Joey___
My friend Aram Nersesian, Capt. of schooner Heron, got this photo of his wheel during the Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race last week. I would like to challenge your readers to come up with a caption.
Category: Schooner
Community Photos 10/21/13
Hi Joey,
On a recent visit to the railways, I snapped this shot of a Schooner Roseway crewmember who seemed to be right at home as he sat atop one of the masts.
Enjoy!
~Bill O’Connor
North Shore Kid
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Track the Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race
The 127 mile Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race (GCBSR) starts October 17th. This year’s fleet includes several schooners familiar to us here in Gloucester ___ Adventurer 65, Hindu, Liberty Clipper, Light Reign, Norfolk Rebel, Pride of Baltimore II and Virginia. http://www.schoonerrace.org/fleet13.htm
Every boat will have a tracker to enable watching the race live. Keep your eye on the race website for a tracker link to be posted prior to the start. The Chesapeake can get pretty rough, and this has often been the case. To add interest you can get real time wind info as well as the forecast along the route from the NOAA site. I did this race in Green Dragon six times and am familiar with the bay and many of the boats, so it’s great sport watching on the internet. An all-nighter at the computer in a safe, dry, warm place with a little rum is not a terrible alternative to racing.
There is an all-day pig and oyster roast / awards ceremony at the Portsmouth, VA Visitor Center. I got these shots from the adjacent Marriott Hotel.
Al Bezanson
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Open again for business
From Green Dragon – inbound
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VIDEO: Schooner Adventure Sails Again
Cape Ann TV’s Lisa Smith sent this video by Josef Hnulik, filmed aboard Schooner Adventure during this year’s Schooner Festival featuring Daisy Nell & Captain Stan on the soundtrack.
Come aboard the Schooner Adventure for a sail in Gloucester Schooner Festival’s Mayor’s Race. It is the Adventure’s first race after she underwent a restoration project lasting two decades. The crew is proud of this historic fishing vessel, as they are the ones who restored her to her former grandeur.
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About the BOUNTY sinking – the illusion of experience
Al Bezanson submits-
This is a long piece but a thoughtful reflection for mariners and anyone else
http://threesheetsnw.com/lateentry/2013/10/07/mario-vittone-on-the-illusion-of-experience/
Al Bezanson
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The Lannon going behind Ten Pound Island in the fog.
I love foggy days especially when you get to see the Lannon going around Ten Pound Island.
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Community Photos 9/30/13
Mr. Lincoln is to show scale…
very small gifts 
Sailing Past The Boston Skyline, photo by Anthony Marks
Busy weekend at the Gloucester Marine Railway from Mary Barker
Hi Joey,
Friday was a busy at at Gloucester Marine Railway.
The Roseway is up on the rails. Her crew are busy taking down her rigging in preparation for her masts being pulled on Monday morning (for inspection).
The Phyllis A is minus a few boards right now as she continues to be rehab’s.
I was able to capture some shotsof the Liberty Star as she was being lifted out.
You can see the Roseway’s crew up in the rigging beyond the Liberty Star in the last shot.
How nice to see 5 wooden boats (the Adventure and Highlander Sea as well) at the GMR.
Janet Rice submits-
Hi Joey-
I work for Annabelles PetCare in Gloucester. So, of course, I noticed how the dogs were enjoying the Cyclocross Races at Stage Fort Park just as much as their humans were!
Best-Janet
Joey,
Took this today, it was just gorgeous from Rocky Neck today! Hope you will share. 🙂
Sue Ann Pearson
Hi Joey
Don’t know if you have room for a couple of shots I took this morning at Rust Island with my new Sony NEX-5 camera. Great features.
Thanks for the tip.
Sandy Chadwick
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Schooner Roseway
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While searching though my photo library, I discovered a batch of stills from the Schooner Festival that I have not yet posted because I was so intent on editing the Schooner Festival video. I’ll try to post them this weekend–if everyone hasn’t already had enough of schooner photos!
