Category: Schooner

Launch Of the Ardelle Photos From Anthony Marks

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Thanks for the contributions form our GMG community we will be bringing you lots of Ardelle coverage.

Check Out The ShoonerArdelle Webpage

IMG_1999IMG_1977IMG_1980IMG_1982IMG_1984IMG_1989IMG_1991IMG_1992IMG_1993IMG_1994IMG_1995IMG_1996

Unique Essex Side Launch of Wooden Schooner Ardelle Set for Today July 9th and Ardelle Photos From Len Burgess

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

The "Ardelle" getting ready for the Launch on Saturday.
Shot this from the "Lewis Story", the Shipbuilding Museum Schooner, coming home to
Essex for the "Ardelle" celebration on Wednesday.
-Len Burgess

Ardelle7-6'11_9445

Vessel Will Careen Down the Ways and Hit the Essex River Basin with a Splash

Laurie Fullerton writes-

On Saturday, July 9 between 6 and 7 p.m. a historic Essex side launch of a 50-foot double sawn frame, two-masted, wooden schooner will take place at the Burnham Boatyard in Essex, MA. Ardelle was built by Harold Burnham, 44, of Essex who is an eleventh generation Master Shipwright. He will launch the vessel using the Essex side launch – where the massive schooner is literally leaned on its side and sent careening into the river basin.
Burnham is part of a shipbuilding legacy that dates back to the first settlers of Essex in the 1600s. With Essex’s long history as a shipbuilding town, where generations of shipwrights built vessels on the banks of the Essex River using the unique Essex side launch technique over three centuries..

"Essex shipwrights always used the simplest method they could to get the finished boat out of the way of the one they were about to start," said Burnham "The most popular method in Essex was called a side launch. Side launches were carried out by just leaning the vessels over onto a single way and skating them into the water on their own keel and one bilge."

"Of course, in today’s world the idea of sending a hundred tons of oak sliding on one side over smoking grease sounds dangerous, but that is only because we don’t do it much anymore. Just imagine the looks you would get from a 19th-century shipbuilder if you tried to explain to him what it is like to pass a car on an undivided highway. The truth is that of the approximately 3,300 vessels launched in Essex, we know of none that was seriously damaged in a launching accident. Further, there is no record of anyone being seriously hurt or killed at one of our launchings, either.

Len Burgess Photos-

Final preparations for the launch on Saturday.
Len Burgess

Ardelle_9310

Top Pick For Saturday- VIEW THE LAUNCH OF THE SCHOONER ARDELLE FROM THE ESSEX SHIPBUILDING MUSEUM

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

SATURDAY, JULY 9 STARTING AT 3:00 PM

Join us at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum’s Shipyard on Saturday, July 9, 2011 to view the launching of the Pinky Schooner Ardelle that is being built by Harold A. Burnham, an eleventh generation Essex shipwright. On Labor Day 2010 we celebrated the signing of her keel and the raising of her first frames. It was an exciting day and all who attended had a great time. Harold is now ready to launch the Schooner Ardelle and we will be there to celebrate.

It’s not often that wooden schooners are launched anywhere in this country, and we are fortunate to have in Essex a craftsman who knows how to build a wooden schooner the same way they were built centuries ago. Harold Burnham and a band of volunteers have spent the last 10 months building this vessel. They’ve been outside in snow storms, rain, and blistering heat. On Saturday, July 9th between 6 – 7 pm she will finally hit the water using the time honored, and exciting, Essex side launch. The Essex Shipbuilding Museum is one of the best places to view a launch from the H.A. Burnham Boatbuilding yard, and we plan on celebrating. Starting at 3 pm we will have live music from Michael Forney’s Bluegrass Band, Daisy Nell and Captain Stan and the second graders from Essex Elementary will perform songs from “The Stowaway Mouse”, hot dogs and Italian sausages from Kayem, chowder from Woodman’s of Essex , and all kinds of beverages. So, mark your calendars and join us!

Check Out Marty Luster’s Week By Week Photo Progress Of The Ardelle Being Built Here

Marty Luster Photo-

Chickity Check It! Daisy Nell writes children’s book about Essex Schooner Ardelle

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Our Friend Daisy Nell Has Written a book about The Essex Schooner Ardelle.

Read the story here

Here is a video we did a couple of years back in which Daisy explains the term “Schooner”

click picture to view video
click picture to view video

USS Constitution– Gloucester 1931-07

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Adam Gaffin, The legendary blogger behind Boston’s most influential online news source- Universal Hub forwarded the link to this picture to me-

Here is the info behind the photo-

USS Constitution – Gloucester

File name: 08_06_007749

Title: USS Constitution – Gloucester

Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)
Date created: 1931-07

Physical description: 1 negative : glass, black & white ; 4 x 5 in.

Genre: Glass negatives

Subjects: Constitution (Frigate); Sailing ships; Public sculpture
Notes: Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.

Collection: Leslie Jones Collection

Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department

Rights: Copyright © Leslie Jones.

Preferred citation: Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.

Come Celebrate Our Grand Opening! This Week with Schooner Adventure

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Thursday, June 30

11 am – Historic Gloucester Harbor Cruise

Step back in time during a 1 1/4 hour cruise around Gloucester Harbor on the King Eider. Using historic photographs, we’ll go back to the late 1800’s and early 1900’s identifying former companies from our fishing past at their original locations.

