Author: gregbover

Adventure Calls!

New this year, Gloucester’s flagship and only National Historic Landmark vessel will be located at PierI4C2 during Gloucester’s 39th annual Schooner Festival. Sail  an authentic part of Gloucester’s fishing heritage. Captain Miller-Shelley says” We’ve been preparing all season for this weekend. We’ve taken every tack and opportunity to train for the race in hopes of making the shortest time possible around the marks. I’m looking forward to the excitement and friendly competition of sailing alongside other schooners and their crews.”

For more information and tickets visit our website calendar

For more information and tickets visit our website calendar

Friday, September 1

Kick-Off Sail

10 AM – 1:00 PM

Catch a glimpse of the excitement building out on the water.

Festival Fleet Sail

1:30 – 4:30 PM

Greet the fleet as they begin to arrive.

Saturday, September 2

Heritage Day Sail

8:30 – 11:30 AM

Sail out among 28 other Schooners from around the nation.

Sunday, September 3 
Mayor’s Cup Race & Parade of Sail

8 AM – 5 PM

This all day excursion complete with breakfast and lunch is the biggest sailing day of the year! Help Adventure’s captain & crew lead the parade and capture first place in the race!

Schooner Adventure is thrilled to launch sailing for the Gloucester 400+ season with sails beginning during St. Peter’s Fiesta.  Adventure is inaugurating Gloucester Sails!  funded in part by Beauport Financial Services and an official event of the Gloucester 400+, over the Fiesta weekend, June 23-25. During these three days, with help from Wellspring House, Gloucester Housing Authority, Open Door, and Pathways for Children, Adventure will give free sails to 350 passengers who have never sailed before!

In her 97 years sailing, this is the first time Adventure is helmed by a woman, Captain Christa Miller-Shelley. With the help of a new crew of 8 plus seasoned Mate Natalie Warren, Captain Miller-Shelley has been bending on sail, running safety drills and inspections as well as leading many a shake-down cruise in preparation for sailing in service to the community. This capable Captain impresses with her skill, tenacity, and good humor. She has been overheard saying ““I can’t wait to get the water in the scuppers!”

Adventure also offers ticketed sails to the general public for St. Peter’s Fiesta weekend:

FRIDAY JUNE 23, 10 AM – 12:30 PM – Be the First to Sail on Adventure this Season!

SATURDAY JUNE 24, 4:30 PM – 7 PM – Greasy Pole Sail! We’ll try to get a glimpse of the greasy pole challenge, one of the highlights of Saint Peter’s Fiesta.

SUNDAY JUNE 25, 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM – Blessing of the Fleet Day! GET YOUR TICKETS HERE

Spend the summer on the water as a deckhand on Adventure.

We are looking for several people 18+ to join our 122-foot schooner, sailing almost every day from the pier at Maritime Gloucester. Sailing experience is a plus but not required, sail training is part of what we do. These are live-aboard positions so room and board are part of the package along with good pay and a chance to be part of the awesome crew, sailing and maintaining our National Historic Landmark. More details are available here. Send a résumé and cover letter to Stuart Siegel, Executive Director, stuart@schooner-adventure.org.

Sunday, August 28

4:30 – 7:30 pm

Featuring Marina Evans & Bernardo Baglioni

$60 pp

Enjoy the camaraderie of friends surrounded by the beauty of Cape Ann at sunset while sailing and listening to a special performance by this international folk/americana duo.

Complimentary beverages. BYOPicnics

Purchase Tickets 

Local Musician, Artist, Poet and Naturalist, Corey Wrinn
will entertain passengers on Adventure Friday, July 22, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Adults $60

Children 18 & under are FREE with paying adult

Complimentary wine, beer & soda included.

BYOPicnics encouraged.

Discounts for members, students, seniors, military & first responders.

For tickets visit our website ticketing calendar.

The schooner Adventure is seeking a cook for our live-aboard crew of ten. This is a seasonal full time position that includes good pay as well as room and board on a National Historic Landmark ship of 122 feet. Applicants must be 18+. We sail daily (sometimes twice a day) from Harriet Webster Pier at Maritime Gloucester. Cook and sail with us. Contact Captain Robert Wheeler. rwheeler@schooner-adventure.org

Are you 18 or older and looking for a summer job? Do you know someone who is?

