This symbolic image was taken Saturday, April 4, two days after the famed WoodenBoat School here cancelled its popular summer classes through June, due to the dangers of the corvid-19 virus. The School also announced that it is reviewing, on a daily basis, whether to cancel the remainder of the year’s programs. The prospect of seeing Great Cove without flitting WBS sailboats this summer is a sad one, but prudent optimism is the right course.
This image is symbolic for two reasons. First, those are the doors to the WBS Boat House storage area in “lockdown” mode. Second, that’s a form of Brooklin double-latched lock. To open the doors, we need no key or combination; all we need is permission. If we have that, we’ll just unlatch the rope and press the handle thumb latch. If we don’t have permission, we and other Brooklin residents won’t open the doors. [Many of us don’t lock our residences during the day, or at all, and leave our cars and trucks unlocked when we park locally. It’s a small-town-trust thing.] (Brooklin, Maine)