52' Colvin Schooner Brigantine

I first became involved with One World nearly 20 years ago, though her story began long before. She was not an abandoned vessel, but already in the hands of a capable sailor an old acquaintance of my father, a professor from Loyola College in Pennsylvania.

He had originally purchased her in Nanny Cay, BVI, and taken her north to Pennsylvania. There he welded on the raised poop deck, re-rigged her with a yard arm, and bought a full new suit of sails. At the time, he was granted a years sabbatical from his academic career so rather than completing a refined interior, he and his sons simply made do with the rough layout she had and set off to sea.

What followed was a remarkable adventure: they sailed her across the Atlantic, through the Mediterranean, down the east coast of Africa, around the Cape, and onward to South America. They took her deep into the Amazon River before returning north to the Chesapeake Bay. Though no written record of this voyage survives, her track certainly circumnavigated Africa, and she returned seasoned from a true bluewater odyssey.

As built, she was a Colvin Pipistrelle design, but the modifications deeper keel, raised afterdeck, and improvised interior made her unusual. When my father acquired her, he saw both her strengths and her unfinished potential.

In 2009, we carried out a bare-hull refit in Annapolis. I personally oversaw this work, restoring her interior and systems to Tom Colvins philosophy of strength, practicality, and self-reliance. The result was One World reborn a fully outfitted, ocean-ready ship.

Her history since then has been equally notable. Built of Corten steel and carrying the distinctive rig of a gaff brigantine, she embodies Colvins ideals of yachts that are practical, seaworthy, and capable of carrying families safely across oceans with confidence. As One World, she raced on the Chesapeake and Chartered in the Caribbean, voyaged to the Galpagos, and spent years introducing thousands of guests to the magic of tall-ship sailing in the San Blas Islands.

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