Pleiades is a traditionally rigged gaff, Pinky Schooner. Designed by Howard I Chapelle as a replica of an 1830’s era Eastport Pinky Schooner. Pinky’s were used during colonial times and up to the 1850s as mackerel fishing boats. Mackerel feed going upwind so the Pinkys had to go to windward better than the Chebacco boats they replaced. Pleiades has spent her entire history in the Pacific Northwest recently in charter out of Port Townsend she underwent a major refit in 2006 here at Port Townsend and is currently conducting charters at Alderbrook Resort on the Hood Canal, in Union, Wa.