11 am – Thursday mornings (June 30 – Sept 1) – Weather permitting

$18 per adult/ $8 children up to age 12

Please make reservations with Cape Ann Harbor Tours on Harbor Loop

978-281-1979

Saturday, July 2

10 am – Gloucester’s Working Waterfront Walking Tour

Join us at the Fishermen’s Memorial at 10am for a guided walking tour of the Gloucester’s Working Waterfront. Looking at old photographs and maps, we will go back to the days of Gloucester’s fishing heyday. Old companies and buildings will be identified at their original locations as we make our way to Duncan Point. ($5 pp)

Saturday, July 2

10 am – 4 pm – Grand Opening of Schooner Adventure

at Her New Home at the Gloucester Marine Railways on Rocky Neck

· Open House on the 1926 Dory Schooner      Adventure

· Dory fishing presentations at 11:00 and 1:00

· View the 1925 Gillnetter Phyllis A.

· Sea Chantey singing

· Children’s Activities

· Ship’s Store

For more information call 987-281-8079 or email bwelin@schooner-adventure.org

Happy Birthday To The Schooner Lannon

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

The Family was honored to sail on the 14th Birthday Sail aboard the Schooner Thomas E. Lannon last night on her 14th Birthday.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again- There is no more beautiful boat in Gloucester Harbor and going on an afternoon sail is a MUST DO activity for anyone- tourist or resident alike. 

Do yourself a favor and book a sail here- Schooner.org

This will be a family collaboration post as The Bean and Snoop Maddie Mad both helped take pictures for the entry-

DSC05323

DSC05313DSC05317DSC05331

DSC05349

DSC_0494DSC_0496DSC_0500

DSC_0519DSC_0526

DSC_0502DSC_0509

Historic Gloucester Harbor Cruise Starting June 23

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

http://www.capeannharbortours.com/index.html

For more info – contact Schooner Adventure at 978-281-8079

image

Cleaning the Catch, circa 1930

Posted on by Sharon

Cleaning the Catch, circa 1930 Anonymous/@Fredrik D. Bodin

Sailing home in rolling seas after a fishing trip, these men clean and sort the catch. Covered with fish guts and scales, there’s no showering or shaving on a working schooner. This was on-the-job reality in the 1930’s. One way I estimate the date of an old photo is by clothing style. In this shot, the man in the middle is wearing a 1930’s Trilby hat, and the men on either side are wearing 1920’s flat Newsboy hats. If anyone can identify any of these fishermen, please let us know.

Printed from the original 4×5 inch glass negative in my darkroom. Negative # A9145-246

Fred Bodin
Bodin Historic Photo
82 Main Street
Gloucester, MA 01930

Only 11 Spaces Left!!! Call Kay Now To Get On Our GMG/Ryan and Wood/Old Cuban Cigar Factory Sail Aboard The Thomas Lannon!!!!!!

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

if you are one of my peeps, I want you on board with us!!!!  Get on the phone, leave a message for Kay if you have to and have her call you back to reconfirm that you have a spot.  It’s gonna be great!!!!!

What is normally a $40 plus sail on the Lannon without all the extras into a Sail on the most beautiful boat in the harbor (The Thomas Lannon), a killer Ryan and Wood Folly Cove Rum drink and two tastings from Bobby Ryan’s personal exclusive collection of rare rums, AND two cigars from the Old Cuban Cigar Factory.

Hey, what can I say, we like to give back and believe me all these fantastic local businesses bent over backwards to make sure that this is a night we’ll all remember.  Seating is limited to 42 people so it will be first come, first serve basis as far as tickets go.

If you are a FOB I want you sailing with us.  We settled on the perfect date July 14th.  I figure it will be a nice warm dry evening for the perfect sail.

You’re still reading this????  You should have already been dialing Kay at the Lannon ticket office to reserve your ticket-

978-281-6634 www.schooner.org  image

So Far-

The List of Reserved Tickets-

Ed, Paul Morrison, Joey, Patrick Ryan, Marty and his lovely wife Barbara,Terry Weber +1,Lola DiMarco are coming

Let me know if you call Kay and reserve your spot and I’ll add you to the list!

The HARVEY GAMAGE is In Town

Posted on by Marty Luster

In 1973, the shipyard of Harvey F. Gamage, located on the banks of the Damariscotta River in South Bristol, Maine, sent a brand new schooner down the ways to the sea. Her name wasHarvey Gamage. Her lines were reminiscent of the coasting schooners, but her mission was very different.

For twenty years Harvey Gamage was owned and operated by Captain Eben Whitcomb. She sailed the waters of the Northwest Atlantic and Caribbean Sea with high school and college students, adventurers, naturalists, and many vacationers. Some of the longest running and most successful sail training programs in the U.S. originated in Gamage. It would be hard to count the number of people who have been introduced to a life at sea while aboard her. Many of those sailors have gone on to careers in marine fields and/or have become professional mariners.

In December of 1993, Harvey Gamage was purchased by a non-profit educational organization in Bath, Maine that evolved into the Ocean Classroom Foundation (OCF) of today. Harvey Gamage is now devoted exclusively to sea education programming, while still following her traditional route between New England and the Caribbean.

Chickity Check it! The Bluenose II Reconstruction/Construction Project

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

I have no idea how they call it a reconstruction as it seems like they are building an entirely new boat.  The Bluenose II was an incredibly beautiful boat but according to The Queens new Life in Canada blog, it’s keel was warped and they totally deconstructed it.

So they built this enormous structure to rebuild build another Bluenose II.

Click the thumbnail to go to The Queens New Life In Canada for fantastic photos of the construction process

Here are some of my pictures of The Bluenose II when she was in Gloucester August 31, 2008-

Captain Phil Watson Aboard The Bluenose II