On Saturday (October 24), we thought that we heard some snoring and peeked into the WoodenBoat School Boat Shed and saw this:
Some of the WBS small boat fleet have been sleeping there since the summer of 2019. The School cancelled its 2020 sailing and building classes due to the Covid plague.
To give you a better idea of the size of these boats, look at “Swifty.” She’s the double-ended Caledonia yawl in the left of this image. She’s 19’6” long and has a beam (greatest width) of 6’2”. As with all of these boats, “Swifty” looks much better in the water, which we can show you. Here’s our archive image of her being expertly sailed in pre-plague days:
Leighton Archive Image
(Brooklin, Maine)