The boys are back in town and we couldn’t be more excited. It’s early March and the first of our 2010 crew has arrived.
Scott (you may remember him as Scooter or Scoot) is back for his second season! He left Texas a little while back and drove his way across country visiting people and places along his [...]
Save America’s Treasures, a part of the National Parks Service, has awarded Association for Maritime Preservation (AMP) a $300,000 matching grant. What does this mean for the Riggin? AMP has agreed to take on the rebuild of the Riggin as their first project!
While the actual work on the boat will begin the fall of 2010, [...]
Changes are fun and they are afoot in our world. As you’ll see, we’ve shifted Artichokes and Asparagus, my food blog. The new name is now At Home & At Sea. Sound familiar? Yup, it’s the name of my cookbook and WAS the domain name for the cookbook website. The cookbook website is no longer [...]
The winter cover is going on, the peapod is out of the water,and Pearl- the yawl boat came out of the water today. Here Toni is rinsing off the salt water to get her ready for winter storage in the barn. Toni is wearing at least 5 lawyers of clothing as its a brisk 43 [...]
Help us make history by saving history. American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation just named Schooner Adventure as a participant in this year’s Partners in Preservation program in Greater Boston. If successful, Adventure will receive $100,000 for new spars.
Schooner Adventure is one of 25 sites selected now competing in a five-week [...]
The staging always seems to take forever to errect when the list of must do's are pressing against a good weather window, but it's up and one of the best platforms we've had.
And after reefing out seams that need replacing, the caulking begins. The focus is aft where over time the new six [...]
The goal is to launch the Stephen Taber and haul the Riggin, all on the same tide. Even shallow draft vessels like the Riggin and the Taber need to be hauled at high tide to allow enough water underneath them. As we arrived at the shipyard, Capt. Noah Barnes and crew were putting their last minute touches on the Taber.
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Every spring the Schooner J&E Riggin hosts an annual Work & Learn Week. This will be our 5th year and we couldn’t be more excited. This year the Association for Maritime Preservation (website coming very soon) will be sponsoring the event and providing the “learning” part of the experience! Last year over 240 hrs were [...]
As many of you may already know, Capt. Jon and I have been involved for over a year in the Restorative Justice program with the two teens who vandalized the Riggin last winter. Many of you have asked about that process and this article gives a very good description of what the Restorative Justice process [...]
The Schooner Timberwind’s last cruise of the season was the Oct. 3-5 Birthday Cruise, marking her 77th year. A week later she headed down to the shipyard to undergo some winter repairs. You can see it all here, we will be posting updates and pictures of her progress, so stay tuned!
Capt. Bob
