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Winter

"Littrell's little wooden dory is a safe space to experience
the exhilaration of setting out in a briny world filled with life."
Yankee Magazine

Experience winter as you never have before!

Row a traditional-style wooden dory

in beautiful Belfast Bay with an experienced

open water rower and licensed Maine Guide.

BRAND NEW SERVICE!

Heat up with our new wood-fired sauna

on the Belfast waterfront!

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SALTY WITCH SAUNA

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Choose your Row or Sauna!

Since 2021, offering lessons, wildlife tours, full moon
and workout rows. Open to ALL skill-levels,
including beginners,all shapes & sizes, ages 8 and up!
Most ROWS are 1.5 hours long.

SALTY WITCH SAUNA - offering community sessions
Wed-Sunday.1.25 hours.
Private sessions, by appointment.

Also, see Row & Sauna Bundles
for special plans and discounts.

Row a Wooden Boat: Winter
Experience winter on the water rowing a wooden dory! Heat up with a woodfired sauna after! 1-3 pp.
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1 hr 30 min
95 US dollars
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Full Moon Row
BOOKING NOW FOR MARCH'S FULL WORM MOON ROW! Up to 3 people. Row & Roast with a woodfired sauna after
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From 100 US dollars
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Hale & Hardy Workout Row
Get your row on! For individuals only with intermediate to advanced skill-levels.
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1 hr 15 min
90 US dollars
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Community Sauna - Afternoon
Enjoy the benefits of sauna while connecting with others. $35 per seat. Up to 6 people.
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Duration Varies
35 US dollars
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Sunset Sauna - Community
Wind down on the Belfast waterfront with wood-fired heat and connection with others. Up to 6 people.
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1 hr 15 min
35 US dollars
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Community Sauna - Evening
Close out the day with wood-fired heat, relaxation and community. $35 per seat. Up to 6 people.
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1 hr 15 min
35 US dollars
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Full Moon Sauna - Community
Wood-fired community sauna under the Full Moon on the Belfast waterfront. Up to 6 people.
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40 US dollars
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Your Maine Guide
& Instructor
Nicolle Littrell

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The Boat: Sorciere'
Traditional-style wooden Swampscott Dory.
A Maine classic! Sturdy & seaworthy.
Seats up to four people.

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It’s 2026 and we’re having a blast down at the Belfast waterfront!

The transition from 2025 to 2026 was filled with lots of cold and ice, snow and snow angels, cold dips, howls and yelps. The Full Cold Moon. Sleet and steam. Deep heat and belly laughs. Winter JOY!

Join me for a row or sauna in January! Or how about BOTH with a Row & Roast? Book via my DWR website. Rows offered Tues-Sunday. Salty Witch Sauna Wed-Sunday. Community sessions are on the calendar; private sessions by appointment. My sauna Melusine seats six. Rowing and sauna bundles available! More rows & heat for your buck!

Here’s to a happy and healthy 2026!

Photo of us rowing in the bay by @caitlinlovehills_belfast 🙏

#wintersports #fireandice #woodfiredsauna #winterinmaine #playinthesnow

Feeling very Venus di Milo.

Full Wolf Moon Sauna!

At 12°, it was too cold to row and someone would say too cold to dip! There was skim ice on the water, after all.

The feel of that icy cold water against my very hot skin…dipping in a moonbeam, laden with ice. The moon, conjunct with Jupiter, in the sign of Cancer, below the moon, just above the horizon. Magnificent.

I’ll be offering the Full Moon Sauna throughout the winter and into the spring. You don’t have to row with me to sauna but just imagine….being out on the water for a winter row and then having a hot woodfired sauna waiting for you back on shore. It felt incredibly delicious to step back into that hot and cozy chamber, lit only by the flames, and heat up again after my icy dip!

Happy Full 🐺 🌕 everyone! Offering another FM community sesh tonight 1/4 at 4:30! Book your seat on my DWR site.

Photos of me by @josephine_burch82 🙏

#divinefeminine #wolfmoon #witchy #woodfiredsauna #winterinmaine

New Year’s Day 2026 Polar Plunge in Belfast, Maine!!
❄️🥶🥳💙

p.s. We do this kind of thing all winter.

#coldplunge #polarplunge #newyearsday #winterinmaine #somelikeitcold

Christmas in upstate New York. Always an extra special time of year because it’s also my son Leo’s birthday on the 27th. And this year was extra EXTRA special because he turned 21!

