Here you see the schooner “Stephen Taber” in Great Cove near sundown on Sunday. She overnighted and departed early yesterday in still air. Her schedule indicates that she is on a five-night trip that features live band music.
She has no motor, so her yawlboat was attached to the stern as an outboard motor and she left the Cove with her mainsail up to increase steering stability.
The 110-foot “Taber” was built in 1871 and is a National Historic Landmark that hails from Rockland, Maine. Curiously, she was named after a once-famed, but now forgotten,19th Century New York politician. As with many coastal cargo cruisers in the 1800s, the “Taber” was built with a flat bottom to “ground out” and discharge her cargo without the need for a pier. She has a centerboard to lower as a keel during cruising. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on June 10 and 11, 2024.)