JIM VAIKNORAS/Staff photo Cian McCarthy, 5, of Newburyport checks out a 28 ft whale boat from Lowell’s Boat Shopat Touch a Boat on the Newburyport Waterfront Saturday.of Andover takes the wheel of a Coast Guard boat Touch a Boat event along Newburyport's waterfront Saturday. Along with the whaleboat kids got to get up close to a Coast Guard Boat, the Erica Lee II and many others.

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