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Have you sailed on Schooner Adventure? Tell us about it!
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Have you sailed on Schooner Adventure? Tell us about it!
Do you have a relative that worked aboard her? Share their story.
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Docked at: Maritime Gloucester Harriet Webster Pier, 23 Harbor Loop, Gloucester, MA
Mail to: The Gloucester Adventure, Inc., PO Box 1306, Gloucester, MA 01931
Office: Fitz Henry Lane House, 4 Harbor Loop, Gloucester, MA
Email: info@schooner-adventure.org | Phone: 978-281-8079
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On Sunday, May 25th, 1997 I had breakfast in the galley of The Adventure!! It was an awesome and memorable experience! I lived in Newburyport at the time and heard about breakfast aboard the old schooner. So glad I took advantage of that experience! I journaled about the day and just came across that journal entry today! What a wonderful memory to add to my two years in Newburyport. I’m from Ohio and several others on board that day and one of the volunteers were from Ohio.
Thanks for the memory!
Judy
20 and some odd years ago I volunteered on the Adventure wasing dishes after breakfasts, in the office, fund raisers. Yesterday July 27, 2016 I had the sail of a lifetime anticipated for over 20 years.
We were about 5 in our group of sailors from Boston’s North End. We came back for several summers. We loved The Adventure, The Old Queen. We sailed thru a hurricane, spending the night in Pulpit harbor.We were on The Adventure wheeLbase Presley died. An injured crew member took us to Bar Harbor . She was
fast and beautiful. We sang are night to Jim’s guitar “hoist up the John B sail”
We took joy baths in the cold ocean and looked up at the stars at night. We werevery close to heaven and I will always treasure those memories.
Although I was not on the Adventure yet, in the summers of 1969-70 I went to Sailing Camp at Camp Annisquam, on the river of the same name that flows into Gloucester Bay. The owner was Jeff Resnick and his father, Abe, was an old dory-fisherman out of Gloucester with plenty of tales to tell. We sailed our wooden boats around Cape Ann, visited Rockport and other Cape Ann attractions, and raced the Boston and Manchester Yacht Clubs. I’m thrilled to hear that with the Adventure, there’s still a Grand-Banker plying the waters around Gloucester and Cape Ann. Someday I hope to join you!
Dear folks at schooner-org who did the history of Gloucester fishing industry. It is excellent and provided exactly some of the specific information I sought. I’m writing a presidential address for the American Catholic Historical Association for January, 2016 and needed some of those very facts. If you haven’t read W. Jeffrey Bolster, The Moral Sea. Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Soil (2012), which has a good amount of material on Gloucester, I would highly recommend doing so. Some of the points you make in the history of the Gloucester fishing are developed in readable fashion.
Thanks for the hard work that went into creating a usable, informative website.
I sailed on the ADVENTURE , I think it was the summer of 1966 , one of the stops was at Boothbay for wind jammer days. What a good time, some of our passengers at night rowed to a large windjammer the VICTORY CHIMES and with a chain and padlock hung a toilet from the front of this windjammer , their crew was out early in the morning trying to remove it. Had fruit fight at sea whit the MARY DAY also from Camden. Had great times rowing the dory,making ice cream. Captain Jim Sharp his wife and the crew wear great. At the end of the week, we needed to be back at Camden except now thick fog set in. We had no radar and a sea tow pulled us back to port. I got the job of operating a fog horn. I have some super 8 movie film during the tow. I have know idea of the condition anymore you are welcome to it.
In the summer of 1966 as Elinor KareI , a young single adventuress, I met my husband to be ( Joel Katz)on a several days sail on the Adventure out of Camden. Jim Sharp was our Captain. He was a great and memorable captain. The whole experience was great and ultimately life changing for us. I had never sailed before.We have been married now for 47 years and sailing smaller craft has become an important part of our life together.
We had the occasion to be in Camden in the 70s with our children and were able to visit her as she was tied up at dock. We looked in the log and found our names ! Our then young children were quite impressed!
We are delighted to hear the boat is back in the water and hope to visit and sail on her again.
Elinor and Joel Katz
Jamaica , Vermont
I had the great honor of being aboard Adventure last week, as she schooned across Gloucester Harbor to her new Home at the Harriet Webster Pier on Harbor Loop. My Grandfather Captain Henri Boudreau was a first cousin to Captain Jeffrey Francis Thomas, and I feel as though I have a vested interest in her care and survival. I thank you all for allowing me to come aboard for such a special event. To stand there with Jeff Thomas II and Helen Garland, while the three of us toasted the old girl, is a memory I will carry always. You all have done an exemplary job, and I have reported as much to my friend Captain James W. “Jim” Sharp.
I was aboard “Adventure” in early summer 1966 out of Camden under Jim
Sharp. The weather for our voyage was foggy except the first day and the last day. The new yawl boat pushed us from island to island. The wooden fog horn blew all day long and one could ony ask “wonder why, wonder why?” Sea faring gets into your brain to wit this last summer I was aboard the “Pride of Baltimore” under Captain Jan Miles as guest crew on a voyage from Saulte Stre Marie to Duluth then back across Lake Superior with stormy weather and seasickness acrossing Whitefish Bay and into fast flowing Saint Marys river and part of Lake Huron then through Straits of Mackinac and into Lake Michigan. I could only think of Gordon Bok’s words “All you Maine men proud and young when you run your easting down, give her staysail, give her main in the darkness and the rain, east-by north or east-north-east, give her what she steers the best”. From Little Traverse Bay we entered Lake Charlevoix for welcome R&R and then made our way to Chicago where I left the Pride 2 on August 7th 2013.
My Great Grandfather Boudreau was a Highline Skipper out of Gloucester Massachusetts, and a cousin to Captain Jeffrey Thomas of the Adventure. He and my Grandfather were born within a half mile of each other in Arichat Nova Scotia, and were baptised in the same church, which still stands. They were among the finest kind.