March 6, 2021 ______Update 145

PROGRESS REPORT FROM THE SHIPYARD

Thank you, Bristol Marine, for sharing the latest news of the great work your crew is accomplishing during the pre-launch fitting-out of Ernestina-Morrissey! Here is the latest exciting action from the Shipyard! Currently, all work on the Ernestina-Morrissey at the Shipyard is being funded through the generosity of the Lenfest Family. If you don't want to wait for the next Newsletter, bookmark the website and then you can check there often for reports.  More photos and descriptions HERE

ALL HANDS TO THE HALYARDS

It is exciting to hear that Ernestina-Morrissey will be sailing in the Fall of 2021! Soon we will hear the call again, “All hands to the halyards”, the order to get ready to raise the sails! Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey Association has committed to raising the funds for the new sails and we need “all hands” to help! If you or your organization would be interested in sponsoring the cost of an individual sail please contact Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey Association at sails@ernestina.org for details. A group, Ernestina Sailing Forward has already committed to sponsoring the mainsail. We will be sharing their campaign soon. Every hand that “steps to” will receive recognition and a sponsor of a sail will have their name or the organization’s name, suitably commemorated by display on a plaque. Contact us TODAY! sails@ernestina.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hooray for Ernestina-Morrissey! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Archives Feature From the Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey Archives. Claire T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Title: Ernestina/Effie M. Morrissey : Commemorative edition / by Laura Pires Houston and Michael K. H. Platzer Format: 1 online resource (36 pages in 1 pdf file). Description: Book published on the occasion of the return of the Schooner Ernestina to the United States as a gift from the nation of Cabo Verde in 1982. Relates the history of the schooner from its beginnings as a cod fishing vessel when it was the Effie M. Morrissey, through its time as the Ernestina, when it was owned by Cape Verdean captains. Date: 1982 Find the entire document HERE.

You can easily access all our past posts about the Ernestina-Morrissey rehabilitation project HERE."

Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey Advisory Board Meeting The next meeting of SEMAB will be held on March 26 at 9 am. The meeting of SEMAB will be conducted via remote participation to the greatest extent possible. No in-person attendance of members of the public will be available. They will use their best effort to ensure that the public can access the proceedings in real time, via technological means. Agenda and more information HERE.

The Wind in Our Sails!

This Project to rehabilitate Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey, the official vessel of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is being supported by a public/private partnership with funds from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, The H.F. Lenfest Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation, the Hildreth-Stewart Charitable Foundation, The Manton Foundation, the Community Foundation of Southeastern Massachusetts - Mary Morley Crapo Hyde Eccles Fund, the City of New Bedford’s Community Preservation Act Program, the Carney Family Foundation, the Island Foundation, other grants and many individual contributions. You can join this "crew"!

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Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey Association, Inc. is a 501(c)(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 ex Effie M. Morrissey  as a sail training vessel, school ship, and educational enterprise