The following are notable schooner-rigged vessels.
Name | Image | Built | Flag & home port | Description | Rig | Notes | |
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A. J. Meerwald | 1928 | Bivalve, New Jersey | Educational vessel and state ship of New Jersey; former oyster schooner | 2 masted gaff | [1] | ||
Adventure | 1926 | Gloucester, Massachusetts | National Historic Landmark former Grand Banks fishing schooner | 2 masted gaff knockabout | [2] | ||
Adventurer-56 (formerly Blue Max) | 1984 | Annapolis, Maryland | Privately owned | Staysail | [3] | ||
Adventuress | 1914 | Port Townsend, Washington | National Historic Landmark former pilot boat | 2 masted gaff | [4] | ||
Alabama | 1926 | Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts | Tourism vessel, former pilot boat | 2 masted gaff | [5] | ||
Alaska Rover | 1989 | Resurrection Bay, Alaska | Working schooner plying the tourism trade. | 2 masted gaff rigged, topsail schooner. | [6] | ||
Albanus | 1988 | Mariehamn, Åland | Sail training vessel, replica of a 1904 freighter | 2 masted gaff | [7] | ||
Alma | 1891 | San Francisco | National Historic Landmark former cargo scow | 2 masted gaff | [8] | ||
Alma Doepel | 1903 | Melbourne, Victoria | Former commercial and sail training vessel, currently under repair | 3 masted gaff, square topsail | [9] | ||
Amazing Grace | 1981 | San Diego, California | Education/sail training ship for Maritime leadership | 2 masted gaff and staysails, square topsail | |||
American Eagle | 1930 | Rockland, Maine | National Historic Landmark Gloucester schooner | 2 masted gaff | [10] | ||
American Pride | 1941 | Long Beach, California | Education/sail training vessel; former fishing boat | 3 masted gaff | [11] | ||
American Rover | 1986 | Norfolk, Virginia | Working schooner providing tours for up to 150 passengers. | 3 masted topsail schooner | [12] | ||
American Spirit | 1991 | Washington, D.C. | Education and excursion vessel | 2 masted gaff | [3] | ||
Amistad | 2000 | New Haven, Connecticut | Education vessel | 2 masted gaff, square topsail | [13] | ||
Anne (formerly Tantra Schooner) | 1978 | Privately owned by Reid Stowe | 2 masted gaff | ||||
Antonina (formerly Robert Emit) | 1986 | Townsends Inlet, New Jersey | Privately owned | Staysail | [14] | ||
Appledore IV | 1989 | Bay City, Michigan | Tourism/charter vessel/Science Under Sail programs | 2 masted gaff | [15] | ||
Aquidneck (schooner) | 2005 | Newport, RI | Tourism/private charter vessel | 2 masted gaff | |||
Argia | 1986 | Mystic, Connecticut | Tourism/charter vessel | 2 masted gaff | [16] | ||
Argo | 2006 | Road Town, Tortola | Education/sail training vessel | 2 masted Marconi/ staysail | [17] | ||
Atalanta | 1901 | Wismar | Education/sail training and charter vessel | 2 masted gaff | [18] | ||
Athos | 2010 | World's largest two-mast schooner at launch | 2-mast Bermuda | ||||
Atlantic | 2010 | Douglas, Isle of Man | Replica of racing yacht Atlantic (William Gardner, 1903) | 3 mast gaff | |||
Atyla | 1984 | Badalona, Spain | Sail training vessel (Civil) | 2 masted schooner, staysail | |||
Belle Poule | 1932 | Brest | Naval training vessel | 2 masted gaff, square topsail | [19] | ||
Bill of Rights | 1971 | Chula Vista, California | Modeled after schooner Wanderer (1858); privately owned; commercial charters; sail training vessel; 100 ton captain training. | 2 masted gaff; topsail schooner | [20] | ||
