What a wonderful morning on The Thomas Lannon, Gloucester’s Schooner. First I want to thank Tom and Kay Ellis, their son Heath and the wonderful crew. Rick and I said it was the most amazing time out sailing on this beautiful schooner.
The Columbia
Good Morning Gloucester 
It would be really cool it she had the Number “3” posted on her main sail
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Thanks for the comment, could ask about the number “3”. Thank you
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Ah yes. Number 3 was Columbia’s number in the Fishermen’s Cup Trials off of Gloucester in the late nineteen twenties. If she hadn’t sunk off Sable island she would have no doubt defeated the Bluenose. Instead Ben Pine on the Gertrude L Thebault raced, did well but in the end lost. And that was the end of the Fishermen’s Cup races. Columbia’s sister ship was the Elsie Number “4”.
Go to https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search?f%5Bsubject_facet_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Sailboats&f%5Bsubject_facet_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Sailing&mlt_id=commonwealth%3A3t946w52d&qt=mlt
There are dozens of pictures of Gertrude L Thebault, Henry Ford, Elizabeth Howard, Mayflower, Columbia, Arthur D Storey, Adventure (yep same one) and others from the late 1920s-30s when the pride of Gloucester was reflected in these beautiful and marvelous works of grace and art. My grandfather fished on the Elsie so I have a particular affinity to her.
Many of these fabulous boats were built in Essex MA in almost the exact same location as where the Schooner Ardelle was built.
Maybe you could post some of those great pictures on from the website
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Thank you so much
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Just looked again. It seems that Columbia may have also used the Number 2. The numbers did change depending on when the boat raced and what year. For the most part they were fairly static but there are changes that I’ve noticed from time to time. After the Columbia sank I believe the GLT had the Number 2. It helps to know the numbers when you’re trying to identify the boats. However I’ve also seen some boats mislabeled. Anyway there are all beautiful ghosts of a great past. Except for the Adventure. She lives on!
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A beautiful schooner. A great name for a space shuttle too.
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Thank You Donna sure was a beautiful day that was Fred Smiling down on you all! 🙂 Dave & Kim 🙂
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