We awakened Tuesday morning to see that the “Capt. Frank Swift” apparently had spent the prior night in Great Cove. I only had time to take a few images of this compact coastal cruiser at her anchorage. (See also the image in the first Comment space.) As best I can tell, she’s the former brigantine “Actress” that was out of Belfast, Maine.
The “Swift” is a 75-foot vessel that is now apparently out of Camden, Maine. She originally was designed by famed naval architect Murry Peterson in 1937, but not built until 1983. In recent years, this cruiser was rigged as a brigantine with schooner-proportioned masts, but now she appears to be rigged as a traditional schooner.
(A brigantine is a two-masted vessel carrying square-rigged sails on spars on the foremast and gaff-rigged, triangulated sails on the second mast. Many call a schooner-proportioned ship rigged like that a “hermaphrodite brigantine” due to the combination of key components.)
Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on June 18, 2024.