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Northshore October 2025
“We’re hoping for good winds,” Michael De Koster, executive director of Maritime Gloucester, says huddled among his fellow seafarers at group headquarters on the eve of the Gloucester Schooner Festival. Last year, COVID-19 forced cancellation. But now sailors, majestic schooners, and avid spectators rendezvous for three days to celebrate the storied history and promising future at the America’s oldest seaport. “This is the closest you’re going to get to what this harbor looked like 100 years ago,” De Koster adds.  New features this year include a dory race and a third schooner docking location at Rocky Neck. Twenty-four
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