Tickets for a sail on the Ardelle are available at Maritime Gloucester, 25 Harbor Loop, Gloucester, MA. For more information please call Harold Burnham at 978-290-7168. Tickets purchased at Maritime Gloucester include entrance to the museum exhibits.
Public Sail prices for a two hour sail are:
Adults $40
Seniors $35
Students $27.50
PURCHASE YOUR TRUNNEL TICKET HERE
About Trunnels
We know of no other yard where vessels are consistently fastened with trunnels cut and milled on sight. The locust trees for the trunnels are felled locally and delivered to the yard where they are cut into trunnel stock on our mill and dried in boxes above the bench. When the shipwrights need trunnels (used to fasten the frames and planks) they make only the trunnels they are going to use that day which ensures tight fits. Once the trunnels are driven the “square ends” of the trunnels used to drive them are cut off and the trunnels are split and wedged on both ends so that they act almost like a rivet.
Trunnel tickets” are made from the “square ends” of the trunnels after they have been cut off and so each one corresponds with an actual part of the boat. Not only will the “trunnel tickets” allow you to help support the construction of this new schooner but they will allow you to sail on her as well.
