Every August, the Winter Harbor Lobster Festival draws a large crowd of spectators. It is a fun filled day with many scheduled events. Watch the ever popular lobster boat races, with 13 classes rated by size and power, shop at the craft fair with 80+ exhibitors, eat a Maine lobster dinner and stay for the late afternoon parade.

  
          

 

August 9, 2008, Second Saturday in August

"Lobsters, Breakfasts, Craft Fair, Parade and more"

 

44th Annual Lobster Festival Activities include:

  • 8:00AM Annual George Schaefer Memorial Road Race

  • 9AM-5PM Craft Fair with over 80 crafters - Peninsula CSD Grammar School
  • 10AM-12PM Lobster Boat Races  Henry Cove, Winter Harbor
  • 11AM-3PM Lobster Feast with live entertainment

Peninsula CSD Grammar School Ball Field

(lobster, corn on the cob, dessert, coleslaw, & drinks)

           There will be a variety of other foods available, such as coffee, muffins, sandwiches, French fries, cotton candy, kettle corn, nachos, and sno-cones.

          

Line up at the Golf Course

Come for a day of family fun. No admission charge.  

Participants in 2006, 42nd Annual Winter Harbor Lobster Festival Parade

Governor Baldacci
Pat LaMarche - Candidate for Governor
Chandler Woodcock - Candidate for Governor
Ken Fredette- State Senate Candidate
Scott D'Ambroise - Candidate for Congress
Truth Young with horses
Winter Harbor Police Department
Greyhound Placement Service (2 Units)
Shrine Drum & Bugle Corps
State Representative Earl Bierman
Winter Harbor Fire Department
Gouldsboro Fire Department
Girl Scouts - Winter Harbor/Gouldsboro
Girl Scouts - Franklin
Lobster Boats
Hancock County Democrats (4 Units)
Hancock County GOP (4 Units)
 NASCAR Unit
American Legion Post #207 (6 Units)
EBS Boom Truck
Rolfe Towing
Health Link
Keith Young - Fire Truck
Therapy Dogs
Town Auto Sales (2 Units)
TOPS
A. R. Whitten & Sons
Maine's Sweetheart
Morrison Chevrolet
1957 Chevy
Miss Downeast
Pine Tree Princesses
Mandalla Farm with horse & wagon
Winter Harbor Garage
County Ambulance
John Banes and his antique car
Sorrento Fire Department
Sullivan Fire Department
State Senator Dennis Damon
Hancock Fire Department
Thing 1 & 2
Gouldsboro Rec Department
Grand Marshals -
Kelly and Kate Pontrbiand and Horses
JACK (Justice for Autism through Community Kindness)
Ellsworth ATA Blackbelt Academy
Hog Bay Berries
Paul Tracy Family
McKay McLean
please watch this list for much more to come!

"To Volunteer" call Pam Broderick at (207) 963-2547 or email at brodfish@verizon.net

Download

Schoodic Area Chamber of Commerce Craft Fair Application  2008

42nd Annual Winter Harbor Lobster Festival Parade Entrance Application 2006

5th Annual George Schaefer Memorial Road Race at Schoodic Point 2006    

Downloads are in Microsoft Word .doc format only.

 
 

 

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