Frenchman Bay

Vessels of all types have plied the waters f Frenchman Bay for centuries. Five thousand years ago, indigenous people may have paddled dugout canoes into the bay to reach fishing grounds or hunt sea mammals and swordfish. More recently, Wabanaki ...

The view of Frenchman Bay

All the mountains that you see are part of Acadia National Park

The Age of Sail lingered into the 1900s as sailing ships proved more economical than steamships for carrying heavy cargos such as granite.

Generations of watercraft ply the bay for ...