__TOC__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] | |||
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] | |||
1914 | Port Townsend, Washington | National Historic Landmark former pilot boat | 2 masted gaff | [4] | ||||
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] | |||
1891 | San Francisco | National Historic Landmark former cargo scow | 2 masted gaff | [8] | ||||
1903 | Melbourne, Victoria | Former commercial and sail training vessel, currently under repair | 3 masted gaff, square topsail | [9] | ||||
1981 | San Diego, California | Education/sail training ship for Maritime leadership | 2 masted gaff and staysails, square topsail | |||||
1930 | Rockland, Maine | National Historic Landmark Gloucester schooner | 2 masted gaff | [10] | ||||
1941 | Long Beach, California | Education/sail training vessel; former fishing boat | 3 masted gaff | [11] | ||||
1986 | Norfolk, Virginia | Working schooner providing tours for up to 150 passengers. | 3 masted topsail schooner | [12] | ||||
1991 | Washington, D.C. | Education and excursion vessel | 2 masted gaff | |||||
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 | ||||
1986 | Mystic, Connecticut | Tourism/charter vessel | 2 masted gaff | [16] | ||||
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 (William Gardner, 1903) | 3 mast gaff | ||||
Atyla | 1984 | Badalona, Spain | Sail training vessel (Civil) | 2 masted schooner, staysail | ||||
1932 | Brest | Naval training vessel | 2 masted gaff, square topsail | [19] | ||||
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] | ||||
1930 | Morocco | Privately owned; former school ship | 3 masted Marconi/staysail schooner | |||||
1963 | Lunenburg, Nova Scotia | Replica of racing/fishing schooner Bluenose | 2 masted gaff | |||||
BlueTopaz | 1983 |
| Privately owned, currently sailing out of Tobermory, Canada. | 2 masted gaff | ||||
Bonny Rover | Norfolk, Virginia | Privately owned | ||||||
1921 | Castine, Maine | National Historic Landmark arctic exploration/sail training vessel | 2 masted gaff knockabout | [21] | ||||
1932 | Mystic, Connecticut | Sail training vessel | ||||||
1895 | San Francisco | National Historic Landmark former lumber/fishing boat | 3 masted gaff/Marconi mizzen | [22] | ||||
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 | [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 | ||||
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 190feet, 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||-|||2000| Milwaukee, Wisconsin|Education/sail training/tourism vessel|3 masted gaff||-|||1989| Rotterdam|Education/sail training/tourism vessel|3 masted gaff||-|||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||-|||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||-|||1997| Melbourne, Victoria|Replica of 1829 cargo ship|2 masted gaff, square topsail||-|||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||-|||1877| Fort Walton Beach, Florida|National Historic Landmark; oldest surviving Gulf schooner|2 masted gaff|[34] [35] |-|||1882| Camden, Maine|National Historic Landmark former lumber boat|2 masted gaff|[36] |-|||1973| Portland, Maine|Education/sail training vessel|2 masted gaff|[37] |- |||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] |-|||1886| Rockland, Maine|National Historic Landmark, oldest surviving oyster schooner|2 masted gaff|[43] |-|||1927| Rockland, Maine|National Historic Landmark former oyster boat|2 masted gaff||-|||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] |-|||1921| Mystic, Connecticut|National Historic Landmark former Essex fishing boat|2 masted gaff||-|||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] |-|||1893| New York City|National Historic Landmark former Essex fishing boat|2 masted gaff||-|||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||-|||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] |-|||1904| Vancouver, British Columbia|Sail training/ecotourism vessel; former yacht and fishing boat|2 masted, gaff fore and Marconi main||-|||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|-|||1916| Camden, Maine|National Historic Landmark former coastal trader, now tourism vessel|2 masted gaff||-|||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] |-|||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] |-|||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.|||-|||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.|https://web.archive.org/web/20170914193337/http://schoonerphoenix.org/|-|||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|http://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1995/Hms-Pickle-Topsail-Schooner-1576438/Conwy/United-Kingdom|-|||1885| New York City|Tourism/museum vessel; former wrought iron-hulled cargo sloop|2 masted gaff|[61] |-|||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||-|||1957| Amsterdam|Former commercial trawler, converted and re-launched by Greenpeace in 1989|3 masted gaff||-|||2011| Amsterdam|Commissioned and launched by Greenpeace in 2011|2 masted Marconi/staysail|[63] |-|Raja Laut||2006||Luxury charter schooner |2 masted gaff||-|||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||-|||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||-|||1964| Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts|Tourism/training vessel|2 masted gaff, square topsails; no engine||-|||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] |-|||2007| Charleston, South Carolina|Education/sail training vessel|2 masted gaff||-|||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] |-|||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||-|||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]|-|||1900| Rockland, Maine|National Historic Landmark|3 masted gaff|[81] |-|||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] |-|||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|-|[84] |-|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||-|||1927| Cowes|Sail cruise vessel|3 masted, Marconi sail||-|Yuniy Baltiets||1989| Saint Petersburg|Sail training vessel|2 masted; gaff fore, Marconi main||[88] |-|||1992| Antwerp|Pleasure-sailing boat of the Royal Belgian Sailing Club (RBSC)|Fore-and-aft rig||-|||1952| Gdynia|Sail training vessel|3 masted, square sail||-|||1924| Seattle, Washington|Sail training/charter vessel; former private yacht and pilot boat|2 masted gaff||}Historical schooners
Fictional schooners
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