Schooners will be offering public sails or charters during Schooner Festival- please visit vessel websites for tickets
Large Schooners
ADVENTURE
Homeport: Gloucester, MA
Length on Deck: 122 ft
GSF Location: Schooner Floats at I4C2
Built in 1926, the Adventure is one of the last of the Gloucester fishing schooners, known as "Gloucestermen," and famous throughout the world. The Adventure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, designated a National Historic Landmark, and an Official Project of Save America's Treasures.
AMERICAN EAGLE
Homeport: Rockland, ME
Length on Deck: 92 ft
GSF Location: Schooner Floats at I4C2
The American Eagle was built in Gloucester in 1930 as an auxiliaryfishing schooner. She is recognized as a National Historic Landmark.
COLUMBIA
Homeport: Panama City, FL
Length on Deck: 145 ft
GSF Location: Schooner Floats at I4C2
Brian D'Isernia discovered the original line plans of the 1920s Columbia in the Essex Shipbuilding Museum and fulfilled a lifelong dream of bringing a significant piece of maritime history back to life in 2014 when Columbia was (re)born.
DENIS SULLIVAN
Homeport: Boston, MA formerly Milwaukee, WI
Length on Deck: 98 ft
GSF Location: Schooner Floats at I4C2
We at World Ocean School inspire students from all backgrounds to be courageous and compassionate changemakers for themselves, their communities, and our planet through transformative education aboard our iconic tall ships. Built in 2000, Denis Sullivan has spent the past two decades educating hundreds of students about Great Lakes schooners and maritime history. World Ocean School is thrilled to be able to take this beloved ship on a new voyage in Boston and St. Croix.
ERNESTINA-MORRISSEY
Homeport: New Bedford, MA
Length on Deck: 106 ft
GSF Location: Maritime Gloucester
Launched in 1894 at the James & Tarr shipyard in Essex as the Effie M. Morrissey named for Captain/owner William Morrissey's daughter. She has lived her life out fishing the Grand Banks, exploring the Arctic, as a packet ship on Cape Verde and finally as an educational vessel. She was just re-launched this past Spring after nearly a decade of work to bring her back to life and continue her work as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' official sailing vessel.
Medium Schooners
ALERT
Homeport: Bailey Island, ME
Length on Deck: 56 ft
GSF Location: Maritime Gloucester
ALERT was built in 1992 by Paul Rollins in York, Maine. ALERT's original name was TALL COTTON. In 2006 Roger Woodman, a fisherman, restored the boat to long line for fish off shore and renamed her ALERT. In January 2013 Perry and Bethany bought ALERT and in September 2013 completed the boats testing and documenting with the United States Coast Guard to bring her into the passenger trade. Today they are hosting public sails and Private charters on ALERT Daily.
Or Call Bethany: 207-841-9125
ARDELLE
Homeport: Gloucester, MA
Length on Deck: 58 ft
GSF Location: Maritime Gloucester Pier
The Flagship of Maritime Gloucester, the Ardelle is a pinky schooner built by master shipbuilder, Harold Burnham. Ardelle works as a public attraction and charter boat, providing daily sailing opportunities in Gloucester Harbor. She serves as an educational platform for all of Maritime Gloucester's programing including the Maritime Apprenticeship Program.
FAME
Homeport: Salem, MA
Length on Deck: 52 ft
GSF Location: Parade of Sail Participant only
The original FAME was a Chebacco fishing schooner that was reborn as a privateer when war broke out in 1812. She was arguably the first American privateer to bring home a prize and made 20 more captures before her demise in the Bay of Fundy in 1814. The current FAME was built by Harold Burnham and is owned and operated by Mike Rutstein as a charter vessel and attraction in Salem Harbor. Note that charters on FAME sail from and return to Salem.
First Time at GSF!
MALABAR X
Homeport: Key West FL, and Salem, MA
Length on Deck: 59.5 ft
GSF Location: Schooner Floats at I4C2
Malabar X (ten) was built at Hodgons yard in East Boothbay Maine in 1930. Designed by John Alden as the last and largest schooner of his famed Malabar series. Malabar X was Alden’s personal yacht which he raced in the 1930 and 1932 Newport to Bermuda race. Winning her class in 1930 and winning overall in 1932. Newly returned to the American flag, Malabar X is the epitome of the Gatsby era in yachting. Elegantly restored and available for charter for the first time since 2007, Malabar X is ready to enlighten all who step foot onboard! Operated in tandem with the Schooner When And If at Sunset Sail Salem in the summers and Sunset Sail Key West in the winters.
THOMAS E. LANNON
Homeport: Gloucester, MA
Length on Deck: 65 ft
GSF Location: Seven Seas Wharf near I4C2
Tom and Kay Ellis had the schooner Thomas E. Lannon built in Essex in1997 by Harold Burnham. She is taken from the design of a 1903 Gloucester fishing schooner. She sails as good as she looks, she sails daily from May to October from the Gloucester House Restaurant.