Black Douglas | 1930 | Morocco | Privately owned; former school ship | 3 masted Marconi/staysail schooner | |||
Bluenose II | 1963 | Lunenburg, Nova Scotia | Replica of racing/fishing schooner Bluenose | 2 masted gaff | |||
BlueTopaz | 1983 |
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Privately owned, currently sailing out of Tobermory, Canada. | 2 masted gaff | |||
Bonny Rover | Norfolk, Virginia | Privately owned | [14] | ||||
Bowdoin | 1921 | Castine, Maine | National Historic Landmark arctic exploration/sail training vessel | 2 masted gaff knockabout | [21] | ||
Brilliant | 1932 | Mystic, Connecticut | Sail training vessel | ||||
C.A. Thayer | 1895 | San Francisco | National Historic Landmark former lumber/fishing boat | 3 masted gaff/Marconi mizzen | [22] | ||
Californian | 1984 | San Diego | Education/sail training replica of C.W. Lawrence | 2 masted gaff, square topsail | |||
Cape Cleare | 1983 | Port Townsend,Wa | Active West Coast Trolling Schooner | Marconi Mainmast/Gaff Foremast | |||
Cartagena | 1983 | United States Milwaukee | Privately Owned | 2 Masted Gaff | |||
Cashier | 1849 | Bivalve, New Jersey | Oldest schooner in the United States, oldest operational fishing vessel in the United States, and holder of New Jersey Oyster License No. 1; being restored by the Bayshore Discovery Project | [14][23] | |||
Challenge | Toronto, Ontario | Charter boat | 3 masted Marconi/staysail | ||||
Charlotte | 2007 | Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts | Built over the course of three and a half years at the Gannon & Benjamin yard, Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, by and for Nathaniel Benjamin | 2 masted gaff | [24][25] | ||
Charm | 2010 | Belfast, Maine | Designed by Pete Culler and constructed in Camden, Maine between 1998 and 2010 by Ned Ackerman. Operating as a commercial day sailing vessel in Belfast, Maine. | 2 masted gaff | |||
Clipper City | 1984 | New York City | Replica of eponymous Great Lakes cargo boat | 2 masted gaff, square topsail | |||
Columbia | 2014 | Panama City, Florida | Columbia is an exact replica of the 1923 Gloucester fishing and racing schooner of the same name. She is a privately owned vessel. Her lines have been converted from wood to steel, and she was built by the owner in his shipyard Eastern Shipbuilding Group Inc. | | Gaff | |||
Coronet | 1885 | Brooklyn, New York/Newport, Rhode Island | A 190 ft (58 m), 230 ton, wooden-hull Schooner Yacht built in 1885 in Brooklyn, New York for racing, is one of the oldest and largest schooner yachts in the world | two masts | [26] | ||
Creole | 1927 | Palma, Majorca | World's longest wooden yacht, refitted by Cantiere Navale Ferrari-Signani | three masted staysail | |||
Downeast Rover | 1983 | Manteo, North Carolina | Privately owned tourism vessel. 55' steel-hull construction. Designed by Merritt Walter as a part of his Rover series of schooners. | 2 masted gaff topsail | |||
Denis Sullivan | 2000 | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | Education/sail training/tourism vessel | 3 masted gaff | |||
Eendracht | 1989 | Rotterdam | Education/sail training/tourism vessel | 3 masted gaff | |||
Egret | 1886 | The Barnacle Historic State Park | Replica of a 28' sailboat designed and built by the early Coconut Grove pioneer Ralph Munroe | 2 masted sharpie | |||
