GRACE BAILEY snuck into Great Cove last week and decided to overnight as part of an eclectic quartet. The scene looked like a model collection of contrasting 19th and 20th Century vessels:
Clockwise at about 9 o’clock in this image you see a very tall-masted cruiser with the hull name SIRENA BELLA (“beautiful mermaid,” I guess), but no listed home port that I could see. (She looks to me like the old Ted Hood PATIENCE.)
At about 12 o’clock, there’s GRACE dominating the scene, a 118-foot schooner built in 1882 and now hailing from Camden, Maine. Her schedule says that she was on a “Six-Night Adventure,” which apparently included sleeping with strangers.
At about 3 o’clock, there’s one of the WoodenBoat School’s fleet of small sailing classrooms; this one looks to be a Caladonia’ Yawl with its aft mast down.
And, at about six o’clock, in the foreground, is a sleek little Brooklin, Maine, runabout/sport boat named RIVER BIRD, owned by Jon Wilson, founder of WoodenBoat. She reportedly is a recrafted Chris-Craft.
At mid-day Thursday, GRACE raised sails in a light wind and slowly paraded past a WBS “parking lot” to create another contrasting scene before she departed the Cove:
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on August 14, 2025.)