Here we see the coastal cruiser Mercantile gliding out of Great Cove as one of our August foggy drizzles (fogzles) comes rolling in. The vessel’s intrepid tourist passengers are excited about having a low-visibility adventure that most fishermen would rather not have.
Below we see the sloop Vela being captured by that same fogzle as it arrives at her mooring. Her intrepid WoodenBoat School students seemed to be eagerly learning about her rigging before they disappeared. Not seen is an intrepid old photographer beginning to wonder why the hell he’s been standing there getting wet.
Yhe Mercantile is a 115-foot schooner that was launched in 1916 and now hails from Camden, Maine. Vela is a 50-foot gaff-rigged sloop that was launched in 1998 and now hails from Sedgwick, Maine. The photographer is a 5’9” gaffe-prone observer who was launched 23 years after the Mercantile and 59 years before Vela and now hails from Brooklin, Maine.