Articles of category "Schooners"

Today Maine schooners, coastal and deep-sea workhorses for decades, are all but gone. A few of the smallest schooners, two-masters, survive in charter fleets and museums. The three masters are gone, save for a few isolated examples which do not represent the traditional "downeast" schooners. Nowadays only a few splintered wrecks and bones remain to remind us of these great ships, the last representatives of the lost age. During the late 1800's and the early decades of this century, ports along the northeastern U.S. coast, and especially the Maine coast, were filled with hundreds of schooners. Maine schooners were the most numerous.

Some schooners wharfs were destroyed as they had become useless. Nowadays their names may be found in the names of the streets of the towns and cities located near the river or the sea. Others, but there are just few of them, have been turned into ports. Some remained schooner wharfs are also served for entertainment as an acting wharf with some schooners. There is one more part of schooners wharfs that are restaurants and pubs with sea topic nowadays. Schooners Wharf Restaurants and Bars are like no other. They are very popular among the tourists of the California coast. An eclectic blend of modern cuisine served in a casual and charming atmosphere.