Wendameen, Historic schooner at Maine State Pier, Portland, United States.
Wendameen is a wooden two-masted auxiliary schooner normally berthed at the Maine State Pier on Commercial Street in Portland. It measures 67 feet overall, with a 51-foot deck and a 17-foot beam, and carries a gaff-headed schooner rig. Below deck are staterooms trimmed in mahogany, and it is rated for 41 passengers.
Designed by John G. Alden in 1912 for businessman Chester Bliss, Wendameen was built at the Adams Shipyard in East Boothbay, Maine, as Alden's twenty-first recreational fisherman design. Bliss sold her in 1915 to Erwin C. Uihlein, who sailed her on the Great Lakes for about 20 years. After Gerald W. Ford bought her in 1933, she was hauled out and partially restored, then remained on land until Neal Parker bought her in 1985 and gave her a full restoration.
Wendameen is owned and operated by the Portland Schooner Company, which sails her from the Maine State Pier alongside the schooner Bagheera. Passengers board for two-hour cruises and charters on Casco Bay. Below deck, the staterooms are trimmed in mahogany, and the vessel is rated to carry 41 passengers.
Wendameen sails from the Maine State Pier on Commercial Street in Portland, with two-hour cruises of Casco Bay offered alongside the schooner Bagheera. The wooden vessel is rated to carry 41 passengers, and boarding takes place at the pier itself.
Wendameen was one of the twenty-first recreational fisherman designs by John G. Alden and is among the oldest of them still afloat. Sold in 1985 to Neal Parker, she was fully restored and sailed out of Camden, Maine, on windjammer cruises before joining the Portland Schooner Company.
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