With so much great coverage of the Labor Day Weekend events, here’s a personal take on our enjoyment of the schooners.
On Saturday our daughter Christina joined me for a sail around the harbor.Adventure and Denis Sullivan were docked flanking City Hall, beyond.This could be a Winslow Homer painting – Ardelle near Ten Pound IslandUp close and personal with Isabella.Later downtown, rest and quiet on Ernestina Morrissey after the deck tours closed.Thomas E Lannon and Alert sailing guests along the waterfront before sunset.Seafood and live entertainment on the deck at Blue Collar Lobster Company.Sunday Race Day, waiting for the schooners, on the breakwater at Eastern Point.A family watches American Eagle, part of the Parade of Sail.Foredeck crew on Adventure, rounding Dog Bar Breakwater.And her “afterguard,” traditionally the decision makers on the race course.Denis Sullivan’s complex sailplan mixing with today’s motors.Makes you appreciate the fishing fleet’s Old Days of Sail.Past the breakwater and out to the starting line.Milling around, dodging spectator boats, waiting for the starting guns.Congestion in the haze at the start, with Adventure in the foregroundAmerican Eagle, winner of the Mayor’s Cup, returning to port; Boston beyond.
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