Schooners entered in the 2009 Fishermen’s Cup Race
that allowed guests to sail:

Alabama

  • Built in 1926 In Pensacola, Florida. Restored in 1998.
  • Schooner Alabama is Captained by Morgan Douglas and owned by Schooner
    Alabama, Inc.
  • Her home port is Vineyard Haven, MA.
  • She is 90 feet on deck, 126 feet overall
  • www.theblackdogtallships.com

Adventurer

  • Built in 1925 in Mystic, CT.
  • Schooner Adventurer is Captained and owned by Mark Faulstick.
  • Her home port is Norwalk Yacht Club, CT and her hailing port is Essex, CT.
  • She is 52 feet on deck, 65 feet overall.

Estrela

  • Built in 1975 in East Boothbay, Maine
  • Schooner Estrela is Captained by Bruce Davies and co-owned by Bruce and Sandi and Steve Atwood.
  • Her home port is Prudence Island, Rhode Island and her hailing port is
    Vineyard Haven, MA.
  • She is 44 feet on deck, feet overall.

Hindu

  • Hindu was designed by William Hand and built in 1925 by Hodgkin Bros., Boothbay, Maine.
  • She is 61' 3'' on deck 80' overall. She was formerly owned by the family of GPSR
    Race Committee Chair Susan Avellar and Great Provincetown Schooner Race founder
    Capt John Bennett.
  • She has sailed the waters off of Provincetown for over 50 years.
  • www.theschoonerhindu..com

Maine

  • The Maine is an authentic 1830s Pinky schooner replica built by apprentices in Bath,
    Maine in 1986 and was purchased by Burnham Boatbuilding in 2006.
  • She is 56 feet overall.
  • Read more at www.burnhamboatbuilding.com/charter.html

Perception

  • Perception was built in 1983 in New Zealand with a steel hull on a
    L. Francis Herreshoff 1924 design.
  • She is owned and Captained by James Weisman .
  • She is 68 ft overall and 50 ft on deck and charters out of Vineyard Haven,
    Martha’s Vineyard.

Roseway

  • Built in 1925, in Essex, Massachusetts.
  • Schooner Roseway is Captained by Dwight Deckelmann.
  • She is 112 feet on deck, 137 feet overall.
  • Today she is one of only six original Grand Banks schooners, and the only
    schooner specifically designed to beat the Nova Scotians in the international fishing
    vessel races of the 1920s and 1930s.
  • She is a registered U.S. National Historic Landmark and is now operational as
    an educational platform in Boston Harbor.
  • www.worldoceanschool.org

Unicorn

  • Built in 1947 under the name Deo Volente I , Unicorn's hull was crafted from the
    metals of captured German U-boats salvaged after World War II.
  • She is 118 feet overall and 90 ft on deck.
  • She is a square topsail, gaff-rigged schooner with steel masts and wooden topmasts.
  • www.tallshipunicorn.com