[Alan Bemis—home movies] Reel 8

Date1946

AbstractCan notes: "Maine Cruises 1946". Donor notes:"Kids Cruise - Ann, Margot, F…[unreadable] Parson et al to Roque with Kingmans on Hob Nob + Camerons on Blessed Event Cruise with Loves and Willis on Roaring Bess. Blue Dolphin in Gt. Cove + many good pictures of all the old gang on board Start of Men's Cruise off Herrick float - round + round start - derbies Sunset at High Head All Good!" Sunset over the Reach. HAS looking down on High Head dock as three boats are provisioned, and the three crews wait around. View from boat as it passes Burnt Coat Harbor Light (Hockamock Head Light) on Swans Island. Picnicking on the boat including teenagers. Regatta or boat race in bay with unknown types of boats. Chapie lowering herself into water from boat ladder, then quickly getting out. Daughter (?) on deck. More shots of boats anchoring, underway, and sloop underway. (Kingmans on Hob Nob and Camerons on Blessed Event?) Various boats at anchor, dinghies being rowed, Alan helps put out a whisker pole on a jib. Shots of boat silhouetted at sunset, and fisherman rowing his dory in fog. In a harbor several boats are dressed with signal flags. Cocktail party on Blue Dolphin. Several views of people leaving on launches and dories, waving goodbye. HAS pickup truck on High Head dock as boats are loaded/unloaded. Khamsin (homeport Brooklin) pulls away, other boats on dock, men raising sails on yawl Khamsin. (Is this the start of men's cruise off Herrick float?) Cirrus dinghy being rowed; Khamsin at anchor, boats under sail, Cirrus on mooring at High Head. Views interior at High Head. On dock at High Head, children dive off the dock as grandmother (old Mrs. Bemis?) and mom watch.