Lake Union Drydock, Seattle, Washington. County/parish: King.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 11, 1989. NRIS 89001067.
1 contributing structure.Also known as:
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).
National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75611918