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Raising anchor on windjammer
Document Type: Photo/Image
Geographic Location: Penobscot Bay, Maine
ID Number: CTB_Windjammer_windlass
Keywords: Working the Bay, Windjammers, Tourism
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Description:
Tourists aboard the passenger schooner Mercantile assist in raising the anchor by working the windlass. Passenger labor is always welcome in working the windjammer schooners.
Mercantile was launched as a small coasting schooner in 1916 by the Billings family on Deer Isle. After she fished for mackerel for a few years in the 1940s, she was bought by Captain Frank Swift who had started the passenger schooner business in Maine in 1936 sailing out of Camden.
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