Sailing in Phippsburg Maine.

Up here in Maine the summer lasts about 8 weeks in a good year, so within this short window of time one has a limited hours to enjoy the outdoors. What do I do? I sail, both for pleasure and for competition. Specifically in Phippsburg Maine, a wonderful peninsula to spend summers on as well as winters for the rugged. A rural town, with a population of approximately 2000 year round that balloons to 5000-6000 in the summer. Waterfront property can still be found as low as 500K and with Popham Beach State Park offering a 2 mile sandy beach to enjoy as long as you can withstand the refreshing mid 60's water temps on a good day :) the penninsula remainls reletively undiscovered and within an hours commute to Portland.

For the sailor out there, the sailboats pictured are Small Point One Design's a 19 foot sloop that was designed in the 30's by Sterling Burgess, designer of America's Cup sailboats including the Ranger in 1937. A wood framed, sloop rigged vessel with a heavy lead/iron keel, the Small Point fleet races every Wednesday and Saturday in July and August and on a good day we get about 15 plus boats on the starting line. Racing off of Cape Small, the competition can be fierce, but always fun.