Schooner Etymology
According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911, the first schooner ship’s protector of Baumeister was Andrew Robinson and in 1713, Gloucester, Massachusetts. The legend says that the name of the schooner was the result of a spectator exclaimed: “Oh, how they Scoon,” a Scottish word that Scoon skip or skim over the water. Robinson replied, “A schooner let her be.” According to Walter William Skeat, the schooner term comes from the word Scoon, while the sch spelling comes from the subsequent adoption of the spelling in Dutch and German. So that’s how the word “Schooner”.