Your donations fulfilled the Board’s $30,000 match and doubled their impact. Also subject to preservation restrictions, all of the work performed is in accordance with The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Historic Vessel Preservation Projects. Adventure carried passengers along the coast of Maine until 1988. Take a look at all the ways we're growing the field to save places. [4], In 1954, Adventure was sold to Donald Hurd, Dayton Newton, and Herbert Beizer and refitted for the windjammer tourist trade, carrying vacationing passengers up and down the Maine coast. Aboard this maiden voyage sailed the famed naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews. Read stories of people saving places, as featured in our award-winning magazine and on our website. Schooner Adventure was a “highliner,” the biggest moneymaker of all time, landing nearly $4 million worth of cod and halibut during her fishing career. ABOUT US | Mail to: The Gloucester Adventure, Inc., PO Box 1306, Gloucester, MA 01931 The restoration work has incorporated features and modern safety equipment to meet the Coast Guard’s requirements. Aboard this maiden voyage sailed the famed naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews. The Gloucester Adventure, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, was organized to restore and sail the Adventure and provide educational programs for the Cape Ann community in 1988. Her grace, beauty, and prowess as a sailing vessel earned her the nickname “Queen of the Windjammers.”. EDUCATION | Discover how these unique places connect Americans to their past—and to each other. HISTORY | [5], Adventuress was built for John Borden at the Rice Brothers' yard in East Boothbay, Maine, and was designed by B.B. When retired in 1953, Schooner Adventure was the last American dory fishing trawler left in the Atlantic. ADVENTURE’S HISTORY Fishing the Banks (1926-1953). When built, Adventure was powered by a 120 horsepower engine turning a single screw. ABOUT US | SUPPORT US | Copyright © The Gloucester Adventure, Inc | Header Photo © Cheryl Briscoe | Skippy Illustration © Rusty Kinnunen, Tweets by @https://twitter.com/settings/widgets/556675175920721921. We are grateful for being chosen! Washington, The Schooner is operated at sea, primarily along the New England coast, as a living monument to Massachusetts’ fishing heritage. Adventuress is a 133-foot (41 m) gaff-rigged schooner launched in 1913 in East Boothbay, Maine.She has since been restored, and is listed as a National Historic Landmark.She is one of two surviving San Francisco bar pilot schooners.. Adventuress is currently operated by Sound Experience, a non-profit organization based in Port Townsend, Washington. Office: Fitz Henry Lane House, 4 Harbor Loop, Gloucester, MA In September 2012 she was fitted with a Detroit Diesel 671 engine and moved under her own mechanical power for the first time since 1954. The organization’s mission is three-fold: Restore and preserve Adventure in perpetuity, Utilize Adventure as an educational resource with programming for maritime, environmental and cultural issues and. Together we can preserve these incredible buildings, landscapes, and communities for the future. HOME | Crowninshield. In 1988, Sound Experience began conducting educational programs on the vessel, and the following year she was listed as a National Historic Landmark. Tweets by @https://twitter.com/settings/widgets/556675175920721921. National Historic Landmark Schooner Adventure is one of the last surviving Grand Banks dory-fishing schooners. GUEST BOOK, Docked at: Maritime Gloucester Harriet Webster Pier, 23 Harbor Loop, Gloucester, MA During the voyage, Chapman stopped on the Pribilof Islandsand captured film of fur seals, which led to efforts to protect their colonies. The Gloucester Adventure: Our Mission is to restore and preserve the Schooner Adventure for the enrichment of future generations and their love of the sea, enable the Schooner Adventure to serve as a community resource for educational programming focusing on maritime, cultural, and environmental issues and operate the Schooner Adventure at sea as a living symbol of America’s maritime heritage. The National Trust’s federal tax identification number is 53-0210807. She was designed by Thomas McManus as a “knockabout”—having no bowsprit which were known as “widow makers” due to the dangerousness of working on the jib. Designed by Thomas F. McManus of Boston and built at the John F. James & Son Yard in Essex, Massachusetts, for Captain Jeff Thomas of Gloucester, Adventure was one of the last wooden sailing vessels of her kind built for the dory-fishing industry.. Borden's efforts to catch a whale failed and he sold Adventuress to the San Francisco Bar Pilots Association, which marked the beginning of her career as a workboat.