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Welcome Aboard!

Welcome to Down East Maine! My name is Capt. Winston Shaw, and I am the owner of Sea Venture Custom Boat Tours located here in Bar Harbor. I would like to invite you to join me aboard my vessel Reflection for a close-up look at world famous Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park.

    I founded Sea Venture Custom Boat Tours in 1995 because I was convinced that my life long love affair with Down East Maine, along with my more than twenty-five years of boating experience in the Mt. Desert Island area, left me extraordinarily well qualified to introduce visitors to a side of Acadia National Park that few folks even know exists!

   Do you, like many other visitors to Acadia National Park, hunger for an authentic Down East experience? Are you tired of "business as usual" commercial boat tours with their canned talks and inflexible itineraries? Then you owe it to yourself to take a close look at the Sea Venture Custom Boat Tour option.

   Simply put, Sea Venture Custom Boat Tours represent a highly personalized and totally private alternative to the crowded and impersonal boat trips you may have taken in the past. Departure times, destinations, and the many other all-important details of your trip are all "custom designed" around your personal interests and timetable.

   Which of the more than thirty enjoyable boat trips I offer is "Just Right" for you is what Sea Venture Custom Boat Tours is all about. In a nutshell, Sea Venture specializes in highly personalized private boat tours for individuals, families, and private groups of up to six people. Rather than be crowded aboard a boat with dozens of people they don't know the folks in your party have the whole boat to themselves and the all-important details of your trip are entirely under your control.

   In short, when you sign up for a Sea Venture Custom Boat Tour I take you where you want to go, when you want to go there, and focus on what you would most like to see and experience during the time you spend on my boat.

For Instance:

• Perhaps you would enjoy observing seals, harbor porpoise, bald eagles and other fascinating wildlife while exploring the surf-laced shorelines and pristine pocket coves of the area's more than fifty uninhabited islands?
  
  
• Or maybe you would rather spend an hour or two cruising quietly through the Porcupine Islands while learning about a few of the many fascinating details of their history dating all the way back to 1604?
  
  
• On the other hand, how about spending a sunny morning photographing a few of the more than one dozen picturesque island lighthouses found in the area? Or a leisurely afternoon photographing a few of the many beautiful sequestered shore-side mansions only visible from the water?
  
  
• Or perhaps you would prefer to spend a few relaxing hours viewing such world famous features of Acadia National Park as Anemone Cave, Schooner Head, Great Head, Sand Beach, Thunder Hole, Monument Cove, and Otter Cliffs from an entirely new "on the water" perspective.

   Whatever your fancy, when you sign up for a Sea Venture Custom Boat Tour your options are nearly endless! Give us a call today and choose from a wide variety of relaxing, educational, and highly affordable trips, each one custom designed around your individual desires, expectations, and timetable.

   Whichever trip you select on the day of your cruise, rest assured that the pace will be relaxed, the tone informal & friendly, the experience, memorable!