White Head launches its first wooden schooner in a century: a journey of health, family and friendship through boatbuilding

A month after the white oak keel was laid, Bill Munroe was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis. The same disease that killed his mother four decades earlier was scarring and thickening his lung tissue. The diagnosis came with a three-to-five-year life expectancy. Eight years and a double lung transplant later, Munroe watched Malcolm MacEachern contort a […]