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Harraseeket Yacht Club

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Harraseeket Yacht Club is located on the Harraseeket River near the head of Casco Bay in Maine. We are a 250 member (plus children) volunteer organization. Club facilities consist of an extensive float and dinghy tie system, wharf and clubhouse, all maintained by the membership. All members have ties to the local community and are required to contribute to club activities. Our primary purpose is to encourage and promote the sport of boating and the science of seamanship and navigation, particularly through programs of instruction for young people. To this end, we have an extensive summer program of sailing instruction and an active racing schedule. Both are open to non-members.á

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South Freeport – Harraseeket River

43° 49' 37"N , 70° 5' 42"W

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Photo: Courtesy of Eric & Valy - Flying Point Oysters

South Freeport in the Harraseeket River, first settled in 1700, is one of the most sheltered and welcoming harbors on the coast of Maine. Offering easy access to shopping and all your boating needs, South Freeport is Freeport’s water access. Located in the innermost reaches of Casco Bay at the head of Broad Sound, and about 18 miles east of Portland, the harbor offers easy well-marked access in any weather, including thick fog. 

Approach & Cautions

Tidal currents run strong through the small “gut” entrance. The preferred and most clearly marked way in is just to the west of the small island–appropriately labeled Pound of Tea–lying just inside a red flashing buoy marked R “4”. Leave it to starboard and follow the narrow channel leaving three green cans to port guiding you through clear water directly into the harbor. Once past the last green can, head straight down the center of the mooring field, and you’ll find both marinas dead ahead.

There is a “locals only” entrance leaving Pound of Tea to port but don’t try it unless you’re following a returning lobster boat and don’t care if you might nick a wayward ledge.

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As you approach the village, you’ll pass the Harraseeket Yacht Club to port. You cannot reach the yacht club on VHF, though both marinas, Strout’s Point Wharf Company and Brewer , sit on Channel 9. At both marinas, guest moorings are available for hire. Occasionally dock slips may also be available. Before COVID, Brewer ran a launch service that may be up and running again by the time you arrive.

Harraseeket Yacht Club encourages visitors from other yacht clubs to drop by and say hello. Look for their gray shingled clubhouse and dock system closest to the west side entrance, below the Casco Castle, which is all that remains of a grand hotel that was built in 1903 and burned to the ground in 1914. The tower was built from local stone and is all that survived the fire. It stands out as the most prominent village landmark visible from far offshore and is featured on the Harraseeket Yacht Club burgee. HYC has one guest mooring with a capacity for a vessel of not more than 30 feet. Anchoring is not permitted in the harbor.

Ch 9 for Strouts Point and Brewer Yacht club does not monitor VHF

Both marinas have marine diesel & ethanol-free gasoline

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Both marinas are full-service yards and able to obtain ship's stores

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Getting Ashore

Photo: Strouts Point Wharf Company

You can dinghy into both marinas or the yacht club and walk to South Freeport village.

Walking through the village, which was once home to four well-run shipyards, you will pass numerous lovely New England homes where ship captains and their families lived in local splendor. The town has always supported a healthy lobster, clam, crab, and groundfish industry and was once the site of a successful ice farm. You can still see the pilings that mark the outside wall of the tidal ice pond to the left of the Yacht Club, where many boats have fled to escape the ravages of bad storms like 1953’s Hurricane Carol.

Downtown Freeport, home to LL Bean and numerous other shoppers’ delights, is a pleasant 3-mile hike. Freeport Maine Taxi Service offers taxi, limo, tours, and shuttle service–207-303-9113. Uber is also a possibility. Brewer offers a courtesy shuttle to Freeport and the Portland Jetport.

Photo: Courtesy Bow Street Market

Provisioning

The newly rebuilt South Freeport Village Market, which will sport a cafe, local hangout and small grocery store run by the same folks who own Eventide Oyster Bar in Portland, hopes to be open for business by summer.

There are three good markets for shopping in Freeport:

• Bow Street Market is a great small locally-owned shop with friendly, helpful service where you can find almost anything you need, including the best wine and liquor selection outside of Portland
• Shaw’s – your typical large chain store. located south of downtown Freeport on Rt. 1
• Royal River Natural Foods is a wonderful small health food market with good veggies and many specialty items you can’t find elsewhere. Located farther south of Freeport on Rt. 1

Photo: Harraseeket Lunch & Lobster

Harraseeket Lunch and Lobster Co. offers good fresh seafood right on the wharf between the two marinas. The South Freeport Village Market , located just a short walk down Main Street from the marinas, is in the process of reopening under new ownership and should be offering breakfast, lunch, and sundry goods again by the 2023 season.

There are quite a few good restaurants and local brewpubs in Freeport — all worth a visit. Take your choice from Buck’s Naked BBQ ribs and the Maine Beer Company on one end of town to the Harraseeket Inn’s lovely Broad Arrow Pub at the other. In between, you’ll find almost any kind of fare you fancy. And this writer’s favorite local brewery — Mast Landing Brewing –has a taproom in Freeport.

