Sail Boston Festival and The Schooner Hindu

Last week wrapped up a landmark event for Boston - the return of the international Tall Ships of the SailBoston festival. Six days jam-packed with everything tall ships, sailing, maritime, and more, and then, like the next tide, they head back out. 

One ship, maneuvering in and around her fellow guests, was the Schooner Hindu. She and her counterparts the cutter Bloodhound and the new Appledore IV, normally sail out of Provincetown in the summer, and Key West in the winter with Hindu Sailing Charters.  

Long before the Hindu became one of Provincetown's most beloved charter sails, she had many past lives, including one as a valiant submarine hunter in WWII. The Hindu was built at East Boothbay, Maine in 1925. Designed by the renowned shipwright William H Hand Jr, to be sailed as a pleasure yacht for a wealthy New Yorker, she was originally named the Princess Pat. Over the following decades she changed names and owners, racing in the 1930 Newport-Bermuda boat race under the name Saispas. She was later sold to William A. Parker who was a spice trader between Boston and India, where her new name the Hindu stuck.

Join us at the Cape Cod Maritime Museum for our July 30th History on Tap, for an evening discussing the over 100 year history of this fine vessel, and her most recent and extensive restoration. Through historic photographs, personal stories, and behind-the-scenes insights from the restoration process, attendees will learn how this beloved vessel has become a living link to Cape Cod’s maritime past.

Written by George Perry                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Images from S. Notick and uniquelycat (Cathy) Smith