Ernestina | 1894 | New Bedford, Massachusetts | National Historic Landmark former fishing/arctic exploration/packet boat | 2 masted gaff | |||
Eleonora | 2000 | London | Replica of the racing schooner Westward (Herreshoff, 1910) | 2 masted gaff, yard topsail | [27] | ||
Elena | 2009 | London | Replica of the racing schooner Elena (Herreshoff, 1911) | 2 masted gaff, yard topsail | [28] | ||
Empire Sandy | 1943 | Thunder Bay | Tourism vessel; former British tugboat rebuilt as schooner | 3 masted gaff, square topsails | |||
Enterprize | 1997 | Melbourne, Victoria | Replica of 1829 cargo ship | 2 masted gaff, square topsail | |||
Evelina M. Goulart | 1927 | Essex, Massachusetts | Awaiting restoration; former fishing boat | 2 masted gaff, currently downrigged | |||
HMS Falken (S02) | 1946 | Karlskrona | Naval sail training vessel, with Gladan | 2 masted gaff | [29] | ||
Fame | 2003 | Essex, Massachusetts | Replica of the 1812 privateer schooner which captured the first prizes of the War of 1812 | 2 masted gaff | |||
Freda B | 1991 | Sausalito, California | Charter boat designed by legendary East Coast naval architect, Charles Wittholtz.[30] | 2 masted gaff rigged, topsail | [31] | ||
Gallant | 1916 | Amsterdam | 2 masted gaff | [32] | |||
Gas Light | 2000 | San Francisco, California | Replica of the 1874 scow schooner by same name, rebuilt in steel by Billy Martinelli[33] | 2 masted gaff | |||
HMS Gladan (S01) | 1947 | Karlskrona, Sweden | Naval sail training vessel, with Falken | 2 masted gaff | [29] | ||
Governor Stone | 1877 | Fort Walton Beach, Florida | National Historic Landmark; oldest surviving Gulf schooner | 2 masted gaff | [34][35] | ||
Grace Bailey | 1882 | Camden, Maine | National Historic Landmark former lumber boat | 2 masted gaff | [36] | ||
Harvey Gamage | 1973 | Portland, Maine | Education/sail training vessel | 2 masted gaff | [37] | ||
Helena | 1946 | Oslo, Norway | Tourism/charter vessel | 2 masted gaff | [38] | ||
Helena | 1992 | Turku, Finland | Steel, LOA 38,7 m. Commissioned and run by STAF / Sail Training Association Finland on Finnish and international voyages. Participating in The Tall Ships Races (winner B-Class in 2007 & 2011).Crew: 4 plus 24 trainees. | 2 masted, staysails | |||
Helena C | 1968 | Cayman Islands | Privately owned; former sail training vessel | 3 masted gaff/Marconi mizzen, square topsails | [39] | ||
Heritage | 1983 | Rockland, Maine | Hosts up to 30 passengers | 2 masted coaster | [40] | ||
Highlander Sea | 1924 | Port Huron, Michigan | Sail training/education and tourism vessel; former pilot boat | 2 masted gaff | [41] | ||
Hindu | 1925 | Key West, Florida | Tourism/charter vessel in Key West in the winters and Provincetown, Massachusetts in the summers. Designed as a half-scale model of a Grand Banks fishing schooner. | 2 masted gaff | [42] | ||
Isaac H. Evans | 1886 | Rockland, Maine | National Historic Landmark, oldest surviving oyster schooner | 2 masted gaff | [43] | ||
J. & E. Riggin | 1927 | Rockland, Maine | National Historic Landmark former oyster boat | 2 masted gaff | |||
J.R. Tolkien | 1964 | Amsterdam | Luxury chartership and naval trainingvessel. | ||||
Jacob Meindert | 1952 | Makkum, Súdwest-Fryslân | 2 masted gaff, square topsail | ||||
Kajama | 1930 | Toronto, Ontario | Charter boat, former German coastal trader | 3 masted gaff | [44] | ||
