In the 1800s, wooden coastal schooners were built on the shore to carry coal and mill stones to the United States.
Only a single additional merchant ship, from Suthya, had ported in the harbor, and the coastal schooner had departed.
We have two fast coastal schooners of shallow draft; and the winds are out of the southwest.
She used coastal schooners to send us to the north side of the Sand Hills.
Planters brought Scottish shipwrights to the island to built coastal schooners in the 18th century.
The passage is named after the 33-ton coastal schooner Flying Foam, which disappeared without trace in March 1872.
Leavitt himself was a crew member on several coastal schooners in Maine beginning in 1918 until about 1925, the tail end of the schooner era.
"She's an example of a coastal schooner," Captain Barnes said, "the 19th-century cargo ships that were the 18-wheelers of their day; a real workhorse."
We traveled here partly by riding, but part of the way on fast coastal schooners of shallow draft.
Rather, he said, she was a coastal schooner.