A full-service marina and boatyard on Penobscot Bay — docking, moorings, hauling, storage and repairs, five minutes from historic downtown Rockland.
Knight Marine Service has been providing Maine's boating community with outstanding service since 1967. We're a full-service boatyard and marina. Looking for a transient slip or mooring? Make a reservation at 207-594-4068 or message us on Facebook.
Our full-service yard is equipped with two Marine Travelifts for hauling out and a hydraulic trailer for boat transportation. We provide winter storage inside or out, and repairs and restorations of all kinds — sanding, painting and outfitting.
Fuel: gas and diesel available May to October. Shrink wrap is an outside contracted service — rates upon request. Local boat delivery: call Sy's Boat Transport, 207-691-6899. We accept checks, Visa and Mastercard.
Large cruising groups welcome — we have a skippers' meeting space for you to use. We've hosted the Marblehead Yacht Club, the New York Yacht Club, and hundreds of boaters who cruise the coast of Maine each year.
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Knight Marine Service is established. Horatio Knight, with his wife Alice, has a vision for the old coal yard and sets out to bring the first marina/boatyard to the Midcoast area.
Horatio purchases the first Marine Travelift and begins hauling and storing boats for the winter.
KMS also starts out as a boat-building operation, with Horatio building his own working tugboat.
A full-service dock is added, with a chandlery and gas and diesel pumps.
Two inside boat-storage buildings are added, along with local boat transportation.
The business flourishes, with over 150 boats stored for the winter.
Horatio passes away, leaving the business in his family's hands. With a capable crew, KMS expands again with a new state-of-the-art Paint, Repair, Varnish building.
The Penobscot Bay Area Chamber of Commerce recognizes KMS with its Commercial/Industrial Improvement Award.
Knight Marine Service continues to look for ways to be a vital and always-improving company, essential to growth in the marine industry.
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Within walking distance is downtown Rockland's Main Street — antique shops, sporting goods, book stores, flowers and gifts, music and art galleries, hardware and kitchenware, motels, clothing, jewelry, photo supplies and much more. It's a 5-minute walk to downtown and a 3-minute walk to a motel with restaurant and lounge.
Rockland is home of the world-famous Farnsworth Museum, shop and homestead, and the new Wyeth Center. The Strand Cinema has two theatres showing first-run movies nightly, and the renovated 1920s-era Strand Theater hosts live concerts and classic films. Explore our working waterfront on Fisherman's Wharf, walk the half-mile boardwalk south of the Public Landing, or walk a mile out the Rockland Breakwater (it might be easier to sail out from KMS!).
Festivals: the Maine Lobster Festival is always the Wednesday to Sunday of the first weekend of August that includes a Saturday. The North Atlantic Blues Festival is the weekend following the 4th of July — the premier event of the area, bringing many boats and many people.
With a car your choices are limitless: Owls Head Transportation Museum is five miles away, Camden is 8 miles north on Route 1, Thomaston 5 miles south, and the Knox County Airport and Owls Head Lighthouse a 10-minute drive. Whatever you like to do — see one of us and we'll help.
