It’s chilly and raining hard as we speak – much-needed rain after several scorching days and months of inadequate precipitation. Unfortunately, the joy of rain seems not to register on tourists who have paid a fair sum to sail our coastal waters. They huddle under tarpaulins on the decks of coastal cruisers in jackets worn over sweaters. They peer and peer and get a distorted view of the beauty that benefits by their discomfort:
The tourists shown above are in Great Cove on the 125-foot schooner Mary Day during the rainy morning of June 25. Fortunately for them, they have heat in their cabins because Mary was built in 1962 just for vacationers. The passengers were not completely without luck, however. The previous day was a bright one and they arrived in the Cove during a lovely dusk:
Of course, during a sunny day with a good breeze brewing, the Mary Day can be a dazzling beauty in her own right, as our archive images show:
Leighton Archive Image
(Brooklin, Maine)