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While waiting for our whale watch to launch into the Gulf of Maine, Lin and I drifted over to join a crowd admiring the most spectacular of the many yachts moored along the pier. Circled by a wide and polished rosewood gunwale, she was new, big, and flashy. I stepped back to take a picture of this princess and stumbled. I steadied myself on a piling and looked down to find this tiny moorage full of the real boats of Bar Harbor.