Zodiac
Built for the heirs to Johnson & Johnson pharmaceuticals fortune, the two-masted schooner Zodiac was designed in 1924 by William H. Hand, Jr. to epitomize the best features of the American fishing schooner. The 136-foot, 145-ton vessel competed in the 1928 Transatlantic Race, in which uncharacteristically light winds left heavy ships like the Zodiac to [...]
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Lady Washington
American fur trader Captain Robert Gray discovered the Columbia River in 1792, naming the major river of the Pacific Northwest after his ship, the Columbia Rediviva. Accompanying him was another ship, the Lady Washington. Nearly 200 years later, a group of Aberdeen, Washington ship enthusiasts approached the state of Washington about constructing a replica of [...]
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Betty
The Betty, a 47-foot auxiliary cutter was designed by the artist, musician, poet, and naval architech, Albert Strange. She was built in 1909 by Stow & Son at Shoreham, Sussex, England, and went on to have a storied career, including winning perhaps the most famous yacht race in the world–the Fastnet–to fishing in the south [...]
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Locally designed and built, the wooden racing boat Pirate has recently returned to Seattle for a complete restoration. Designed by Ted Geary, the boat was built in 1925 at Seattle’s Lake Union Dry Dock Co. Early in the process, the builders decided to make her the best boat of its type on the west coast. [...]
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Hawaiian Chieftain
The Hawaiian Chieftain is an interpretation of a typical European merchant trader of the turn of the nineteenth century. Her hull shape and rigging are similar to those of Spanish explorer’s ships used in the expeditions of the late eighteenth century along the Washington, Oregon, and California coasts. Built of steel in Hawaii in 1988, [...]
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Equator
The two-masted pygmy trading schooner Equator inspired passenger Robert Louis Stevenson in 1889 to write one of his most famous stories, “The Wrecker,” in his book, “Tales of the South Seas.” Originally built in San Francisco in 1888 as a copra trader, it was converted to a steam rig in 1902 and eventually abandoned in [...]
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Lavengro
Originally known as Helen, the Lavengro was designed and built by “Jack-A-Jack” Covacavich on Back Bay, Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1927. She represents the style of the working shrimp schooners of that era. Designed for waters both shoal and turbulent, the 46-foot Lavengro is built of cypress planking with a yellow pine centerboard and gaff rigged [...]
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Adventuress
The 133' historic schooner Adventuress (1913) is owned and operated by nonprofit Sound Experience. As Puget Sound's environmental tall ship, Adventuress is used as a platform to educate, inspire and empower all to care for the region's waterways.
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