Essex Shipbuilding Museum–temperature 94˚degrees and strictly manpower all day Saturday getting the Museum’s Chebacco Pinky Schooner "Lewis H. Story" ready for the trip and the celebration at Mount Desert Is., Maine. Photo by Len Burgess
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A handful of tickets left 2013 GMG / Ryan and Wood Distillery/ Cuban Cigar Rum Cruise Aboard The Thomas E Lannon July 11th
Tickets Won’t Last.
Two Killer Cigars From the Cuban Cigar Co., Rum From Ryan and Wood Distillery and a sail on the Thomas E Lannon. If you add all those up at full price it’s Like $80 but since we’re all friends everybody took some off and made it a killer diller deal. No better way to see Gloucester Harbor and Celebrate with friends.
Call Kay at the Lannon office 978-281-6634 to reserve your spot
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Schooner Thomas Lannon in the mist
Taken yesterday afternoon during a photo walk, which was part of a photography workshop I am leading at The Hive.
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Photos from Evelina Goulart Fundraiser Sail 6/17/13
Joey,
These were taken during the Goulart fundraising sail last night.
Jim Diedrich
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Guard Dog of the Prize for the Schooner Race
Two bottles of Special Spirits are attached to buoys at the midway point of the race.
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Video Interview With Tom Ellis- Skipper Of The Thomas E Lannon
Tom Ellis Talks Pitches The 2013 Schooner Challenge To Benefit The Evelina M. Goulart
Have an evening of fun and participate in a unique brand of schooner challenge and help make the boat you crew on the winner! You must be on the Maritime Gloucester dock Monday, June 17th by 5:30 pm.
Crews will be assigned to the three schooners by random draw. Every effort will be made to seat friends and/or couples together on the same schooner. This would make an ideal club, association
or family team event! All proceeds are to benefit the Essex Shipbuilding Museum’s 86 year-old schooner “Evelina M. Goulart’s” stabilization project.
Tickets for The Schooner Challenge are $40 ea. and are only available from our Museum’s secure web site: http://www.essexshipbuildingmuseum.org/details-of-our-next-events-27.html#SchoonerChallenge
Or call: 978-375-3337. Don’t Delay–Limited tickets are available so sign-on NOW!
There will be cash bars on board, and light hors d’oeuvres will be available.
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Essex Shipbuilding Museum’s "The Schooner Challenge". Be on-board one of 3 Essex-built schooners for a once-in-a-lifetime event!
Have an evening of fun and participate in a unique brand of schooner challenge and help make the boat you crew on the winner! You must be on the Maritime Gloucester dock Monday, June 17th by 5:30 pm.
Crews will be assigned to the three schooners by random draw. Every effort will be made to seat friends and/or couples together on the same schooner. This would make an ideal club, association
or family team event! All proceeds are to benefit the Essex Shipbuilding Museum’s 86 year-old schooner "Evelina M. Goulart’s" stabilization project.
Tickets for The Schooner Challenge are $40 ea. and are only available from our Museum’s secure web site: http://www.essexshipbuildingmuseum.org/details-of-our-next-events-27.html#SchoonerChallenge
Or call: 978-375-3337. Don’t Delay–Limited tickets are available so sign-on NOW!
There will be cash bars on board, and light hors d’oeuvres will be available.
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MBBS #1 and Willy the Caulker
Joey____
I collected some random photos at the Maine Boat Builders Show (MBBS.) This is the first of a series – caulking tools.
Back around 1966 I had a couple bunks where you needed to avoid sleeping on your back lest your eye sockets fill up with water. Someone advised me to go over to the railways and look up Willy the Caulker (the late Wilfred Amero). Willy agreed to caulk my entire deck for something like $35 if I remember right, as long as I reefed the seams first. GREEN DRAGON was at the Beacon at the time and every day for about a week he came over at the end of his day at the railways. It was really something watching him go at it. Willy had the touch and my decks were tight for years.
No modern plastic glop will keep old fir decks tight like cotton driven in right.
