Peter Digre submits- Three Masted Schooner
Elinor Teele submits-
A huge thank you to the captains, crews, and organizers!
I’ll be posting highlights of the day – including individual schooner portraits – to my Flickr account (https://www.flickr.com/photos/44056487@N03/) and photo blog (http://squamcreativeservices.com/photography/photography-blog/) this week.
All photos will eventually make there way into my Boat & Ship Gallery: http://squamcreativeservices.com/photography/photography-gallery/boat-ship-photography/.
If any of the crew would like a digital copy of a photo, they can contact me via my website: http://squamcreativeservices.com/contact/.
Here’s to Gloucester!
Elinor Teele
John Sullivan submits-
Joey a little inspirational poem about Columbia schooner design from past now living in present.
Submitted by John Sullivan
The Columbia stem to stern shear balance of line taunt lines massive power of a lost age takes the wind out of my sails. If one is to be resurrected give me a steel hull where losing a wooden plank will not send me to the bottom. With ease she glides by other more mortal boats and her full sails from top mast down speak of a daring past of wind power. For millennia a steady breeze was the hope of all at sea. We have fallen overboard as we reach for more of everything leaving the past locked in irons. The boat is a compromise of past and future but bow to the dream of its builder. Hail Columbia grand lady of the sea may you have fair winds.
Good Morning Gloucester 