GLOUCESTER, Mass. ( WBZ NewsRadio ) — Sunday marked the fifth and final day of the 41st annual Gloucester Schooner Festival , and for Justin Demetri, holding the event at America's oldest harbor just makes sense.

"We are the home of the schooner," Demetri told WBZ NewsRadio. "Although historians will argue about where the design was developed, this harbor has probably done more with the concept of the fishing schooner than any place else on Earth."

Demetri is a historian with Maritime Gloucester , the organization that runs the festival.

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The Labor Day weekend tradition saw ships from all over the east coast on display in Gloucester Harbor, turning it into what Demetri calls the "Super Bowl o

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