AIRLIE
Flag: Canada
Homeport: Armdale Yacht Club, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Rig: Marconi Schooner
LOA: 45 ft
LOD: 39ft 7"
LWL: 28 ft 7"
Beam: 10 ft
Draft: 5 ft 5"
Sail Area: 759.9 Square Feet
Built / Launched: SC Mason Boatyard - Big Tancook Island, Nova Scotia - 1929
Major Rebuilds in 1949, 1985 and 2006/2007
Designer / Builder: Stanley Mason
The AIRLIE is a Tancook schooner designed and built in 1929 as a centre board schooner by Stanley Mason at S.C. Mason boatyard, Big Tancook Island, Nova Scotia. AIRLIE, originally named Green Bow, was built for sword fishing. Wayne M. O’Leary, in his book, The Tancook Schooner: An Island and Its Boats describes Green Bow as, “the last true Tancook schooner built.”
In 1949, Howard Mason rebuilt her as a keel schooner yacht, slightly lengthening her bow and stern. Again, in 1995, the hull was almost totally rebuilt, along with a new oak keel and keel bolts. This work was undertaken at the Gifford Island boatyard of Clarence R. Heisler and Son, Indian Point, Mahone Bay. AIRLIE was the winner of the inaugural race of the Nova Scotia Schooner Association on July 25, 1961 at Hubbards, St Margarets Bay.