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
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Thank you! She is an absolute joy and delight! We live aboard and cruise the east coast and she is ideal for this with her shoal draft. Thanks again! Ingrid
Come join us for the Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race this year! Oct. 3 – 8 We would love to have you. Fun race 117 miles down the Bay, bookended by very collegial gatherings on either end, one in Baltimore and the other in Norfolk. Hope to see you there!
I know this comment was from a year ago, but in case you’re still out there, we have sailed in the GCBSR and loved the experience. It was many many years ago now!! Hope to be back on the Chesapeake this fall. Ingrid
I don’t recall how many years ago it was or who owned NINA at the time but she took a mooring in West Boothbay Harbor one day and I rowed out to have a look. The owners kindly invited me aboard. I grew up sailing near Pete Culler on Cape Cod, knew him and admired his boats.
David, are you attending the show this year? I missed your comment in the past. How wonderful you were aboard Nina! Do you know which decade it would have been? Ingrid
Wow! Absolutely beautiful boat. I’ve stared at her in the Pete Culler book for many a winter evening.
Thank you! She is an absolute joy and delight! We live aboard and cruise the east coast and she is ideal for this with her shoal draft. Thanks again! Ingrid
Come join us for the Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race this year! Oct. 3 – 8 We would love to have you. Fun race 117 miles down the Bay, bookended by very collegial gatherings on either end, one in Baltimore and the other in Norfolk. Hope to see you there!
I know this comment was from a year ago, but in case you’re still out there, we have sailed in the GCBSR and loved the experience. It was many many years ago now!! Hope to be back on the Chesapeake this fall. Ingrid
A Favourite Visitor to Beaufort NC and longtime Friends!
I don’t recall how many years ago it was or who owned NINA at the time but she took a mooring in West Boothbay Harbor one day and I rowed out to have a look. The owners kindly invited me aboard. I grew up sailing near Pete Culler on Cape Cod, knew him and admired his boats.
David, are you attending the show this year? I missed your comment in the past. How wonderful you were aboard Nina! Do you know which decade it would have been? Ingrid
Where in B’more is this? Pete Culler drew some pretty boats.
This is at Henderson’s Wharf Marina. However we are wintering further north this year on the Barnegat Bay. Ingrid