Helm and antique compass aboard the schooner “Zodiac.”

On April 24 and 25, 2010, visitors

to Tacoma’s Thea Foss Waterway were taken back 100 years in maritime history when a fleet of ten elegant schooners moored at the Maritime Museum dock for the first annual Schooner Rendezvous. The schooners

All is shipshape on the deck of the “Zodiac.”

participating were the Grail, Kia Ora, Lavengro, Mallory Todd, Martha, Merrie Ellen, Reality, Red Jacket, W.N. Ragland, and Zodiac.

Seeing these schooners cruising on

the horizon is a lovely sight, with their gaff rigged masts towering over their

“Deception Passage

broad, rounded wooden decks; but there’s nothing better than seeing ten schooners in one place and being able to appreciate these beauties close up by walking through them and talking to their crews and captains. The first annual Pacific Northwest

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