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Starvos Reservation

Posted on by Alicia Pensarosa

Nice Fall Walk on Starvos Reservation with the pup. Great views of the Marsh, even more beautiful in a week or so when the leaves start to change.

VIDEO- SCHOONER ARDELLE LAUNCH FROM JOANNE MARKS

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

This one from the perspective behind the Schooner where all the action was including the jacking of the bow and the hammering away at the blocks!

Click here for the dozens of posts containing the building and launching of The Schooner Ardelle here at Good Morning Gloucester.
I think it is safe to assume that no one covered it as well all the way through as the GMG team.
Great Job everyone!

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

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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

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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

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My Sources Tell Me…..

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

That Captain Dusty’s Will Open and Ice Cream Location May 1st In The Schooners Plaza In Essex Where Puna’s Market Used To Be. On the Corner of Haskell Ct and Eastern Ave In Essex

I haven’t confirmed this but that’s the scuttlebut anyway.  Smile

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Just thought you might wanna know.

Thanks for the tip LS

ARDELLE Week 30

Posted on by Marty Luster

Work on the Pinky Schooner ARDELLE continues into spring at the H.G. Burnham Boatyard in Essex. Planking and caulking are nearing completion.

Colors indicate caulking progress.

Boat builder Harold Burnham at work.

 

Steaming a plank.

Talkin Essex Clamfest With Sue Lufkin

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Here’s GMG contributor Laurie Lufkin’s Mom Sue-

Thanks For Watching

Tom Shea’s On the Essex Causeway Featuring $2.75 Draft Beer And Incredible Views

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

I was driving home and saw the sign below for $2.75 Draft Beers at Tom Shea’s.  That struck me as an excellent value when you consider the beautiful room and views that Tom Shea’s has.  It was enough to make me pull over and take a picture to share with y’all.

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The View

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Essex River In the Ice 2/1/20

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

Amazing to me that a tidal salt water river freezes over as often as the Essex River does.

Essex River In the Ice 2/1/20, originally uploaded by captjoe06.