Scenes from the Eggemoggin Reach Regatta

Spectators cruising by in a lobster boat before the start of the race.

Close competition on the first leg of the race.

Boats sailing back and forth before the start. Collisions are not unheard of.

When things break on boats, you go to great heights to fix them.

Sunlight through a sail.

The wind picks up after boats have rounded Egg Rock, one of the race markers.

On the downwind leg of the race, boats fly spinnakers, lightweight sails that allow them to catch more wind.

As the race goes on, the pack thins.

Spinnakers flying high.

Boats coming through Stonington by Deer Isle on the Camden to Brooklin race the day before the Eggemoggin Reach race. Things were tight.

Boats are required to tow a dinghy on the feeder race. If you don’t, you’re disqualified.

Boats waiting for the start of the Eggemoggin Reach race on Saturday.

Ginger, a daysailer built by Brooklin Boat Yard, sailing in the 2012 race.

Looking forward aboard Northern Crown during the feeder race.

Gathering clouds—this year the weather was perfect and winds were high, but some years fog socks you in and the lack of wind means that you drift backwards for most of the day. It’s those times that you forfeit and turn the motor on.

The Brooklin General Store is one of the few shops in Brooklin, Maine.