Yesterday was as close to perfect as it gets in Great Cove: pure-smelling breezes that got worked up to double-digit gusts; a bright sun in a blue sky, temperatures hovering around 70 degrees, and sails up everywhere, greedily grabbing the air and running with it.
It gets better. About midday, the classic schooner “Stephen Taber” was sighted cutting down Eggemoggin Reach and really moving before a following wind. She usually passes several miles outside of the Cove. But, yesterday she decided to short-cut through the Cove at a nice clip, constantly adjusting her big sails to catch as much air as possible:
Watching that fly-by was like peering back into the best of the 19th Century. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on September 3, 2024.)