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• The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land.
• Designed by Frank Payne's renowned Boston design office, and built in 1928 of longleaf yellow pine, this 82-footer has been a racing schooner — a staysail schooner — since the heyday of Class-A ocean racing in schooners during the late 1920s and early 1930s.
• In addition to the square-rigged sailing ships, the schooners were the second largest group of large sailing vessels.
• Unfortunately, anyone looking for a schooner today has limited choices. In the used boat market there are always some wooden hulls available, and occasionally ones of steel or aluminum, but fiberglass-hulled schooners are harder to come by.
• Foaming schooners of beer grew ever larger and more numerous as the crimson February suns went to their rest.
• And needless to say, the Western Australia row will eventually be filled in as well, though not before drinking a schooner of the amber nectar in Perth.
• For a true Adelaide experience, head for the bar and order a schooner of Coopers, the local brew, or a glass of SA′s impressive wine.
• The ship is bought and fitted. She lies at anchor, ready for sea. You never imagined a sweeter schooner — a child might sail her — two hundred tons; name, "Hispaniola".. (Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson)