Tancook schooner starts new life in Chester Basin | SaltWire

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The Airlie, originally The Green Bow 2, is one of three of the iconic small Tancook schooners left that were built before the Second World War. | SaltWire

Reason came first.

It was cramped. Their Honda Civic was packed with the vessel’s mahogany and bronze hatches, its wheel and other parts they worried could be damaged in transit.Harley Schofield poses for a photo aboard his schooner Airlie at the South Shore Marine in Chester Basin on Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. - Ryan TaplinThere’s that oft-repeated saying about boats and holes in the water that money gets thrown into, but it can’t really be labelled trite if it’s true.

Through generations of craftspeople and hard experience on the open water, the answer evolved and became the Tancook Island schooner. Grand Bankers, the ambitious creations of larger settlements like Lunenburg to chase groundfish offshore, have been rightly celebrated in our cultural memory. But, to Carwardine, the small inshore schooners were no less a technological marvel, each plank and timber sculpted to create an architecture both strong and elegant.

 

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