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> Marin wrote
> >>Put a high-tech racing catamaran next to the classic Gloucester
> fishing schooner "Bluenose." The catamaran is probably the better
sailor...
John Gallagher wrote:
> >"Gloucester" ?
> Pardon me?
My apologies, particularly to those of you in Canada. In books I
have on the subject, the generic term for the classic North American
fishing schooner is "Gloucester fishing schooner" even though a whole
lot of
them weren't made in Gloucester. The basic design is generally
credited to have originated there, derived from the earlier "pinkey"
schooners,
and so the label is often attached to the
entire "class" of boat, no matter where they were actually designed
and constructed. "Gloucester schooners" were produced in fishing towns
All along the northeast coast, from Boston to Nova Scotia.
I'm well aware of the "Bluenose's" remarkable history and where she
was built; I just automatically used the "Gloucester schooner"
descriptive term. The "Bluenose" is arguably the most famous of these
lovely
schooners, although part of that is due to the fact that a replica was
built and still sails today, the "Bluenose II." But other schooners
that in their day were just as famous were the "Elsie," the
"Gertrude L. Thebaud," the "Mayflower," the "Columbia," and the "Henry
Ford."
Boats like the "Bluenose" tend to be remembered for their exploits in
the races,
but in fact these were true working boats. "Bluenose" and "Elsie" and
"Thebaud" went out into the nasty weather and rough banks waters and
fished
year after year just like the rest of them.
______________________________
C. Marin Faure
36' Grand Banks "La Perouse"
Bellingham, Washington
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