Where do all the little boats go in winter? If they’re lucky, they go to winter boat sheds where they can seemingly share bedtime stories, while the icy wind whips and the wet snowflakes fly.
In some sheds, such as Brooklin Boat Yard’s shown here, the boats seem to share a crowded dormitory of multi-level bunk beds behind a sliding door that makes checking on them easy:
In others, such as the WoodenBoat School’s shed shown below, the boats are given king-size bedding spaces and sealed in for the winter, but they can be viewed through windows:
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on December 15, 2024.)