The Pilot Schooner Virginia owned by The Virginia Pilot Association back in 1917, was the 4th wooden schooner used to move the pilots to their ships outside of the Chesapeake Bay. The Schooner Virginia was built in order to keep the pilots sharp sailors and to train apprentices. Shipwrights A. C. Brown and Son, Tottenville, Staten Island, New York built the schooner in 1916 and then she was sailed to Virginia to be a pilot schooner. The Schooner Virginia was a beautiful, sleek, wooden, sailing vessel.

John MacLeod worked on the correctness of "The Schooner Virginia" design for a year. John has painted her sailing due south past the York Spit Screwpile lighthouse, Virginia. It should be noted that a new replica ship is being built at Waterside Norfolk, Virginia to be launched in the fall of 2004.