Royaliste
Royaliste is a living history interpretation and reenactment vessel. She is a 68' LOA gaff-rigged, square-tops'l ketch refit to specifications of an 18th-century dispatch gunboat/bomb ketch.
Royaliste is for sale. Please contact us or click on the link on the right for more information.
Royaliste offers period sail-training, mock battle sails, and historic dockside tours complete with an extensive, 'floating artifact museum', with an emphasis on privateering, trade, whaling, and of course, piracy!Since 2002 Royaliste has sailed the waters of the Pacific, Atlantic and Great Lakes. She will be launching the 2010 season at Plattsburgh, NY on Lake Champlain in preparation for transit down the Erie Canal.
Ensigns: She has flown the colors of 3 nations: France during the French Indian War, Britain at the start of the Revolutionary War and the United States during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.
For special events the Royaliste also travels overland on short notice.
