Residents Welcome Lynx to Harbor

A crowd of local residents braved wet and windy weather Wednesday afternoon to welcome the tall ship Lynx into Marblehead Harbor.

In the hours before the Lynx was scheduled to arrive in Marblehead, a dense fog and steady rain began falling over the harbor and residents, one-by-one, began lining up along the shoreline with their cameras and binoculars, each hoping the weather would clear in time for her arrival. As 4 o'clock approached, more and more local residents, many donning slickers and raincoats, arrived for their chance to see the 122-foot square top sail schooner make her grand entrance into the mouth of Marblehead Harbor. As they pressed their hands to their foreheads, squinting to see through the fog, those with the best seats shouted to the crowd when they first saw the ship's white sails emerge from behind a row of nearby islands. At Chandler Hovey Park, …

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