Bailey Louise Todd

Built for passenger service at Milbridge, Maine, in 1984, she follows the Biloxi freight schooners of Mississippi — shallow-draft vessels that carried cargo along the Gulf Coast in the late nineteenth century. Philip Shelton and Don Baman built her for Captain Steve Pagels to a design by Howard I. Chapelle.

Her first name, Janet May, was that of the owner's wife, and she ran day sails from Bar Harbor. In 1990 the non-profit Schooner, Inc. bought her to replace the J. N. Carter as a platform for its environmental education programmes; the organisation is devoted to the conservation of Long Island Sound and the rivers of Connecticut and to an appreciation of their culture and history.

Representing the City of New Haven, she took part in the Operation Sail events for the Columbus Quincentenary at New York, Boston and Newport, and in 1992 her crew won a bronze medal at the American Sail Training Association Rally in Newport.

Steve Pagels later bought her back, renamed her Bailey Louise Todd and ran her as a charter ship. In October 2023 she stranded off Bar Island in an autumn storm after her mooring parted.