While sailing the New England coast for years, so many lighthouses have been enjoyed from the sea… as 

the sailing Sea Captains of the past would have seen them.  It seems fitting these stately beacons should be photographed by a United States Coast Guard Licensed Master on a classic sailing vessel from the same fantastic vantage point… The Sea...

The plan is to photograph every operating lighthouse from Canada to Key West, Florida... 
  We believe that this will be the first time it has been done in this manner, and you are invited to join Gypsy for this once in a lifetime voyage. 
  ( YOU may be able to actually sail on Gypsy to take your own photographs...
 see the "Opportunities" page... )

 
Gypsy will sail out of her home port…Centerboard Yacht Club in Portland Harbor in Maine  

 ‘Down East’  along the Maine coast to the Canadian border.

  Gypsy will visit the beautiful Casco Bay, Boothbay Harbor, Muscongus Bay, Penobscot Bay, Bar Harbor, and Blue Hill Bay... photographing ALL the working lighthouses from the sea.  Some lighthouses will be photographed during this first leg between Portland and West Quoddy Head.
 The other Maine lighthouses will be photographed on the return from West Quoddy to New Hampshire only weeks later.

  Gypsy will visit so many historical places... lighthouse museums, historic fishing villages, the famous Downeast Windjammers under sail, old fishing harbors, uninhabited islands,  all for you to experience thru the periodic newsletters and photos.
  (There will be photos and movie clips to download for your personal enjoyment.)  

 Gypsy will sail south to the Cape Cod Canal and on to Buzzards Bay, Narragansett Bay, Long Island Sound... and on to the Chesapeake Bay.  Time will be spent cruising the beautiful Chesapeake Bay and photographing the many lighthouses before heading South to the Gulf of Mexico for the winter season.

  Gypsy will journey back north to enjoy and photograph the remaining
lighthouses on the US Eastern seacoast.