45' Culler Scow Schooner (1986) - NINA

Nina is a scow schooner designed by Pete Culler and built by Joel White at Brooklin Boatyard in 1986. She is heavily-built, rugged and able. As a shoal-draft, centerboard vessel, she is in her element cruising the coastal waters of the US East Coast from Maine to the Dry Tortugas, exploring the bays, creeks, sounds and tributaries along the way.

Her heritage is found in the cargo scows that carried hay, grain and lumber from shoal creeks and rivers further inland to deep water ports and brought supplies in turn to remote towns and farms well before there were roads to all those places.

“How far will she go? If there were a reason for it, I’d sail her most anywhere in the boating season; buoyant as a duck and well rigged, she will make some pleasant passages, but, as a shoal water houseboat cruiser, she will come into her element and be a wonderfully handy mudthumper and backwater cruiser.” William Garden