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Raising the foresail in the morning

June 22, 2025April 7, 2025 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ 2 Comments

It’s a daily ritual if you want to go sailing. The breakfast dishes have been cleaned up and put away. Now the real fun begins aboard the historic schooner Louis R. French.

For more schooner sailing experiences, take a look at my Under Sail photo album at Thistle Finch editions.

 

The French at home in Camden

June 15, 2025April 7, 2025 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

This is the Louis R. French at its berth in Camden, Maine. Cruises begin the night before departure as passengers arrive to settle in for their first night aboard.

For more schooner sailing experiences, take a look at my Under Sail photo album at Thistle Finch editions.

Ribbon of creamy fog

June 8, 2025June 9, 2025 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

With the Camden Hills as a backdrop, a late afternoon fog rolls in over Maine’s Penobscot Bay.

For more schooner sailing experiences, take a look at my Under Sail photo album at Thistle Finch editions.

 

North Haven ferry

June 1, 2025April 7, 2025 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

A state ferry conveys autos and passengers along the Fox Islands Thoroughfare as it links North Haven Island and the mainland on one of three daily runs. This shot was taken aboard the historic schooner Louis R. French last summer.

For more schooner sailing experiences, take a look at my Under Sail photo album at Thistle Finch editions.

 

When the wind kicked in

May 25, 2025April 7, 2025 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

We were passed by this sailboat. It still looks breathtaking and even scary.

Seen from a cruise aboard the historic schooner Louis R. French last summer.

For more schooner sailing experiences, take a look at my Under Sail photo album at Thistle Finch editions.

Prime

May 18, 2025April 7, 2025 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

As seen from a cruise aboard the historic schooner Louis R. French on Penobscot Bay last summer.

For more schooner sailing experiences, take a look at my Under Sail photo album at Thistle Finch editions.

Only eight miles away from us, by water

May 11, 2025April 7, 2025 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

St. Andrews, New Brunswick, is an hour-and-a-half drive from our home, but it does strike us as a Providence, Cape Cod, kind of place in a somewhat more respectable vein. Get away from the tourist strip downtown and you’ll find this at low tide.

The land beyond is Maine, USA.

The helm

May 4, 2025April 7, 2025 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

It’s rather modest, actually, but so classy all the same, befitting the schooner Louis R. French. It was at the top of the ladder from my quarters below.

For more schooner sailing experiences, take a look at my Under Sail photo album at Thistle Finch editions.

Katahdin

April 30, 2025April 7, 2025 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

Maine’s highest mountain can be impressive even 80 miles away.

 

Easternmost lighthouse

April 27, 2025April 7, 2025 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ 1 Comment

The distinctive peppermint-stick tower of the West Quoddy lighthouse is viewed from the tip of Roosevelt-Campobello International Park in New Brunswick, Canada. You’re looking at the easternmost point in the continental United States.

For more lighthouse images, take a look at my Beacons Above the Water photo album at Thistle Finch editions.

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