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FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA ABOARD THE CENTURY-OLD SCHOONER VICTORY CHIMES, TIME STANDS STILL

[A PUBLISHED CORRECTION HAS BEEN ADDED TO THIS STORY.] OFF COASTAL MAINE - Ride a horse-drawn carriage through Central Park and you've got a small spot of antiquity in a high-rise world. Look off the deck of a century-old schooner across western Penobscot Bay and you're living in history. From the

Publication: The Boston Globe

Get Tied Up at Schooner Wharf Bar During Race Week

At Schooner Wharf Bar every night at 8 p.m. during the yacht races, from Jan. 15 through Jan. 19, sailors and any interested challengers will frustrate themselves and entertain the crowd as they race to tie a bowline and lasso a piling. Entrants stand in front of an ice luge and swallow an icy shot

Publication: Solares Hill

Captain of grounded schooner, Coast Guard act fast to stem crisis

EASTPORT - An evening sail turned into a scary adventure for a group of North Carolina youth when the 84-foot schooner Sylvina W. Beal they were aboard went aground in Canadian waters nearby. The 41 passengers were all from Youth Works, of Myers Park Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, N.C., and were

Publication: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME

Schooner reset to sail with repaired mast

CASTINE - Maine Maritime Academy's historic schooner Bowdoin is once again a two-masted vessel. The academy's waterfront crew, with the aid of a hired crane, reset the schooner's mainmast Wednesday after replacing a section of the 75-foot spar. The crane easily lifted the 1,800-pound mainmast off

Publication: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME

RUM, RACING, REVELRY SCHOONERS ANCHOR AT WATERSIDE AFTER RACING DOWN THE CHESAPEAKE BAY.(DAILY BREAK)

Byline: LANE DEGREGORY, STAFF WRITER WIND-WHIPPED, salt-sprayed and beaten by the Bay, some of the sea's most majestic sailing ships dropped anchor along Norfolk's Waterside Friday. Many of the masts stand more than seven stories high, stretching above sections of the skyline. White sails big

Publication: The Virginian Pilot

U. Oklahoma gets new ponies to pull the Schooner

Megan McMahan University Wire 10-19-2007 (Oklahoma Daily) (U-WIRE) NORMAN, Okla. -- It's out with the old Boomer and Sooner ponies and in with the new for next year's football season. Zipping on and off the field for more than a decade has taken its toll on the legs of the 18- and 19-year-old

Publication: University Wire

SCHOONER GROWS SHIPSHAPE; VOLUNTEER HELP TURNS A DREAM INTO REALITY.(Local)

Byline: Jennika Pierie Staff writer Years ago, Henry Spang's wife asked him what he wanted to do with his life. Today, his life's dream sits in front of the Oswego Maritime Foundation - all 85 feet and 84,000 pounds of it. The OMF Ontario, a schooner that Spang decided to begin building in 1987,

Publication: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)

A reproduction of the schooner Amistad is docked in Washington March, 25, 2002, as part of its mission to teach the story of the ship and its message of freedom. The original Amistad was a 19th centur

CHUCK KENNEDY KRT Photos 03-25-2002 US NEWS AMISTAD 1 KRT KRT STAND ALONE US NEWS PHOTO SLUGGED: AMISTAD KRT PHOTO BY CHUCK KENNEDY/KRT (March 26) A reproduction of the schooner Amistad is docked in Washington March, 25, 2002, as part of its mission to teach the story of the ship and its message of

Publication: KRT Photos