Here’s my brief personal take on a successful Gloucester Labor Day Weekend Schooner Festival. Saturday eveing down on the docks before race day, and on Sunday the Parade of Sail out to the starting line, seeing the race at a distance from our house, and then sailing out on Troll to welcome some of the 27 schooners back into the harbor.
Schooners at Harbor Cove, downtown – seen from Ocean Alliance, Rocky NeckAnd at Maritime Gloucester. Our Lady of the Voyage church beyondArbella and Adventure home docked at Maritime GloucesterDowntown I4C2 dock. Ocean Alliance with schooners, beyond at leftVisiting the fleet by doryTime to relax, on American Eagle (Camden, ME)Sunset from the Jodfrey State Fish Pier (Fitz Henry Lane painting?)Columbia (Panama City, FL) joining the Sunday parade to the starting lineCongested quarters during the race, out in the hazeSailing out to greet Columbia on her returnNarwhal (Jamestown, RI), and Gloucester’s Arbella rounding Dog Bar breakwaterGloucester’s Thomas E Lannon inside Eastern Point lightAlong with Gloucester’s Adventure
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