Joey… more photos from GREEN DRAGON and another reminder…
The Gloucester Schooner Race takes place September 2nd. Nowadays the race is set up as a beam reach, usually three times around a pair of buoys set a couple miles apart. Schooners are at their best reaching, with the wind on the beam, and if there is a good breeze their big mainsails provide all the power they can use. Reaching is also the most comfortable point of sail – no rock and roll. There is still space available for paying passengers on the larger boats, and the cost is usually less than the price of a ticket to a major league sporting event.
So, spectators, get off the boulevard and get on a boat for an up close and personal experience!
Al Bezanson
Good Morning Gloucester 
Good stuff Al, and your photos are excellent: photos only a sailor could take. Hope to see you that weekend at the Monsta Lobsta Bash! In Cod We Trust, especially in Fish City.
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You’re too kind Fred. Is that new RX100 camera as good as Joey says?
As for the Monsta Lobsta Bash….. Joey has a little problem with us ‘schoonerheads’. We don’t mind being called that, but where did he ever see ‘the usual faded stone washed t-shirts’ on real schooner people?
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“Al Congratulations
Green Dragon looks as good today as she did when we were young.
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Jeez, Jay where are you? Haven’t heard from you since that delivery we did from Maine on the cement schooner DUNMOWEN back in the 60’s. I shudder whenever I recollect it.
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Great pictures! Love these. Thanks for sharing.
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