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For the first time in generations, cargo has once again traveled by boat up the Navesink River. On June 12, a small ...
Nova Scotia's iconic wooden schooners, once the pride of coastal communities and a powerful symbol of the province's maritime ...
The 42-meter gaff-rigged topsail schooner combines timeless elegance with the raw thrill of a classic motorsailer. Meticulously hand-built using centuries-old techniques, Arktos exhibits a ...
Callanan's schooner yacht Estelle ... was blowing about twelve knots and the Estelle was carrying fore and main gaff topsails over her lower canvas and jib, staysail, and jibtopsail.
Most unforgettable experience ever for him was being “kidnapped” off Cuba in 1979, when he was aboard the 32m/102' gaff schooner La Violante. “I had suggested to the skipper we should be 12 ...
She carries over 6,500 square feet of canvas and is a gaff topsail schooner. The Schooner Virginia is docked at Nauticus and serves Nauticus programming as a platform for sail training and ...
The crew huffed and puffed, folding, shoving, rolling and pulling all corners of the 4,000-square-foot sail between the main gaff and the main beam of the schooner Zodiac. Some pushed from below while ...
The 75-foot main mast, the aft mast on a schooner, broke about two thirds of the way up and came crashing down on deck with the heavy gaff that supports the mainsail. A 40-year-old woman, Emily ...
“We need about three more sunsets every day.” The sunset cruise takes place aboard the Schooner Serenity, a classic two-masted, gaff-rigged schooner that has been sailing in the Great Lakes ...
The gaff-rigged schooner, 77 feet wide and 65 feet tall, was built in 1994 for a specific purpose: to provide students with an “experiential place-based education." “It’s what connects you ...