Robertson
Schooner Yacht, Sail and Life Training Society 1940
Robertson II is a Grand Banks Schooner and probably the last of the Canadian fleet still at sea. The length of the bridge is 105 ' ( 32m ) , width 22 ' (6.7 m) draft 11 ' ( 3.4 m) and tonnage of 170 tons. It was built in 1940 by WG McKay and Sons in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, and was employed in the fishery until it was moved to the West Coast in 1974. The Nova Scotia has a reputation for producing some of the finest fishing schooners. At the height of their era, around the time of World War I, it has been among the fastest sailboats in the world and a source of intense pride for their builders and crews .
Robertson II at that time 55 years old, clearly beyond his expectation and begins to feel his age. Over the past 20 years has been operated as a sail training ship by Sail And Life Training Society of the state of Victoria BC . In this period has enabled thousands of young people to have a glimpse of the conduction of life on a large timber ship in and has become a feature of the waterfront of Victoria.