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No, my schooner had a Primus stove to cook on. There
was a charlie noble and a smokestack but no Shipmate. I suppose it disappeared
earlier in the boat's life - she was built in Nova Scotia in '28.
<P> I checked with the Coast Guard four or five years
ago and she was still registered as of then, somewhere on Long Island Sound.
I'd kinda like to know if she's still afloat & where. She was strip-planked
over typical Nova Scotia basket frames, all inside ballast. (rock, originally,
but iron blocks when I found her) Traditionally she would be dark green
with a yellow stripe but we painted her white. An owner before us added
a very nice cabin over the original open well with tiny cuddy for'ard
<P> The story I got from Fawcett was that a Norman Binnie,
a French-speaking Canadian, was shot down over France during World War
II and, with an American flier, Jonathan Pearson, was helped to escape
to Spain by the Maquis.
<BR> After the war the Canadian went home and with his
brother decided to sail to Venezuela, bought the schooner from the Strathcona
Canadian Sea Scouts who had gotten her from the Canadian Navy, which had
supposedly used her in some way during World War II, named her <I>Binnie
B</I> and started out. Sometime in 1948 hey came down the canals and lakes
to the Hudson, and thence south. Around Troy, New York, they had
run out of cash. They got in touch with Pearson, by then director of admissions
at Union College in Schnectady, who, with a friend named Kirkland, joined
them for a few drinks.
<BR> The sailing to South America thought had paled a
little already and the wine flowed freely. By morning the Kirkland had
bought the boat. (I have correspondence with him in my files)
<BR> Kirkland took her to Annapolis where Art Fawcett
bought her and in 1959 sold her to me.
<BR> Eventually the cost of keeping up a wooden boat
exceeded my finances and my wife had twins in 1964. I sold her to Tom Nichols
of N.Stonington, CT who took out the Atomic 4 (or its predecessor) put
in a diesel, and over eight years re-planked her in cypress. We sailed
once with Nichols in about 1972.
<BR> Nichols is now dead and his son does not know who
bought the boat.
<BR> If anyone along the Connecticut shore sees <I>Brigadoon
I,</I> a 34 ft Tancook schooner, I'd love to know where she is. Official
number is 286521 which I had carved on the main beam. She was listed in
the Customs Service's <I>Merchant Vessels of the United States,</I> now
the USCG registry.
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