Schooners

Between 15 and 18 entries in two classes, schooners and cutters, are expected to take part in the regatta.

Many of these items were tossed out of the prairie schooners (the descriptive name for the canvas-covered wagons that looked like ships at sea) along the trail to save weight for their struggling draft animals pulling the wagons.

The schooners Eastwind, Spirit of Massachusetts and Harvey Gamage, right to left, sail around Boothbay Harbor during Windjammer Days.

For fear of being caught, those schooners would often lay approximately 15 miles off shore.

Rough timber first left on coastal schooners, often those leaving from Seattle’s deepwater, sheltered Elliott Bay.

Stan Burt, 38, had been employed on the different schooners at Grand Bank as a "doryman" for quite a few years.

These are difficult times as we struggle without the essentials such as toilet paper, hand sanitiser, after-work schooners and, of course, footy.

Although a letter of intent has been signed with federal Crown corporation Canada Lands Company, the Schooners group announced in April that it was scaling back in favour of a $130-million facility that could be expanded in the future.

At Camden Sept. 23, the elder Schooners doubled up their younger counterparts by a two-goal margin.

More than 120 people, mostly crew and passengers from local schooners, went to Camden-Rockport High School to take shelter.

Sitting in a heated room doing stretches is hardly the kind of midweek activity that would have been embraced by Souths hard men Les Davidson, John Sattler or George Piggins, who preferred a few cold schooners.

The game was sponsored by Schooners Sports and Entertainment (SSE), the business group trying to land a CFL franchise in Halifax.

His songs celebrating Maine schooners have become folk classics.

If you are planning to attend, the campground at Schooners Landing is offering space in their group sites to volunteeers at a steeply discounted rate.

Schooners Sports and Entertainment (SSE) says it will unveil the location for the game in the new year.

Covered wagons, popularly referred to as prairie schooners, provided the primary means of transport until the beginning of regular boat service on the river in the 1850s.

Schooners armed with cannons were first built in the 1840s.