About

At OffCenterHarbor.com, our mission is to provide authentic know-how for boaters worldwide, while inspiring the use of well-designed boats to connect with friends, family and the natural world.

As we set out on this path, we also hope that we help parents and grandparents introduce their kids and grandkids to the freedom and self-reliance available on the water in a well-designed boat. If so, OffCenterHarbor.com has been a success.

Maynard Bray

Maritime Historian

Few people in the world have devoted as much time and energy, or have become more knowledgeable about classic boats, than Maynard Bray. After a dozen years of marine engineering at Electric Boat and Bath Iron Works… Read More

Benjamin Mendlowitz

Marine Photographer

Benjamin Mendlowitz is one of America’s preeminent marine photographers. He is known throughout the world for his enduring Calendar of Wooden Boats, now in its 30th year, and for his work in various nautical publications… Read More

Eric Blake

Boatbuilder / Designer / Instructor

Eric Blake was born into a long line of dairy farmers and wood cutters in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. He started building canoes in his father’s shop when old enough to run a table saw. After graduating from… Read More

Bill Mayher

Maritime Writer

Bill Mayher started sailing wooden boats when wood was pretty much all there was. He has kept his faith in traditional watercraft through changing times, first working in yards and then owning and maintaining a long succession… Read More

Steve Stone

Filmmaker

Steve Stone studied documentary filmmaking and character animation at California Institute of the Arts.  Long before taking up filmmaking though, when Steve was ten, his dad came home from the office one day with a… Read More