The winter water gear apparatus at the WoodenBoat School is both functional and (in a uniquely maritime way) artistically expressionistic when operational.
It also apparently can be dangerous to view closely, as this image from yesterday shows.
High winds, ice, and repetitious freeze/thaw cycles apparently weakened one of the base boughs of the old spruce tree that anchors the exhibition. And then, a big circling wind apparently came in from nearby Great Cove and twisted off about a 50-foot portion of the bough.
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on February 12 [closeups] and 16 [wide-angle]. 2023.)