As we walked by this mooring gear yesterday at the WoodenBoat School, Maine’s self-proclaimed status as the nation’s “Vacationland” came to mind.
This gear hasn’t been in the water since the summer of 2019, when it last served the School’s fleet of beautiful boats and the happy students who sailed and rowed them. Now, the gear seems to be a memorial to the 2020 vacation time that never was here. Yet, it also gives us hope – it seems to be eagerly ready for the fleet and smiling students to return in 2021 and for the world to start to return to what is loosely called “normal.” (Brooklin, Maine)