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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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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