Kathleen and May | 1900 | Bideford, Devon | Privately owned coastal trader. Built 1900 at Connah's Quay. Sold to Martin Fleming of Youghall. Named Kathleen and May after his daughters. A coal lugger on the Irish Sea. Restored 2000 by Paul Davis. Delivered "reduced carbon footprint" wine cargo from France to Dublin in 2008.[45] Currently (November 2015) residing at Albert Dock, Merseyside Maritime Museum. | 3 masted gaff, square fore mast topsails | [46] | ||
L. A. Dunton | 1921 | Mystic, Connecticut | National Historic Landmark former Essex fishing boat | 2 masted gaff | |||
Ladona | 1922 | Rockland, Maine | Charter vessel, former private yacht, WWII sub patrol. Rebuilt 2015 | 2 masted gaff | [47] | ||
Lady Maryland | 1985 | Baltimore, Maryland | Educational vessel; replica of local 19th century workboats | 2 masted gaff | [48][49] | ||
Lettie G. Howard | 1893 | New York City | National Historic Landmark former Essex fishing boat | 2 masted gaff | |||
Lewis R. French | 1871 | Camden, Maine | 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 masted gaff | [51] | ||
S.S.S. Lotus | 1918 | Webster, New York | Sea Scout Ship; former private yacht | 2 masted gaff | |||
Lynx | 2001 | Newport Beach, California | Education/sail training vessel; interpretation of an eponymous 1812 privateer vessel; also see HMS Mosquidobit (1813) | 2 masted gaff, square topsail | |||
Madeline | Newport, Rhode Island | Tourism vessel | 2 masted; gaff fore, Marconi main | [52] | |||
Madawaska Maid | 1832 | Phippsburg, Maine | Launched in 1832 at the yard of William Reed she was a 130-ton coaster, 78 feet long with a 23-foot beam | 2 masted | |||
Manitou | 1983 | Traverse City, Michigan | Replica of 19th century cargo schooners | 2 masted gaff | [53] | ||
Maple Leaf | 1904 | Vancouver, British Columbia | Sail training/ecotourism vessel; former yacht and fishing boat | 2 masted, gaff fore and Marconi main | |||
Margaret Todd | 1998 | Bar Harbor, Maine | Tourism vessel; steel hull and deck | 4 masted schooner | |||
Marité | 1921 | 3 masted gaff, square topsails | |||||
Mary Day | 1962 | Camden, Maine | Designed by Havilah Hawkins Sr., built by Harvey Gamage, rebuilt in 2000. Mary Day serves for training and charter. | 2 masted gaff topsail schooner | [54] | ||
Mayan | 1947 | Santa Cruz, California | Alden Design No. 356-B Centerboard Schooner – a 74-foot wooden schooner designed by John G. Alden and built in Belize | 2 masted, gaff foresail | |||
Mercantile | 1916 | Camden, Maine | National Historic Landmark former coastal trader, now tourism vessel | 2 masted gaff | |||
Mystic | 2007 | Mystic, Connecticut | Tourism/charter vessel | 3 masted gaff, square topsails | [55] | ||
Mystic Whaler | 1967 | New London, Connecticut | Tourism/charter vessel | 2 masted gaff | [56] | ||
Naga Pelangi | 2009 | Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg | Tourism/charter vessel | 2 masted junk | [57] | ||
Nighthawk | 1880 | Baltimore, Maryland | 2 masted gaff | [58] | |||
Noorderlicht | 1910 | Enkhuizen | Built as German naval lightship, now expedition cruise ship | 2 masted gaff | [59] | ||
Olad | 1927 | Camden, Maine | Built in 1927 by Crosby Boatyard, now does day sails and charters | 2 masted gaff | [60] | ||
Oosterschelde | 1918 | Rotterdam | Former freighter, last remaining Dutch vessel of its type | 3 masted gaff, square topsails | |||
