The day after the annual WoodenBoat Sail-In, the schooner HERITAGE hung round as the lone schooner in Great Cove, much to everyone’s liking. Here you see her sitting there like a monument to Maine sailing – a grand heritage embodied in the HERITAGE:
Below, you’ll see her leaning into the wind as she takes off and heads south toward Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park. She was on a 6-night coastal adventure that included the WB Sail-In with about 10 other schooners, according to her schedule. She homeports in Rockland, Maine.
The HERITAGE is big-boned and the longest vessel in Maine’s windjammer fleet at a reported 145 feet of overall length (92’ on deck). She’s longer overall, but not really larger than, the venerable VICTORY CHIMES (bless her tortured soul). The three-masted CHIMES was estimated at 132 feet in overall length, BUT was a documented 127.5’ on deck.
The CHIMES was a "bald-headed" (no topsails or topmasts) Chesapeake ram schooner built in 1900 for cargo carrying with a relatively short bowsprit. The HERITAGE, as you see, was well endowed up front when she was built for tourist cruising in 1983.)
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on September 16, 2026.)