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| Last updated on June 17, 2007 |
The Gloucester Adventure, Inc., a nonprofit organization, was created to preserve the schooner Adventure for posterity, serve as a community resource for educational programming on maritime, cultural and environmental issues, and operate Adventure at sea as a living symbol of America's maritime heritage.
Description:
Adventure offers a variety of programs to educate children teachers, and the general public about maritime history and environmental issues. A hands-on, living history classroom, Adventure provides a unique experience in social and cultural studies, science, and the arts.
Adventure's education staff is always ready to work with schools to enhance their curricula in creative ways. Adventure's educational programs have been supported in part by grants from the Bruce J. Anderson Foundation and Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz.
The restoration of Adventure is ongoing. The final hull restoration project to rebuild the schooner's stern and quarterdeck will be completed during the summer of 2007. The next phase of Adventure's restoration will include the installation of watertight bulkheads, an engine, sails, and other equipment required to sail as a passenger vessel. Adventure will offer dockside programing beginning fall of 2007. Once fully restored, Adventure will return to active sailing as a platform for environmental and multidisciplinary, experiential education programs. The schooner will be operated at sea, primarily along the New England coast, as a living monument to Massachusetts' fishing heritage. Because of Adventure's historic importance, the restoration is done in accordance with the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Historic Vessel Preservation. Adventure's restoration has been supported, in part, by the Dusky Foundation, City of Gloucester, Essex National Heritage Area, Institute for Museum and Library Services, Massachusetts Historic Commission, National Park Service, Schwartz Communications, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Lowe's, and by hundreds of other donors.
To complete Adventure's restoration and return her to active sailing, we need to raise $750,000.
The Gloucester Adventure is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Volunteers are the core of our organization. Every aspect of our community-based effort to save Adventure depends on volunteers who are needed to help work on the vessel, staff the office, raise funds, and organize events.
History:
Adventure is a 122-foot historic wooden dory fishing schooner. She is constructed of white oak and yellow pine, she was fashioned as a "knockabout" - a design without a bowsprit for the safety of the crew. The schooner Adventure was built in 1926 in Essex, Massachusetts, a leading shipbuilding center at a time when the fishing industry in New England was thriving. Adventure was exceptionally fast and able - the pinnacle of the fishing schooner design. Carrying a sailing rig, diesel engine and 14 dories, she spent her first 27 years fishing the once bountiful outer banks of the North Atlantic from her home ports of Gloucester and Boston.
Adventure was a "highliner" - the biggest moneymaker of all time - landing nearly $4 million worth of cod and haddock during her fishing career. Adventure was the last American dory trawler still fishing in the Atlantic when she retired in 1953. Refitted as a windjammer, Adventure carried passengers on pleasure cruises along the coast of Maine from 1955-1987. She was known as the "Queen of the Windjammers."
In 1988, Captain Jim Sharp donated Adventure to the people of Gloucester, asking that "she continue to be cared for, prominently displayed as a monument to the City of Gloucester, and used for the education and pleasure of the public."
In 1989, Adventure was listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and in 1994 she was designated a National Historic Landmark. In 1999, Adventure became an Official Project of "Save America's Treasures," a joint initiative of the White House Millennium Council and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Schooner Adventure also played a critical role in having the City of Gloucester designated a "2006 Preserve America Community". In her speech, First Lady Laura Bush highlighted the community of Gloucester, and the Schooner Adventure, among others, as an exemplar of an American community preserving it's heritage.
Contact people:
Office fax number: (978) 281-2393
Address:
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P.O. Box 1306
Gloucester, MA 01931 |
Web Site: http://www.schooner-adventure.org
Directions:
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Take Route 128 North to Gloucester. Go through two rotaries and turn right at the first set of lights (Route 127 South). Bear right at the stop sign onto Main Street, continue 1/4 mile. Adventure is undergoing restoration and is. . . (more)
Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: Gloucester MBTA stop (Railroad Ave.),
Walk distance (in minutes): 10
For maps or information, please see http://www.mbta.com/schedmaps/index.cfm |
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