PORT ANGELES — Welcome aboard.
Walk-on tours of the tall ships Lady Washington and Hawaiian Chieftain are scheduled to begin today and will continue throughout Memorial Day weekend at City Pier near the intersection of Railroad Avenue and Lincoln Street.
The ships also will offer battle sales and an adventure sail.
Today’s tours, led by crew members dressed in 18th-century costumes, are scheduled from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Tours will be offered from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday through Monday.
A $3 donation per visitor is requested.
Battle sails between the two ships will fill the harbor with the sight and sound of an 18th-century naval skirmish beginning at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and Memorial Day.
Tickets for the three-hour sails are $60 for adults; $50 for students, seniors and active military; and $40 for children 12 and younger. Groups of eight or more receive a 15 percent discount per ticket.
A $35 adventure sail, which features demonstrations of tall-ship handling, sea shanties and maritime storytelling, is set aboard the Lady Washington at 10 a.m. Sunday.
After their Port Angeles stop, the ships are scheduled to first visit British Columbia waters — including Victoria, Sidney, Richmond and Vancouver, B.C. — before returning to the North Olympic Peninsula to dock at the Port Ludlow Marina from Thursday, June 16, through Sunday, June 19.
The Lady Washington is the official ship of the state of Washington.
Launched in 1989, the ship is a full-size wooden replica of a brig that accompanied Capt. Robert Gray’s expedition to the Pacific Northwest in 1788.
The Hawaiian Chieftain, which accompanies Lady Washington on her voyages, is a replica of a typical 19th-century merchant trader, a steel-hulled vessel built for trade in the Hawaiian Islands. It was launched in 1988.
To purchase tickets and check the ships’ schedule, visit www.historicalseaport.org or phone 800-200-5239.
