Bluenose II at Sambro Harbour Wharf

I was cruising the shoreline of the Sambro loop when I stopped in at Sambro Harbour's wharf. "And Behold", there at the end of the wharf was the Bluenose II. I didn't have any lens shorter in focal length than a 400mm lens so I was forced to photograph the ship from the opposite side of the harbour. I alerted Laura to my sighting and she wanted to see it so I had time enough to go home and get a 24-70mm lens which is perfect for the deck photographs you are about to see. Details of this iconic ship are posted after the photographs.

I have lots of photos of the Bluenose II under sail. Use the search function on the cover page of my website or the upper right hand corner of the blog.

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Bluenose II in Toronto, July 2019
History
Canada
Name	Bluenose II
Builder	Smith and Rhuland
Launched	24 July 1963
Identification	IMO number: 5419086 MMSI number: 316245000 Callsign: CYJZ
Status	in active service
General characteristics
Tonnage	191 gross, 96 net[1]
Length	46 m (150 ft 11 in) o/a 34 m (111 ft 7 in) lwl
Beam	8 m (26 ft 3 in)
Draft	5 m (16 ft 5 in)
Propulsion	Sails 2 auxiliary 250 hp CAT diesel engines
Mainmast, height from deck	38 m (124 ft 8 in)
Foremast, height from deck	36 m (118 ft 1 in)
Sail area	1,036 m2 (11,150 sq ft)
Mainsail area	386 m2 (4,150 sq ft)
Speed	8 knots (15 km/h) (engine) 16 knots (30 km/h) (under sail)
Crew	5 Officers, Chief Cook, 12 Deckhands

Bluenose II is a replica of the fishing and racing schooner Bluenose, commissioned by Sidney Culverwell Oland and built in 1963 as a promotional yacht for Oland Brewery. Sidney Oland donated the schooner to Nova Scotia in 1971 and it has since operated as a sailing ambassador and promotional device for Nova Scotia tourism. In honour of her predecessor's record, Bluenose II does not officially race.

Construction

Bluenose II was launched at Lunenburg on 24 July 1963, built to original plans and by some of the same workers at Smith and Rhuland.^[2] The original captain of Bluenose, Angus J. Walters, was consulted on the replica's design.^[2] The replica was commissioned by Sidney Culverwell Oland for roughly $300,000 (2.5 million in 2020 Canadian dollars) as a marketing tool for their Schooner Lager beer brand.^[2]

The ship has one of the largest mainsails in the world, measuring 386 square metres (4,150 sq ft). She has a total sail area of 1,036 square metres (11,150 sq ft).

In 2004, the Bluenose Preservation Trust, with Lex McKay and Senator Wilfred Moore, donated a piece of wood from the deck of the ship to the Six String Nation project. Parts of that material now serve multiple functions in Voyageur, the guitar at the heart of the project,^[3] including two elements of the neck laminate, the top and end blocks on the guitar's interior and decorative elements on the rosette surrounding the sound hole of the instrument.