Several Mudcatters have periodically posted about their favorite ships, those ships they have known or ones they have lusted after. Here's a thread to post links to your favorites, with maybe a prefacing remark about each one.

The marina I used to work at as a teenager in Georgetown, Maine, used to be the home port of two such ships, the Murray Peterson designed schooner and the Friendship Sloop.

The Murray Peterson schooner was about 36-feet long, about half the size of a traditional coastal schooner, and looked like this: click here for image!

We build several of these wicked-sharp schooners at the marina where I worked.

The Friendship Sloop was originally designed in the early years of the 20th century as a fishing boat but was later adapted as a cruising yacht. She is gaff-rigged, wide at the beam, and a clipper bow: click here for image!

I've never been able to afford to own either of these fine boats but I'd love to "borrow" one for a season.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble