Get Your Sail On!
Imagine ripping across the bay under thousands of square feet of canvas sails. Looking up, the sails seem to kiss the clouds. Wind in your hair, perhaps a book in your hand. Water, wind, islands, sun.
It all starts like this.
![](https://www.sailmainecoast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Riggin-carrying-mainsail_reduced.jpeg)
Photo by Tracy Sheppard
It takes a village to bend on the mainsail!
![](https://www.sailmainecoast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/279954766_1055669538665475_6101302755287823811_n-scaled-1.jpg)
Courtesy of Windjammer Angelique
![](https://www.sailmainecoast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/RIggin-bending-on-mainsail_reduced.jpeg)
Photo by Tracy Sheppard
![](https://www.sailmainecoast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Riggin-bending-on-mainsail-2-_reduced.jpeg)
Photo by Tracy Sheppard
![](https://www.sailmainecoast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/281894670_966002910742216_4631508716976859458_n-scaled-1.jpg)
Courtesy of Windjammer Angelique
With a mainsail, foresail (or in the case of Angelique, a mizzen sail), several headsails and sometimes topsails, the crews are busy bending on sails for several days.
![](https://www.sailmainecoast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/280035844_576669620486470_6796142810665621554_n-1-1.jpg)
Courtesy of Windjammer Angelique
![](https://www.sailmainecoast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Ang.-jib_-reduced.jpeg)
Courtesy of Windjammer Angelique
And finally, THIS.
![](https://www.sailmainecoast.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/MD_Boat-Details_Barry-King.2-_reduced-scaled-1.jpeg)
Photo by Barry King
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Happy Sailing!
Categories: Behind the Scenes, Maine Windjammers
Tags: boat sails, Maine windjammers