Orianda | 1937 | , United Kingdom | 85-foot Bermudian staysail schooner designed by Danish naval architect Oscar W. Dahlstrom. | ||||
Pacific Swift | 1986 | Victoria, British Columbia | Youth sail training vessel | 2 masted gaff, square topsail | |||
Phoenix | 1972 | Orcas Island, Washington State | Ferrocement Hull 60' on deck, 90' sparred length, 51 tons, 18' beam, 3,500 Sqr feet of sail. | Gaff-rigged Tops'l schooner. | [1] | ||
HMS Pickle | 1995 | Conwy, Wales | Representation of HMS Pickle (1800), A Baltic Trading Schooner built in Russia as Alevtina Tuy. Used for charters and at the various bicentennial Trafalgar celebrations in the UK. | 2 masted, square top-sail | [2] | ||
Pioneer | 1885 | New York City | Tourism/museum vessel; former wrought iron-hulled cargo sloop | 2 masted gaff | [61] | ||
Pride of Baltimore II | 1988 | Baltimore, Maryland | Replica Baltimore Clipper, flagship of Maryland | 2 masted gaff, square topsail | |||
Puritan | 1931 | , United Kingdom | 126-foot gaff rigged schooner designed by naval architect John Alden. | Gaff-rigged | |||
Quinnipiack | 1984 | New Haven, Connecticut | Educational vessel; replica 19th century Gulf Coast freighter | 2 masted gaff | [62] | ||
R. Tucker Thompson | 1985 | Opua, Bay of Islands | Sail training/tourism vessel | 2 masted gaff, square topsails | |||
Rainbow Warrior (1989) | 1957 | Amsterdam | Former commercial trawler, converted and re-launched by Greenpeace in 1989 | 3 masted gaff | |||
Rainbow Warrior (2011) | 2011 | Amsterdam | Commissioned and launched by Greenpeace in 2011 | 2 masted Marconi/staysail | [63] | ||
Raja Laut | 2006 | Luxury charter schooner | 2 masted gaff | ||||
La Recouvrance | 1993 | Brest | Tourism vessel; replica of 1817 Navy boats | 2 masted gaff, square topsails | |||
Regina Maris | 1970 | Amsterdam | Charter boat | 3 masted gaff | [64] | ||
Roseway | 1925 | Camden, Maine | Education/sail training and tourism vessel; former racing/fishing and pilot boat | 2 masted gaff | |||
Saraswati 2 | 2014 | Nukus | Ultra lightweight racing schooner | 2 masted marconi rig | [65] | ||
Sadko | 1993 | Barcelona | Replica in 18th century style | 2 masted gaff | [66] | ||
Seaward | 1988 | Sausalito, California | Educational non-profit | 2 masted stays’l schooner | |||
Sedna IV | 1957 | Cap-aux-Meules, Quebec | Research/documentary filmmaking/polar exploration vessel; former trawler | 3 masted gaff/Marconi mizzen | |||
Shamrock | Stockholm | Sail training vessel | 2 masted gaff | ||||
Shenandoah | 1964 | Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts | Tourism/training vessel | 2 masted gaff, square topsails; no engine | [5] | ||
Sir Winston Churchill | 1966 | Privately owned; former sail training vessel | 3 masted gaff/Marconi mizzen, square topsails | [67] | |||
Silva of Halifax | 1939 | Halifax, Nova Scotia | Tourism vessel; former cargo carrier | 3 masted gaff | |||
Solway Lass | 1902 | Airlie Beach, Queensland | Charter vessel; former cargo carrier and wartime supply boat | 2 masted gaff, square topsails | |||
The Schooner SoundWaters | 1986 | Stamford, CT | Educational vessel owned and operated by SoundWaters | 3 masted gaff | |||
Spirit of Bermuda | 2004 | Hamilton, Bermuda | Educational vessel owned and operated by the Bermuda Sloop Foundation | 3 masted staysail schooner | [68] | ||
