Donor information: Merlin Bar Harbor Luders #56, owned here by Norman Mailer, then summering in Sorrento. David Cadigan at the helm, Steve Hensel with hat. Other crew person unknown. Photo probably taken at the annual Bar Harbor regatta. Photo made from slide taken in 1972. Merlin later burned in a fire at Williams Boat yard, Halls Quarry. Boat built by Luders in 1948 for the new Bar Harbor Yacht Club fleet. Original owner was Amos Eno. Boat named Salty . Later owned by Mrs. E.E. Ownes, also of Bar Harbor.
Sturgis Haskins, “Merlin, Bar Harbor Luders #56,” Mount Desert Island Historical Society, accessed April 28, 2024, https://mdihs.digitalarchive.us/items/show/8673.Item 9039
