and making progress on Sjogin’s Summer refit. I’m getting the offsets ready to send to the designers for their pending Sjogin plans work as well as doing the usual painting.
Julia and I spent last week in Maine on Eggomoggin Reach at the usual spot. Mostly fine weather with a day or so of fog and showers. We planned our visit so we could watch the Eggomoggin Reach Regatta (ERR) last Saturday. The weather and racing were spectacular. Not a word I use often but truly so.
Our “own” Silent Maid won all three of her races. She’s now heading back home and should be in Cape Cod waters this weekend.
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Matt Billey and his dream made flesh. Jette is a 25 foot Danish fishing boat from the Bornholm area. I wrote about this project earlier this year. Here’s the Link. We stopped in Gloucester on the way to Maine.
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Queen of the Reach.
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Tendress on a close reach. We had just one sail on her but did have the thrill of seeing Sea Harmony under sail.
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She’s up from Marblehead to race in the ERR. She’s an Albert Strange canoe yawl. Details here. This was taken last Wednesday. Perfect late afternoon SW breeze. Perfect for reaching up and down the….Reach.
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At anchor in the harbor by WoodenBoat in Brooklin. The folks on the sloop chattin’ with the kayaker are Forum friends. It was nice to meet Willin’
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Here’s Sea Harmony at anchor at WB. Sorry we didn’t have time to chat with Dick Wynne and Thad Danielson. Dick is in from the UK for a cruise with Thad. Here’s a link to Thad’s web page. He’s a very accomplished builder.
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Calm morning at the Landing.
More tomorrow…
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Even with her 1,000 square feet of sail, Silent Maid is no match for Joyant.
Russ, a very nice post. Glad to see the Maid wins, the Sea Harmony and that you touched base with Matt, sounds like a great trip.
Great pictures. I live in Maine (Portland) and have been lurking on your site for a least a year. I love it. I met your brother about a decade ago in Brooklin. My car broke down which was unfortunate; the good news was it died about 25 yards from the Brooklin Boat Yard. Tendress had just been launched and your brother was there overseeing some final work. He invited me on board and could not have been nicer. I will never forget how beautiful Tendress was that day (reminded me a lot of a scaled up version of a Wianno Senior gaff-rigged sloop I had owned). The folks at BBY were very nice as well – they let me hang out in the yard until they were finished work for the day and they drove me to Ellsworth to get a rental car. These pictures of Tendress reminded me of that day and how a a day that got off to a bad start turned into a day to remember.