Schooner Yacht WILD GOOSE
Specifications:
- Designer: Walter McInnis
- Launched: 1929 Gloucester Yacht Yard
- Gloucester MA, Ben Colby Manager
- LOA: 47’ 6” LWL: 34’ 6”
- Beam: 11’ 8”
- Draft: 6’ 5”
- Sail Area: 1265 sq. ft.
- Displacement: 28,000 lbs
- Power: Diesel, Perkins 4-108
- Diesel Transmission: Hurth
- Wild Goose Hull Plan #138 (Full Size 480 MB)
- Wild Goose Hull Plan #138 (Small)
- Wild Goose Sail Plan #138 (Full Size 271MB)
With a spacious cockpit, WILD GOOSE comfortably accommodates ten members and guests. She sleeps 5 and has a full galley with stove, oven, micro-wave, sink and refrigerator. Berthed on E Dock in Montrose Harbor, she is the oldest sailboat moored in Chicago. She is one of seven Eastward Schooners, most built in the 1920’s and 1930’s, of which four are still afloat. Under full sail and with a fresh breeze, she can cruise at nine knots. Her wooden dinghy is named CHASE. 
Things We Enjoy on WILD GOOSE
- Watch the fireworks on Wednesday and Saturday nights off Navy Pier
- Cruise down the lakefront at dusk to watch the sun set over the city
- Take weekend cruises to St. Joe, Michigan City or Racine
- Sail out to watch the start of the Mac Race in July
- Join the Annual Fleet Review of the Chicago Yacht Club in late June
- Take a front row seat for the Fourth of July fireworks
- Give our arch nemesis, the 1929 Alden Schooner ALLEGRO a pounding in our annual grudge match, during the Leukemia Cup Regatta in August
- Watch the Air and Water Show in August
- Take an extended cruise around the lake in September or October