On Saturday morning, I was watching the sun battling the fog in Great Cove and saw no living creatures except seagulls and a lone cormorant. Then, a moving speck among the islands out in Eggemoggin Reach caught my eye. It slowly became a large schooner under full sail, coming silently toward the Cove’s southern entry, apparently trying to escape the Reach’s heavier fog and haze for a while.
She passed through the Cove with no sound and returned to the foggy Reach through the Cove’s northern entry. (See the image in the first Comment space.)
It was a moment out of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. The schooner was an old friend, the 170-foot Victory Chimes, launched in 1900 as the Edwin and Maud to freight fertilizer, coal, and lumber. As with the other coastal cruisers that have come to see the Cove this summer, the Chimes seemed to have fewer passengers than in prior (non-Covid) years. (Brooklin, Maine, image taken August 14)