Here we see the comely 65-foot Grayling in Great Cove on a gray morning yesterday. It’s hard to imagine her more than a century ago when she was seigning (trawler netting) herring and mackerel and then carrying sardines for a cannery.
Yet, according to reports on her, she was launched from East Boothbay, Maine, in 1915 as a seiner. In 1920, she began over 75 years of transporting sardines from fishing vessels at sea to a cannery in Eastport, Maine. In 1996, she was converted to the sleek luxury yacht that you see here.
By the way, as you may know, a “grayling” is a freshwater fish in the salmon family that prefers very cold water and is now grown commercially. There are Arctic and European species of the fish.
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on August 21, 2021.)