Texas Scow Schooner

Our scow schooner began her life on Galveston Bay as part of The Galveston and Trinity Bay Marine Museum.  The Scow Schooner Project, as it was called, was an educational and promotional program with the goal of creating a marine museum, estuary education center, and recreational boatbuilding school.

Their first project was to be the construction of a working replica of a cargo schooner indigenous to the Texas coast during the late 1800s.  But due to unforeseen circumstances, they were not able to finish the ship even though they had made considerable headway on the hull.

Around the same time, the Port Aransas Preservation and Historical Association was looking to build a tall ship for Port Aransas.

The two groups got together, and in the summer of 2013 PAPHA took possession of the nearly completed hull along with a host of materials and small craft, thus jumpstarting our own plan to build and launch an early Texas sailing ship.

The hull is now at the Farley Boat Works being completed.