Here you see the 130-foot ketch ANGELIQUE in Great Cove Monday, where she overnighted. In this image, she’s just weighed anchor and is wheeling around to sail north (to your right) into Eggemoggin Reach, but there was a problem.
There was virtually no wind and it took ANGELIQUE more than half an hour for her massive sails to pick up the occasional whiffs and drift out of the Cove. Even the small WoodenBoat School sailboats had to be paddled back to their moorings due to lack of wind:
ANGELIQUE was launched in 1980 as a tourist cruiser and home ports in Camden, Maine. This was her fifth visit to the Cove this season, as far as I’ve seen. She was on a five-night Perseids Meteor Showers cruise during which, her schedule said, she would “Anchor in dark harbors and [passengers would] sit on the fantail to enjoy the celestial show….”
As many of you know, in this context, a fantail is not a pigeon; it’s an overhanging, fan-shaped part of the stern that some vessels have. The term reportedly was adopted in American English for certain maritime vessels during the 1800s, especially warships, ocean liners, and larger yachts. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on August 11, 2025.)