West Gardiner’s Scott Hess holds up daughter Amelia, 4, for her to ring the bell at Wiscasset Yacht Club Sept. 7. Hess, a club member, praised WYC for being welcoming and being very socially involved with the community. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper A lobsterman cleans the boat on return to the Wiscasset shore Sept. 7. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Harpswell’s Ron Gagne, left, on his 2023, “whiskey neat”-colored Harley Davidson, and wife Sue Gagne, on a Canada-made Can Am three-wheel motorcycle, back into parking spots on the Wiscasset waterfront Sept. 7. They planned to meet family and spend time in the area, including the Boothbay Region. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Daniel Parades, left, and Nery Garcia of Bowman, Texas walk around Wiscasset’s waterfront Sept. 7. Another travel companion held the spot in line at Red’s Eats. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper The wind keeps a small American flag and a big one moving Sept. 7 on the Wiscasset waterfront. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Wiscasset waterfront Sept. 7. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Reflections and the clouded horizon Sept. 7 on Wiscasset’s waterfront. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper Shades of gray Sept. 7. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper A view of the water from between a walkway’s boards. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper