Where is the original bluenose

Boasts and invective and taunts and dire threats filled the air back and forth. Knot by knot the wind picked up. With her wind clear she would have her weather and her kind of sailing in 10 seconds. He was lost a few years later in his own vessel with all hands somewhere between St. Pierre and Bay of Islands, Newfoundland. He was caught in a fall gale, bound up after herring.

The years have been kind to him. She thrived under his dynamic energy in leash, his violence under wraps and understood him when it burst forth. He possesses it still. He was talking about Haligonian, the Canadian schooner designed by Roue for a Halifax syndicate to beat Bluenose'.

Bluenose beat her easily in two match races in No racing canvas. Nothing special. We came in and they passed us coming up the harbor. On the wharf there were two fellows. You can see both of us and decide for yourself. Talk of the sale of Bluenose came up in our interview. Captain Walters and a syndicate of his friends were the party of the second part in that transaction. They sold her. There were a few of us who knew what she meant not only to this place but to Canada.

But there were just a few of us—too few. Nobody else cared enough then. Now they do. There was the matter of the noisy bell. It had been taken off Bluenose some years before. A society of Nova Scotians in Alberta wrote asking for some memento of her. Captain Walters granted them the bell. The storm of protest that followed has dinned in his ears. It has reached the editorial pages of the Maritime Press and been voiced on the radio.

I took her up the Lakes. I knew what she belonged to. Not just Lunenburg and Nova Scotia. All of Canada owned Bluenose.

There were these people out there. They gloried in her even though they could never see her sail. I appreciated them and so did she. I thought they deserved her bell if they wanted it.

That is where her memorial will stand someday. If there is a young sculptor in the house right now—a young genius who can stand up for himself in a bargain because Lunenburg never could help shopping just a trifle over price—he might do well to hie him out to the eastward. A marble likeness of just a portion of her stern say with its beautiful fashion piece and the gold letters of her name would look good out Rouses Brook way overlooking the harbor.

Or maybe her wheel and a bit of her deck with Long Albert down to leeward on one bony knee as he used to kneel steering her by the luff of her towering canvas.

Or the little skipper himself with the after end of her foot main boom slatting over as he jibed her. Lunenburg is in the mood for a memorial. A beautiful mood when one thinks about it. A whole county tearful with grief for a vessel.

View Article Pages. She had started slow with them and reached placidly out the off-wind leg to the turning huoy as relaxed as a sauntering steeplechaser. Only once she lost a series to the Thebaud, in No matter what else we lost, Bluenose she should be The feeling is strong, a group lamentation strangely moving in an outwardly unemotional people.

They are sorry now that she is lost down dere. She had a magic bow. It came about this way. Even that Fairway Buoy in Halifax Harbor that Bluenose, racing Columbia, passed on the wrong side to her undoing during the race bobs happily, shed of all rancor, in the happy stream of reminis- For our money Long Albert Himmelman emerges as her never-to-be forgotten character.

More From This Issue. When she took home her first Fishermen's Trophy in October of , the legend began. During the next 17 years, no challenger — American or Canadian — could wrest the trophy from Bluenose. She earned the title "Queen of the North Atlantic" and was well on her way to becoming a Canadian icon. Bluenose came to symbolize Nova Scotia's prominence in the fishing and shipbuilding industries. She represented Canada around the world. The majestic image of the Bluenose has adorned the Canadian dime since and three postage stamps, as well as the Nova Scotia license plate.

Bluenose struck a reef off Isle aux Vache, Haiti on 28 January Creaser said Canada lost the first International Fisherman's Cup race in and shortly after planning began to build a ship that could win. Soon, the best designer, shipbuilders and captain were all recruited. It was a time in our country when there was a huge celebration around beating our friends to the south, the Americans, in these races.

In , the Government of Canada commemorated the ship with a cent stamp and it first appeared on our dime in Canada Post will be releasing a new Bluenose stamp in honour of the ship's centennial and the Royal Canadian Mint recently launched a special set of collector coins.

Photo by slgckgc licensed CC BY 2. It was called the Bluenose, which may sound funny, but the term Bluenoser was actually a nickname at the time for the people of Nova Scotia — for reasons still unknown. Though it was not the first ship to be called Bluenose there were seven ships with the same name that came before , it is recognized as part of Canadian heritage and has made its appearance on Canadian money, stamps and even in a song.

The Bluenose was a schooner pronounced skoo-ner which is a kind of sailing ship that has two or more tall masts with sails attached. Check out the pictures of the Bluenose and count the masts.

There are two! Like most schooners, the Bluenose was built to be a fishing ship this ship even held the record for the largest catch of fish brought into Lunenburg at the time but it was so fast that the Captain, Angus Walters, knew it was perfect for racing.