More pictures!
This is at the same boat museum. Back in the day of the sailing schooners, this was a well-known shipyard (in Maine) where the biggest sailing schooner in the US (possibly the world?) was made - a 6 masted ship. The white sculptures represent the actual size of the boat - the one on the left is the bow, and the one I'm standing beside is the stern. They would build the ship on land, then wedge it onto a slanted cradle and slide it down the rails you can see in the bottom right-hand corner, straight into the inlet. Sometimes the ships made it ok, sometimes they capsized or went so fast into the inlet that they hit the opposite bank and sank!

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