Above, you see FROLIC yesterday, the last sailboat in Great Cove. Below, you’ll see VULCAN visiting the Cove yesterday. If anyone wants an illustration of the difference between elegance and inelegance, there it is. Beauty and strength are welcome, but often come separately.
FROLIC is a Luders 16. That is, her design is by the renowned naval Architect Alfred E. (Bill) Luders and she’s 16’4” long at the waterline. She’s a racer owned by a neighbor and probably will be “taken out” for winter storage soon.
VULCAN is a moorings service vessel owned by Brooklin Marine, LLC. Her crew installs, removes, maintains and repairs moorings and mooring equipment. Her crew apparently was replacing the large, summer ball buoys that float on mooring chains with slim, winter mooring sticks (long, thin, vertically-oriented buoys that are better at withstanding ice).
As with most of life, it takes all kinds. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on October 4, 2025.)