T&T: 133-foot sailboat runs aground at Orcas Island

[GARY RITZMAN]

This sounds like the same place the  100-foot yacht "Malibu" which was built
in 1926 went aground in 2000.
<<<Gary Ritzman>>>   M/V Dharma   Albin 40  Mercer Island WA

133-foot sailboat runs aground at Orcas Island
The Washington state ferry Sealth helped remove 27 people from a 133-foot
historic sailboat that ran aground at Orcas Island on Monday, the Coast Guard
said.

No injuries were reported when the 95-year-old schooner Adventuress ran
aground at about noon in Wasp Passage in the San Juan Islands while sailing on
a school trip. The ship was scheduled to participate in the Victoria, British
Columbia, Tall Ships festival Thursday through Sunday and the Tacoma Tall
Ships Festival July 3-7, where it would also celebrate its 95th birthday.

The Coast Guard was investigating the cause of the grounding, said Petty
Officer Tara Molle.

"She's a tough old ship," said Catherine Collins, executive director of Sound
Experience, the Port Townsend company that sails the two-masted schooner.

Collins said the sailboat had previously run aground in the 1960s and came out
of the experience without a scratch.

"We're not worried," she said, adding that the ship was not taking on water.
"As soon as the tide comes in, they're going to float her."

High tide was at 10:08 p.m. Monday.

The sailboat had 15 passengers and a crew of 12 on board when it went aground,
Collins said.

According to the company's Web site, the wooden sailboat was built as a
pleasure yacht in 1913 but was quickly transformed into a working boat,
serving as the pilot boat for San Francisco Bay for 35 years. The Coast Guard
used the boat to patrol off San Francisco during World War II.

After years of neglect sitting on the beach near Sausalito, Calif., the ship
was brought to Seattle by new owners, participated in several youth education
programs and eventually was bought by the nonprofit Sound Experience for
educational and other trips in Washington's marine waters.

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