Visit the Boothbay region anytime during the month of August to participate in the Maritime Mystery Tour organized by the Boothbay Region Maritime Foundation.

These tiny wooden pot buoys represent the Boothbay Region fishing fleet. One hundred of them will be given away during the month of August to the first 100 people that solve seven mysteries on the Maritime Mystery Tour. The tour is a celebration of the Boothbay Region Fisheries Collection, a community sourced collection of fishing related photos. The project is the result of a collaboration among the Boothbay Region Maritime Foundation, the Penobscot Marine Museum, and the Boothbay Region Historical Society. Organizations, including the Department of Marine Resources, the Boothbay Harbor Memorial Library, and the Boothbay Register, as well as individuals have loaned their photos so that they may be scanned for this important digital resource. The collection will be available free online for all to see.

There are 19 mystery locations in the mystery tour. The sites included represent historically-important fishing-related businesses or services in the Boothbay, Boothbay Harbor and Southport area. Three of them are only accessible by boat. Visit the Boothbay Region Maritime Foundation website and click on the clues to see a historical photo of each mystery location. Use your skills of deduction to see if you can determine where the present-day site is. The historical description of the business and the physical features in the photo will test your local history knowledge. If you are a visitor to the area, no worries, map clues are provided that will take you directly to the sites. The most important thing is to have fun transporting yourself back through time for a glimpse of what life in an active fishing community used to be like. Verify you have solved the mysteries with an online album of selfies that you take at each location. When your seven photos have been shared with the Boothbay Region Maritime Foundation you will be given the GPS coordinates of a pick up site for your prize. The Mystery Tour begins on Aug. 1 and ends Aug. 31. Registration is required. Please visit the foundation’s website to register and for all game rules, mysteries and clues.

Boothbay Region Maritime Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Its mission is to preserve working waterfront and the maritime heritage of the Boothbay region. You can visit the foundation website for more information, https://www.boothbayregionmaritimefoundation.org/