Most of the berths were stripped from the foc sle to make room for tables and seats. By the mid-1950s, the knockabout schooner sailed into Rockland, Maine, to join the windjammer fleet. A great deal of care has gone into her over the years. The new owners sailed Adventure for about a decade before the partners decided it was time to put her up for sale. Jim Sharp, owner of the schooner Stephen Taber and one of the most popular skippers in the fleet, bought her.
Adventure is long and lean, and able to go through all kinds of heavy weather.
Sharp refit Adventure, replacing planking and rigging and restoring her sail capacity to about 6,000 square feet. Refurbished again, Adventure continued her royal reign for another 25 years. Historian Garland had met Sharp while researching a book about the windjammers. The two struck up a friendship, and Sharp later asked Garland to help write a book about Adventure. Sharp was one of the wisest skippers in the fleet, says Garland.