Here you see the distinctive Angelique moored in Great Cove on Thursday morning. She was on a passenger cruise that included a tour of nearby Acadia National Park and the WoodenBoat School campus here.
Angelique is 130 feet long overall and the only Maine windjammer that is configured as a gaff-rigged topsail ketch. (Note that, unlike a two-masted schooner, Angelique’s foremast is her main [taller] mast, not her aft mast.)
Her “tanbark” reddish sails also are unique in the Maine windjammer fleet. In days of yore, when sails were cotton, they were dipped in vats of tannic acid, tallow, and red ocher, which turned them reddish and protected against mildew.
Angelique was created old. She actually was launched in 1980, but was designed to look like a 19th Century English North Sea fishing trawler. Her modern conveniences, including a metal hull and two auxiliary diesel engines, are not obvious. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on June 16, 2022.) For a few more images of Angelique, click this:
She departed under a clouding sky at midday:
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on June 16, 2022.)