CAPTAIN JOSH ROWAN | HINDU | SCHOONER | SAILBOAT | MACMILLAN PIER | PROVINCETOWN | PTOWN | CAPE COD | MASSACHUSETTS | MA

Captain Josh (Joshua) Rowan at the steering wheel, the helm.

Pilgrim monument in background on the right hand side behind Captain Rowan.

Rowan Family (Info from sailschoonerhindu.com website)
William Rowan
"Hindu is a dream come true,” new owner William Rowan of Key West, Florida says. “I’m happy I could save this historic boat before it rotted away.” Rowan, a historical renovation architect, has been part of the team that has replaced hull planking, cotton caulking, keel bolts, and innumerable other parts of the key west schooner over the past few years.
Joshua Rowan
Josh is a boat systems designer and builder, doing business as Rowan Boatworks L.L.C. He has been at the forefront of Schooner Hindu’s restoration, which has been ongoing since August, 2011. “It’s been a long road, and my family has sacrificed a lot of time and money, but I think it’s paid off,” Rowan says, “We’ve been very lucky that so many people have helped us along the way. By the time we’re done, I think the boat will be in the best shape of its life.” Joshua Rowan, 34, has held a captain’s license since age 16. His father and mother raised he and two of his brothers while cruising on a 50-foot sailboat they constructed in the woods of Oregon in the 1970s. Rowan chartered that sailboat in the late 1990s in Key West until Hurricane Wilma damaged the boat in 2005. He is now restoring that boat in a shop in Canton, N.Y., when he can get away. He attended Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass. He earned a degree in engineering in New Zealand from the Southern Institute of Technology.

Visit: sailschoonerhindu.com/history/about-us-key-west-schooner/

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Schooner HINDU
Designer : William H Hand Jr.
Builder: Hodgdon Bros., East Boothbay, Maine
Year Built: 1925

Sail Area: 2,250 sq. FT.
Mast Material: Douglas Fir
Sail Material: Dacron
Mast Height: Fore 52’, Main 64’

Engine: BMW (Marinized by Yanmar)
Year:2012
H.P.: 150 Turbo
Model: 4 BY 2-150
Prop: 24’’ X 36’’ pitch, 3 blades

Sparred Length: 79’
Length on Deck: 61’3’’
Length on Water Line: 51’ 2’’

Beam: 15’ 9’’
Draft: 8’4’’
Displacement: 31 tons

Hull Planking: Douglas Fir, 3 Long Leaf
Deck Planking: Northern White Pine
Frames/Ribs: White Oak

HISTORY

1925: Launched “PRINCESS PAT”
1928: Sold, Renamed “SAIS PAS”
1935: Sold, Renamed “ANNA LEE AMES”
1938: Sold, Renamed “HINDU” after sailing to India as a spice trader.
1940: Commissioned by the US NAVY to serve in WWII
1946: Sold, used as a charter vessel for first commercial Whale Watches off Cape Cod
2006: Rebuilt by Kevin “foggy” Foley
2012: Rebuilt by the Rowan Family.

SCHOONER

Visit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schooner

A schooner /ˈskuːnər/ is a type of sailing vessel with fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts, the foremast being shorter than the main and no taller than the mizzen if there is one. Originally gaff-rigged, modern schooners typically carry a Bermuda rig.

Such vessels were first used by the Dutch in the 16th or 17th century. They were further developed in North America from the early 18th century, and came into extensive use in New England. The most common type, with two masts, were popular in trades requiring speed and windward ability, such as slaving, privateering, blockade running, and offshore fishing. In the Chesapeake Bay area several distinctive schooner types evolved, including the Baltimore clipper, bugeye, and pungy. Schooners were also popular among pirates in the West Indies during The Golden Age of Piracy, for their speed and agility. They could also sail in shallow waters, and while being considerably smaller than other ships of the time period (such as frigates and galleons), they could still hold enough cannons to intimidate merchant vessels into submission.

Schooners were popular on both sides of the Atlantic in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, long dominating yacht races such as the America's Cup, but gradually gave way in Europe to the cutter.

Schooners first evolved in the late 1600s from a variety of small two-masted gaff-rigged vessels used in the coast and estuaries of the Netherlands. Most were working craft but some pleasure yachts with schooner rigs were built for wealthy merchants and Dutch nobility. Following the arrival of the Dutch monarch William of Orange on the British throne, the British Royal Navy built a Royal yacht with a schooner rig in 1695, HMS Royal Transport. This vessel, captured in a detailed Admiralty model, is the earliest fully documented schooner. Royal Transport was quickly noted for its speed and ease of handling, and mercantile vessels soon adopted the rig in Europe and in European colonies in North America. Schooners were immediately popular with colonial traders and fishermen in North America with the first documented reference to a schooner in the United States appearing in Boston port records in 1716. North American shipbuilders quickly developed a variety of schooner forms for trading, fishing and privateering. (Wikipedia)

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Taken on: August 1, 2014

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