Tag: Schooner Festival
Another Schooner Festival is in the Books
So much beauty in one harbor. It almost doesn’t seem fair….almost.
The day began a bit dreary, but grey skies couldn’t detract from the gorgeousness of the schooners as they paraded throughout our harbor.
Lucky, lucky us. Thanks to everyone who played a part in another successful Schooner Festival.
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GloucesterCast With Guest Toby Pett and Host Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 8/31/14
GloucesterCast With Guest Toby Pett and Host Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 8/31/14
Topics Include: Toby Pett Looking Svelte In His Black Shirt, Ladies Man Toby Pett, Contributor Of The Week, Craig Kimberley’s Birdseye Demo and USCG Barque Eagle Drone Videos, The Schooner Adventure Progress, Greg Bover, The Schooner Adventure Business Model, Peter Bent Running The Show On The Adventure Today, The Bluenose II Question, Barry Pett and Marty Luster Go Behind The Scenes For The Gloucester Fireworks Set Up, The Gloucester Fund, Hosting The Schooners, The Question- Does Schooner Festival Exists If People Don’t Come To See the Schooners?, Local Traffic, Parking IMO Is A Non-Issue, Sailing Activity In Gloucester Today vs 25 Years Ago, Football Season, Question- Can Tom Brady Still Have As Much Focus and Will To Win As A Young QB Without A Superbowl Win?, Market Basket Re-Opening But Let’s Not Forget The Great Employees At Stop and Shop, Labor Day Schooner Festival Fireworks Were Awesome, Boat Horns.
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VIDEO: 2014 GLOUCESTER SCHOONER FESTIVAL PARADE OF SAILS
A very special thank you to Jeff Amero for sharing his awesome party location!
http://www.vimeo.com/104766546
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There are a lot of sailboats out here.
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Homecoming
While touring the USCG Barque Eagle yesterday, I was honored to meet Daniel Carmody….an original crew member of the Eagle in 1946.
I was humbled to be there to witness his homecoming and to have met him and his son.
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Community Photos 8/31/14
Hi Joey,
Attached is a photo I shot at Rockport’s Front Beach this evening, Wed, Aug 27th. My humble social network is likin’ in… hope you will as well
Matt Cegelis
Gordon Webster submits-
Hi Joey,
My name is Gordon and I’m a fine art photographer specializing in New England. I thought your readers might be interested in the images from my recent photo shoot around Cape Ann. I’ve created a collection of them with a vintage vibe that I used to try to capture the kind of romance and nostalgic atmosphere of Cape Ann’s fishing community.
I love your blog and follow your updates on Facebook, and I would be thrilled to have some of my photos of Cape Ann featured on it.
Here is the link to the Cape Ann photo set.
http://www.newenglandimage.com/blog/14057499
Best, Gordon
Sticky Fingers
Pineapple Coconut Cakes at Sticky Fingers Bakeshop! Stop by for Labor Day Weekend treats!
7 Pleasant street or Main Street inside Brown’s Mall
Lisa Wensberg submits-
Hi Joey:
Thought you may like this photo. Fairly beautiful of the Annisquam side of town one of the few cloudy days we had this summer.
ABOARD THE USCG BARQUE EAGLE / photos from Anthony Marks
Gloucester Schooner Festival – Friday From Elinor Teele
The Adventure going out and the Eagle coming in…
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Lisa freed submits-
Still wish she’d sailed in, but worth the wait.
The USCG Eagle
Hi Joey,
I was aboard the Adventure as she joined the Lannon, Ardelle, Coast Guard boats and others to welcome the Coast Guard Barque Eagle to Gloucester on Friday.
She is a beauty! I hope everyone has an opportunity to see the Eagle while she is in port. Captain Stephan Edick took the helm for our spectacular sail. Here are
some photos of our day aboard the Adventure including the newly renovated fo’c’sle, We had some youngsters eagerly helping to hoist the sails and man the helm. 5
Enjoy the Schooner Festival!
Mary Barker
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PHOTOS: USCG EAGLE ARRIVES – AERIAL VIEWS
The USCGC Eagle (WIX-327) is a 295-foot barque used as a training cutter for future officers of the United States Coast Guard. She is the only active commissioned steel hulled sailing vessel in American military service.
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Length: 295′ (90 m)
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Construction started: February 15, 1936
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Launched: June 13, 1936
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Weight: 1,655 tons
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Beam: 39′ (12 m)
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Draught: 16′ 1″ (4.90 m)
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The Weekend Starts
Shots from Gloucester Harbor this morning. Great start to the day!
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Eagle Has Landed – in Gloucester
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VIDEO: USCG EAGLE FROM THE AIR – MAJESTY AT SEA!
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USCGC Eagle in Gloucester Harbor
Photos of the USCGC Eagle arriving today in Gloucester Harbor ~ It was tremendously beautiful to see the Eagle moving through the Harbor. I am looking forward to seeing this majestic cutter under full sail!
The Eagle is open to the public for free tours today, Saturday, the 30th, from 10am to 7pm.
From the Coast Guard website: Built at the Blohm + Voss Shipyard in Hamburg, Germany in 1936, and commissioned as Horst Wessel, Eagle is one of three sail-training ships operated by the pre-World War II German navy. At the close of the war, the ship was taken as a war reparation by the U.S., re-commissioned as the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Eagle and sailed to New London, Connecticut, which has been its homeport ever since. Eagle has offered generations of Coast Guard Academy cadets, and more recently officer candidates, an unparalleled leadership experience at sea.
Read more about the USCGC Cutter here.
From wiki: A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts having the foremasts rigged square and only the aftermast rigged fore-and-aft.
