Angelique, one of our more dramatic windjammers, slipped into Great Cove at low tide Wednesday, June 23, to take overnight shelter here:
She sailed out yesterday on what her schedule shows to be a photography and nature cruise. Below, you see images of her moored in the Cove yesterday morning with her mizzen and aft topsail up for stabilization.
Out of Camden, Maine, Angelique is a 130-foot topsail ketch. She’s easy to distinguish from other windjammers by her sharp-angled gaff-rigged topsails and the tanbark color of all her sails. In days of yore, when sails were made of cotton, their cloth often was dipped in a vat of tree bark tannins to protect from rot. The resulting red color was (and is) called tanbark.
She was built in 1980 for the tourist trade and designed to look like a 19th Century English North Sea fishing trawler. However, Angelique has unseen modern aspects, including a metal hull, full (not retractable) keel, and two powerful diesel engines.
Yesterday, passengers and crew raised her sails, she picked up a slight south wind, and sailed north to photograph nature:
(Brooklin, Maine)