The Claremont Hotel can be seen on the lower horizon below the mountain. The long, low building is the bowling alley. This photograph is similar to, but taken at a slightly different angle from Item 6161.
Description: The Claremont Hotel can be seen on the lower horizon below the mountain. The long, low building is the bowling alley. This photograph is similar to, but taken at a slightly different angle from Item 6161.
The house on the shore behind “Theoline,” between the schooner and the sailboat, is the Samuel Walker Mead Cottage, H.W. Foote’s “House of Four Winds” at 30 Connor Point Road, Southwest Harbor, Tax Map 11 – Lot 9 – MHPC #405-0009.
Description: The house on the shore behind “Theoline,” between the schooner and the sailboat, is the Samuel Walker Mead Cottage, H.W. Foote’s “House of Four Winds” at 30 Connor Point Road, Southwest Harbor, Tax Map 11 – Lot 9 – MHPC #405-0009.
The three-master is an old coaster - she is "hogged." The others are fishing schooners. - Ralph Stanley 05/12/08 hogged - "intransitive verb: to become curved upward in the middle - used of a ship's bottom or keel" - Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Accessed online 05/29/08 - http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hogging
Description: The three-master is an old coaster - she is "hogged." The others are fishing schooners. - Ralph Stanley 05/12/08 hogged - "intransitive verb: to become curved upward in the middle - used of a ship's bottom or keel" - Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Accessed online 05/29/08 - http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hogging
The foremost boat is loaded with big open barrels - they look like half barrels - to store fish as they were caught. The long poles on each side may have been to hold the handlines away from the rails.
Description: The foremost boat is loaded with big open barrels - they look like half barrels - to store fish as they were caught. The long poles on each side may have been to hold the handlines away from the rails.
Note - The photograph has been cleaned for clarity. Defects in the original scan have been left around the rigging so that the lines are visible. The boat is not under sail.
Description: Note - The photograph has been cleaned for clarity. Defects in the original scan have been left around the rigging so that the lines are visible. The boat is not under sail.