My mom lives in Johnstown, New York, which is a sweet little town at the foothills of the Adirondacks, filled to the brim with history. My morning walk often took me to Johnson Hall, a gorgeous historic site near where my mom lives. A colonial cemetery stands sentinel nearby.

My visit home would not have been complete without going to Canajoharie, the town I grew up in. My old town was all gussied up for the holidays. I was delighted to see that the “dummy light” was back, one of only a few standing traffic lights in the country! A car crashed into it a few years back and they finally replaced it with a new light! It was fun to take a walk down memory lane with Leo. We stopped by the first school I went to, West Hill, on the NYS historic registry because Susan B Anthony taught there. Much before I went to school there 😂!

Apparently, the vultures really like Canjo. We saw many lurking about. Leo and I savored the post-industrial beauty of this place, harkening back to the days that Canjo was a factory town. Did you know the flat-bottomed paper bag was invented in Canajoharie?

For the first time, I went to Jim’s Irish Harbor, which has been there forever and played pool and had a pint with my 21-year old son! Very upstate New York! It may sound strange, but this was one of my favorite moments in my visit.

What’s the saying…”You can never really go home?”

I may no longer live in this place, but there’s still a part of me there. I’m a Mainer now, but I’ll always be a girl from upstate NY.

#homefortheholidays #upstateny #countrygirl #mohawkvalley

Stay tuned for a new date in the new year!

You can still book community and private sessions though! January dates are on the calendar.

Two New Year’s Eve sessions available: community at 1 & 5pm and private at 3pm.

On New Year’s Day, 3 seats available for the 1pm community session (after the polar plunge) and the 3pm session is wide open!

Book via my DWR site! See link in bio.

I’ve spent more time in a bathing suit, starting fires and cold dipping than I ever have in my life!

Two weeks ago, I embarked on a great new adventure. I became a sauna mama! My gorgeous Maine white cedar and pine woodfired sauna was delivered to the Belfast waterfront.

Her name is Melusine, after the double-tailed mermaid. She represents the second “tail” of my business at DoryWoman Rowing: Salty Witch Sauna!

The journey began last February, after a successful collaboration with @selkiesauna during the Belfast Ice Fest, where we offered an Ice Row + Sauna + Dip combo experience. I heard the question “Why isn’t there a sauna here on our waterfront all the time?” Indeed, I asked myself the same!

At the end of February, I applied for a $10K grant from Women’s Net and got it, in the business category of Health & Fitness. It was to get a sauna. When I found out I had won, one of the judges said to me, “We have to find a way to keep you people in Maine warm!”

Since that time I’ve been trying to find my sauna. I finally found her in November at Backyard Builders in Unity. When I saw her, I knew she was the one. Just like my boat, back in the spring of 2020.

She arrived in Belfast on December 14. My first week with Melusine was filled with great joy and many challenges! I feel like I’m learning to row all over again.

I’ve been away for the holidays and can’t wait to get back to my boat and my sauna! Salty Witch Sauna’s official launch is this Wednesday, 12/31 at 12:30! There will be a ribbon cutting with the @belfast.area.chamber Please join us! It will be quite cold this week…and the sauna will be very hot! Book a community or private group session. You don’t have to row with me to experience the sauna, but how great does that sound to step into a hot woodfired sauna after a winter row?

I’m offering sauna sessions New Year’ Eve and NY Day. The Full Wolf Moon Row is coming up on Friday 1/2. Two seats available on the row and the sauna will be fired up for a deep warm-up and more moon basking after!

Hope to see you in the boat or in the sauna this winter! Check it all out on my DWR website.

#woodfiredsauna #waterfront #winterinmaine #colddip #fireandice

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Winter

"Littrell's little wooden dory is a safe space to experience the exhilaration of setting out in a briny world filled with life." Yankee Magazine

Row a Wooden Boat: Winter

Full Moon Row

Hale & Hardy Workout Row

Community Sauna - Afternoon

Sunset Sauna - Community

Community Sauna - Evening

Full Moon Sauna - Community

Your Maine Guide & Instructor Nicolle Littrell

The Boat: Sorciere' Traditional-style wooden Swampscott Dory. A Maine classic! Sturdy & seaworthy. Seats up to four people.

Follow DoryWoman Rowing

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