One calm summer morning in 2021, I awoke aboard my 33' lobster yacht, EASTWARD, riding peacefully to her mooring in the Benjamin River in Brooklin, Maine. I made coffee and commenced my morning survey of this beautiful harbor full of interesting wooden boats, both old and new. Then I blinked...and blinked again. "ANNIE!" At first, I thought I was imagining things, but there she was, plain as day, on a mooring, close aboard, and looking as good as the day we had launched her in 1980. I had not seen this inspiring little yawl for decades, and encountering her again transported me back in time to the roots of her New England heritage, my much-valued friendships as a young man, with an older generation of well-known Marblehead, Massachusetts, yacht designers, and the unlikely story of her creation.
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