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Gloucester Fishing Schooner the "Bluenose"

Her rigging and sails are much simpler than those of a full-rigged ship though she is as graceful a craft as ever sailed. She was known as a fore-and-after. She was speedy enough to win an international racing cup, at the same time she is essentially a working craft, built for hard usage. She was constructed by W.J. Roue of Halifax in 1921 and is still afloat, and she holds the international trophy for speed in the fishing schooner class. She is one of a fishing fleet of the Newfoundland Banks.

A person with a hobby like mine is always fascinated by the shapely fore-and-after although he is apt to feel that a trading schooner is a bit too homely for model reproduction and that an ordinary yacht is too trivial. For him the Bluenose should be ideal. Aloft and alow she is as beautiful as any fore-and-after ever was. This model is an exact reproduction of the original reduced to a scale of 1/2" to a foot.

She captured the international speed trophy. Like all fore-and-afters the Bluenose got much of its beauty from its rigging and sails. Everyone enjoys the magnificent sight of a sailing schooner with its sails up and bellied in the wind. Sails always give a sense of action and a note of life.

A small boy's definition of wind - air that's in a hurry.

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