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Feb 17, 20201 min read
Winter Work Updates, Feb. 17th
Our first potluck of the year was a success! If you missed out this time, don’t worry – potlucks will be held monthly through the...
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Aug 25, 20191 min read
Drexel Students End Their School Year with a Bang!
Thanks to students from Drexel University fulfilling their civil engagement requirement by volunteering on Gazela, supplementing our...
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Feb 23, 20181 min read
PSPG Annual Dinner March 10
Pennsylvania Yacht Club, 2189 State Road, Bensalem, PA. We will enjoy a cocktail hour with appetizers, followed by dinner, dessert, and...
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Dec 15, 20171 min read
Consolidation of Guild materials
The Guild was informed last year that Pier 9 was being developed into public space, newly named Cherry Street Pier. The Guild relied on...
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Nov 20, 20171 min read
Team Rubicon helps Gazela crew build winter cover
On November 18 & 19, Team Rubicon from the Philadelphia region united to help the volunteers of the Philadelphia Ship Preservation Guild...
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May 1, 20171 min read
Spring maintenance work continues; the winter cover is almost down!
A great turnout from our volunteer crew over the past two weeks saw a lot of small jobs get done, including general clean-up of areas...
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May 20, 20161 min read
Getting Gazela ready to sail
A huge thank you goes out to everyone who pitched in to assemble the rig and make crane day on May 15 at the Navy Yard a success. By the...
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Mar 22, 20161 min read
Recruiting potluck on April 2
April 2 after work 1730 on board Gazela Bring a dish. Bring a bottle. Bring a friend and turn them on to the ship. Please email...
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Mar 22, 20161 min read
Register Now: Spring 2016 Sail Training Classes
The mandatory Level 1 class – Introduction to Gazela – will be offered four times on Sundays. All dates 10 am to 4 pm, aboard Gazela:...
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Mar 22, 20161 min read
Awards presented at annual dinner
The Annual Dinner in February was a great success, with a healthy turn out and a good bit of money made for the Guild with the auction...
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Oct 19, 20151 min read
Gazela featured in Marlinspike Magazine
We were featured in the new edition of Marlinspike Magazine! They did a great job focusing not only on the work we were doing but also on...
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Aug 16, 20153 min read
Dry dock project update – August 16
Gazela enters the dry dock On Wednesday, 29 July, Gazela entered Dry Dock No. 2 at Rhoads Industries in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. She...
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Jul 16, 20152 min read
Dry dock update
Dry docking update – we had a great turnout of volunteers on Saturday, July 11, to learn more about an important project to assess the...
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Jul 15, 20152 min read
Guild President’s Newsletter – July 2015
Letter from Guild President, Al Ponessa to the Guild July 10, 2015 Dry-docking I have been holding off on this Newsletter so I could...
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Jun 10, 20151 min read
Volunteers make our vessels sparkle and shine
This past icy and cold winter was not kind to old ships, wooden or steel. This spring volunteers pitched in to make Gazela look like a...
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Oct 8, 20141 min read
Remembering Newt Kirkland
After logging countless miles in ocean racing yachts, Kirkland shifted gears and began building wooden boats in 1993 at the Philadelphia...
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Mar 1, 20141 min read
Representing the Guild at the Woodworking Show
Volunteers at the Woodworking Show in Somerset, NJ., Feb. 21-23 Last weekend, February 21 to 23 a contingent of PSPG Volunteers staffed a...
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Nov 16, 20131 min read
Cooks and Office Helpers Needed
Nothing provides a welcome break to a hard workday on the ships like a good hot lunch. We have been fortunate enough the past few...
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