Russet beams, shoreside dreams.

By Colin W. Sargent

Maine is full of mysterious structures, many of them valuable assets. But few capture the imagination the way a boathouse can.

Behind closed doors, beating hearts await release across ocean, lake, or pond. Even the beautiful ruins of boathouses enchant us with the possibilities of secret treasures dreaming of escape from winter shelters. Runabouts, luscious and lapstrake. Rum runners, Johnson Sea Horses, MerCruisers.

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