The Quinnipiack (ex- Janet May) was built in 1984 in Millbridge, Maine for Captain Steve Pagels as a passenger carrying reproduction of a traditional Biloxi coasting schooner. She is a two-masted, gaff-rigged centerboard schooner. Shallow draft schooners carried freight along the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the late 1800s, they are ideal vessels for the shallow ports of Long Island Sound.

The Quinnipiack is unique in that she is made almost entirely of one type of wood, Maine Hackmatack. The main, the fore and both masts are made from fir trees. She is 91 feet sparred length, with a sail area of 2,500 square feet. She is now owned by Schooner, Inc. of New Haven, Connecticut and is operated as an educational vessel on Long Island Sound. Schooner Quinnipiack is also available for charter and public sail.