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ESSEX-BUILT SCHOONER ARDELLE TAKES UP GLOUCESTER RESIDENCE AS HERITAGE CENTER TAKES ON NEW NAME
Sailing history will be made again in Gloucester on August 24 AT 6:30 PM
when the Schooner Ardelle arrives at its new home at Maritime
Gloucester, formerly known as the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center,
on Harbor Loop.
The addition of the Ardelle to
the Gloucester fleet means that two "passenger-fisherman" schooners
built in a Burnham boatyard in Essex will be sailing regularly from
Gloucester. It will join the Thomas E. Lannon, also built by
Burnham, and launched in 1997.
The Ardelle, built and operated by Harold Burnham, will offer day and evening sails to the public.
It
will also serve as a floating classroom and laboratory for the several
thousand students who participate in hands-on marine science education
programs at Maritime Gloucester.
Burnhams' have been
building schooners since the early 1800's and Essex has turned out more
than 4,000 of them. The traditionally built double-ended
"pinky schooner" Ardelle is “sawn frame and trunnel fastened” using
indigenous resources, both material and labor in the tradition of the
Essex boat building industry.
The
58-foot Ardelle will carry up to 49 passengers. In addition to
its educational role she will offer several two-hour public trips a day
and be available for charter for weddings, birthdays, family events and
other special occasions.
"I could not be more proud of
the people who helped build this vessel in the Essex tradition and the
opportunity to sail regularly from Maritime Gloucester, which continues
an historic community linkage that goes back centuries. It's an
opportunity to help people discover and value our past while also
helping students develop their science and math skills and explore
future opportunities that may not have previously been obvious to
them," said Harold Burnham.
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23 Harbor Loop, Gloucester,
Massachusetts 01930
Tel: 978 281 0470
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