The Schooner Roseway is a National Historic Landmark, owned and operated by World Ocean School, which is located in Camden, Maine. She is a gaff-rigged schooner and was first launched from Essex in 1925. The Roseway runs sails out of Boston during the summer and out of Savannah, Georgia and St. Croix during the winter months.
If you have sailed on the Schooner Roseway, I would love to know about your experience. Please leave a comment in the comment section. Thank you!
History of the Roseway from the World Ocean School website:
In the fall of 1920 a Halifax, Nova Scotia, newspaper challenged the fisherman of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to a race between the Halifax fishing schooners and the Gloucester fleet. Therefore many schooners, such as Roseway, built at this time were not strictly designed for fishing but in order to protect American honor in the annual races.
Roseway, 137′ in sparred length, was designed as a fishing yacht by John James and built in 1925 in his family’s shipyard in Essex, Massachusetts. Father and son worked side by side on Roseway, carrying on a long New England history of wooden shipbuilding. She was commissioned by Harold Hathaway of Taunton, Massachusetts, and was named after an acquaintance of Hathaway’s “who always got her way.” Despite her limited fishing history, Roseway set a record of 74 swordfish caught in one day in 1934.
Read more about the history of the Roseway here
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Great Day for a Sail From Mary Barker
Hi Joey,
Sunday afternoon was a spectacular day for a sail. The Adventure took full advantage with the first of hopefully many Thank You Sails. We sailed with 52 people who have/had been volunteers, donors, crew and board members at various times in the last 25 years.
It was so much fun to have the various ‘generations’ of the Adventure’s restoration team aboard. There were so many stories shared, friendships renewed, and new friendships started. We plan to continue our Thank You Sails with intention of including as many of the people as possible who have participated in making this dream a reality.
Mary Barker
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A Sunset Celtic Cruise on The Lannon
Rick and I enjoyed a wonderful evening on The Lannon on Saturday evening. The Lannon is such a pretty boat. Kay and Tom with their great crew make you feel so comfortable and welcome. The cruise at 5:30 -8:00 took all the stress away not just one day of stress but a lifetime. Here a couple of pictures of our cruise. When it was time to get off, just wanted to turn around and take another cruise. Thank you Lannon.
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Mary Barker Rides Adventure For The Schooner Races
Hi Joey,
I had the honor of being aboard the Adventure for the Parade of Sails and Schooner Race. I don’t want to duplicate any of the magnificent photo’s that you have shared thus far, so here are a few of my more unique shots.
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Schooner Fest…Outside the breakwater Post #3
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Community Photos 9/4/13
Len Burgess submits-
Here’s some shots of the race on my facebook. –Len Burgess
https://www.facebook.com/leonard.burgess.180/media_set?set=a.3509445111782.1073741833.1741489716&type=1
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Schooner Fest… Outside the breakwater #2
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Schooner Tyrone takes Line Honors and Medium-class category
Kathy Chapman submits-
Schooner Tyrone took Line Honors and placed first in the Medium-class Schooner category on Sunday in the Mayor’s Race. Today Captain Matthew Sutphin (pictured) with Mate Lisa Goodwin and crew will compete in the Fisherman’s Cup race which starts in Gloucester, with the finish line in Provincetown. She races against Schooner Ardelle among others.
This is the first time Tyrone raced in the Gloucester Schooner Festival thanks to Al Bezanson of Schooner Green Dragon. Tyrone’s home port is Chatham, MA. http://chathamclassicyachtcharters.com/
Online portfolio for more images:
http://kathychapman.viewbook.com/album/schooner-tyrone
Photos and video © Kathy Chapman 2013
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Schooner Fest… Outside the breakwater Post #1
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Breaking news – Canada wins the Gloucester Schooner Race
Al Bezanson reports-
Here are the numbers folks. Tillicum 1 has been training in Nova Scotia this summer and here are the results.
Al Bezanson
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Late For The Lannon
Finally Made It After Missing The Cast Off For The 2013 GMG Lannon Ryan and Wood Cuban Cigar Factory Sunset Sail.
Thanks To Jeff Amero from J & L Welding and Machine for the video.
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Schooner Fest Parade of Sail
Good Morning Gloucester 