“Angelique” arrived in fog Wednesday evening for her second overnight visit to Great Cove this month.
The next morning, the dawn light found her early and started burning off the fog, apparently before her passengers arose.
She was anchored off Little Babson Island, which was fogged in at dawn, but appeared in full sunlight by 9 a.m. (That shed on the island reportedly is a terminus for a power cable from the mainland.)
As lunchtime neared, “Angelique” weighed anchor and moved about 200 yards south in front of the lovely beach on Babson (aka Big Babson) Island. The passengers were given an opportunity to explore the island, take a swim, and (apparently) have a delicious lunch on the beach. By about 2 p.m., she was gone; I never saw her depart.
“Angelique” is a 130-foot ketch out of Camden that was built for tourism in 1980. She’s still on this six-night cruise that was scheduled to feature a “windjammer gam,” in which multiple windjammers tie up in a raft to provide passengers an opportunity to walk from boat to boat, sample food and drink, and listen to live music. (For wordsmiths: Originally, the term “gam” meant a pod of whales, but whaling crews adopted it to describe social visits when one whaler met another at sea. Now it’s applied broadly to vessel raftings.)
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on June 12 and 13, 2024.)