Angelique was in Great Cove when the dawn sunlight reached there yesterday, as you see here. She was on a six-night private charter, according to her schedule.
She left in mid-morning before I had a chance to get down to the shore to take some close-ups:
Instead of going down to the shore, I researched how this unique 130-foot ketch got her name, thinking that there might be a juicy story about a beautiful French femme fatale named Angelique in the vessel’s history. In doing so, I received two surprises from a 2021 Captains’ Quarters interview with the windjammer’s original owner and primary designer, Mike Anderson.
First, although it is true that the vessel was named after a long-limbed beauty, those limbs weren’t legs. It was named after one of the purple/brown hardwoods imported from French Guiana and Suriname that are used in boat and ship construction: “Angelique wood” (Dicornya quianensis). A significant irony here is that the vessel has a steel compartmentalized hull.
The second surprise was that Angelique was not designed (in 1980) to replicate a 19th Century North Atlantic fishing trawler, as frequently reported. Although she does resemble one of those trawlers somewhat, her design was inspired by early pilot sailboats and early large sailing yachts, according to Captain Anderson. He was designing a vessel for passenger traffic, not for fishing or commercial hauling, he said.
(Images taken on June 23, 2022.)