Schooner Bagheera

[imported_Steven Bauer]

I just got this in my e-mail. Anyone interested?

PORTLAND SCHOONER CO - seeks volunteers for a work weekend aboard Schooner Bagheera. Help Bagheera celebrate her 80th birthday. by scraping, painting, & varnishing, & be paid back in summer sailing tickets. Sat & Sun April 24 & 25 at Portland Yacht Services. 58 Fore St. Please call Twain at 766-2500 www.portlandschooner.com (http://www.portlandschooner.com)

From their website:

http://www.portlandschooner.com/media/baghPhoto020805.jpg

I might try to pitch in.

Steven

[imported_Steven Bauer]

Here's a little...


"History
Bagheera was designed by one of America's most celebrated yacht designers, John G. Alden of Boston, Mass. Bagheera is vintage Alden, featuring long overhangs, a sweet and graceful sheerline, and a long bowsprit. For construction, Alden turned to the rich ship-building heritage of Maine and found able craftsmen at Rice Bros. Shipyard in East Boothbay.

The 72-foot schooner is built of long-leaf yellow pine planks over oak frames and trimmed inside in mahogany and pine. The deck and cockpit are also trimmed in the finest mahogany to world-class standards.

In the 1920s Bagheera sailed in the Bermuda Race at least once before being delivered to the Great Lakes, where she won the annual Chicago-Mackinac Race for several years running.

In her more than 75 years of cruising the world's oceans, Bagheera has crossed the Atlantic, cruised areas of the Pacific, including the Galapagos, and spent many years in the Caribbean Sea. In the 1980s Bagheera was fitted out in San Diego for the passenger trade. She was transported back home to Maine in the spring of 2002 to serve Portland Schooner Company."

[John B]

'Bagheera is 72 feet long overall and is 56 feet on deck.'
kind of makes a difference to how long she really is eh.
Thanks for the link Steven. I'll look her up in Carrick tonight .

[Paul Pless]

John B

Almost makes you wish you had a schooner, eh?

Paul

[John B]

I do. :D a schoooner. We raced against Arcturus on Sunday ,but it was too light for her.She wants a breakfast of 18 knots of breeze before she gets out of bed in the morning. Photo of her in my 'race 'thread in case you haven't seen it.

[brian.cunningham]

I might be able to make that.

[TimH]

A goog friend of mine used to sail on the "bag" in the Mac races back in the old days....He spoke very fondly of her. smile.gif

[Hwyl]

nudge

[Lucky Luke]

Over thirty five years ago, Bagheera had been left derelict, and in a very miserable shape, in the harbor of Sanary, in the south of France.

As I was stationned in the nearby port of Toulon, I used to often go aboard her in the late evening. She was not guarded, and left open, but "in those days", although not that long ago, there was not the pillage and the vandalism we would have today...

I fell in love with this powerful boat, her large uncluttered (but rotten) deck with small roofs and skylights, and spend time there dreaming...oh yes, dreaming! Or I would go down below in what was felt of her her (stinking and damaged) accomodation, thinking of how to repair this, do that.... far far away for any financial possibility for me, that was! Years later, I would spend quite some in a much smaller one...but that's an other story!

So, that's a real pleasure to see that she is now reviving. I knew she had been bought with the intention to restore her, but these intentions had so often ended up in an other abandon ...

May Neptune bless you, Bagheera
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