Here’s the ketch Angelique as Monday’s dawn light arrives in Great Cove:
This was the fourth time this month that Angelique overnighted in Great Cove and sent her passengers for a tour of the famed WoodenBoat School there. The passengers rowed one of the ship’s longboats ashore and back to the vessel. Members of the School’s classes on kayaking and basic sailing extended a welcome.
The WBS 12 1/2-foot Havens and Herreshoffs sailed around Angelique while she was in the Cove, giving viewers an idea of the windjammer’ size. The disparity would have been greater if the windjammer had raised her sails, but she departed before noon without putting up an inch of her beautiful sails.
As you probably know by this time, “Angelique” is a 130-foot jammer out of Camden, Maine. What you may not know is how she got her name. My favorite story is that she was named after a beautiful Parisian temptress whom her original owner became obsessed with after meeting the woman only one delightful night.
However, as usual, the truth is much more mundane. She was named by her original owner, alright, but he named her after a type of wood that fascinated him. Yes, wood. That’s WOOD as in tree; as in Dicorynia guianensis, to be scientifically specific. It’s a tall hardwood with the common name Angeligue and a beautiful grain.
The tree reportedly only occurs in French Guiana and Suriname. Some of its wood was impaneled below decks on the vessel. At least that’s the published story of “Angelique’s” original owner.
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on June 24, 2024.)