When this did not interest him, he ran away to become a cabin boy on a sailing schooner.

Originally a sailing schooner built in 1879, the General Miles was extensively reconstructed in 1890 and renamed Willapa.

Commissioning amongst others, four America's Cup challengers and the largest sailing schooner of its time, Rainbow.

After shipping in on local sailing schooners, 200 workers and piles of materials, work began on filling swamps.

Its two masts, relatively short for the sailing schooner's substantial girth, come from two stout trees.

Sources note that "as a 16-year-old, he was a crew member on a sailing schooner to Hawaii."

The vessel was raised and converted into a sailing schooner in 1880.

Then we went to Cuba and McGill used his last money to purchase a sailing schooner to operate in the Gulf.

Her father is the captain of a sailing schooner, and her constant companion is Cap'n Bill Weedles, a retired sailor with a wooden leg.

Harstad is home port for the Anna Rogde, the world's oldest sailing schooner, also known as the sailing queen of Norway.