page_title: Tancook Schooner
section_title: Design and construction
hierarchical_section_title: Tancook Schooner / Design and construction
caption_attribution_description: English: Ray Stevens design Tancook Schooner yacht
context_page_description: The Tancook Schooner is a sailing work boat design credited with influencing North American yacht designers and pleasure craft users during the early to mid twentieth century.
context_section_description: The Tancook Schooner, with its counter stern and characteristic round or 'spoon' bow was a distinctive type of small sailing work boat built primarily on Big Tancook Island, Nova Scotia and the immediate surrounding area on and near Mahone Bay. The design succeeded the earlier double ended Tancook Whaler fishing boats. The Tancook Schooners were usually larger than the Tancook Whalers and had fixed keels rather than centerboards. The sail plan for the smaller sizes of transom sterned schooners was typically gaff rigged fore and main and one or sometimes two headsails. After about 1930, Marconi main sail rigs were common and a number of the smaller schooners were rigged as knockabouts flying a single jib without a bowsprit keeping the head sail rigging on deck.
caption: Ray Stevens design Tancook Schooner yacht profile
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