Swift's Windjammer Cruiser, Camden, Maine 3957

Swift's Windjammer Cruiser, Camden, Maine 3957

"Swift's Windjammer Cruiser, Camden, Maine 3957" Schooner CLINTON. The age of sail was nearly over in 1936 when Frank Swift decided to revive a couple of the old coastal schooners to carry a different type of cargo…people. He began offering his "Windjammer Cruises" to summer tourists. Three lady passengers from Boston paid $35 for a week for his first official sail. For 25 years, Capt. Swift operated more than a dozen schooners out of Camden Harbor. The schooner in the photo is the CLINTON. Built in 1886 at Milbridge, she was only 52 feet long, the smallest of the Swift windjammers. She had quarters for only eleven passengers, so it was easy to become acquainted with all hands on board. Later she was taken over by Dick Parshall and based at Castine. Her run ended in 1955 when she was found to be too rotted to continue service.