At Home in a Boathouse
A former coaling station in Casco Bay has been converted into a sunny guesthouse.
By Patrick McManus
Sailors have a thing about water. When they're not sailing on it, they're talking about it. And if they can't actually be out cruising on it, they want to be near it. So when a rustic two-story boathouse situated literally over the blue waters of Casco Bay came up for sale in the early 1990s, it didn't take much to convince one lifelong yachtsman to snap it up.The boathouse and the station-master's house that came with it were both part of a Coast Guard facility built on Little Diamond Island as a coaling station in the late nineteenth century and later used to store and manage the submarine nets that were strung across Casco Bay during World War II.
