Editing Schooner (section)

== Uses ==

[[File:Bluenose vs. Gertrude L. Thebaud, Wallace R. MacAskill, 26 October, 1938.webm|thumb|Fishing schooners, Bluenose and Gertrude L. Thebaud in race]]

Schooners were built primarily for cargo, passengers, and fishing.

The Norwegian polar schooner ''[[Fram (ship)|Fram]]'' was used by both [[Fridtjof Nansen]] and [[Roald Amundsen]] in their explorations of the poles.

''Bluenose'' was both a successful fishing boat and a racer. [[America (yacht)|''America'']], eponym of [[America's Cup]], was one of the few schooners ever designed for racing. This race was long dominated by schooners. Three-masted schooner [[Atlantic (yacht)|''Atlantic'']] set the [[transatlantic sailing record]] for a [[monohull]] in the 1905 [[Kaiser's Cup]] race. The record remained unbroken for nearly 100 years.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/02/sports/othersports/schooner-breaks-centuryold-record-for-crossing-the.html| title= YACHT RACING; Schooner Breaks Century-Old Record for Crossing the Atlantic  | newspaper= The New York Times| first=Nancy | last=Ramsey | date=2005-06-02 | access-date=2010-04-25}}</ref>