Sea Escape Cottages & Charters

Specialties

Sea Escape is a home away from home for you to relax.

Since 1985 our family has offered you a cozy place to get away on a very special island.

Enjoy the amazing ocean views from your own front porch and cook fresh lobsters in your kitchen. Take day trips hiking, sailing, fishing, touring and shopping and come home to watch the sun set at a warm camp fire. Our four cottages and three suites are clean and well kept with a rolling lawn to the sea shore. We also offer an opportunity to see Casco Bay from the water on a sight seeing charter or sailing cruise on our Schooner ALERT or Ketch TEVAKE.

History

Established in 1985.

Donna and Les McNelly bought the cottages in 1985 and became the hosts. It was a leap of faith they have never regretted. In 1985 wild brush and sumac grew above your head right up to the porches with a narrow path to the Oceanside deck. Les, the human skidder, improved the view rapidly. The McNellys came up with the name «Sea Escape» because that is how it felt. It has been an ongoing effort to keep the cottages well kept and comfortable. The four cottages were originally built in the early 1950’s. The Penthouse was added in the 1970’s. In 1992 they built the North and South Suite Duplex. When Les retired from L.L. Bean in 1995 he started chartering on his boat. Donna and Les have raised three kids here. Bethany was three when they moved to Bailey Island. Perry and Bethany now are starting their own family and working with Donna and Les in the business as well as running sailing charters out of Bailey Island on the sailing vessels TEVAKE and ALERT.

Meet the Business Owner

Perry D.

Business Owner

He has sailed to over 10 different countries crewing and captaining square riggers and schooners while living aboard his ketch Tevake. Now Perry captains Schooner ALERT and Tevake with his wife Bethany and Daughter Margaret. He likes to tell jokes by the camp fire at the cottages. Perry is happy and prould to be part of Sea Escape Cottages & Charters.

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