Schooner VA
Open
to the public on Saturday,
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and
Sunday, noon to 6 p.m.
Join our captain and a crew of salty pirates for
a festive experience of the high seas!
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The Royaliste -
This tall ship is a 71-foot LOA gaff-rigged, square-tops'l ketch refit to specifications
of an 18th-century dispatch gunboat/bomb ketch. She is a living history interpretation/reenactment
vessel first and foremost focusing on period sailing, mock battle sails and
of course, piracy!
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The Explorer
A 27-foot replica of John Smith's Shallop from the Deltaville Maritime
Museum.
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Bonny Rover -
was built by Mac Makee
and Dick Reynolds in Newport News, VA, in 1970 as a yacht for Merritt and
Bonny Walter. The couple lived aboard for fourteen years, before bidding
farewell to the most favored and greatest sailing schooner of the Rover
designs.
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The Serenity -
is a two-masted gaff-rigged schooner
designed by Tom Colvin and built by Custom Steel Boats from Arapaho NC
in 1986. The Low Sea Company
purchased her in the spring of 2000 and brought her to Cape Charles on
Virginia's Eastern Shore.
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