Al Bezanson
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ELSIE and BLUENOSE, Start of the First Race
From the collections of the CAPE ANN MUSEUM, Gloucester, Massachusetts
“Start of the first race of the International Race showing ‘Elsie’ in the lead with Bluenose in the rear” 1921 Halifax, Nova Scotia
Thanks to Fred Buck for locating this photograph and sharing it with the Gloucester Schooner Festival committee.
From A Race for Real Sailors The first ELSIE – BLUENOSE RACE.
_________ The two fairly flew across the water, all sails filled in the stiff quartering breeze and hulls rolling heavily in the deep chop. “The end of Bluenose’s 80-ft. boom was now in the water, now halfway up to the masthead as she gained on her rival. The Elsie rolled still harder and three times brought her main boom across the Bluenose’s deck, between the fore and main rigging.” It was a constant battle for the weather berth, with members of both crews either handling lines or working aloft or hugging the windward rails. Anyone daring to raise his head above the weather rail on Bluenose caught the caught the edge of Walter’s caustic tongue. __________
A Race for Real Sailors is in stock at the Cape Ann Museum.
The stirring and poignant tale is illustrated with 51 historical photographs and five maps, and rounded out by a glossary of sailing terms and an appendix of the ever-changing race rules. This is a story that will keep even confirmed landlubbers pegged to their seats, a tale of iron men and wooden ships whose time will never come again.
Al Bezanson
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Slush’n in unison
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Video- Making Mast Hoops for Schooner Adventure at C. B. Fisk.
Greg Bover submits-
Dear Joey,
Perhaps our readers would be interested in the video Joanne Souza shot of making mast hoops for Schooner Adventure at C. B. Fisk.
Geoff Deckebach, Bill Holmes and I started by sawing strips of ash 10 feet long, 1-1/8” thick and 1-3/4” wide, tapered at both ends. We steamed them for about an hour and a half and then went ahead as shown to make the two foot diameter hoops. These hoops go around the masts, about 20 on each one. The new sails will be tied on to the rings, or “bent on” as we schoonerheads say, and that allows them to be raised or lowered.
We are one step closer to actually sailing Adventure for the first time in almost two decades. It is a privilege and an honor for me to be able to help with the effort to return this icon of Gloucester to the sea.
Regards,
Greg
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Community Photos 5/27/13
Al Bezanson submits-
Privateer LYNX at Maritime Gloucester. Bound for the Great Lakes via Lunenburg and Canso, NS.
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Photos- The Schooner Adventures is having water tight bulkheads installed to meet Coast Guard specifications
Hi Joey,
The Schooner Adventures is having water tight bulkheads installed to meet Coast Guard specifications.
They started by using a fiberoptic system to look between the ceiling and the hull to find the best locations for the bulkheads…
They had to insert dowels into strategic spots where water could flow between the ceiling and bulkhead. Then the construction
began. It is a very time consuming process as there are ne straight lines for the boards to attach. The guys are custom fitting
each board to snuggly fit the curves of the vessel. They are not being nailed into place but rather are precisely measuring,
cutting, and chiseling.
Mary Barker
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ELSIE crew, 1921
Al Bezanson submits-
From the collections of the CAPE ANN MUSEUM, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Elsie’s crew, 1921 International Fishermen’s Races (photo: Cox Bros., Halifax, Nova Scotia) Capt. Marty Welch.
Fred Buck has pitched in to help the Schooner Festival committee recruit entries and increase public awareness of the original International Fishermen’s Races. This is one of several photographs of ELSIE the Cape Ann Museum is sharing for our use.
From A Race for Real Sailors The first ELSIE – BLUENOSE race.
______ The combination of wind and too much sail proved to be more than the ELSIE could bear. First to go was her jib topsail halyard. As a crewman scampered out onto her bowsprit to re-reeve the halyard, the bow plunged deeply into the sea, burying the bowsprit to the third hank of her jib. Moments later, the foremast snapped off at the cap and both jib topsail and staysail came down in a mess of wire stays and rigging. Without missing a beat, the crew set about clearing up the wreckage. The mate and a couple of fishermen headed out on the bowsprit to cut away the jib topsail that was now dragging under the forefoot. “Down into the jumping sea went the bowsprit and the three sailors were plunged under five feet of water. They cut away the sail and brought it in with the crew behind them hauling it inboard through the green-white smother.” Those aloft worked frantically to secure the topmast, assorted wires, blocks and halyards.
