Now offering charters aboard the Pinky schooner Maine out of Gloucester, MA. Families, students, artists and rusticators of all types can now charter the Pinky schooner Maine with Capt. Harold Burnham for parties of up to six people on half-day, whole-day and overnight trips or longer. The Maine is an authentic 1830s Pinky schooner replica built by apprentices in Bath, Maine in 1986 and was purchased by Burnham Boatbuilding in 2006. After undergoing minor alterations and repairs by Burnham, the Maine offers a unique perspective from which to view historic Gloucester harbor and the nearby coastline. Aboard the Maine, passengers can walk the decks of this ancient vessel type and learn about fishing from historic vessels, haul lobster traps under sail, and also sail with other schooners including the Thomas E. Lannon, the Lewis H. Story and the Fame - all built by Capt. Burnham.

Children of all ages particularly love the lobstering. Capt. Burnham hauls and sets the traps while undersail. Children (and adults) get to haul the lines and the traps in anticipation of making a catch. There is usually some form of sea life - a lobster, crab, fish,and sometime an eel or starfish in the trap. We like to put the sealife in a bucket and let kids observe and enjoy.

On our whole-day trips, we like to include arriving and departing at different destinations including a stop for an ice cream cone or walk about a nearby coastal community, or even climbing the lighthouse towers on remote island preserves. On our overnight trips, we can often circumnavigate "around the world"- our world being Cape Ann or visit the Isle of Shoals and beyond.

Watch the Construction of the new schooner Pinky Ardelle through time-lapsed photography!       

BOATS FOR SALE

SALT MARSH DORIES- Charles Burnham built the first salt marsh dory in 1971 as a tender for his first boat MARIA. In the early 1980’s we started after building several more as tenders we started the SALT MARSH DORY COMPANY and went into production of the type. Although we don’t turn them out like we used to we still find them to be the best tender we know and we still build one or two hear and there for our own use or our customers who like them. Rite now we have the SALT MARSH DORY #28 for sale. We built this one last summer and only used it briefly on as an extra tender on our Maine trip in the MAINE.  We are asking $1900 for it with oars and oarlocks ready to go. That is our normal price for and unfinished boat. 

MARIA-22 ½ foot friendship sloop built by Charles Burnham in 1971 and named after his wife. This boat was purchased in 2007 by BURNHAM BOATBUILDING for $2000 the same price it was sold for in 1973 and is for sale for that price to a good home as is where is. Although the deck, rig, and engine need to be replaced the rest of the boat is in relatively good condition as the vessel only spent 5 or six seasons sailing and spent most of its time ashore well protected in a barn. We would be glad to do some or all of the work to her that needs to be done in order to put her back in the water and there are a lot of options as to how it gets done and what the cost will be. More than anything we want this boat to go to a good home.

IRENE- IRENE is a 38’ real class A original sloop, she was built around 1917 or by Charles A. Morse. She looks to have been built on the same molds of the famous C. A. Morse sloop Lizzy M.  (that beat her way out of Rockland and ran down to Portland to fetch a fair price for her load of fish) and later cleaned up year after year in the Mass. Bay raceing circuit.