You can buy fresh oysters from Flying Point Oysters direct from Eric & Valy’s house…an easy walk from the marinas up Main Street them straight through onto Pine Street. Their place is just past the graveyard on the left…sign says “Fresh Oysters”…$1/Best deal in town!

Photo: Courtesy of Wolf's Neck Center

Across the river, on Wolfe’s Neck, you can visit a working farm at the Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment . The farm was given to the University of Maine by the Smith family in 1985. It was later turned over to the Wolfe’s Neck Farm Foundation, a nonprofit educational resource and home to the Future Women in Agriculture program where 14- to 16-year-old girls come to study sustainable farming. Nearby is Wolfe’s Neck State Park , with many walking trails leading to the sea.

Photo: Courtesy of LL Bean

Other Things To Do

You can visit the Freeport Historical Society “uptown” and read all about the town’s colorful history. This includes sawmills, brickyards, a granite quarry, and several well-known shoe factories, including Eastland Shoes plus the world-famous LL Bean — still open 24 hours/365 days a year. Another landmark is the 40-acre Desert of Maine recently under new ownership, where you can take a tour of the remarkable naturally-formed desert created 11,000 years ago when a glacier slid through town.

Of course, no visit to Freeport would be complete without a saunter through LL Bean’s flagship store, where you can see trout swimming in a pond under a waterfall and giant moose decorating the walls. Bean regularly offers outdoor summer concerts with some A-list musical guests.

The new Meetinghouse Arts center, housed in the old Congregational Church at 40 Main Street, is home to a lovely local art gallery and performance venue. This summer they’ll mount an exhibit called Our Working Waterfront .

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No visit to the Coast of Maine would be complete without a stop in South Freeport.

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Sign: Bliss Woods Demonstration Forest in South Freeport (2011)

Freeport Harbor (2014) @

The largest of the three villages in the Harraseeket Historic District, South Freeport had its greatest period of development during the shipbuilding boom of the 1850s. Its affluence is reflected in its many Greek Revival style homes. This village is in the coastal area of Freeport , with fine homes overlooking Freeport Harbor on the edge of Casco Bay .  The harbor hosts the Harraseeket Yacht Club and several marine related businesses.

Located twelve miles by water and fifteen miles by land from Portland, the village has a small private school, a historic church and a post office.

Visible from the harbor is a remnant of the early 20th century’s development of attractions accessible by trolleys. The 1903 Casco Castle (on the Historic Register) rises from a wooded area, privately owned, that once was the home to an amusement park. The image at right was taken from Winslow Park, several miles from the Castle.

Casco Castle (2014)

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South Freeport Village has four community buildings clustered near each other on the South Freeport Road at approximately N43° 49′ 22.66″ W70° 6′ 46.52″.

The Village Market (2014)

The French School of Maine (2014)

South Freeport Post Office (2014)

South Freeport Congregational Church (2014)

The Queen Anne style South Freeport Baptist Church is on the Historic Register. Winslow Park, at the end of Staples Point Road, offers a public beach, campsites for recreational vehicles and tents, gentle hiking trails, and fine views of Casco Bay.

Entrance to Winslow Park (2014) @

Sailboats Racing on Casco Bay (2014)

Park Recreation Area  (2014)

Hiking Trail (2014)

Beach at Winslow Park (’14)

Harraseeket Yacht Club is south of the town landing, boat yard and marina, on the Harraseeket River with access to Casco Bay.

The Yacht Club (2014)

Yacht Clubhouse (2014) @

Boat Yard/Marina (’14) @

Additional resources

Freeport Historical Society. “The Story of Casco Castle. ” http://freeporthistoricalsociety.org/the-story-of-casco-castle (accessed August 1, 2014)

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2023 Junior Regatta Update:

We’re hosting a MIRC (Maine Inter-Club Racing Circuit), July 19th in lieu of our annual Junior Regatta.  MIRCs  are one line, two fleets (Opti & C420,) one day (10:30-3:30) bring your own lunch, and no spinnakers.  Boats and competitors primarily arrive by water and those who arrive by land will be using our boats.  This model is similar to High School and Collegiate racing.

We will need a limited number of volunteers.  More details to come about that.

We plan to resume our annual two-day Junior Regatta next summer.  We have a couple of possible dates when tides are most favorable:

July 15th – 17th or July 29th – 31 st , 2024.  The Club is seeking new volunteers to take primary responsibility for running the event.  Peg Selian and Susan Tananbaum are happy to help mentor these leaders.

If you are interested in chairing or co-chairing the 2024 event or have any questions, please contact Ethan Dobrow (Sailing Program Chair) or Peter Selian (Race Chair.)