Six-year-old Fancy is a dog that loves a cat, so long as the cat is Kahuna Nui, a Crowther Shockwave 35 that during sailing season can be found at Handy Boat in Falmouth. Fancy’s person, Emily Davis of Nobleboro, said the pup can be a little high maintenance ashore and around other dogs—hence her name—but on the family catamaran owned by Davis’s uncle, she’s happy standing watch or just napping in the sun. Maybe the wind and waves remind her of her childhood in Puerto Rico. Davis, co-founder of OpBox in Woolwich, met Fancy at a Valentine’s Day weekend event put on by a Westbrook animal shelter. She was a rescue dog, and her papers were in Spanish. When not sailing or watching Davis and crew enjoy a dip in Casco Bay—Fancy doesn’t care for swimming herself—she can sometimes be found at the family’s camp on Duckpuddle Pond in Nobleboro. Freshwater activities include kayaking and rides on Davis’s two-person paddle boat, which Fancy prefers since she can have her own seat—but she doesn’t love paddleboards. Freshwater, saltwater, Fancy enjoys them both, Davis says. “She does very well on the water, it calms her down.”
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