Trips at a glance
Every trip is private. Just your group, the captain, and sometimes Mavis the dog.
45 minutes east of Acadia.
Acadia National Park hosts almost four million visitors a year. Drive 45 minutes east and the coast turns back into what it has always been: granite islands, working lobster boats, seals hauled out on the ledges.
This is the Downeast coast, some of the least developed shorefront on the Eastern Seaboard. Passengers say it's like stepping back in time. It's more like stepping away from time.
" The best boat trip I've had since I was three."
Lewella, age 10
Your captain is also your naturalist, historian, and cook.
Jon Keller is a U.S. Coast Guard licensed captain, a published novelist, and a former wilderness guide who learned these waters working as a sternman on a lobster boat. Every trip comes with the ecology, history, and culture of the Downeast coast built in.
The boat is Polaris Jack, a 26-foot Bristol Channel Cutter: a blue-water classic famed for her simple beauty and remarkable seaworthiness.
