Our Acadia National Park Boat Tours
- most popular!
End your day on a high note by watching the sunset over Mount Desert Island from the sea. As the day winds down, the sea breeze typically subsides, creating a peaceful sailing experience with stunning views of Acadia National Park. Book your sail online!
- All ages
- 3 hours
The afternoon is usually the windiest, providing a brisk sail to take us further afield. Depending on the wind direction, we may head to the Cranberry Islands, out the Western Way, or up Somes Sound. Book online today!
- All ages
- 3 hours
This summer, we’ll be sailing from our home port of Southwest Harbor, Maine. Let us show you why we love this place so much! There is no set route, we sail according to the wind and your interests.
- All ages
- 3 hours
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Ambergris’ Story
Captain Patrick Reilly was a sailor in search of a ship.
He had grown up sailing in Maine and started working boats as a teenager. By the time he was 18, he had earned his USCG captain’s license and started working as a yacht captain, sailing all over the world. He also had several boats of his own, the latest of which he had recently sold in Central America.
He found the Ambergris in Florida where she had been lying for the past 10 years. She was a bare hull with a half-rotten foremast, but her steel construction was sound and with a lot of work Patrick saw that she would be a fine sea boat.
Patrick, his partner Erin and their friends motored the Ambergris over to the Bahamas for the rest of the winter where they scraped off the barnacles from her bottom, reinforced the rotten mast and built a jury rig to sail her back to Maine.
That summer they worked on new masts and rigging for the Ambergris, making her seaworthy before sailing back to the Caribbean. Since then they have sailed thousands of more miles aboard the Ambergris between the Caribbean and her summer home in Maine.
How We Board the Ambergris for the Acadia Boat Tour
The Ambergris will be waiting for us on her mooring out in the harbor. To get out to her, we’ll take our ship’s boat, which was originally a lifeboat for a fishing boat from Newfoundland. To get aboard the Ambergris, we’ll climb a short ladder up the ship’s side.
Please let us know if you have mobility issues and we’ll do our best to accommodate.
We’ll meet here. Our office at 172 Clark Point Road
The ship’s boat
The ladder to board the Ambergris
The ship’s boat
The ladder to board the Ambergris
We’ll meet here. Our office at 172 Clark Point Road