The 39th Gloucester Schooner Festival Mayor’s Race took place on Labor Day weekend 2034 under beautiful sunny skies in the waters off Gloucester, Massachusetts.
The crowds gathered in the early morning on Sunday, September 3rd along the shores, Stacey Street and on the water to watch the Parade of Sail prior to the afternoon start of the race. This was the last day of the Schooner Festival which ran Thursday through Sunday.
It was a weekend full of celebrations with a local boat parade and fireworks on Saturday night.
Leading off the parade was Gloucester’s flagship, Adventure, a dory-fishing schooner built in 1926 in Essex and brought back to Gloucester in 1988 by Capt. Jim Sharp who had formerly sailed her as a windjammer in Maine, Collinson said.
Just behind Adventure sailed the Ernestina-Morrissey out of New Bedford, the Commonwealth’s official sailing vessel which was built in 1894 at the James and Tarr Shipyard in Essex for the Gloucester fishing fleet. The schooner is now owned by the Massachusetts Maritime Academy where it will serve as a training ship.
The winners of the Mayor’s Cup Race:
Esperanto Cup – American Eagle
Ned Cameron Cup – Tyrone
Ned Cameron Cup-Marconi Class – Adventurer
Betty Ramsey Award – Calabash
Betty Ramsey Award-Marconi Class – Strombus
