Center Harbor and the Brooklin Boat Yard
Brooklin, Maine
September 4, 2021
Some years ago, my friend Nancy gave me a book, A Unit of Water, A Unit of Time, about Joel White and his Brooklin Boat Yard, and the beautiful wooden boats they designed and built there.
During last year's lockdown, I picked it up again and found myself more intrigued then I was 20 years ago. Through it, I found my way to the WoodenBoat School, and I signed up for a class, a year ahead of it, as marker of something to look forward to after the pandemic.
The pandemic hasn't quite ended. But I went to Maine anyway. And after class ended on Saturday, I walked down the highway to Center Harbor to take in the boat yard and the beautiful boats moored in the small harbor it sits on. It's pretty different from Newport Beach, and I'll never look at that busy playground of plastic boats the same way again.
