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The Southern Maine Coast has the best beaches, but not necessarily the best harbors for boaters due to its open exposed shores. Here are some of the best Marinas, Harbors and Anchorages in Maine to take your boat for the day, an overnight or a week’s sailing voyage, with protection from the open Atlantic Ocean, beautiful views, friendly folks and perhaps even a lobster dinner for your crew.

Watching lobster boats glide along picking up their traps and seeing grand lighthouses shine their beacon of light is best viewed from the water via boat, power or sail, paddle or put-put. The dramatic shoreline and glittery granite shoals meet the brilliant blue sea where waves caress the coast. 10.Mainers know the best way to see the Maine coast is by boat. It will begin daily crossings on June 24 and continue daily runs until its final sail on Oct. Nova Scotia’s contract with Bay Ferries runs until 2026.Ĭurrently, the CAT ferry runs four days a week. The CAT has an operating budget of about $17 million this year. Nova Scotia taxpayers have paid millions of dollars for the vessel, even while it wasn’t in service. The ferry's first trip back in service was on May 19. The CAT ferry sat idle for about three years due to a lack of a terminal in Bar Harbor, Maine in 2019, followed by two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company said in a news release Friday that its reason for declining to provide daily updates was because it is not in the company's agreement with the province to do so, and it would "create an impossible working environment for our company and its people."

"We are hoping to give the service its best chance of success in this ever-changing economic environment but also respect the needs and priorities of the government." "That said, if shorter-term reporting on actual passenger and vehicle traffic is a priority, we will work with your department to develop a reporting structure which addresses this need in some reasonable fashion," read the email from Bay Ferries. However, in an email to the Department of Public Works Thursday night, Bay Ferries said it was concerned about releasing early numbers because the company is in a "rebuild mode" and didn't want early-season data to be misinterpreted as indicative of overall prospects. If Bay Ferries will not be fully transparent, we certainly will be." "This is why we are providing these numbers directly today. "Our government feels very strongly that Bay Ferries owes it to Nova Scotians to be fully transparent about how the service is performing," Masland said. Last week, the company said they had sold 15,000 tickets so far, with the majority of those trips happening in July and August.īAY FERRIES DECLINES TO RELEASE NUMBERS: MASLANDĪccording to Masland, she decided to release Bay Ferries' passenger numbers after the company declined to provide daily updates on its website moving forward. Of the total number of passengers, 1,661 people took the trip from Maine to Yarmouth, while 1,227 people travelled from Yarmouth to Maine.īay Ferries says a total of 1,323 also made the crossing during that period. She says Bay Ferries Limited, the company that operates the CAT ferry, provided the data to the Department of Public Works Thursday night.Īccording to Bay Ferries numbers, between May 19 and June 16, a total of 2,888 people have taken the ferry trip. In a news release Friday, Kim Masland said she decided to release the ridership numbers for the ferry's season so far. The Nova Scotia government released passenger numbers for the CAT ferry's first month back in service, a day after the province's public works minister told reporters the government wouldn't post them until the end of the season.