WINDALIER
 LOA: 58'
Class/Type: Custom Yawl
Builder:
Abeking & Rassmussen
Designer:
Sparkman & Stevens
Launch Date: 1962
Skipper: Thad Bench
WINDALIER is a classic yawl, a Sparkman & Stevens Design #1615 built by Abeking & Rasmussen of Germany. She is framed in white oak, double planked with mahogany over cedar and uses silicon bronze screws and bronze diagonals for fasteners, with extensive bronze diagonals and fabrications in the way of centerboard trunks, floors, engine bed and mast step. The 64,000-pound full keel draws 5 feet 10 inches and has bronze fore and aft centerboards. The main board lowers to 11 feet.
 Recently she was completely upgraded, including a taller carbon fiber mast and spars, and powered winches. Designed along the above-water lines of a larger BOLERO and the underwater lines of FINISTERRE, Windalier was built in Germany in 1962 by the famed Abeking & Rasmussen yard.
To learn more about WINDALIER click here:
http://sparkmanstephens.blogspot.com/2012/01/more-about-windalier-design-1615.html
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PRIDE OF BALTIMORE II
 LOA: 96' on deck, 157' sparred length
Class/Type: Topsail Schooner
Builder:
G. Peter Boudreau
Designer:
Thomas Gillmer
Launch Date: April 30, 1988
Captains: Jan Miles, Jamie Trost
PRIDE OF BALTIMORE II was commissioned in 1988 as a sailing memorial to her immediate predecessor, the original Pride of Baltimore, which was tragically sunk by a white squall off Puerto Rico in 1986, taking her captain and three crew members down with her. Both ships were built in the Inner Harbor of Baltimore as reproductions of 1812-era topsail schooners, the type of vessels, called Baltimore Clippers, that helped America win the War of 1812 and finally secure its freedom.
As the Goodwill Ambassador of the State of Maryland and the Port of Baltimore, Pride II represents the business, tourism, and educational interests of the state with unmistakable flair and panache.
 Currently the PRIDE II is actively partnered with NSHOF to educate young people about the War of 1812 and US maritime history, offer unique sailing and educational opportunities to Wounded Warriors and the general public.
To learn more about PRIDE OF BALTIMORE II visit their website:
www.pride2.org
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