Here you see ice-covered Great Cove Drive and the WoodenBoat School’s post-and-panel boat shed on Sunday’s cold morning. The Drive is literally named – it’s last 30 feet or so consist of a sloping boat ramp into the Cove waters, right behind the camera here.
More important, as you’ll see ibelow, the shed is protecting some of WoodenBoat’s precious fleet of small boats. As you know, I visit them regularly to refresh fond summer memories and to please some of the School’s far-flung alumni who browse these posts.
Among some favorites shown there: the big-ruddered Beetle Cat “Whimsey” in the foreground; to her bow’s port, with the white lapstraked (overlapping planked) hull, is (I think) the sailing dingy “Skylark”; and, in the center, is the green-hulled outboard skiff “Babson II” sporting her big Yamaha outboard motor.
Some of their mooring gear hangs outside all year:
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on March 24, 2024.)