If you always wanted to sail your own wooden ship, this is your chance. Our crew always welcomes your participation – you’ll be able to help raise the sails and take a turn at the wheel. Charm is a solid and hard working coastal schooner. She was designed after the pilot schooners of the last century but has the state-of-the-art accommodations to ensure your comfort and enjoyment.
In Camden Maine, about twenty years ago, Captain Ned Ackerman laid the keel for his third coastal schooner, an 85’ footer he named ‘Charm.’ Ned began working up the design in the classic manner—by carving a half hull model, lofting the lines from the model then setting up the stations. Designed as a traditional pilot schooner with a clipper bow, round bilge and transom stern, it took 10 years to build the hull and another two years to fit her out. ‘Charm’ has a traditional schooner rig and her sails include a mainsail, foresail, staysail, jumbo, jib top, fisherman and gaff topsails.