into San Francisco harbor. They’ve been featured in movies and lingerie photo shoots, been used as charter yachts for luxury cruises, and competed in famous sailing races, often performing well above expectations. Schooners started out as working
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boats, primarily for catching fish or transporting lumber, and many other commercial uses. Some of the schooners at the rendezvous started their life as working boats before being converted into pleasure boats or charter boats. Merrie Ellen, for example, started her life as a steam tug in 1922, working as a tugboat for 55 years, before being restored and refitted as a schooner in 1978. Since then, this large schooner, with a length overall of 113 feet and 20 foot beam, has been a charter vessel based out of Pleasant Harbor. Schooner W.N. Ragland, built in
Denmark in 1913, was used as a freighter to haul granite before being purchased and rebuilt by singer Neil Young (of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young fame) for his personal use. Ragland’s sparred length is 101 feet with a beam of 22 feet. Based out of Port Townsend, she’s been used as a private home and yacht and
were pleasure yachts for wealthy families. The Lavengro was built in 1927 as a family yacht for the family of Thomas B. Denegre, to 2/3-scale of a Biloxi shrimp and oyster schooner, although she was never used for shrimping. Schooner Zodiac was originally built in 1924 as a private luxury yacht for Johnson & Johnson heirs, then sold during the great depression to the California Bar Pilots Association for use as a pilot vessel in San Francisco harbor. Today this behemoth vessel with a 160 foot(!) LOA and 26 foot beam is used as a charter vessel for special cruises and tours in the San Juan Islands and Salish Sea. Zodiac’s mast is over 12 stories tall and she boasts the largest working mainsail on the west coast (7,000 square feet). Zodiac is also a movie star. She was featured in the film “Sea Wolf” starring Charles Bronson, and was the location of a Victoria’s Secret photo shoot. The schooner Martha was owned
by actor James Cagney in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s, and put in a
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been around the world a staggering seventimes. Other schooners at the rendezvous
cameo appearance in the 1960’s movie “Petulia”. Walking through the lush cabin
interiors of the schooners is an eye- opener—like walking through a small version of a stately Victorian manor. These boats are like floating hotels: cedar and old wooden panels, antique brass clocks and barometers decorate the walls, with velvet curtains hanging across entryways. Vintage woodstoves provide heat, while marble and delft porcelain basins adorn the heads (I even saw a hot tub tucked away in one). Old wooden desks are built into the cabins. Up on the beautifully crafted wooden decks, antique brass compasses and superb wooden helms look like something you’d see in an old movie. If you get a chance to visit a schooner
rendezvous, do so immediately. You’ll be captivated by the grace and charm of these old boats, not to mention their friendly crews.
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