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Sandy Martin completed her first oil painting at age 13, opened her own studio at 16, and by 22 was apprenticing at one of Rockport, Massachusetts' most respected galleries. More than five decades later, the Wolfeboro artist will share her work at the New Hampshire Boat Museum (NHBM) on Thursday, July 9, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.... Read More

On Thursday, June 25, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., the New Hampshire Boat Museum (NHBM) will host Junior Skippers Lake Discovery Day. A free program designed for kids in kindergarten through the fifth grade, “Does it Float?” is the theme of June’s session.... Read More

Walk in with a stack of lumber. Walk out with a boat you built yourself. Spaces are still available for the New Hampshire Boat Museum’s Youth, Family, and Adult Boat Building Class on Saturday, July 11 through Sunday, July 19 at the museum's Wolfeboro campus, 399 Center Street.... Read More

The New Hampshire Boat Museum (NHBM) will host "An Evening with NHBM Member Artists" on Thursday, June 11, 2026, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at its Moultonborough Campus.... Read More

The New Hampshire Boat Museum (NHBM) will offer Children's Story Hour in collaboration with the Moultonborough Public Library on three Thursdays this summer: June 11, July 9, August 6, and September 10 from 11:00 a.m. to noon.... Read More

In the spring of 1945, a small Florida pleasure-craft company named Correct Craft built 406 wooden Storm Boats for the U.S. War Department in just 19 days—working around the clock, but never on Sundays. Those 17-foot plywood assault craft, powered by purpose-built 50-horsepower Evinrude outboards, carried American soldiers across the Rhine River and helped bring World War II to a close.... Read More

Outboard motor collector and historian Larry Stevenson will open the free Hulls and Hops Speaker Series at the New Hampshire Boat Museum (NHBM) on Wednesday, June 24, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., with a lecture titled The History of Storm Boats and Storm Boat Motors in WWII.... Read More

The little boats with the big following are coming back to Wolfeboro. On Saturday, August 15, 2026, the Back Bay Skippers Model Yacht Club will host the annual Sasquatch Footy Regatta at Back Bay, where the smallest class of radio-controlled sailboat takes on one of the most spirited one-day races in New England.... Read More

The New Hampshire Boat Museum (NHBM) will host the 50th Annual Alton Bay Boat Show on Saturday, August 9 from 9:00 a.m. to noon at the Alton Bay Town Docks. The free public event marks a half-century of celebrating New Hampshire’s freshwater boating heritage and is among the longest-running vintage boat shows in the region.... Read More

Ask anyone who spent a childhood summer in New Hampshire what "going up to camp" means, and the answer is rarely a definition—it is a memory. The slap of a screen door at dusk. The smell of pine on a sun-warmed dock. A wooden runabout idling up to the boathouse as the loons call across the water.... Read More