Participating Ships

The H.M.S. Bounty was built in 1960 as a replica of the original ship for an MGM film. The Original was commissioned in 1787 and was destroyed after a mutiny. The new ship has been used in several feature-length films, documentaries, T.V. shows, as a tourist attraction, and is now an educational venture.

The Pride of Baltimore II, built in 1977, is the only existing replica of an 1812 Baltimore Clipper topsail schooner. She has sailed over 200,000 miles and visited over 200 ports across the world. Pride II was commissioned in 1988 as a sailing memorial to her predecessor, Pride of Baltimore, which was sunk by a white squall off Puerto Rico in 1986.

Spirit of Massachusetts was launched on April 28, 1984 at the Charleston Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts. She was built by her original owners for service as a sail training vessel for young people. She also served as a good-will ambassador for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1984 until 1987. Ocean Classroom Foundation began chartering Spirit for our their educational programs in 1997, and subsequently purchased her in 2000.

Built in 1925, Roseway has led a long and distinguished career, serving as a racing yacht, a fishing vessel, and a pilot boat guiding Allied vessels through minefields and antisubmarine nets during World War II. When she was retired in 1972, Roseway was the last sailing pilot boat in the United States. She then began serving passengers as a charter vessel off the Maine coast before falling into disrepair. In 2002, the World Ocean School began a two-year restoration. Today, after almost 85 years of service, Roseway is again sailing the Atlantic providing educational programs to underserved youth worldwide. She is one of only a handful of authentic, historic vessels in the Tall Ships fleet.

The Schooner Alliance was built in 1995 by Treworgy Yachts in Palm Coast, Florida. She was built as the Kathryn B. and worked as a charter vessel in the Maine Windjammer fleet. In 2005 Yorktown Sailing Charters purchased her and brought her to Yorktown, Virginia to start the daysail cruises from Riverwalk Landing Pier as the Alliance. She gets her new name from the French and American Alliance that was instrumental in winning the war of Independence in 1781.

Schooner MISTRESS is a 1930 Eldridge McInnis designed Eastward Schooner that spent 70 years on the Great Lakes before Master Shipwright, F.W. "Skip" Joest and his wife Kathleen purchased her and had her shipped to St. Augustine, FL. Skip restored the hull and redesigned and rebuilt everything else. After a 6 year rebuild, MISTRESS was re-launched in July of 2006. Since then she has participated in several tall ship and wooden boat festivals on the east coast.

Schooner Voyager is an authentic 100 foot replica of a 19th century gaffrigged packet schooner that combines modern conveniences with the charm of yesteryear. She is a secure and stable vessel with watertight bulkheads, emergency equipment and meets the stringent requirements of the U.S. Coast Guard. Voyager is certified to carry up to 49 passengers and 10 crew members for a business or pleasure cruise.