Above you see the 130-foot ANGELIQUE slipping quietly into Great Cove at sundown on Wednesday, where she overnighted. Thursday morning, her passengers rowed ashore in longboats to explore the WoodenBoat School, which is holding its last month of 2025 classes.
After the passengers rowed back to the vessel, alternating waves of fog and sun invaded the Cove in dramatic battle. ANGELIQUE waited, but eventually raised her four major sails in the fog; you couldn’t tell that they were uniquely tan-bark colored:
Just as she got her last topsail up, the fog cleared and ANGELIQUE pivoted to the north and departed the Cove. She raised her bow staysail and jib as she entered Eggemoggin Reach:shortly before noon:
ANGELIQUE is a gaff-rigged ketch (forward mast the taller) that was built for the tourist trade in 1980. She hails out of Camden, Maine, and was on a six-night cruise that included lectures by a historian and a naturalist, according to her schedule. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on September17 and 18, 2025.)