60' Crocker Schooner (1939) - TYRONE

Schooner Tyrone
1939 Sam Crocker design. Offering adult and youth sail training opportunities from Boothbay Harbor, ME.

Tyrone was commissioned by A.C. Tener of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Tener wanted a rugged boat capable of crossing oceans yet able to be handled by himself, a hired captain and cook.

Tyrone is heavily built for her size with 1 5/8” mahogany planks bronze screwed to 5” double sawn oak frames on 16” centers. Her original mechanical compliment included a Lathrop Mystic 125 gas engine and a 3 Kilowatt two cylinder generator to run her refrigerator and other gear.

To my knowledge, Tyrone was owned by Tener until roughly the mid-late 1960s. At which point she was purchased from the Tener estate by the young Chase family who raised a newborn daughter living aboard through Maine winters and setting off on an around the Atlantic voyage. After the Chase family another family purchased her and did much the same trip around the Atlantic. She was then owned by Townsend Thorndike and renamed William H Thorndike. Under his ownership she made a trip through the Panama Canal and into the Pacific spending significant time in San Francisco and making rounds to Alaska and Hawaii before returning to Maine. She was then owned by Matthew Sutphin who kept the boat on Cape Cod. Though she has travelled considerably abroad, much of her time has been spent in Boothbay Harbor, ME and New England. We are happy to give her a homecoming again calling Boothbay Harbor her homeport.

Carolyn and I (Rayford) now operate Tyrone offering 5 day sail training trips for youth and adults. Carolyn and I work as shipwrights working on wood boats and we’ve done considerable work to restore Tyrone and keep her sailing for others to enjoy.

Please do check out our website and come sailing with us on Tyrone:
www.schoonertyrone.con