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We sailed on July 30th, 2023. It was an exciting adventure. Beside the feel of sailing on an old schooner for our first time, we and our group of 12 got to enjoy so many memories. As we headed back to the dock, we all started singing the Wellerman song. My wife got to do heave ho on the rope and I got to hold the wheel. I especially admired the captain and crew who were so professional and made our ADVENTURE memorable. They were especially patient with our older party We shared breakfast as we left Gloucester. And enjoyed the beautiful day and sun and a nice breeze!!! All in all, it will be a memory that my wife and I will enjoy for many years to come.
My memories of Adventure were from the era that volunteers served breakfast from the galley during the times that the boat was not able to sail. I remember cold winter mornings with the stove in the captains quarters warming the breakfast guests. I think some times we used the stove, but we also had electric griddles. The smell of bacon and maple syrup on a cold winter morning was very inviting.The boat still was in its windjammer configuration. I was served eggs, pancakes french toast and maybe other things. I was sad when this fund raiser was stopped. . It was really fun.
I’ll always have fond memories of Abe and Jeff resnick at camp annisquam the summers of 1969 abd 1970 . A beautiful time in my life at a beautiful place with wonderful people
I am a relative of William Nolan’s wife
Windjammer Festival, July 1970. I’ve had a lot of adventures, but not one to compare to my week out on the Adventure. Seventeen, the youngest on-board, facing college in the Fall, with the rest of my life ahead of me. If my parents would have allowed, the rest of my life would have been changed by that one week. I wanted to stay in Camden, stay with the Adventure and the ocean. I was too obedient and cried all the way home.
I’ve always wondered, because a part of my heart stayed there. To this day. What an incredible, wonderful, life changing week with some people I remember fondly, to this day.
A Boston newspaperwoman. Tom Hardy, who I found again. The wry smile of Captain Jim Sharp. Feeling like family, immediately, because of the friendliness of the whole crew.
Being taught how to eat my first lobster and wearing a lot of it! My first “dip” in the ocean and losing the top of my suit. I still laugh at the look on Bruce’s face as I tried to climb the ladder back onto the ship.
I’d go back in a heartbeat.
I and my Late wife Sandy, sailed on the Adventure for three years on the Labor Day (Music) week.I believe it was 1985,86 & 87.
Sandy said it was my Tranquilizer for the year and made life Good.
As a youth I sailed on Lake Superior both on a sail boat (The Yankee Girl 1940’s) and an Iron ore Ship ( The Lebanon of Bethlehem Steel 1950’s).
Sailed on her in Sept.1976. I was only sixteen(I was the youngest passenger). Had to put me in the most forward cabin cause of my age. Still have pictures. I remember it being chilly. Lobster bake was great! Food was good! It was where I meet Marguarite Daly. Keep in touch for many years. Captain, you treated me great. I managed to go to sea for 33 years myself. Seven on merchants and the rest on navy civil service ships. Glad to see she was saved and still working.
Hello to the keepers of this important vessel. It is great that the restoration and preservation of the Adventure has taken place. In the 1970’s and 80’s, I often saw the Adventure under full sail in Penobscot Bay, in Maine, while riding on other boats. It was a majestic sight!
One day in the late 70’s, my grandfather and I were riding on the ferry to North Haven island in Maine. I was only about 12 at the time. My grandfather Stephen Powers sailed on the Adventure as a fisherman, in her later days, when she was diesel powered. He was a native of Newfoundland, but moved to the USA to continue his fishing career. His cousin William Nolan, was tragically washed overboard from the schooner, in the 1930’s, during a storm. That day, in the late 1970’s, while we were traveling to North Haven on the ferry, by chance, we cruised past the Adventure. My grandfather saw the Adventure under full sail for the first time in many years. He immediately recognized the schooner, after many years and many renovations. He began to cry when he saw her, as he remembered the loss of his cousin! I will never forget that day! The sea really runs in your veins! I very much want to visit the Adventure during a cruise open to descendants of the Adventure’s fishermen.. Fair winds and following seas. Thank you