Windjammer Days 2022

Tue, 06/28/2022 - 8:00am

JOSEPH CHARPENTIER

Carriage House owner and chef Kelly Farrin reclaimed his 2021 title for best crab cake. JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

Judges Holly Stover, Amanda Hill and Dana Moos. JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

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Emcee Michele Barter. JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

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Kaler’s Restaurant chef Amy Crooks preps her dish. JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

The first crab cakes come out. JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

Crooks’ dish was the first to be served. JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

Newagen Seaside Inn’s Rick Koplau’s crab cake. JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

News Center Maine’s Amanda Hill. JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

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Mine Oyster’s Delray Bennett’s crab cake. JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

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The chefs emerge. JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

Koplau reclaims the People’s Choice. JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

Farrin wins the cook-off for the second year. JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

Carriage House owner and chef Kelly Farrin reclaimed his 2021 title for best crab cake. JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

Judges Holly Stover, Amanda Hill and Dana Moos. JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

Emcee Michele Barter. JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

Kaler’s Restaurant chef Amy Crooks preps her dish. JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

The first crab cakes come out. JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

Crooks’ dish was the first to be served. JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

Newagen Seaside Inn’s Rick Koplau’s crab cake. JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

News Center Maine’s Amanda Hill. JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

Mine Oyster’s Delray Bennett’s crab cake. JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

The chefs emerge. JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

Koplau reclaims the People’s Choice. JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

Farrin wins the cook-off for the second year. JOSEPH CHARPENTIER/Boothbay Register

Boothbay Harbor Inn hosted the fourth annual crab cake cook-off, Windjammer Days’ first weekday event June 27. Facing off in the kitchen were Amy Crooks of Kaler’s Restaurant, People’s Choice 2021 winner Rick Koplau of Newagen Seaside Inn pub, 2021 winner Kelly Farrin of Carriage House and Delray Bennett of Mine Oyster. Judges were Maine House District 89 Rep. Holly Stover, Channel 6’s Amanda Hill and author, entrepreneur and two-time Claw Down winner Dana Moos.

Over three dozen donors filled the Inn’s waterside function room tables as chefs and cooks prepared their dishes in the back. Emcee Michele Barter guided guests through the checklist, and the first dish of the competition, Crooks’, was served. Hill, Moos and Stover were busy from the start, sampling and taking notes in between dishes. The second dish was by Koplau, the third by Farrin and the fourth by Bennett.

After the last of the dishes were cleared, guests’ checklists were collected and brought to the back to be counted. Farrin and Koplau reclaimed their titles.