TYRONE
Homeport: Boothbay Harbor, ME
Length on Deck: 60 ft
GSF Location: Ocean Alliance
WHEN & IF
Homeport: Key West, FL & Salem, MA
Length on Deck: 63 ft
GSF Location: Parade & Race Participant Only
When General (Then Colonel) George S. Patton commissioned one of America's greatest designers to conceive him a boat, he had the ultimate ambition in mind: "When the war is over, and If I live through it, Bea and I are going to sail her around the world." Built by F.F. Pendleton if Wiscasset, ME in 1939, WHEN AND IF now summers in Salem, MA and is a fan favorite at the Gloucester Schooner Festival each year.
Small Schooners
BALD EAGLE
Homeport: Gloucester, MA
Length on Deck: 37 ft
GSF Location: Private Mooring
This beautiful Sam Crocker-designed schooner was built in 1955 by Bud McIntosh in Eliot, ME, and rebuilt by Harold Burnham in 2002 & 2017. This classic workboat-inspired design is all about comfort, simplicity, and seaworthiness. She is owned by Schooner Festival committee member Brett Ramsey and his wife Ellen.
EILEEN MARIE
Homeport: Gloucester, MA
Length on Deck: 36 ft
GSF Location: Gloucester Harbor Mooring
Her lines taken from the DOROTHY #291 design by Sam Crocker, she,was hand built of cypress and oak by Lewis Norris in Hernando Beach,FL. A red hulled centerboard schooner, she was launched in 1989.
ELIZABETH
Homeport: Bristol, RI
Length on Deck: 36 ft
GSF Location: Gloucester Harbor Mooring
Elizabeth is a 42' steel Tom Colvin schooner built in Ohio. She was built for fishing and cargo originally, then charter. Elizabeth was rescued by Jason Rose who conducted massive refit and restoration. Jason generosly transferred ownership to Carissa Spatcher and Mike Araujo and family. She currently calls Bristol Rhode Island home.
First Time at GSF!
GREEN DRAGON
Homeport: Gloucester, MA
Length on Deck: 33 ft
GSF Location: Private Dock
Designed by Scotty Gannett and built by Chester Spear, both of Scituate, and launched in 1951 as the Brenda Lee, she was renamed to Green Dragon as homage to the tavern known as the "Headquarters of the Revolution." Privately owned she is a staple of the Gloucester Schooner Festival and a much-loved participant.
ISABELLA
Homeport: Gloucester, MA
Length on Deck: 38 ft
GSF Location: Maritime Gloucester Pier
Commissioned in 2005 and built by Harold Burnham she is the newest in the Maritime Heritage Charters fleet. Harold based her on versions of schooners he had seen in Fitz Henry Lane's paintings. Our Historian Justin thinks she looks like a halibut schooner.
LEWIS H. STORY
Homeport: Essex, MA
Length on Deck: 32 ft
GSF Location: Maritime Gloucester Pier
Built in 1998 by Harold Burnham, this recreation of the historic Chebacco boat design was named for Essex's foremost historian. Today, it is the flagship of the Essex Historical Society and Shipbuilding Museum. It is an educational platform for their students and serves as the Museum's roving ambassador.
REDBIRD
Homeport: Fairhaven, MA
Length on Deck: 32 ft
GSF Location: Gloucester Harbor Mooring
Redbird is a brigantine schooner designed by Bruce Bingham and built by Norman Bonenberger in Vallejo, CA. When launched in 1982, she and was originally rigged as a brigantine but now carries a double gaff configuration. Purchased from Daisy Nell & Stan Collison just last year she joins us this year with her new owner.
RENEGADE
Homeport: Branford, CT
Length on Deck: 36 ft
GSF Location: Gloucester Harbor Mooring
Built in Sunnybrook, Nova Scotia in 1972, Renegade has been in Branford, Connecticut since 2005 when owner David Coller brought her down from New Brunswick where she had been docked on the St John's River. Since that time she has been as far north as Newfoundland and south as far as the Chesapeake and has been a regular participant in the Gloucester schooner festival since 2006.
STROMBUS
Homeport: Gloucester, MA
Length on Deck: 40 ft
GSF Location: Gloucester Harbor Mooring
Built in 1934, one of 8 Auxiliary Schooners of her type designed and built by David Hillyard, Sussex, England. Strombus spent many years in the Chesapeake before coming to Gloucester. She was rebuilt by Geoff Deckebach over 10 years and relaunched in 2017
SYCAMORE
Homeport: Wiscassett, ME
Length on Deck: 36 ft
GSF Location: Gloucester Harbor Mooring
The Sycamore is a steel, two -masted schooner build by Fred Bowers over 16 years. It is a steel representation of a pinky schooner, one of two vessel designs originally used in Maine's fisheries in the early 19th century. She is named after sycamore trees that surrounded the builder's home growing up. They are a source of fond memories and good feelings.
Schedule of events and vessels subject to change based on wind, marine, and weather conditions. If needed, schedule changes will be announced at www.maritimegloucester.org/schooner-festival and on Facebook
Dates: Thursday Aug 29th - Monday Sept 2nd
Contact Us At: Schooner@MaritimeGloucester.org