Schooner Adventure is hiring deckhands for the 2022 season. These are full time, well paid positions that include room and board as well as on the job training. Deckhands participate in sailing and maintaining the ship, delivering our educational programs, working with the public and with our membership. Inquiries to Captain Robert Wheeler. rwheeler@schooner-adventure.org

Adventure Night
at
Gloucester Stage Company
Friday, October 15

Pre-Show Gathering and Meet the Playwright 7:00 PM
Curtain 7:30 PM

Benefit Price Tickets: $45 ea.
(A 16% Reduction off regular ticket price)

You are invited for a special world premiere production of Think of Me Tuesday written by Adventure board member Ken Riaf. Adventure has reserved a block of seats on the final Friday of the show. Purchasing these tickets will benefit both Adventure and the Gloucester Stage. There will be a short gathering in the lobby to meet the playwright before the show. Coinciding with the 2021 Gloucester mayoral race, this tongue-in-cheek portrayal of “Fishtown’s” most unlikely candidate won’t fail to entertain.  Tickets Link: https://schooner-adventure.starboardsuite.com/e/think-of-me-tuesday-performance-at-gloucester-stage-company-282

Please join us to celebrate Adventure‘s birthday and the finale of a successful return to sailing this season. This date in 1926 was Adventure’s original launch date ninety-five years ago! Internationally known local Singer/Songwriter, Allen Estes will provide musical entertainment on board. Participate in a 95^th Anniversary Raffle. Hors’doeuvres, Beverages, Bubbly, and Cupcakes will be served. Please come to Harriet Webster Pier at 4:00 pm to gather prior to boarding in celebration of Adventure. Members of the board will speak, and an honorary King and Queen Neptune will be crowned.

Thursday, September 16
4:00 – 7:00 PM
Departing from Harriet Webster Pier, Maritime Gloucester, 23 Harbor Loop
$95 pp Adults
$9.50 pp Youth (under age 17)

Tickets: https://schooner-adventure.starboardsuite.com/e/95th-anniversary-sail-276

Photo Credit: Mary Barker

Send an email to bhoffman@schooner-adventure.org to receive a code that enables you to sign up for these free sails on line.

The 122-foot schooner Adventure is seeking additional deckhands to join our crew for the current season. Adventure’s varied schedule contains community day sails, charter sails, and educational programming.  Working alongside our volunteers, sail training and seamanship skill building will be a focus of all our operations.  We offer excellent compensation, exceptional training and professional development. Deckhands will have the opportunity to fulfill additional roles such as Cook, Purser, and Safety Officer.  This is a full-time position, applicants must be 18+. Please send a cover letter, resume, and three recent references to info@schooner-adventure.org, or call the office at 978 281 8079 for more information. We look forward to discussing the opportunity with you in greater detail.

Adventure got underway yesterday for the first time in eighteen months. Just a short trip across the harbor to Gloucester Marine Railways on Rocky Neck, but it felt wonderful to be on the water again after not being able to sail last year.

We will be hauled out for a few weeks for maintenance, inspection, and bottom painting, then we’ll return to Maritime Gloucester to begin uprigging for our sailing season. We plan to be ready to sail with the public on board in early July.

Join us aboard this fast and able vessel for an experience like none other.

Thanks to Jim Diedrich for these photos.

Gloucester’s story telling program returns for the start of the ninth season. True stories told by folks you know in the comfort of your own home.

Even though Adventure couldn’t sail this year due to the pandemic we had a very successful year. A 94-year-old wooden schooner always needs care, and lots of it. The ever expanding volunteer corps put in several thousand hours over the summer on what we called deep maintenance, scraping, painting, tarring the rig, attacking rust and rebuilding boarding floats. Now as we transition to our winter mode, Bosun Phil Dunn has strung lights from the bow to the tops of the fore and main masts, and then down to the stern of our NAtioinal Historic Landmark. We want folks to know that the ship and the organization are well and strong, and proud to be a part of the Gloucester waterfront.

In case you missed it, the Gloucester Writers Center is extending its most recent Fish Tales show for another week. Get tickets at Gloucester Stage and stream it online or on any device.

Gather your people and listen to the love, the embarrassment, the hardship, and joy in these stories. Fish Tales features Casey Breton, Abram Kielsmeir-Jones, Doug Rich, Dick Prouty, Laila Goodman, Wendy Fitting, Bobbie Wayne, and Keith Harris.

Join us Thursday evening at 6:30 for the premier of a new video about Gloucester’s flagship and National Historic Landmark during our online fundraiser Community Through Adventure. Just follow this link to the Schooner Adventure website: http://schooner-adventure.org/support/community-video/

The 24 minute video is free and open to anyone to watch and will be available for a week following the event. Any donations made during this fundraiser will go twice as far to support the educational mission of Adventure thanks to a generous pledge from the members of the board of directors to match your contribution up to $30,000.

We can’t sail this season because of the pandemic, but the maintenance of the vessel must go on. We think this video will explain why Adventure’s volunteers and staff continue to work hard behind the scenes to keep one of the last Gloucester fishing schooners going strong.

We can’t sail, but we can still get together virtually to support the ship. Anyone can join this broadcast for free, and if you register before July 3 you’ll be eligible to win prizes including two tickets to join us for the 2021 4th of July Fireworks sail.

Here’s a couple of sneak peeks at the video-in-progress we’ll present on July 9.

Opening sequence

Craftsmanship & Preservation

During the summer and fall our all-volunteer maintenance crews will be making sure that our National Historic Landmark stays in the top condition she has enjoyed for the last several years. We have developed protocols to do so safely in accordance with state and local guidelines. If you have time to spare and would like to join that effort, please contact us at info@schooner-adventure.org