in and around these oceans.

Sylvina W. Beal Whale Watching Cruise
Adults: $35.      12 and under: $18.
This 3-hour plus cruise leaves the Eastport Breakwater Pier in historic downtown Eastport at 1:30 PM and sails past Old Sow through Head Harbor Passage to East Quoddy Lighthouse. Nature is at her best in this area as you approach the whale feeding grounds. Bald eagles soar while seals and porpoises frolic in the waves. Osprey and puffins are often seen. The scenery is spectacular!

Sylvina W. Beal Sunset Cruise
Adults: $25.      12 and under: $15.
This 2-hour cruise leaves the Eastport Breakwater Pier in historic downtown Eastport at 7 PM for a romantic sail into the sunset. The Sylvina W. Beal will go wherever the winds take her as you marvel at the spectacle of colors while the sun sets across the water and disappears behind the hills. A variety of birds and sea creatures will be seen, all enhanced by the setting sun.

Sylvina W. Beal Charter Cruises
Charter your own special cruise aboard the Sylvina W. Beal. Your school group, company, land trust, family, and friends will enjoy a bird watching trip, scenic trip, sunset sail, or whale watching trip. Leaving downtown Eastport, we sail the waters between Eastport and Campobello Island, amid spectacular scenery and plentiful wildlife. Call us soon to schedule your special trip.

Sylvina W. Beal History
The Sylvina W. Beal is a knockabout schooner, a type of schooner without a bowsprit. (A spar projecting forward from the bow of a vessel.) She was built with long bow overhangs to allow easier handling at wharves and prevent loss of life at sea caused by men being washed off the bowsprit when furling heavy sails in bad weather. McManus in Essex, Massachusetts first used this design in 1901 when designing the schooner Helen B. Thomas. This design replaced the prominent bowsprits called "Widow-Makers," was fast, and very seaworthy.

The Sylvina W. Beal was built in East Boothbay Harbor, Maine in 1911 at the Frank J. Adams Yard. She was built for Charles H. Beal of Beals Island and named for his wife Sylvina W. (Alley) Beal of Jonesport whom he had married on 17 November 1887. Launched as a two-masted 84-foot wooden fishing schooner, she fished as both a herring and mackerel seiner. She was also used as a seafood cargo carrier until she was converted to a windjammer passenger schooner in 1981. In 2002 she left Downeast Windjammer and Captain Steve Pagels in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, for her new berth in Eastport with Captain Butch Harris. The boat has also been used as a setting in two movies, Amistad(1997) and Age of Innocence(1993).

     Length Overall - 84'   Draft - 8'    Beam - 17'   Cargo - 60 Tons    Sail Area - 2,200 square feet
    Tons - 46 gross tons    Hull - Wood    Rigging - Gaff Rig, Two-Masted   Displacement - 80 tons

Photos of the Eastport area and the Sylvina W. Beal
can be purchased from local photographer Don Dunbar.