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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.
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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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