It’s that poignant time of the year when the kids go off to enlightening school and the pleasure boats go off to darkened storage. Here we see Swifty, the WoodenBoat School’s Caledonia yawl, on her last day in direct sunlight this year.
Within minutes, she was backed into the WBS Boatshed.:
That’s Wild Rose, a Maine Coast Dory, drying off in front of the Boatshed:
Soon, Great Cove will be devoid of its joyful fleet of pleasure craft and the winter waterfowl will bring a new type of joy there. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on September 17, 2021.)