Here you see the schooner Tree of Life leaving Great Cove yesterday morning in mist and fog and the vanguard of thin smoke that is reaching us from the raging western state wildfires.
(As this is written, today’s sunny morning is being made hazy by the drifting smoke, according to the weather tellers.)
The Tree, out of Newport, Rhode Island, is a 72-foot tourist cruiser that was launched in 1991 and has sailed worldwide. She is luxuriously appointed with airconditioned cabins, hot and cold water, DVD and large screen TV, and stereo in each cabin. Her pilot house is enclosed, which helps in weather such as yesterday’s.
Her name – Tree of Life – appears in Genesis as the source of eternal life in the Garden of Eden. However, according to one report, this schooner was christened Tree of Life because an Irish folk song of the same name was playing when its owners were looking for a name. (Brooklin, Maine)