Ernestina Grand Banks Schooner

Donated by RJ Kikuchiyo, valued as priceless.

 

1635 prims, yes the whole ship! uses 1/3 of a sim

 

this is a vehicle with all the detail of the display version at New England

but sails using racewind setters in Blake Sea and normal SL wind,

FULL PERMS

 

Schooner Ernestina is unique among the surviving Grand Banks fishing schooners. The Ernestina is one of the oldest Essex-built schooners afloat, the oldest remaining Grand Banks schooner built in the U.S., a prime example of the schooner-based dory fishing fleet which played a key role in the commercial fishing industry and economy of the northeastern United States and maritime Canada, a coastal packet in Newfoundland and an Arctic Ocean explorer under Capt. Robert Bartlett, a naval supply and charting vessel in WWII under Capt. Bartlett and Cmdr. Alexander Forbes, a trans-Atlantic and inter-island packet from Cape Verde and the last sailing vessel in regular service to bring immigrants to this country, the Official Vessel of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, proven platform for cultural and heritage community support, tourism, environmental, cultural, arts, music, and science education, and a living example of the challenge and craft of constructing and sailing wooden tall ships.

 

WHAT'S THE STORY!

 

The Historic Schooner Ernestina is open to all at the New England Sim!

 

We'll be adding a new chapter to the overall story and excitement of the educational history that has surrounded the Real Life Ernestina for over 115 years as a great New England Schooner.

 

After a national search for a quality boatyard, the real life Ernestina is being rebuilt right now in the real life town of Boothbay, Maine. At the same time, our “second life” Ernestina was also being built in the Boothbay sim, right here in SLNE by our own RJ Kikuchiyo.

How cool is that?

 

 

The Ernestina will be like a “magic carpet” used to explore the world with Captain Jack and his diverse family of friends, creating a daily children’s television program devoted to teaching earth sciences, marine biology and an appreciation of our fragile ecology and perhaps a tad of good sense.

 

The proposed TV series now being planned and created by Mister Wind in SLNE has began creating the assets required to create a ten minute pilot for investors.

 

The full program will educate kids in three ways:

 

1. A (2D) TV TWO DIMENSIONAL series, intended for either commercial broadcast or national broadcast on Public Television

 

2. A (3D) THREE DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL REALITY posting a story through a set of age appropriate concepts to be explored in a new virtual class room on the web. 

This interactive part of the program will be in partnership with New England Universities.

 

3. A REALITY. The thirty islands that make up Boston Harbor Islands National Park, that children can in REAL LIFE camp on–these Islands. So come and breathe deeply

New Englands salty ocean air and explore, what belongs to US! All of us.

 

The Show, “Captain Jack's Log,” starts out in Boston Harbor (a National Park) and from there she will take many adventures with a very diverse cast from the harbor islands and around the world. Asking the questions ... finding the answers.

 

(That’s the quick story!)

 

Want to know more about the Ernestina? www.ernestina.org/

 

 

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