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Ernestina/Morrissey By Michael Platzer Project Director
On August 10, Captain Frans Meijer sailed his 50' rebuilt Portuguese fishing schooner Se)az Feliz into Mindelo in the Cape Verde Islands. He had left Lisbon July 25, with a crew including Lucille Langlois of Washington DC, a principal supporter of the project, myself, and four young Dutch people who follow the seas in sail : Sophia van Hecke and Kees W. Christiannse of Amsterdam, Stefan News of Skertogenbosh, and Mariette A.G. Groos of Geffem. Cargo included: 50 kilos of nails, 12 hand saws, 4 sledgehammers, 5 wooden mallets, 12 ball hammers, 7 cla w hammers, 43 chi sels, 10 screwdrivers, 2 hack saws, 100 hack saw blades, 15 cutting disks, 35 sanding di sks, 8 Stanley planes. I0 pair working gloves, 4 met a l measuring tapes, 2 angle measures, 4 rightangle squ a res, 2 compasses, one chain saw , 3 bow axe, I whetstone, 50 mast hoops, 160 kilos ca ulkin g material, 20 single and double blocks, Frans Meijer's own tools-and hi s car!
All arrived safely after a voyage in traditional style using no engine, radar, or radio, during which a large sea turt le, two whales and many porpoises were encountered. On arrival, Meijer set to work with Augusto Duarte who is in charge of the labor force provided by the Cape Verdean Government as one of its contributions to the project. The Government has also procured heavy timber from Guinea-Bissau and pine planking from Portugal. A Portuguese fishing cooperative donated an eighty-foot mast to replace the spar lost when the Ernestina was dismasted en route to Operation Sail in New York in 1976.(A farming cooperative also donated provisions for the
Feliz 's voyage.) Electric saws, drills, nails and a chain saw donated by the New York and Warham Ernestina Chapters, oxy-acetylene gear donated by New Bedford Friends of Ernestina and a tral1$former donated by Freed Transformer, Inc., of Brooklyn are being added to shipyard stores . The Massachusetts Schooner Ernestina Commission in the meantime has met and named · Julius Britto of Wareham as chairman. The noted historical naval architect Willam A. Baker of Boston, who has taken a continuous interest in the project, sits as a member of the Commission and has prepared the new rigging plan. A cooperative plan has been worked out between the National Society and the Commission under which we hope to see the vessel delivered to the Commission in the United States next year. The National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington DC has also taken an interest in the project. They have made a grant of $10,000 from Operation Sail funds. (In size, this is about seven percent of the funds raised by citizens or contributed by Cape Verde.) The grant, however, is to be held "in escrow" pending further project development. The Commission and the National Society have sent a joint letter requesting th e release of the grant. Had citizens and the Cape Verde Government held their contributions "in escrow" there would be no Ernestina/ Morrissey project today . .ti Mr. PlatZ'.er's regular job is on the West African a/esk of the United Nations in New Yorlk. SEA HISTORY, FALL I978