Portland Pudgy

06/09/2026

Fender color swatches!

https://portlandpudgy.com/product-category/fenders/

06/07/2026

Portland Pudgys Around the World!

Many of you have probably recognized the tropical anchorages, remote islands, and bright orange sail appearing in our posts over the past couple of years.

A special thank you goes to Maryanne and Kyle Webb aboard SV Footprint, who have generously shared photos and stories from their travels throughout the Pacific and beyond. Their images have inspired countless sailors and dreamers—including us. They stopped in along the way to our shop here in Maine to get a new lifeboat canopy.

Those photos also inspired a new project:

🌎 Portland Pudgies Around the World

Explore the map and add your Pudgy⁠!

The map shows where Portland Pudgys have traveled, from local harbors to distant cruising grounds. Every pin represents an owner, an adventure, and a story.

The best part? You can add your own Pudgy directly to the map.

Just visit the page, upload a photo, drop a pin, and tell us where your Pudgy was at the time.

Whether your adventures are in Maine, the Bahamas, New Zealand, Alaska, Fiji, or your favorite hometown anchorage, we’d love to see them represented.

Our goal is simple: build a living map of the Portland Pudgy community and the places these little boats have taken us.

And once again, thank you to Maryanne and Kyle for years of generosity, inspiration, and some of the most recognizable Pudgy photos in the world.

📍 Add your Pudgy.
📸 Share your photos.
⛵ Help us fill in the map.

Share Your Portland Pudgy Adventure Portland Pudgies have traveled from Maine to anchorages around the world. Add your Portland Pudgy to the map and help us show where these boats go in real life. Upload a photo, choose an approximate location, and tell us how you use your Pudgy — as a tender, sai...

06/03/2026

🌊🌀⛵️

From white caps to mellow days, the Pudgy’s stable, reliable, and safe.

06/02/2026

Many folks ask about beach wheels for the Portland Pudgy. We tried several options to mount on the transom, but the curvature and the flexibility of the plastic makes it not ideal for mounting wheels. We bought one of these kayak carts from VEVOR and found out that it is really a good fit and decent quality. The rails can be adjusted to fit right into the slots on the bottom of the Pudgy. We don’t make any money on this link, it’s just here as a suggestion for current owners:

VEVOR kayak cart with 350 lb capacity features 12'' tires for all terrains, adjustable width, and foldable design for easy transport and storage.

06/02/2026

Most sailors started exactly where you are.
Staring at pictures of boats on the internet.
Ask us how we can make it easy for you to be sailing literally next weekend.

A rugged rotomolded rigid dinghy that delivers the stability of an inflatable with the durability of a hard-shell hull.

06/01/2026

Buy it this week. Sail it next weekend.
Hand it down someday.

We love this pic Donald Spence sent us of him and his grandson in their yellow Portland Pudgy!

06/01/2026

A Portland Pudgy in her natural habitat.

Diane Mawhinney and Gregory Roscoe spend much of their time cruising the islands of Casco Bay and Penobscot Bay aboard Tardigrade, their Diesel Duck 48 designed by George Buehler and built by Gregory Roscoe.

Behind her, as tender and exploration boat, is their Portland Pudgy.

Diane says they use the Pudgy for “gunkholing” around the unspoiled islands of Maine — reaching the quiet coves, rocky shorelines, and hidden places that make cruising here so special.

This is exactly what the Pudgy was built for: a tough, stable, capable little boat that earns its place behind a serious cruising vessel.

Thanks to Diane and Gregory for sharing the photo of Tardigrade and their Pudgy.

Row. Motor. Sail. Explore.

05/31/2026

We’re testing a new map: Portland Pudgies Around the World!

If you have a Portland Pudgy photo from your travels, we’d love for you to try adding it to the map.

Upload a photo, choose an approximate location, and tell us where your Pudgy has been — tender duty, sailing, rowing, cruising, beach landings, kids, dogs, weird docks, remote anchorages, all of it.

We’ll review submissions before they appear publicly. Please use an approximate location if you don’t want to share an exact spot.

Try it here:

Share Your Portland Pudgy Adventure Portland Pudgies have traveled from Maine to anchorages around the world. Add your Portland Pudgy to the map and help us show where these boats go in real life. Upload a photo, choose an approximate location, and tell us how you use your Pudgy — as a tender, sai...

05/29/2026

TODAY
Scroll through sailboat photos.

WEDNESDAY
Install a hitch. (At U-Haul)

THURSDAY
Assemble trailer. (Arrived by UPS)

FRIDAY
Boat arrives

SATURDAY
Push off.

Not every boating dream requires a marina, a mooring, a truck, or years of planning.

05/29/2026

Fair winds in 2026! Look forward to seeing you guys out there!

Every season on the first trip, I’m reminded and delighted at how well the sails. This year in particular she seems faster than ever!