Thanks to Joey for the alert that the Eagle had arrived!
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Rubber Duck says, “Yeah, yeah, Schooner this, Schooner that …”
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Gloucester Welcomes Schooners with Loaves of Warm Virgilio’s Bread!
This past spring while working on Gloucester’s Feast of Saint Joseph film project, I filmed Joe Virgilio making Virgilio’s Saint Joseph rolls and wrote a post for GMG about Virgilios. At that time, Al Bezanson, owner of the Green Dragon Schooner, shared that during Schooner Festival, Joe Virgilio welcomes the schooners with warm loaves of freshly baked bread as they sail into Gloucester Harbor.
Al provides more details:
“Hi Kim
Virgilio’s started donating bread to the visiting schooners two years ago, and it now threatens to become a popular new tradition. The first year Brett and Max Ramsey, in Brett’s high speed inflatable, met up with schooners as they entered the harbor and presented them with a loaf or two along with a pineapple. In some cases the bread was still warm from the oven. When that happened with Adventurer, out came the butter, and the bread was enjoyed in a flash. Last year Max and Dom Nesta made the deliveries, and more of the Sea Scouts may be handling it this year.”
In the photos Al provided, Green Dragon had just received a delivery in the outer harbor as she entered from Manchester.
I was so struck by the Virgilio’s generous, welcoming gesture and thought what better time to pass along Al’s story than the night before the Schooners begin to arrive. As Al points out, “When you get around schooner people you may hear them talking about the need to have extra butter aboard in Gloucester. This is a very big deal in fending off other ports that are vying for schooners that same weekend. Thanks Joe and the high speed Ramsey/Nesta delivery guys!”
During summer months Virgilios makes fabulously delicious and delightfully refreshing Italian ice, created only with pure fresh fruit juices and cane sugar (not corn syrup).
For store hours and menu visit their Facebook page here.
Read more about Virgilio’s Saint Joseph rolls here.
Joe Virgilio Making Saint Joseph Rolls
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Don’t You Have Better Things To Do Than Get Eaten By a Shark In Cape Cod? It’s Schooner Festival weekend In Gloucester!!!!
You know you can avoid getting eaten by a shark in Cape Cod by attending Schooner Festival this weekend don’t you. The way I see it, it’s your only option really (unless of course you’re one of those thrill seekers who like to jump in shark tanks and cages with lions in which case by all means head on down to the trafficky Cape Cod).
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Marty Luster Photo
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Gloucester’s Small Green Schooners (Did You Know It’s Schooner Festival weekend?)
There’s a little event you may have heard about that’s going down this weekend-
THE THIRTIETH ANNUAL GLOUCESTER SCHOONER FESTIVAL!!!!!!
Check Out The Gloucester Schooner Festival Web Page For All The Info About The Schooner Race, The LobsterFest and The Parade Of Sails!!!!
Al Bezanson submits-
There are three size classes in the Gloucester Schooner Race and here are some entries this year in the Small (under 45 ft class). Sub-category “TOOGAG” meaning Traditional Out Of Gloucester And Green.
Bald Eagle, launched 1955, designed by Sam Crocker, built by Bud McIntosh in Dover, NH, owned by Judy Nast & Paul Cole
Green Dragon, started 1939, launched 1951, designed by Scotty Gannett, built by Chester Spear in Scituate, MA, owned by Al Bezanson
Sugarbabe, launched 1975, designed by Tom Colvin, built by Alan Vaites in Mattapoisett, MA, owned by Ed Boynton
(All photos by Al Bezanson)
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Lannon’s Schooner Festival sails
www.schooner.org for more info
Hi Joe,
Can’t believe that it’s Labor Day weekend already. So, here is a flier for our Welcome the Eagle sail on Friday, as well as a schedule of other fun sails going on this weekend for Schooner Festival.
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It’s Schooner Festival week!!!!!! (Effie, the pup at the helm of Ernestina)
For The Who When What Where Check Out The Schooner Festival Website Here
Al Bezanson submits-
Effie, the pup at the helm of Ernestina, (ex Effie M Morrissey) will be greeting visitors at the SEMA table from 9:30 AM to 3:00 PM Saturday at Maritime Gloucester. This Effie is a Newfoundland, no longer a pup, and there’s no missing her. The Schooner Ernestina Morrissey Association (SEMA) has important news to share on a restoration schedule and subsequent plans to put her back to work. Now owned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and operated by the Schooner Ernestina Commission, she was launched as Effie M Morrissey in Essex 120 years ago to fish out of Smith Cove for the J F Wonson Fish Company. We are very interested in talking to anyone with information on her early years working out of Gloucester.
We hope to see you at MG on Saturday!
(Mary Ann McQuillan photo, 2003)
Al Bezanson
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Why Go To Cape Cod And Get Eaten By A Shark When You Can Come To Gloucester For Schooner Festival This Weekend!
Getting Eaten By a Shark In Cape Cod = Bad
Enjoying Schooner Festival In Gloucester = Good
Click Here for Schooner Festival Program and Visitors Guide
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GloucesterCast With Guest Kim Smith and Host Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 8/24/14
GloucesterCast With Guest Kim Smith and Host Joey Ciaramitaro Taped 8/24/14
Topics Include:
Guest Kim Smith, Sea Shanty Clarification,How Great A Guy Pete Souza, The Monarch Migration Prediction and JourneyNorth Monarch App, Chargers Football Having Trouble Fielding A Team, Criticizm of The HarborWalk, Our Weather Guy Pete Lovasco Is ready For The Big Leagues, Seagull Poop, Saint Patrick’s Day Songs, The Ukeladies, Schooner Festival, Kim’s Daughter Has a New Beau,The Dip Test
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