Spirit of Dana Point | 1983 | Dana Point, California | Educational vessel owned and operated by the Ocean Institute | 2 masted topsail | [69] | ||
Spirit of Massachusetts | 1984 | Boothbay Harbor, Maine | Education/sail training vessel; modeled after Fredonia | 2 masted gaff | [70] | ||
Spirit of South Carolina | 2007 | Charleston, South Carolina | Education/sail training vessel | 2 masted gaff | |||
Stephen Taber | 1871 | Camden, Maine | National Historic Landmark former cargo boat | 2 masted gaff | [71] | ||
Summer Wind | 1979 | Baltimore, Maryland | Tourism/charter vessel | 2 masted Junk | [72] | ||
Svanen | 1916 | Oslo | Education/sail training vessel | 3 masted gaff | [73] | ||
Swift of Ipswich | 1938 | Los Angeles | Sail training vessel for at-risk youth; replica of a 1787 schooner | 2 masted gaff, square topsails | [74] | ||
SSV Tabor Boy | 1914 | Marion, Massachusetts | Sail training vessel, classroom, and floating laboratory of Tabor Academy. | 2 masted gaff rigged, topsail schooner. | [75] | ||
Suva | 1925 | Coupeville, Washington | Educational/charter vessel | 2 masted staysail | [76] | ||
Tara | 1989 | Lorient | Polar exploration vessel | 2 masted Marconi | [77] | ||
Te Vega | 1930 | Privately owned; former private yacht, research vessel, and school ship | 2 masted gaff | ||||
Thomas E. Lannon | 1997 | Gloucester, Massachusetts | Tourism/Private Charter. Built in Essex, MA | 2 masted gaff | |||
Tole Mour | 1988 | Avalon, California | Education/sail training vessel | 3 masted gaff, square topsails | |||
Tradewind | 1911 | Undergoing refit; former fishing/cargo/charter boat | 2 masted gaff, square topsails | [78][79] | |||
Tyrone | 1939 | Tourism/charter vessel | 2 masted gaff | ||||
Unforgettable | 1979 | Baltimore, Maryland | Tourism/charter vessel | 2 masted Marconi/Gaff | [80] | ||
Victory Chimes | 1900 | Rockland, Maine | National Historic Landmark | 3 masted gaff | [81] | ||
Virginia | 2005 | Norfolk, Virginia | Sail training/tourism vessel; replica of a 1916 pilot boat | 2 masted gaff knockabout | |||
Wayward Wind | 1972 | Suva, Fiji | Tourism/charter vessel | 2 masted Marconi/staysail, square topsails | [82] | ||
Western Union | 1939 | Key West, Florida | Flagship of Key West | 2 masted gaff | |||
Westward | 1961 | Boothbay Harbor, Maine | Education/sail training vessel | 2 masted Marconi/staysail, square topsails | [83] | ||
William Bassett | 1988 | Onset, Massachusetts | Privately owned | ||||
WINDY | 1995 | Chicago, Illinois | Public Sailing/Education/sail training vessel | 4 masted Schooner | Privately owned | ||
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Winfield Lash | 2000 | Friendship, Maine | Privately owned (construction took 18 years) | [85][86] | |||
Woodwind | 1993 | Annapolis, Maryland | Tourism vessel | 2 masted staysail | [87] | ||
Woodwind II | 1998 | Annapolis, Maryland | Tourism vessel | 2 masted staysail | [87] | ||
Xarifa | 1927 | Cowes | Sail cruise vessel | 3 masted, Marconi sail | |||
Yuniy Baltiets | 1989 | Saint Petersburg | Sail training vessel | 2 masted; gaff fore, Marconi main | [88] | ||
Zaca a te Moana (schooner) | 1992 | Antwerp | Pleasure-sailing boat of the Royal Belgian Sailing Club (RBSC) | Fore-and-aft rig | |||
Zawisza Czarny | 1952 | Gdynia | Sail training vessel | 3 masted, square sail | |||
Zodiac (schooner) | 1924 | Seattle, Washington | Sail training/charter vessel; former private yacht and pilot boat | 2 masted gaff |