Adventuress (schooner)
Adventuress Participating in the 2008 Tacoma Tall Ships Festival. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Adventuress |
| Builder | Rice Brothers |
| Launched | 1913 |
| Home port | Port Townsend, WA |
| Identification |
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| Nickname(s) | "The A" |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Schooner |
| Displacement | 115 tons |
| Length | 133 ft (41 m) |
| Beam | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
| Height | 110 ft (34 m) |
| Draft | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Propulsion | 5,478 sq ft (508.9 m2) of Sail & auxiliary diesel engine |
| Sail plan | Gaff–rigged |
| Boats & landing craft carried | A-ya’-she (Sid Skiff) , W’ha-lé ( Achilles inflatable, 20 hp Yamaha) Hobbes (former inflatable), Jefé (former inflatable |
Adventuress (Schooner) | |
| Location | Seattle, Washington |
| Built | 1913 |
| Architect | Bowdoin B. Crowninshield Rice Brothers |
| NRHP reference No. | 89001067 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | April 11, 1989 |
| Designated NHL | April 11, 1989 |
Adventuress is a 133-foot (41 m) gaff-rigged schooner launched in 1913 in East Boothbay, Maine. She has since been restored, and is listed as a National Historic Landmark. She is one of two surviving San Francisco bar pilot schooners.
Adventuress is currently operated by Sound Experience, a non-profit organization based in Port Townsend, Washington.
Smallboats
Adventuress carries two smallboats in davits aft of her main shrouds.
Her current rescue boat/ pushboat is an Achilles hypalon inflatable named W’ha-lé, equipped with an 20hp Yamaha outboard named Porpoise. She is carried in the port davits. W’ha-lé was stolen from Adventuress in her first months of service in 2022 but was quickly recovered.
In her starboard davits Adventuress carries a 1979 Sid Skiff built by Ray Speck in Sausalito. Her name is A-ya’-she. A-ya’-she was the 2023 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival Short Course-Fixed Seat Rowing race champion. Her name means “Little One” in Chippewa/Ojibwe. The boat also participated in the 2024 Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival “Row Row Row My Boat” event.
Adventuress’ former rescue boats were named Hobbes (outboard: Calvin) and Jefé (outboard: Fast Eddie).