The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-10-27
THE HANDY PINKY.
There Amt No Better Style of Yacht"
Says a Maine Salt.

Some of the little old towns. bigger
and more important as ports a hundred
or more years ago than today, at the
long tapering ends of the fjord-like in
dentatiOns that form the "harborS' of
the matches Maine archipelago, still
maintain the pinkv. that supreme touch
Of salty oddness and picturesqueness. 1t
goes jogging i'll and out of port day by
day, on small marine errands-such as
on land take the farmer to town any
where from two to ten miles for a trans
action in meal or potatoes footing up
anywhere from 30 cents to S1.0O. The
rinky is Il vessel built after the style of
the old hgh-pooped ship of classic story,
for was not the poop of ship of war
of the Seventeenth century all that was
left of the puppis that Latin schoohoys
first make the acquaintance of in Virgil
with that magnificent figure of PalinurnS
the helmSman? And is not the pinky'S
high pointed stern all that is left of the
poop of Columbus and llakluyts voy-
ages? Fifty years ago the pnky was
the standard style of coaSting schooner
in the maritime provinces and on the
New England coast. and brave service
the mariners bred and trained in them
rendered in the days when New England
Sristle was forming and
The men of yorc
Were stout and poor
And sailed for bread to every shore
She may not be actually the last of
the pinkers.' but she is so near being
that that the old schooner is Il curiosity
wherever she goes, and PEOPLE look up
and say: "Wcll, if there isn't an old
pinky" She is not unconscious of this
herself She knows that she is being
looked at and is no. bit discounted.
! She even knows that size is Il curiosity.
The old Yankee pinkios. what there are
| left of them, have Of recent years very
naturally come to appreciate themselves
quite highly, since thcy see that Here's
huff has been copying them more and
more closely ever since he started on his
marvellous series of Word-baatlnG racers.
| Has he not been whiting away ANA
whiting away at both ends Of his
marvellous Srhooucrs and sloopS, and
! sending the stern MP into tho air IN a
point until the old pinlIcs have the rlght
to claim them as in their class as far as
concerns the fundamental lines of the
Ia0deli
The pink" Of the Listeners acquaint-
ance is manned by two "captainS' Of the
| little Maine coast village that he lol eS.
each Of whom is as old rs the pinky, and
whose united ages foud probably foot
mp 70 a hundred and fifty. Both thcsc
| grizzlcd and bearded salts, though a bit
stiff are spry and handy with rope and
oar, and address each other III nayigat-
| ing the schooner or warping up to the
wharf rs "CHptain.' With the assist
ance OF a single able-bodied seaman they
put out TO sea in any weather with per-
feet confidence in the safety and profit
Of their venture. 'Why, do you know
said Capt. Gerrish the other day, I'D
| like to have had this boat out in the
Portland storm mean the storm the
! Portland went down in, you know
Lets see, that was northeastern,
| broke in the Listener, wasn't it,
well should call it north-northeast
by-north or somewhere around there.
just lay 'er to against that wind and
| you'd "a rode all night as easy as on a
piller. Yes, I'd like to take this old pink
right to New York. Take hold aud tiN
her up good and clean and charge folks
| 10 cents a head to look her over. Million
/ aires will be making ON EN- yet. cause
/ there amt no better style of yacht,
whether for speed or for living on en-
The Listener in Boston Transcript.