Maynard Bray
As recently as 2018, QUARK, by then renamed HERITAGE, was looking okay.
In winter 2018, I spent a few weeks vacationing with friends Bill and Caroline Mayher in Apalachicola, Florida, and while poking around looking at boats stumbled across one that I knew well. I had watched her being built in Maine more than a dozen years earlier at Brooklin Boat Yard to an L. Francis Herreshoff design and launched as QUARK. She was one of my all-time favorites from that yard.
Renamed HERITAGE, she’d been hauled out—rig, sails, and all—and was gradually being repainted. She had become the flagship of George Floyd’s Apalachicola Maritime Museum. She surely needed painting and varnishing but seemed in great condition otherwise.