Here you see the setting September sun sliding a glitter path into Center Harbor on – appropriately – Sunday. When looking westerly like this from the Brooklin Boat Yard docking float, the shadowed Harbor remains a bit “porcupiney” with silhouetted masts on sailboats that still have a few good cruising days ahead.
When you turn around and look toward the east on an evening like this, you discover that the golden light is washing over the boarding skiffs and other small boats docked below the BBY pier and its shed, with part of the shingled boat-building shop lit up on the upper left:
Many sailboat owners here seem to take their boats out of the water between mid-September and Columbus Day weekend. But we know some who can’t let go of summer in Vacationland and sail until late October or early November, usually just locally for day cruises. Here’s another perspective:
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on September 14, 2025.)