Schooner Sailing Vessel

According to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, the first vessel called a schooner was built by builder Andrew Robinson and launched in 1713 from Gloucester, Massachusetts. Legend has it that the name was the result a spectator exclaiming "Oh how she scoons", scoon being similar to scon, a Scots word meaning to skip along the surface the water. Robinson replied, "A schooner let her be." According to Walter William Skeat, the term schooner comes from scoon, while the sch spelling comes from the later adoption the Dutch and German spellings ("Schoner").
Other sources state the etymology as unknown and uncertain.