Schooners North

Sailing at its finest

Schooners North is dedicated to making your sailing voyage unforgettable. Our classic wooden vessel is beautiful to behold, sturdy and seaworthy. Our friendly crew is comprised of experienced sailors. Both the crew and our schooner are Coast Guard inspected and certified. We invite you to experience sailing the way it was really meant to be. Plan your next sailing trip with us and prepare for an experience of a lifetime. You'll be treated as a special guest of our sailing family from the moment you're welcomed aboard.

Why preserve a classic schooner?

Since the Stone Age, every generation has made incremental advances in the art of wooden boat building. Without our care, the skills developed over millennia, will not be maintained, advanced or passed on as they were in a world when men spent careers working on wooden vessels in the yards. Our wooden boats are important. These boats and the art and skills that they represent must be preserved.Our wooden boats are important. These boats and the art and skills that they represent must be preserved.

Welcome aboard Spike Africa

She was built forty years ago by a working tall ship sailor, Bob Sloan. Bob was known and respected throughout the Pacific for his lifetime of experience on sailing vessels. He drew Spike's lines to be true to the design of working schooners of centuries past. This proven formula combines beauty and grace with sturdy seaworthiness. It is this harmony of form and function that gives Spike Africa her timeless elegance. Bob's goal in building Spike Africa was to create a working Schooner to provide a living for them both. He succeeded on all counts. The schooner Spike Africa was a treasured friend and successful partner until Bob passed away.

Bob named the boat for Spike Africa

his best friend and a seaman renowned as a living legend of the sea. Spike, the man, was known up and down the West Coast as the President of the Pacific Ocean.