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From: C. Marin Faure (no email)
Date: Wed Oct 01 2003 - 02:28:41 EDT
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 00:54:04 -0700
From: (John A Gallagher)
Subject: Re: TWL: (no subject)
Marin wrote:
>>Put a high-tech racing catamaran next to the classic Gloucester fishing
>schooner "Bluenose." The catamaran is probably the better sailor, and it
>"Gloucester" ?
Pardon me?
I wrote a longer reply from work, but as I don't subscribe from there I'm
not sure if it will post. I won't repeat everything I wrote in the event
it does turn up on the list, but I am well aware that the "Bluenose" was
built in Lunenburg (sp?), Nova Scotia. I used the term "Gloucester fishing
schooner" the way I've seen it used in some of the books on these boats
that I've acquired over the years, which is as a sort of generic name for
the type. It may well not be the correct term, but that's the one I
learned back when I was a kid and reading everything I could find about
them (which wasn't much).
I suspect it's because the basic design, which evolved from the so-called
"pinkey" schooners, originated in Gloucester, Mass. But I appologize to
those of you from Canada who rightly take their fishing heritage seriously.
Anyone interested in these lovely working schooners, by the way, would do
well to acquire a book called "American Fishermen" by Albert Cook Church.
Church was a photographer in the first half of the 1900s, and this small
hardbound book is a wonderful collection of his photos of the "Gloucester
fishing schooner," including the "Bluenose." He covers the boats at work
on the Georges and Grand Banks, their construction, and of course the
famous fishermen's races, which the "Bluenose" won consistently once she
came on the scene. But all the famous schooners are here- the "Elsie," the
"Gertrude L. Thebaud," the "Henry Ford," the "Columbia," the "Mayflower,"
and one of my favorites and one of the few if only white-painted schooners
in the fleet, the "Elizabeth Howard." "American Fishermen" was published
in 1940 and so is long out of print (I'm not aware of any reprints). But
you can find them on the rare and use book section of Amazon.com. They
seem to sell for about $25.
I only wish someone like Albert Church had been around to record as
fastidiously some of our other unique fishing types, like the classic west
coast salmon trollers of the 1940s and the beautiful (to me, anyway) tuna
sampans in Hawaii in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s.
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C. Marin Faure
GB36-403 "La Perouse"
Bellingham, WA
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