Tickets are on sale now for an incredible presentation that we will host at MITA HQ in Portland (100 Kensington St, 2nd floor) on Thursday, April 18 from 6-8pm: “Racing to Alaska: How the Maine Island Trail Led Us to Ketchikan” with Leigh Dorsey and Dameon Colbry. The Race to Alaska is a 750-mile unsupported, motorless boat race from Port Townsend, Washington…
Tickets for Splash!, MITA’s largest annual fundraising event, are on sale now. Click here to buy! Splash! will make its triumphant return on Thursday, May 16 from 6-9pm, and will once again be held at East Coast Yacht Sales in Yarmouth. ECYS is an amazingly appropriate venue…
MITA’s boat donation program has been a great way for both boat donors and buyers to support MITA, and we have certainly had some interesting craft come through the program over the years. Until now, however, we have never had a truly classic wooden yacht donated to…
We’ll be honest. When we first thought of launching a special tee at the MITA Gear Shop to support recovery efforts from January’s catastrophic coastal storms, we didn’t get too crazy with our expectations. We just wanted to do something, however small, to help out. As it…
As we begin a new year, MITA is thrilled to announce a series of enhancements that are designed to make MITA membership more convenient and easier to navigate. Happily, we are announcing these changes without any increase in price for MITA membership. We are constantly striving to keep membership affordable and accessible for all…
We know that the Maine Island Trail is remarkably beautiful. This is not news. But here we are, just totally floored by the photos that made the cut to advance to the final voting round. You can go check them out and vote for as many as you…
We’re so excited to launch the 2030 MITA Photo Contest. Why? Because the Maine Island Trail is strikingly beautiful, and we look forward to seeing it through the eyes of those within our membership you really know how to use a camera. Hamilton Marine is once again presenting…
We’re doing it again, and this time we’re going a little bit bigger… Toast to the Coast, MITA’s summer fundraiser, is returning to WoodenBoat School in Brooklin on July 27 from 5-7pm! Click for tickets and more information. Island views, live music, games, and all-you-can-eat artisanal pizza…
We at MITA love a good contest. Particularly one where the objective is to get out to as many sites on the Maine Island Trail as possible over the course of a full summer… So, we sat down to devise the most epic coastal adventure competition that we…
Wow! After three years of not being able to hold Splash!, you guys came back with force. Tickets are Splash! are completely sold out, and we are so grateful to those of you who will be coming out to the party. Splash! is a huge fundraiser for MITA,…