Hi Joey…… I managed to get this photo of ROSEWAY in the 2006 Gloucester Schooner Race from GREEN DRAGON. She is Essex-built, in 1925, and was purchased by the Boston Harbor Pilots in 1941. The pilots also worked from the schooner PILOT built at the same yard in 1924. Now that schooner is called HIGHLANDER SEA, berthed right here at Rocky Neck Railways.
I feel slightly connected to these two schooners for in 1962-63 I lived on Long Wharf with GREEN DRAGON right adjacent to the pilots office. The schooners alternated on station for a week, year round, and were a regular sight standing off Nahant under trysail. I think it was Monday mornings one or the other came alongside Long Wharf briefly to drop off or board pilots, and on one occasion I caught a glimpse from our window of ROSEWAY during a whiteout snowstorm.
Here is a 1963 Polaroid photo from our Long Wharf apartment looking over GREEN DRAGON’s masts at T-Wharf. The cooling water outflow from the Quincy Market Cold Storage warehouse kept the slip ice-free and we sailed year-round. This site is now occupied by Larry Cannon’s Waterboat Marina.
Al Bezanson
Good Morning Gloucester 