Rockland Photographer Jim Dugan hitched a ride on the schooner Mary Day for the Great Schooner Race on July 3.

Casting off the Mary Day’s jib topsail

Mary Day crew tacks the fore topsail

Schooner Heritage (left), sailing downwind, passes ketch Angelique close-hauled

The Lewis R. French, seen from the Mary Day. These two boats dock next to each other and their crews are close friends.

The schooner Lewis R. French, right, and Angelique, center, pass Mark Island in the middle of Penobscot Bay.

Capt. Noah Barnes of the Stephen Taber shoots a T-shirt at the Mary Day. It fell short.

The downwind leg, crossing from Camden to Mark Island, was a bit slow but let some boats show off their wing-on-wing skills.

Heritage and Stephen Taber did a few laps around Rockland Harbor after finishing.