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Man of the Hour Gallery

Southeastern Canada is definitely an off-the-beaten-course destination, one that bursts with harbors and history from the border of Maine up to Newfoundland and beyond. In other, more popular cruising destinations like the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, you might cruise by in a sleek new motoryacht to enflame the envy of everyone ashore. But up in this part of the world, it is a boat's own
  • By Mike Smith
  • October 1, 2007
<p>Freddie is spiffed up now and still standing proud.</p>

Freddie is spiffed up now and still standing proud.

Fine food and service is part of the charter package aboard Fredrikstad.

The main saloon includes both dining and sitting areas.

It’s hard to imagine such elegant meals coming out of this small of a galley.

The accommodations for guests are comfortable, and they are decorated in keeping with the boat’s strong maritime history.

Note the colorful line wrapped around the bedpost – it’s used as a decorative element and to soften the surface, should someone bump into it.

Fredrikstad’s helm still has a classic atmosphere, though the instrumentation here is all modernized.

To the uninformed Freddie still looks like a workboat – a good thing for charterers who covet privacy.

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The 102-foot explorer yacht Beothuk navigating calm, ice-filled Arctic waters surrounded by massive icebergs and dark overcast skies.

Chasing History

A photo collage featuring nine different coastal and harbor scenes, including city skylines, historic Victorian architecture, lighthouses, a pelican perched on a dock, the Brooklyn Bridge at sunset, sailboats in a marina, and scenic coastal cliffs.

Home-Port Advantage

A vintage-style illustration split into two contrasting scenes. On the left, a teenage boy looks down into a tiny, open 13-foot wooden motorboat filled with supplies. On the right, a massive steel-hulled naval warship cruises past under a dramatic sky.

A Boy and a Boat

A close-up, high-angle shot looking into the open drawers of a bright green mechanic's toolbox filled with tools. The shallow top drawer is in sharp focus, neatly organizing a socket wrench ratchet, long chrome extension bars, and a row of round sockets. The drawer below it is slightly out of focus, revealing open-end wrenches, hex keys, and additional smaller sockets nestled in black foam tray inserts.

Life Aboard: Carrying Cost

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If you ride from the main part of town to Anse Source D'Argent Beach, you'll pass a park where the locals still use oxen power to grind coconuts out of their shells.

Outside In Gallery

Into the Abyss Page 3

Patriot’s Paradise Page 13

Core material, with closely spaced bleeder holes (not visible) drilled through, is primed with resin and stuck into the putty before the vacuum bag (rolled up, above workmen) is applied.

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