More Gloucester Schooner Festival 2017 !

I took about 200 shots during the 2017 Gloucester Schooner Festival and here is the rest of the best( I think).

Concert on the Boulevard.

 Stacy Boulevard

 Schooners at rest as gull lands in the foreground.

 Working aloft the Lynx.

 Columbia

 Columbia helm.

 Columbia pulls away.

 Getting bunched up.

 Big and little!

 American Eagle

 Adventure and Fame.

 Lining up.

 The smallest schooner has the biggest flag!

 Lynx

 Lynx and American Eagle.

 Ardelle leads a pack of schooners.

 Two schooners and a Grand Banks Dory.

 Thomas E. Lannon heads in as the Adventure heads out.

 The crowd on the Boulevard.

2017 Gloucester Schooner Festival!

This was the first time in years I wasn't on the water for the Parade of Sail. I was trying to figure how to get shots from shore that afforded me as many background options as possible. On the water I could utilize the position of the sun and scenery being able to re-position my location 360 degrees. This time I choose my work location, the Beauport Hotel. I started off on the roof but found the lower deck the ideal shore location. I started with Saturday nights fireworks.

 American Eagle heads out of Harbor Cove.

 Ardelle passing Ten Pound Island

 Adventure out by the breakwater.

 Adventure hoisting sails.

 A nice breeze.

 Adventure and a Banks Dory.

 Thomas E. Lannon leads Liberty Clipper.

 Ardelle

 Lattie G. Howard

 Ardelle off the Boulevard.

 The sharp bow of the Columbia.

 Lynx

 Adventure leading a group of schooners

 American Eagle leads the Thomas E. Lannon.

 Adventure

 Off The Fort playground.

 Coming and going.

 American Eagle heads offshore.

 Smoke from a gun salute at Stage Fort Park.

 Lewis H. Story

 Ships exchange salutes.

 Lynx

 A parade of sail!

 Thomas E. Lannon

 From a kayak to schooners.

 Tree of Life

 The steel hulled Columbia.