Within six minutes the ELSIE, under forcefully shortened sail, appeared to be making better time than before. Angus Walters reacted in the spirit of sportsmanship by immediately dousing his own jib topsail and clewing up his main topsail. _______
Al Bezanson
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Roseway’s Fun for Good
Al submits-
http://www.worldoceanschool.org/get-onboard/special-events/fun-for-good
Roseway has just returned from the Virgin Islands and here is an opportunity to view this historic Essex-built schooner up close. If you go, be sure to let them know that Gloucester is excited to have them back in the Mayor’s Race this year. Here she is in the 2008 Gloucester Schooner Race. (Al Bezanson photo)
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THE SCHOONER CHALLENGE out of Gloucester Harbor on Monday, June 17th LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE CALL NOW!
Join the crews for this once-in-a-lifetime event!
THE SCHOONER CHALLENGE out of Gloucester Harbor on Monday, June 17th 6pm-8pm.
The three Essex-built schooners are, Thomas E. Lannon, Ardelle and Fame.
This fun-filled Challenge will benefit the Essex Shipbuilding Museum’s 86 year-old
Schooner Evelina M. Goulart. This would make an ideal club, association or family team event!
For more information, and to buy tickets now, please visit our Museum’s secure web site:
http://www.essexshipbuildingmuseum.org/details-of-our-next-events-27.html#SchoonerChallenge.
Don’t Delay–Limited tickets are available so sign-on NOW.
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Aground
Joey___
We’ve been searching for entries to the Schooner Festival and found this one.
Al Bezanson
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29th Annual Gloucester Schooner Festival Labor Day Weekend– August 30 to September 1, 2013
Chickity Check It- the Gloucester Schooner Festival’s Dandy New Blog!
Complete with printable schedules and everything.
It seems that this year they’re taking the promotion of the Schooner Fest seriously and we may get people to step up and take notice of what is one of the greatest events locally in G-Town.
You don’t suppose it had anything to do with the prodding of our month long Pre-Schooner Festival promotion last year do you?
Kudos to The People That Put It On To Be Getting Out Early and Often and With the Great New Website!
Hey Al Bezanson, I think they got the memo! 
Check It!- 29th Annual Gloucester Schooner Festival Website
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Chickity Check It!- Story About Zack Teal, Crew On Ardelle For Fun
Laurie Fullerton submits-
Hi Joey,
I wrote this story for WickedLocal.com and it ran last week in the Amesbury News. I was hoping it might run in Gloucester, too. It is about young Zack Teal who is a cremate on the schooner Ardelle but also lives in Essex in summer. He is building the whaleboat at Lowells boatshop but also was the young lad who helped build the schooner Ardelle. He is off to Maine Maritime this fall after graduation. Just thought you might like to post it. Cheers and thanks, – Laurie Fullerton
Here is the link and photos
Read more: The Whaleboat Project: Smooth sailing at Lowell’s as launch date nears – Amesbury, MA – Amesbury News http://www.wickedlocal.com/amesbury/news/x179155098/The-Whaleboat-Project-Smooth-sailing-at-Lowells-as-launch-date-nears#axzz2T0qZXEHP
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Have Your Head Examined If You Don’t Take Advantage of This Thomas E Lannon Mother’s Day Mom Sails Free Deal
Take Mom to the sea! Moms sail on the Schooner Thomas E Lannon in Gloucester, Massachusetts for FREE this Sunday from 1-3pm, so long as she is accompanied by a passenger paying full price.
Mom sails for FREE this Sunday from 1:00-3:00, so long as she is accompanied by a passenger paying full price.
Bundle up and bring Mom for a sail on the Lannon. Or, if you are the Mom, tell someone you want to sail on the Lannon this Sunday.
The forecast for the weekend is improving, though it doesn’t look like it will be as warm as last year. No matter what, it will be FUN!
For Daily Sail Schedule and Charter Information click on the link below
Good Morning Gloucester 