SHIP NOTES, Sailing Adventures aboard the SCHOONER HARVEY GAMAGE -a windjammer in true "down East" tradition. U.S. Coast Guard inspected 95' o.a. in length
COLLEGE STUDENTS SEA QUARTER Plan a college semester aboard the SCHOONER HARVEY GAMAGE. Credits in arts and science you earn from Northeastern University, Marine Studies Department, may be transferred. Curriculum includes visits to many educational and historical places from Maine to the Virgin Islands. For curriculum, schedule and cost, write or phone-
Summer months the ship cruises the Maine coast out of Rockland ... winter months in the Virgin Islands from Charlotte Amalie. Enjoy a week under sail ... make new friends ... relish hearty meals ... return relaxed, filled with happy memories. Write or phone-
DIRIGO CRUISES Dept. SH, 39 Waterside Lane Clinton, Conn. 06413 Tel: 203-669-7068
The Tall Ship ROSE The last full -rigged ship still sailing in North America The only example of a Revolutionary War ship afloat The direct cause of the founding of the American Navy (October 1775 ) "The most significant achievement of the Bicentennial" National Park Service official James Murfin
500 tons; length over all 170' now und er new management, needs engines installed and major repairs to topside planking. To pay for this, a few shares of ownership are to be sold in a private offering; in order to comply with SEC regulations, shares will only be sold in increments of $ 1 o,ooo. As a wooden ship of over 100 tons, th e ROSE will neve r be allowed to carry passengers. However, shareholders (owners) will be invited to sail every time the ship moves on her busy schedule of appearances as a museum in the Caribbean and East Coast U.S. Essentially, for the one-time price of a vacation, shareholders get to take many sailing vacations AND still own part of the ship and share in whatever profits may come from museum activities and film charters. For more information, send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Tall Ship Rose, Inc., 7 IO South H enry 6treet, Williamsburg, Virginia 23185.
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Society . They plan to restore her for cruising Cape Cod waters during the summer with onboard displays of her famous rescue, and are campaigning to establish an endowment fund with a revenue of $2,000 a year to maintain the vessel. Tax deductible contributions to: "Rescue 36500," Orleans Historical Society, Box 353, Orleans MA 02653. The replica frigate HMS Rose(see SH 22:38) is now back under the ownership of her builder John Millar. She is now at City Pier in New
London, where it's planned to effect muchneeded repairs from March to June. Interested persons are welcome to join in! Millar, 710 S. Henry St., Williamsburg VA 23185. The environmental education group Schooner, Inc. has, in cooperation with the New Haven Board of Education, opened Schooner School, a four-year, fully accredited public high school whose 100 freshmen and sophomore students participate in boatbuilding projects, acquiring math and shop skills, and study literature of the sea, maritime history, oceanography and marine biology. Funding for planning came from the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the Hazen Foundation of New Haven . (See SH20:39.) Schooner, Inc., 60 South Water St., New Haven CT 06519. Schooner Harvey Gamage underwent a bit of a refit last fall : her crew installed a new mainmast, crosstrees, and topmast step and renewed standing rigging. She completed her eleventh SeaMester program for Southampton College in the Caribbean this fall and will soon be offering Sea Quarter studies, affiliated with the Marine Studies department of Northeastern University. Dirigo Cruises, 39 Waterside Lane, Clinton CT 06413 . Norwalk Seaport, part of the Norwalk Maritime Center recently purchased Hope, a 49' oyster sloop, built in 1948 in Greenwich, Ct. by Stanley Chard of white oak from trees felled in the 1945 hurricane. Her mast is a section of a spar from the Brooklyn Navy Yard and original sails were cut from those of a square rigger. The Center, which should be completed by spring 1985, is devoted to the maritime heritage of Western Long Island Sound. Plans for Hope include restoration of the vessel and her original gear so that she may drag for oysters in the Sound, in addition to offering an educational program and visiting other ports. Seaport, 203 Liberty Ave., Norwalk CT 06855.
SEA HISTORY, WINTER 1982