Menace

Ellie is still a menace.  She is in Phoebe’s toys, her face, her hair.  Phoebe wants to strike back but she cannot.  I am quite familiar with this as it was the basis of the majority of my interactions with my own younger sister.  We went over to Quisset for yet another beautiful summer day.  The wind was light NE and we rocked on a borrowed mooring snuggled between two Hinckley’s.  However, the real jewel lay hove to in Mattapoisett Harbor.  I had noticed the boat while paddleboarding the previous evening.  It was without question the most beautiful boat I have ever seen.  Hailing from Newport and named Bolero it was  yawl with huge overhangs, a little trunk cabintop and a perfect sheerline.  When I got home I googled it and found that it was an Olin Stephens design from 1949.  At 73′ she was built to the maximum length of the Newport to Bermuda Race which she won several times.  It was recently totally redone in Rockport, ME.  A beauty.