Tall Ships

Step back in time and come face-to-face with pirate ships, the Schooner VA, the Royaliste, Bonny Rover and the Serenity. Discover a pirate’s life at sea with these magnificent vessels of the past.

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!

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!

The Explorer
A 27-foot replica of John Smith's Shallop from the Deltaville Maritime Museum.

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.

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.