This is Gloucester – Maritine Museum Railway

Gloucester Smiles – 2025

Gloucester Smiles 9 1994

Gloucester Smiles – 1992

Gloucester at Dawn Maritime Heritage Center Railways 4:45AM 9/4/11

Love these.  Click on the photos to view them larger sized

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Video- Schooner Ardelle Essex Built Welcomed To Gloucester

Pinky Schooner Ardelle Enters New Home In Gloucester Harbor For First Time. Filmed By Barbara Luster

Trails And Sails -Dory Rowing With Jimmy T Video

Trails And Sails -Dory Rowing With Jimmy T Video
Trails And Sails -Dory Rowing With Jimmy T Video

Ernestina to be launched today!

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/

Geno Mondello’s Works On Handline Dory For Gloucester International Dory Benefit Raffle

For all the details on how you can win this dory, click this text to go to The International Dory Site

Geno Mondello’s Dory Shop, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

 

View From Captain Joe’s

You can see The Heritage Center’s Red Building in the background and the State Fish Pier in the foreground.

View From Captain Joe’s, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center 4:45AM 11/3/08

Bow of The Bluenose

Click any picture and select “all sizes” to see any picture in full size and greater clarity.

Bow of The Bluenose, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Bluenose II at GMHC 4:50AM 8/31/08

Very excited to see that the gates at The Heritage Center were not closed and I could get right down to the end of the pier where the Bluenose II was tied up for these shots.  Creak creak creak go the boards in the early morning as you step across with no one else around.

Bluenose II at The GMHC 4:50AM 8/31/08

The Bluenose II- It Doesn’t Suck

Schooner Festival- While The City Sleeps

No crowds, no lines, unfettered access.  That is my world at 4:50 AM when most people are deep in REM sleep.  I need some coffee.

Bluenose II At The GMHC

Open gates early in the morning= Joey getting down to the docks to take some shots, SWEET!

Sure you’re gonna see a gazillion pictures taken during the daylight hours of the schooners over the next couple days, but who else is cranking down the deserted docks to get you these kinds of shots in the middle of the night?

If you click the picture and then select “all sizes” you can see this picture full size and with beautiful clarity. The deep rich color of the wood on deck is amazing.

Bluenose II At The GMHC, originally uploaded by captjoe06.