By October there has been much progress on the hull. Here workers are fairing frames for the next course of internal planks, “stringers”, which strengthen and stabilize the hull.
(L to R) Shipwrights,Tom Gerhardt, Chris O’Reilly and Dana Culbertson, work on plaining the frame on the bow of the schooner Ernestina being restored at the Boothbay Harbor Shipyard in Maine.
PHOTO PETER PEREIRA
Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey Association, Inc.
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New Bedford, MA 02741
The Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey Association, Inc. (SEMA) is a 501c(3) not-for-profit corporation with the purpose of raising funds to provide for the maintenance, equipment, manning, programming and operation of the Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey as a sail training vessel, school ship, and educational enterprise.
