The wooden comb below the tiller of Joseph Walter Cooper's Maine Sloop Boat was a device made so that the tiller could be dropped in between the teeth of the comb so that a set course would not alter. A comb was particularly useful for single handed sailors.
Description: The wooden comb below the tiller of Joseph Walter Cooper's Maine Sloop Boat was a device made so that the tiller could be dropped in between the teeth of the comb so that a set course would not alter. A comb was particularly useful for single handed sailors.
Description: The coal wharf at Clark Point is visible in the background. Perry L. Lawson's dragger, "U and I" is just behind Black Ledge in the foreground.
Vessels – Left to Right – Background to Foreground: “Fairhaven Queen” Unknown vessel from St. Andrews Unknown vessel “Irma” from Lubec Unknown vessel Unknown vessel “Medric” from Lubec – now disintegrating at Eastport Boat Building School Unknown dragger from Southwest Boat
Description: Vessels – Left to Right – Background to Foreground: “Fairhaven Queen” Unknown vessel from St. Andrews Unknown vessel “Irma” from Lubec Unknown vessel Unknown vessel “Medric” from Lubec – now disintegrating at Eastport Boat Building School Unknown dragger from Southwest Boat
The weathervane is displayed here on the railing at the Anne Brimley Gould Cottage "TopGallant". It topped the flagpole at TopGallant and the occasion of the flag raising is described in Anne's account "Making Woods a Garden" (SWHPL 353) and in Tom Coleman's handwritten book "The House that Anne Built" (SWHPL 9979).
Description: The weathervane is displayed here on the railing at the Anne Brimley Gould Cottage "TopGallant". It topped the flagpole at TopGallant and the occasion of the flag raising is described in Anne's account "Making Woods a Garden" (SWHPL 353) and in Tom Coleman's handwritten book "The House that Anne Built" (SWHPL 9979).