PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Rotten wood and poor inspections appear to have played roles in the collapse of the mast of a historic Maine schooner in an accident that killed one person and injured several ...

ESSEX — Harold Burnham climbed to the loft of his boatbuilding barn, past a mess of tools and sawdust and sails and tackle, and pointed at his grandest idea yet. On the floor of the loft, Burnham has ...

The age of sail came back to the Caribbean last week as the U.S., with RFC cash, set out to build a thousand new wooden schooners in the little shipyards of the West Indies, Venezuela, Colombia and ...

FILE - This photo provided by Kurt Schleicher shows the schooner Grace Bailey, with its main mast broken, off the coast of Rockland, Maine, Oct. 9, 2023. (Kurt Schleicher via AP, File) (Kurt ...