This is Little Bear visiting Great Cove this week. Research indicates that she’s a replica of a North Sea fishing trawler with ketch-rigged sails for stability.
Built in Scotland in 1964, she’s named after Ursa Minor (Latin for “lesser bear”), the northern sky constellation commonly called Little Bear.
She reportedly was built as a recreational vessel for a professor of classical arts at Cambridge University. That is, inside she’s fitted for human comfort, not slithering fish. Her home port now is Rockport, Maine. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on July 27, 2022.)