A few years ago, moving to Mid-Coast Maine and keeping a career based in Boston, New York, or San Francisco meant a real compromise. Today it increasingly means no compromise at all. Remote and hybrid work have changed who can live in Rockport, Camden, Rockland, and the surrounding towns, and the shift has brought a...
Of all the landmarks along Penobscot Bay, few reward a visitor as generously for so little effort as the Rockland Breakwater. It costs nothing, it takes under an hour, and it delivers one of the best views in Mid-Coast Maine: nearly a mile of granite walked straight out into the harbor, ending at a working...
Waterfront is the reason most buyers come to Mid-Coast Maine in the first place. A lot with a view of Penobscot Bay, a dock on a tidal cove, a lawn that runs down to a quiet pond in Union or Hope: these are the properties that generate the most interest and, often, the most confusion....
Summer gets most of the attention in Mid-Coast Maine, and understandably so, but a growing number of our returning guests will tell you that fall is when this coast is at its most beautiful. The crowds thin out, the light turns gold and low across Penobscot Bay, and the hills behind Camden and Rockport put...
Most conversations about moving to Mid-Coast Maine focus on retirees and second-home buyers, and for good reason. But there is a quieter migration happening alongside that one: young families who have decided that the trade-offs of coastal Maine life are exactly the ones they want to make. They are choosing a slower pace, a more...
There is a reason the name of this company is Sail Away Maine. Penobscot Bay is one of the great sailing grounds of the entire eastern seaboard, a vast and island-studded body of water that has shaped the life and culture of this coast for centuries. Dennis and Kami of our own team sail the...
“Maine-00067 – Owls Head” by Dennis Jarvis is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Just south of Rockland, a small peninsula reaches out into Penobscot Bay, ending in a rocky headland that the early mariners thought resembled an owl’s head. The town that grew up there took the name, and today Owls Head is home to...
A vacation home on the coast of Maine is one of those ideas that arrives quietly and then refuses to leave. Maybe it started with a week in a rental cottage above Penobscot Bay, or a long weekend in Camden that ended with you driving back south already planning the next trip. At some point...
A vacation cottage above Penobscot Bay sounds like the destination itself. And it is. But for guests who stay in the Samoset Village oceanview cottages managed by Sail Away Maine Realty in Rockport, the cottage turns out to be something more than a destination. It’s a starting point, a home base, a place to come...
There’s a version of retirement that looks something like this: a morning walk to the farmers market in a town you actually know, a round of golf on a course that looks out over a bay full of sailing vessels, an afternoon kayak to a quiet cove, dinner at a restaurant where the lobster came...