That smells like bacon cooking. The passengers on the schooner Mary Day woke up to a fine breakfast early yesterday morning after overnighting in Great Cove. This was Mary’s second visit to Great Cove this year. She was on a three-day lighthouse cruise, according to her schedule.
The fog was lifting, but the morning was to be a hot and hazy one. Mary’s weather tarp was left in place to shade against the burning sun:
As usual, several boatloads of Mary’s passengers toured the famed WoodenBoat School campus on shore and returned in a yawl boat. Meanwhile, Mary was visited by WoodenBoat’s 20-foot Caledonia yawl, Swifty, which was being rowed. As you can tell from Mary’ drooping flag, there was no wind:
Eventually, Mary’s mainsail was raised, followed by her foresail, then her main topsail:
There was virtually no wind, and the schooner has no cruising motor. No more sails were raised and Mary was pushed out of the Cove by her yawl boat, her sails slack.
As regular readers here know, she’s a 125-foot schooner out of Camden, Maine. She has very clean coastal cruiser lines, but was built in 1962 just for passenger cruises. She was named after the wife of the late Captain Havilah Hawkins, Senior, who designed the vessel and owned her for about 20 years.
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on July 11, 2024.)