Gloucester's Great Schooner Race

Schooners FAME and VIRGINIA ( catalog #8033 )

Twenty-Fourth Annual Gloucester Schooner Festival

August 29 - September 1, 2008

Schooners that plan to sail in the Mayor's Race on Sunday,

August 31, 2008 Click Here.

I'll be sailing aboard the AMERICAN EAGLE see you their.

Schooner AMERICAN EAGLE ( catalog #8041 )

Schooners FAME and VIRGINIA

Schooners FAME & VIRGINIA the orginal FAME was built in Gloucester as a fishing schooner. During the War of 1812 became a privateer capturing at least 21 prizes before being wrecked in the Bay of Fundy in 1814. The orginal VIRGINIA was a pilot schooner built in 1916, used to transfer pilots on and off ships moving into and out of Hampton Roads, Virginia