CAMDEN — The public is invited to the Camden Yacht Clubt July 6, 7 to 8:30 p.m. for an evening of tales from the sea, with local captains Aaron Lincoln, Jack Moore, Jim Sharp, and Camden Harbor Master Steve Pixley.

They will be sharing their best stories from their ocean adventures, as they compete for the People’s Choice Award for the saltiest yarn. This is the first of eight Wednesday nights of the Camden Yacht Club’s Sunset Seminars.

Captain Aaron Lincoln has logged more than 1000,000 miles on Penobscot Bay alone. He has run the schooner Olad out of Camden Harbor for 16 years and has owned the business since 2005. Three years ago he purchased the cutter Owl and captains her, as well. Other boats Aaron has worked on include the North Wind, Liberty Clipper, Black Pearl, Luna Dans, and White Hawk. Aaron has sailed the Maine Coast, Boston, Florida Keys, British Virgin Islands, Nova Scotia, Bermuda, St. Martin, and Cape Cod. He loves to talk about the history of the area and the schooner trade.

Captain Jack Moore has been sailing out of Camden Harbor for the past 32 years. Jack and his wife, Barbara, spent seven years living aboard their ketch, Milky Way, with their four children, sailing throughout the eastern Caribbean and along the East Coast. Beginning in 1984, family living aboard and daysailing the schooner Surprise continued for the next 27 years. Many of those years Capt. Jack combined sailing with teaching high school science. Capt. Jack and Barbara sold Surprise in 2014 and now enjoy sailing their 35-foot sloop Milky Way to somewhere just beyond Mark Island.

Captain Jim Sharp has been the skipper and owner of a fleet of vessels on the Maine coast including four windjammers (Roseway, Stephen Taber, Bowdoin, and his favorite, the Adventure), various tugs and freight boats. He is an avid reader of historic sea stories, and the author of his own, a memoir written with humor, covering hair-raising adventures from Maine’s rockbound foggy coast to Lake Michigan and European canals. In 2009, Jim opened up his Sail, Power and Steam Museum in Rockland, to which people are drawn to his stories and treasures of Maine’s marine heritage.

Captain Steve Pixley grew up sailing on the mighty Hudson River in New York. After graduating from Maine Maritime Academy, Steve became the captain of the Grace Bailey. He also skippered the Mercantile, Mistress, and Appledore, driving them in Penobscot Bay but also sailed south to Key West. For the last 15 years Steve has served the town of Camden as harbor master.

The talk is free and open to the public. Donations at the door will be gratefully accepted to benefit the nonprofit Camden Area Youth Seamanship Program. For more information, contact the CYC office, 207-236-7033; camdenyachtclub.org