Down to the Sea: The Fishing Schooners of GloucesterThe story of the swift but perilous Gloucester schooners and of the men who built, sailed, raced and fished them. |
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aboard Albert Cook Church anchor Angus Walters Ann Historical Association ashore bait ballast bankers barrels Blatchford Bluenose boat Boston bottom bowsprit breeze built buoy cabin cable Cape Ann Cape Ann Historical Captain Collins coast codfish crew deck dory dory-trawling dorymates Eastern Point Eben Ernest L Essex feet fishermen fishing schooners fleet fore foremast foresail fresh gaff gale gang Georges Bank Georgesmen Gloucester Harbor Gloucester schooners Gloucester's Gloucestermen Goode's Fisheries Grand Bank haddock halibut halyards hand hauled hooks Howard Blackburn hundred launched leeward mackerel mainsail miles Morrissey Newfoundland Nova Nova Scotia photographs planking port Pound Island race rail rigging Rocky Neck sail salt seineboat ship shore skipper sloop snow squall staysail Story Thebaud Thomas Collection tons took trawl trip tubs vessel Vincent's Cove waterfront Whaling Museum wharf wharves wind windward yacht yard
References to this book
Caught in Irons: North Atlantic Fishermen in the Last Days of Sail Michael Wayne Santos Limited preview - 2002 |