The Australia Coasting Schooner
janeyzee (Premium member) > albums > New England 2006: Mystic CT
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This 70-foot, two masted schooner was donated to Mystic Seaport by the duPonts who had used her as a yacht after her career as a blockade runner and a coasting schooner ended. When they hauled her out after 10 years of using her as a dormitory for the sail training program, they saw that the damage to the hull was too extensive to be a candidate for restoration so they now use her as an educational exhibit to show how schooners were constructed.
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Thank you for sharing this, I had the honor of being a cadet on THe Australia back in 1962,we lived on her but ate and had our classes on the Conrad.
said shortcat
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