POCKET PUGILIST

In the mid-aughts, when Back Cove emerged as a satellite of Sabre Yachts, I was a junior editor at our sister publication Power & Motoryacht. I have a penchant for Down East yachts, and at the time, lobster boats and other commercial craft were the design muse du jour. I appreciated the multitude of interpretations that builders from New England, Turkey, Italy and beyond had splashed, inspired by workaday, handsome Down East vessels.

So, when the Maine-based