The three-masted schooner in the center of this picture is the "Victory Chimes". Registered as a national historic landmark, she was originally christened the Edwin and Maud, and was built as a freighter to carry lumber through the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (Delaware and Maryland). She is sturdily made of pine and oak. She was converted to a "windjammer" or passenger vessel in the 1950s. During her first career as a windjammer, as the "Victory Chimes", she was the queen of the fleet in the coastal Maine waters. Owned briefly in the 1980s by Domino's Pizza and refurbished as Domino Effect, she languished in the western Great Lakes. In 1990 she was purchased by Kip Files and his co-captain, Paul DeGaeta, and her name restored to "Victory Chimes".
She has a centerboard, not a keel, and is 132 feet long on deck, 170 feet overall, with a beam of 25 feet and weighs 208 gross tons. Capt. Files has sailed since his childhood, and crewed on other windjammers since the early 1970s. He bases this fine schooner in Rockland, Maine.
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