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The Schooner Quinnipiack
The Quinnipiack is a two-masted, gaff-rigged centerboard schooner designed along the lines of a Biloxi, Mississippi freight schooner.
These shallow draft schooners carried freight along the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the late 1800s making them ideal vessels for the
shallow ports of Long Island Sound. A traditionally rigged, wooden schooner, the Quinnipiack is 91 feet long from the tip of her bowsprit to the end of her main boom. Her deck is 65 feet long and 20 feet wide and provides an exciting setting for all kinds of occasions. Sit back and enjoy a sail or be a part of the crew. The Quinnipiack can accommodate up to 40 passengers. The Quinnipiack, formerly named the Janet May, was built in Milbridge, Maine in 1984 for Captain Steve Pagels by Philip Shelton and Don Baman from a design by Howard I. Chappelle. She was used for day sails in Bar Harbor, Maine. The vessel in unique in that she is almost entirely built of native Maine Hackmatack or eastern larch. It is unusual to have such a large vessel like ours built almost entirely of one type of wood. Both masts, the fore and the main, are made from fir trees. The main mast measures 62 feet. The draft is 4.5 feet with the centerboard up, and 8.5 feet with the centerboard down. The optimum speed is 8 knots. The anchor weight is approximately 100 pounds.  She was purchased in 1990 by Schooner Inc to replace the J. N. Carter as a platform for Schooner's environmental education programs.The Quinnipiack participated in Operation Sail events commemorating the Columbus Quincentennary in New York, Boston, and Newport, and she has represented the City of New Haven at the July 4th Parade of Sail in New York Harbor. In 1992 the Quinnipiack's crew captured the bronze medal in the American Sail Training Association Rally in Newport. Schooner Quinnipiack Statistics
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