15 - Friday, February 28, 1986 - North Shore News

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N.S. Schooner is more
than a ship on a dime

THE CANADIAN ten-cent coin has for over four decades
carried the stamped image of a very large sailing vessel,
clearly carrying a lot of sail on two masts towering over a

long, low and Jean-looking hull.

The vessel’s name does not ap-
pear, but there is no mistaking the
particular shape of the ship’s bow
and the ‘‘cut’’ of her rig, — an east
coast schooner, for one thing, and
a big one at that.

Those heady days of the super
yachts, the years between the
World Wars, saw incredible British
and American ‘‘J-boats’’, racing
machines of over 100 feet com-
peting for the America Cup. They
were rich men's toys and their an-
tics delighted millions; national
honours rode on each race.

But another community of sail-
ors watched the America Cup races
with only smiling tolerance; where
the huge, fragile yachts couldn't
handle anything approaching
heavy weather, the Grand Banks
fishermen of New England, Nova
Scotia and Newfoundland had for
years sailed the North Atlantic all
year around, regardless of weather
conditions, reaping a harvest of
cod for the markets of the world.

famous fishing ports of Lunenburg
in Nova Scotia and Gloucester in
Massachusetts began the Interna-
tional Fishermen’s Races.

Following the elimination series
in each port to choose contenders,
the first competition in 1920 saw
the Glouchester schoo-
ner,Esperanto, take the trophy to
New England; shocked and
dismayed Nova Scotians im-
mediately built a new schooner,
and launched her on March 16,
1921.

This was ‘‘Bluenose’’, and under
her Master, Captain Angus
Walters, she commenced a saga of
maritime sealore that has become,
along with all the other con-
tenders, a glorious record in
Canada’s and America’s maritime
history.

Bluenose never lost the trophy
against all challengers in her seven-
teen years of competition, and so
proud were Canadians that they
stamped her image on the dime.

Their ships were the beautiful, The international races ended in

: me =oheavily built, two-masted “‘schoo- 1938, and World War If brought

photo ubmitied ners’’, as well suited to speeding an abrupt end to the sailing

. . . . : as i h rss. Bluen herself,

THE BLUENOSE II will arrive in Victoria April 16 and begin a 21-day trip to various B.C. ports, including slong rocky coasts: cn 1920, with despite efforts by her “oateselt,
Vancouver from April 25 to May 7. The schooner will be moored at Canada Harbor Place. home port. pride stoking their rie See Blue

valry and a trophy to aim for, the

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