Gloucester's 25th Annual Schooner Festival took place this past fall and Pirates Lane Video was there.  The 31min. film includes footage of the annual parade of lights in which people decorate their boats with Christmas lights (and the occasional flame thrower) and parade around the inner harbor, followed by a fireworks display over the harbor.  The rest of the film is footage of the schooners in the parade of sail and racing in the Mayor's Cup Race the next day.

The schooners in the film include the famous Bluenose II, Unicorn, Spirit of Burmuda, Pride of Baltimore and Summertime.  My personal favorites were the Thomas E. Lannon, Fame and Lewis H. Story all three of which were built by local boatbuilding legend Harold Burnham of Essex.  Harold himself was skippering the schooner Maine.

The film is set to music by Allison Crowe, Amelie, Arctic, Lonah, Raindog, Fluydo, Misery and Silence is Sexy.  All of the songs are used under a creative commons license.  The film itself is also under a creative commons license so anyone who would like a copy of it can download it from Vimeo.

View or download here: Gloucester Schooner Festival 2009