Optimist and JY Dinghies
The most successful youth training vessels, used by sailors world-wide. These 7’ 7” sprit-rigged boats let sailors learn the ropes and develop sailing confidence by rigging and skippering their own craft. Sailors can also capsize and re-right the boat in seconds.

420 Sloops
The premier high school and college sailing sloop-rigged dinghy. Fast, responsive, spinnaker rigged. A great training platform for advanced sailing techniques.

Bristol-24
Stable and simple sloop-rigged sailboat great for first time keel-boat lessons.

Cape Dory Typhoon
19-ft. keelboat with a big boat feel. A big cockpit and classic lines make this attractive and fun to sail.

Fenwick Williams 21
Charming wood sloop. A double-ended small cabin keelboat with a classic rounded stern.

Southcoast 23
A solid sloop-rigged keelboat with a big cockpit. Spinnaker rig will let you experience more advanced sailing.

Bahama Dinghy
A classic design straight from the Bahamas. Single mast cat rig with a beautiful and distinctive traditional “leg ‘o mutton” sail. A little bit of the tropics in Maine!

Cape Cod Knockabout
1938 wooden sloop. 17-ft open cockpit dinghy responds quickly to sail and steering adjustments that fine tunes your feel for sailing.

Crotch Island Pinky Ketch
Very traditional sprit sails on a two-masted cat-ketch rig, built at the Apprenticeshop.

1605 Waymouth Gig
Apprenticeshop-built 32-ft replica of Captain George Waymouth’s eight-oared, square sailed vessel that explored the Maine coast 400 years ago.

Challenge
18 ft center-console utility boat with a 25hp outboard serves as a chase boat and small powerboat handling and outboard engine teaching tool.

Wallace 20
Lobsterboat A diesel powered wood work boat also used to teach motorboat handling and engine maintenance.