Join us at Peter Trout’s Tavern in Manset for History Happy Hour! Gather over good eats and good times to learn something new about our shared history. Food and drink will be available for purchase.
This month, we take a break from historical trivia, and welcome local artist, writer, and boat designer, Art Paine, to share tales and images in "Regatta in Paradise." Art will share the sixty-four-year history of the Out Islands Regatta of the Bahamas. Wooden boats, cotton sails, handmade hulls, and admirable men, women boys, and girls, sailing beautiful traditional boats. A colorful and warm visual respite from the winter blahs.
Over 40 rough-built wooden sailboats showed up and competed for cash prizes at the first race in 1954, founded as a contest between the Bahamas’ rustic fishing and freight sailing vessels. The Regatta has been running ever since, occurring at the end of Lent, before the beginning of the crawfishing season. Currently upwards of 70 boats show up at what is now called the National Family Island Regatta, still considered the most beautiful sailing event in the world among marine artists
Art Paine has been designing, building, racing, writing about, and painting pictures of boats up and down the Maine coast for over four decades. He is a contributing author for Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors, and Wooden Boat magazines. More about Art: https://artpaine.com/about