My View of Life on the Dock
Click On The www.gloucesterwebcam.com website under attractions and you will find the Schooner Adventure webcam where the Picton Castle is currently tied up.
Kathy Chapman writes-
Shot this picture of the Picton Castle out my window this morning. Marty Luster posted details yesterday as she entered the harbor..
https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/picton-castle-in-gloucester/
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The Tea Party Ship Museum opens in Boston.
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Getting ready for the big public opening tonight 6-8pm. Blogging on event with fireworks, etc. tomorrow.
Hard to believe it was just a couple of months ago that she was launched from East Gloucester Marine Railways where Leon Poindexter did most of the building of her-
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Eleanor’s figurehead, Beaver’s billethead and the rigging progress.
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Beaver and Eleanor rigging progress.
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Progress report: Tea Party Ships Eleanor and Beaver are nearing completion in Boston.
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Hi Joey, I moved to Gloucester a year ago, enjoy the blog and wanted to send you a couple of photos I took yesterday. Best, Julie Ledwig
Rocky Neck-
Kathy Chapman writes-
Great weather last weekend! Tooling down Rt.133 is fun ride in my "Curbside Classic" 1987 Delta 88-Royale with powder blue tufted seats and vinyl top.
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The beautiful lines of Phyllis A’s hull will only be visible for a few weeks at the Gloucester Marine Railways. Work on her is being funded by a 2011 Community Preservation Act grant from the residents of Gloucester.
From the Phyllis A. Marine Association: By focusing on the gill-netting industry, we highlight a time in Gloucester’s history that is not currently well covered. The Phyllis A. was fished by the same Gloucester family for 75 years. Many people working in Gloucester’s fishing industry today, at some point, fished off the Phyllis A.
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Viking and her crew (including Rob – pictured) prepare Eleanor for her trip to Boston.
Construction portfolio: http://kathychapman.viewbook.com/album/tea-party-ship-eleanor
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This morning the Tea Party Ship Eleanor was towed to Boston.
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The Eleanor
The original Eleanor was one of several vessels owned by leading Boston merchant, smuggler, and Boston Board of Selectman, John Rowe. His holdings included stores, warehouses and Rowe’s Wharf, a current Boston landmark. Rowe was an active smuggler and inciter in the years preceding the American Revolution. He was influential in protesting British authority, specifically Britain’s tightening restrictions on colonial trade.
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if it were only this easy…
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Kathy Chapman writes-
Yesterday I had the privilege to ride on the Tea Party Ship Beaver in the parade to its new berth at the Tea Party Ship Museum in Fort Point Channel, Boston. Once in place the masts will be stepped and the rigging will be completed.
It was a perfect day, hundreds of people welcomed us.
What a great accomplishment for master shipwright Leon Poindexter (shown close up) and his crew at the Gloucester Marine Railways. Mr. Poindexter is known for his artistry and has worked on many vessels on the National Register of Historic Places as well as serving as the master shipwright for 20th Century Fox to retrofit the tall ship Rose for the Academy Award Winning motion picture Master and Commander starring Russell Crowe.
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For Kathy Chapman’s incredible slideshow of the morning’s events click on the picture below to view-
In honor of the anniversary of the start of the American Revolution on April 19th, the new Boston Tea Party Ships Museum welcomes the arrival of the historically accurate vessel the Brig Beaver.
She will be returning to the waters where the Boston Tea Party, "the single most important event leading up to the American Revolution" occurred on the night of December 16, 1773.
The Beaver made the voyage from Gloucester where it received complete renovations at the Gloucester Marine Railways.
Photograph © Michael Avery 2012
Kathy writes-
The day has arrived……The first of the three ships that will be a part of the new Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum will arrive in Boston Harbor on the Anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, Thursday, April 19 at 8:30am.
The Boston Tea Party event in 1773 is the single most important act that took place leading up to the American Revolution in 1775. The historic sailing vessel, the Beaver, will arrive on the 237th anniversary of the battle that began the American Revolution.
The completely restored and historically accurate hull of the Beaver will make it’s way down from Gloucester to Boston for the arrival at the new Museum. The Beaver will be towed to its berth at the Museum site in the Fort Point Channel. Once in place the masts will be stepped and the rigging will be completed.
Photographs © Kathy Chapman 2012
Master shipwright Leon Poindexter, prepares the Tea Party Ships to leave Gloucester later this month, for their new berth in Boston at the Boston Tea Party Museum. http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/
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Here’s a winter scene out my work window. It’s just a spectacular view when the shadows are long and the sky is still dark.
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