100 p o r t l a n d monthly magazine House of the Month Steve Girard of Xtreme Aerial View; courtesy photos ago, I moved here permanently.” Each year, he spends “40 hours alone in the boat- house,” getting Little Reynard prepared for the summer. “Once I’m finished, I have plenty of company.” Privacy, Privacy, Privacy “T he [Greek Revival] house dates to 1850,” listing agent Christine Stone says. “This area was orig- inally a little fishing community. I’ve got some old postcards that show there was a little dock where the tugboat A.G. Prentiss used to land. Some of the buildings were moved to Hills Beach Road,” leaving Tide- winds the lord and master at the tip of this unforgettable peninsula. Foundations “Fort Mary was in this area in the 1630s,” Stone says. “Doug’s property does have kind of a hole” in the lush landscape “where I believe part of a fort foundation may have been. There used to be a monument right on the edge of his property line that talked about Fort Mary.” “My father was dean of the pharmacol- ogy school at Duquesne University,” Kay says. “When he retired and moved here, he was contacted by the University of New England. They wanted to start a pharmacol- ogy school in Biddeford.” Kay’s father was the first dean. “Today, Little Reynard’s name is Ku Chu,” Stone says. “It’s not named for a sneeze! Doug’s grandfather renamed the boat after his little dog. Doug cruises it all over Saco Bay, the Kennebunks, and up to Portland on occasion.” The main house has “four bedrooms, with a lovely attached barn.” Included in the decor: “a ship’s-wheel chandelier that used to be the wheel on the Lightship Nan- The yacht designer was Philip L.Rhodes of 11 Broadway,NewYork: “With her rakish,streamlined look,Little Reynard is typical of post-WorldWar II styling.She is 40 feet overall.”–The Rudder,September,1948