Boat builders Festival in Boothbay Harbor, Maine

Boatbuilding in Maine is a big and old tradition. If you google it, you'll come up with more responses than I care to make links to, but here are a couple of builders with old histories and beautiful boats (if you think a tugboat can be beautiful, and I do). Hodgdon Yachts, one of the oldest yards in America, builders of luxury yachts, and Washburn & Doughty, a tugboat building company