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Schooner Harvey Gamage is a 131' gaff rigged topsail vessel built in 1973 in Bristol, ME, and is U.S. Coast Guard classified as both a Sailing School Vessel (SSV) and a Small Passenger Vessel (SPV). For twenty years, she was owned and operated by Captain Eben Whitcomb, and sailed the Northwest Atlantic and Caribbean Sea with high school and college students, as well as passengers. Some of the longest running sail training programs in the United States originated on Gamage. In 1993, she was purchased by Ocean Classroom Foundation and operated alongside SSV Westward and SSV Spirit of Massachusetts for over twenty years.[1].
She has been extensively rebuilt and continues to sail year-round with Sailing Ships Maine[2] who run youth programs out of their home port in Portland, ME. She sleeps 39 people, including 9 professional crew, 22 youth sail trainees and up to 4 adult chaperones. The vessel has a wooden hull, the masts are 91' tall, and she can fly 4200 square feet of sail. As a training vessel, she takes crews of students along the eastern seaboard, from her home port in Maine to various destinations ranging from the Canadian Maritimes to the Caribbean [3]