NEW BEDFORD — Azorean whaleboats will do battle against their American counterparts as the seventh International Azorean Whaleboat Regatta returns to New Bedford Harbor Sept. 4-8. "People who are into ...

NEW BEDFORD – More than a decade after its Casa dos Botes (boathouse) was demolished due to the expansion of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, the Azorean Maritime Heritage Society’s quest of finding a ...

NEW BEDFORD — Boatbuilder, author, seafarer Bruce Halabisky will explore the rich heritage of the Azorean whaleboat during a Sailors’ Series talk at the New Bedford Whaling Museum on Oct. 17.

NEW BEDFORD — After nearly seven years of having staff meetings in random city rooms and transporting 3,000-pound whaleboats from one temporary site to another, the Azorean Maritime Heritage Society ...

The VII International Azorean Whaleboat Regatta will sail into history, when Azorean whaleboats race against its American counterparts for the first time. “As far as we know, they never raced together ...

In 1987, the whaleboat Maria Armanda took to the sea for one last hunt. Though whaling had officially ended in the Azores several years prior, the men whose livelihoods had depended on it could not ...