Category: Schooner

For Ernestina Fans-

Posted on by Sharon
Standard-Times article
By Peggy Aulisio
Contributing writer
May 10, 2009 6:00 AM

hoto by David W. Oliveira, Standard-TimesThe Ernestina is back at State Pier in New Bedford after returning on Saturday from Boothbay Harbor in Maine for restoration
Photo by David W. Oliveira, Standard-TimesThe Ernestina is back at State Pier in New Bedford after returning on Saturday from Boothbay Harbor in Maine for restoration

NEW BEDFORD — The Ernestina received a hearty welcome and a round of applause Saturday as the historic schooner, showing off more than $1 million in restoration work, arrived home in the city.

Among those welcoming her were distinguished visitors from the Republic of Cape Verde: Ambassador Fatima Veiga and Consul General Maria de Jesus Mascarenhas.

Also here to mark the schooner’s return was Maria Mendes, the granddaughter of Henriques Mendes, who bought the schooner when it was named the Effie M. Morrissey and gave her the name Ernestina. Mendes refitted the boat and turned it into a trans-Atlantic packet, bringing immigrants here from the Cape Verdean islands.

To read more, click here.

Ernestina Pulls Past The Paint Factory

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Check back at 8:00AM for the video

Ernestina Pulls Past The Paint Factory, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

Ernestina Heading Out

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Here’s a shot of the Ernestina heading out only to return an hour or so later to greater fanfare with the Lannon escort and all.

Ernestina Heading Out, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Ernestina Heads Out To Make “Official” Return

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Like how the Paint Factory is framed by the Flag and the Ernestina?

Ernestina Heads Out To Make “Official” Return, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

I headed down early yesterday morning to get some footage of The Ernestina while in port. Thanks to Damon I got the heads up that she was in. I didn’t understand the crew’s reluctance to let me aboard until later when I found out that she supposed to make a “Grand” entrance with escorts and all later that morning.
Here the skipper readies her to leave the harbor so they could make a formal entrance an hour or so later.

Schooner Ernestina At The Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Schoooner Ernestina Getting Ready To Head Out To Make “Official” Gloucester arrival later in the morning.

Snoop Maddie Mad Aboard The Schooner Adventure

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Yesterday was one of those days that there was so much stuff to do you couldn’t possibly fit it all in.  Talk about lucky.  If you were in Gloucester yesterday you had a pick of about ten free awesome events to attend. Among them- The Schooner Adventure open house, The Judith Sargent Murray House, West End Sweets opened, The Charlie Lowe Exhibit at The Cape Ann Historical Museum. 

How lucky are we?  What town north of Boston have so much going on?  Count your blessings.

Snoop Maddie Mad Aboard The Schooner Adventure, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

Online votes could net funds for Gloucester’s Schooner Adventure

Posted on by Sharon

From the Beacon–

From the Schooner Adventure website
Photo from the Schooner Adventure website

The Schooner Adventure, a historic schooner that is the last of the “Gloucesterman,” or the great Gloucester Grand Banks fishing schooners, is calling on its supporters and friends to vote for it as it competes for funding dollars from the Partnership in Preservation. American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation named the Gloucester Adventure one of 25 historic sites in Massachusetts that are eligible for part of $1 million in preservation grants. Click here to read more.

Ernestina to be launched today!

Posted on by Sharon

From the  Schooner Ernestina Blog-

Dear Friends of Ernestina,

Ernestina is scheduled to be launched Thursday about 10 a.m. and Annie, Manny and I are planning to be there. We visited her last week and she is coming along very well and looks beautiful – at least the front half! Save the dates and pass this along to all.

