Spring Sail 2

Here was the first time I used this title.

America II looked resplendent bathed in a last burst of late afternoon sun yesterday.

She was one of several sail vessels out;  here Pioneer seems headed over to a new loading point.

On a meteorologically different afternoon a few weeks ago, I caught Lettie G. Howard out headed for the Kills. Here was another spring when I caught Lettie under very bare poles.

 

 

I saw Topaz briefly only once, so far away she was only a tall mast, but Claude Scales caught this from his daily vantage point.  Click here for a close-up of Nantucket WLV-612 from three years ago.

No words . . . no gilding the lily!

Pioneer heads back to the dock.

Anyone know where Mary E is sailing from these days?

Thanks to Claude Scales for use of his Topaz photo.  All other photos by Will Van Dorp, who has used the title “autumn sail” much more frequently.  And if you have not yet read my article about sailing to Cuba last winter, you can read it here.