Look who’s been slinking  into port during COVID!

A PHOTO DIARY BY YACHTSPOTTER JILL BLACKWOOD

Meet Jill Blackwood of South Portland. She’s a hobby photographer with a hawk eye and a healthy streak of curiosity—think Jimmy Stewart, keeping an eye on things with his camera in Rear Window…

“I live in the Loveitts Field neighborhood,” she says. “It’s on the ship channel, about halfway between Ram Island Ledge Light and Portland Head Light. You can see the entrance to Whitehead Passage between Peaks and Cushing Islands.”

You can see the world gliding by. It’s been an eye-opener, especially during COVID. 

“Once I retired and was around the house more often to see the ships that pass, I asked myself, Who are all these people who can afford these enormous yachts? I started snapping and researching.”

To learn more about Jill Blackwood and her husband, Bob, see this month’s Letter from the Editor, p. 14.

­—Research by Jill Blackwood, Luca Antolini, Sofie Brown, Natalie Foster, Siona Henze, Lily Randall, and Gwen Thompson

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