Below you see a summer-trim Dear Abbie: moored in Naskeag Harbor this week. She looks to be in fine shape to start lobster fishing soon. She’s freshly painted and a lot slimmer than her winter profile.
During the winter, she carried a mast, boom, and dredge (“drag”) for dredging (“dragging”) for scallops; she also had a shelling house behind the cabin for sorting and shucking the tasty mollusks:
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on June 13 and January 3, 2023.)