Le DON du VENT

St. EULALIA

schooner BOWDOIN from Maine

The BOWDOIN, from the Maine Maritime Academy, is a 100' LOA wooden-hulled schooner, built in 1921. The BOWDOIN was designed specifically for Artic exploration, and had made 26 voyages above the Arctic circle between 1921-54. Since then, she has been a Sailing School Vessel for the MMA.

Scantlings:

LOA: 100'
Beam: 20'
Draft: 10'
Rig: Schooner
Homeport: Castine, Maine

Contact: tleach@mma.edu
Webpage: http://bell.mma.edu/-bowdoin

Nov. 13th, 2007, 7-8:30 PM tall ships lecture

The Britannia Heritage Shipyard of Richmond, BC will sponsor a slide-show on the tall ships by Thad Koza on November 13th, 7:00 -- 8:30 PM. The talk will focus on the events and the fleet of tall ships that will visit BC in June-July 2008. That fleet will include the US Coast Guard sail-training barque, EAGLE.

The talk will take place at :

Steveson Community Center
4111 Moncton Street
Steveson, BC


Click on the LINK below for registration, and tickets:

https://www.richmond.ca/cgi-bin/prp_pgr.exe?act=showResults&ageGroupCode=4&communityCode=BN&count=5


Contact Angela Soon at: asoon@richmond.ca

Or telephone: 604.276.4300 or 604.718.8050

The BRITANNIA HERITAGE SHIPYARD can be reached at: britannia@richmond.ca

or Thad Koza at: thadkoza@yahoo.com