PORT TOWNSEND — Two three-hour public sails on the schooner Adventuress are being offered Sunday at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. to welcome the Revitalize WA state conference to town.
The Adventuress will leave from the Northwest Maritime Center dock at 431 Water St.
Tickets are $65 for adults and $35 for youth under age 18. Visit www.soundexp.org or call 360-379-0438, ext. 1 to sign up.
Revitalize WA is Washington’s annual statewide conference focused on historic preservation and economic revitalization and is brought to to Port Townsend by Washington State Main Street Program, Washington Trust for Historic Preservation and the Department of Archaeology & Historic Preservation.
The 133-foot, gaff-rigged schooner Adventuress is one of only two National Historic Landmark sailing ships still in active operation on the West Coast.
Built in 1913 in East Boothbay, Maine, for an arctic expedition which included naturalist/paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews (who went on to discover the first dinosaur eggs in Mongolia) with the American Museum of Natural History, the ship has a rich history.
Adventuress was named as Puget Sound’s official Environmental Tall Ship by the governor’s office for its on-the-water education programs for thousands of youth each year.
The schooner is owned by the nonprofit Sound Experience which has raised $2 million over the last decade to nearly fully restore the ship. With support from the state Heritage Capital Projects Fund, the organization is planning the final phase of restoration – the deck – to begin in October this year.
