This is Little Bear revisiting Great Cove yesterday. She’s a replica of a North Sea fishing trawler with ketch-rigged sails for stability, according to reports on her.

She’s quite different from the Maine vessel also designed for fishing that’s moored near her, a Friendship sloop named Belford Gray:

Research indicates that Little Bear was built in Scotland in 1964 and named after Ursa Minor (Latin for “lesser bear”), the northern sky constellation. She reportedly was built as a recreational vessel for a professor of classical arts at Cambridge University. That is, below deck she’s fitted for cozy human comfort, not oily, slithering fish. The last time that we checked, her home port was Rockport, Maine.

(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on September 2, 2023.)

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