Four nights aboard a working schooner!! The Mary Day is called a windjammer and is powered solely by its sails. It was specifically designed to carry guests rather than cargo. What impressed me before even signing up for the cruise were some of the statements made on their website, “We are the owners/operators/guardians. We've been sailing Penobscot Bay for three decades and wouldn't miss sharing this experience with you.”
Mary Day is described as a ‘working’ schooner because guests are invited to voluntarily join in on some of the daily tasks aboard a schooner. This can include such activities as helping prepare food, pulling the ropes to raise and lower sails and helping with meal clean up. Guests are not allowed to go up ladders, operate the anchor or small craft that take people to shore. It is all fun and relaxing. Somehow, peeling potatoes or cranking the ice cream bucket does not seem like work when it is done on the deck.