Ernestina Operational Schedule May 5-9, 2009*

  • Tuesday, May 5 TBD Depart Boothbay Harbor, ME

  • Wednesday, May 6 – Noon Arrive in Gloucester, Maritime Heritage Center

  • Thursday, May 7 – 9:00AM Depart Gloucester

12:00PM  Arrive in Boston, Rowes Wharf

(Charlestown Navy Yard is the back-up)

  • Friday, May 8 –  0600 Depart Boston

12:30PM Arrive Cape Cod Canal

2:30PM  Depart Cape Cod Canal

Sunset Arrive off New Bedford

  • Saturday, May 9 Noon Dock at State Pier, New Bedford

* Schedule subject to change. For safety reasons, the vessel will only travel in a gentle to moderate breeze and not in inclement weather.

The Commission’s Marketing and Special Events subcommittee is working on celebratory/fundraiser events for each stop and as soon as the details are firmed up, I will certainly pass them along.

I am pleased to announce that Leah Jeffries has returned as our Visitors Services Supervisor through September.

If you have any questions please let me know.

Fair Winds and Following Seas!

Paul Brawley

Executive Director

http://ernestina.org/news/2009/04/24/ernestina-to-be-launched/

Developers offer beams from New Bedford mill building for Ernestina

Posted on by Sharon
This photo is from the Ernestina website. I can't take gredit for this!
This photo is from the Ernestina website. I can't take gredit for this!

For those of you who are interested in the Ernestina:

Ernestina, the state’s official vessel, is undergoing an extensive $1.1 million rehabilitation of the forward end of the vessel, including bow and foredeck. The work is being done at the Boothbay Harbor Shipyard in Maine. Brawley is in the process of raising an additional $3 million to do the aft end. The schooner is expected to return to New Bedford on May 9.

The developers of Riverside Landing in New Bedford plan to donate 24-foot-long beams of southern yellow pine to the preservation of New Bedford’s historic schooner Ernestina, city officials announced Tuesday.

The beams will “be carefully extracted as part of the demolition process of the remaining Fairhaven Mills structure,” Mayor Scott Lang’s office said in a press release.

For more info, click here.  Thanks, Penelope, for the link! —Sharon

Schooner Ernestina gets a facelift

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By Leslie Friday/Correspondent/ Beacon

Mon Apr 13, 2009, 02:50 PM EDT

Essex – Few things could survive 115 years without a little touch up.

The Ernestina, an Essex-built schooner launched in 1894, is undergoing rehabilitation in Booth Bay Harbor, Maine, and is scheduled to pass through Gloucester on its way home to New Bedford next month.

This is not the first time the Ernestina has had work done.

“If you know sailing vessels, it’s a constant process,” said Ken Folley, deputy director of state parks for the Department of Conservation and Recreation.

The Ernestina has earned its rest over the years. Originally named the Effie M. Morrissey and built in the James and Tarr Yard, the Ernestina launched from Essex on Feb. 1, 1894. According to the vessel’s Web site, http://www.ernestina.org, it served as a fishing vessel, an arctic explorer under Capt. Robert Abram Bartlett, and a WWII survey vessel used under Commander Alexander Forbes….. To read more, click here.

Schooner Adventure Sails Into Gloucester 1988 From Ron Gilson’s Collection

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

While at Ron Gilson’s house I saw this poster sized picture of The Adventure coming into Gloucester Harbor under sail in 1988.  What is interesting about the picture is that if you look at City Hall in 1988 it was surrounded by scaffolding under a reconstruction.  Some twenty years later it was surrounded by scaffolding once again.

Look for the first of a three part video series from Ron Gilson’s house satrting todat at 8:00AM

Schooner Adventure Sails Into Gloucester 1988 From Ron Gilson’s Collection, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

Beautiful Industry- Square Cut Copper Nails For Building Dorys At Geno Mondello’s Dory Shop

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Beautiful Industry- Square Cut Copper Nails For Building Dorys At Geno Mondello’s Dory Shop, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Michael Wall At The American Ship Model Gallery Part III

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Examples Of Extreme Miniature Models At The American Ship Model Gallery

Michael Wall At The American Ship Model Gallery Part II

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Michael Wall Displays Different Styles Of Ship Models In This Second Installment Of Our Video Interview