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Lewis R. French, a gaff-rigged schooner Oosterschelde, a topsail schooner Orianda, a staysail schooner, with Bermuda mainsail. A schooner (/ ˈ s k uː n ər / SKOO-nər) [1] is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast.
National Historic Landmark former cargo boat; oldest surviving sailing vessel built in Maine 2 masted gaff [50] Lily: 1978 Stuart, Florida: Tourism/charter vessel. Schooner rig with a scow hull. May have been the last boat purpose built to haul cargo commercially under sail power in the United States. Originally known as Lily of Tisbury. 2 ...
Coronet is a 131' wooden-hull schooner yacht built for oil tycoon Rufus T. Bush in 1885. It is one of the oldest and largest vessels of its type in the world, and one of the last grand sailing yachts of the 19th century extant.
Bowdoin / ˈ b oʊ d ɪ n / is a historic schooner built in 1921 in East Boothbay, Maine, at the Hodgdon Brothers Shipyard.Designed by William H. Hand, Jr. under the direction of explorer Donald B. MacMillan, the gaff-rigged vessel is the only American schooner built specifically for Arctic exploration.
Mayan is a 74-foot wooden schooner designed by John G. Alden and built in Belize in 1947. She is Alden Design No. 356-B - a Centerboard Schooner constructed of Honduran mahogany. Her name was taken from her country of origin of Belize where the Maya civilization developed.
The Tancook schooner, with its counter stern and characteristic round, or "spoon", bow was a distinctive type of small sailing work boat built primarily on Big Tancook Island, Nova Scotia, and the immediate surrounding area on and near Mahone Bay. The design succeeded the earlier double-ended Tancook whaler fishing boats.
The Muir was a 130-foot (39.6 meters), three-masted schooner that was built in 1872. Marine archaeologists have discovered the wreckage of a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan in the late 1800s ...
Lynx is a square topsail schooner based in Nantucket, Massachusetts.She is an interpretation of an American letter of marque vessel of the same name from 1812. The original Lynx completed one voyage, running the Royal Navy blockade; the British captured her in 1813 at the start of her second voyage and took her into service as HMS Mosquidobit.