Swan's Island, Maine, is a small island off Mount Desert's Acadia National Park, and one of only 14 year 'round-inhabited islands along the Downeast coast. Its major business is lobstering, and the harbor is filled with lobster boats worked by the 250 year 'round residents. Swan's is home to surely the smallest Grady-White club, formed last year by three extended family members whose little fleet of Grady-Whites seasonally joins the working boats of Burnt Coat Harbor.

Swan's is a summer island for "preachers and teachers," as the locals would say. Peter Vorkink falls into both categories, being an Episcopal priest and during the academic year a teacher of religion at Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire. For the three summer months, he and his family, and his brother Andy and his family, spend the days boating on their Grady-White Voyager 248s. Andy's is a 1997, and Peter's is a 2000. They are joined by their London cousin, Doug Henderson, and his 2003 Gulfstream 232.

Life is fairly idyllic on Swan's, and a typical day consists of a picnic to a neighboring island in Penobscot Bay, one of the country's most famous cruising grounds. If there are other groups enjoying that particular island, the three club members can find another-there literally are hundreds of islands in the Maine archipelago. "We never lack for places to visit and often make overnight trips to nearby ports of call, sleeping on our boats," says Rev. Vorkink. "May all Grady-White club members be so fortunate!"