The annual WoodenBoat Windjammer Sail-In occurred here yesterday afternoon at the WoodenBoat School. Nine coastal cruisers swept into Great Cove on good winds, while the lowering light played off their vast sails and often silhouetted the vessels. (Not to mention driving photographers crazy.)
Below we see WBS’s Friendship Sloop Belford Gray seemingly welcoming the incoming schooner Stephen Taber (which was launched in 1871). The Taber did a few turns in the Cove to show off, as you see.
On one of those turns, the Taber passed by the schooner American Eagle (1930), which had anchored and was sending her passengers ashore, where they raised their oars coming into the WBS pier float. Meanwhile, the red- (tanbark-) sailed ketch Angelique (1980) slipped by.
The schooner Mary Day (1962) arrived with the sun at her back, as did the schooners Lewis R. French (1871) and J&E Riggin ((1927), which seemed to be racing each other,.
The schooners Riggin and Ladona (1922) dropped their sails and anchored beside each other, but the gray and red- hulled French continued on and took a few celebratory laps around the Cove.
The Queen of the Windjammers and the only three-masted one in the Maine fleet, Victory Chimes (1900) and the Heritage (1983) also came in dramatically with the sun behind them.
While the Eagle and Riggin were dropping anchors and sails, the French continued rollicking and sailed between them.
As the sun continued to go down, the windjammers, including the Riggin here, became silhouettes on the glistening Cove
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on September 14, 2021.)