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Victoria Tall Ships 2008 Fleet

The festival will fill both the Enterprise and Ship Point sites. For a map of the Enterprise site click here, for the Ship Point site click here.

Ship Boarding Guidelines

All of the ships listed below look forward to welcoming all of those visitors in possession of a boarding pass, but there are some guidelines that everyone coming aboard is asked to comply with. For a full outline of the boarding regulations, please CLICK HERE.

	USCG Eagle The Eagle is a three-masted sailing barque with 21,350 square feet of sail. It is home ported at the CG Academy, New London, Connecticut. It is the only active commissioned sailing vessel in the U.S. maritime services. CLICK FOR MORE USCG Eagle is a Barque
	Bounty The Bounty, built in 1960 for MGM’s Mutiny on the Bounty starring Marlon Brando, will make her first Victoria visit in almost 20 years. CLICK FOR MORE Bounty is a fully rigged ship.
	Kaisei Launched in 1990, Kaisei has already traversed the globe and sailed thousands of people to far reaching ports in the spirit of Global Partnership. Kaisei participated in the Columbus Fleet Events in 1992 and had the honor of flying the UN flag due to her international crew and mission CLICK FOR MORE Kaisei is a Brigantine
	Niña The Niña is a replica of the ship on which Columbus sailed across the Atlantic on his three voyages of discovery to the new world beginning in 1492. CLICK FOR MORE Niña is a 15th Century Caravel Redondo
	Lady Washington The Lady Washington is the Official Ship of the State of Washington and was the Interceptor in Pirates of the Carribean! The Lady Washington was launched in 1989 as a Washington State Centennial project. CLICK FOR MORE Lady Washington is a Brig
	HMCS Oriole Her Majesty's Canadian Ship ORIOLE is the oldest ship in the Canadian Navy. For three-quarters of her life, the 83-year-old steel ketch has served as a naval sail training vessel, helping sailors understand the importance of teamwork and connecting them intimately to the power of wind and sea. CLICK FOR MORE HMCS Oriole is a Ketch
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	Pacific Grace Built at the S.A.L.T.S. Heritage Shipyard in Victoria, the Pacific Grace slipped her lines May 31, 2001 to embark on her maiden voyage. The Pacific Grace completed several successful seasons of coastal programs before embarking in September, 2003 on her maiden offshore voyage to the "South Pacific". CLICK FOR MORE Pacific Grace is a Schooner
	Pacific Swift Built by S.A.L.T.S. as a working exhibit at Expo 86 in Vancouver, British Columbia, the Pacific Swift has sailed over 100,000 deep-sea miles on training voyages for young trainees. Her offshore travels have taken her to Australia and Europe, to remote communities on Easter and Pitcairn Islands, and to many other unusual and far-flung ports of call. CLICK FOR MORE Pacific Swift is a Topsail Schooner
	Hawaiian Chieftain The topsail ketch Hawaiian Chieftain is a replica of a typical European merchant trader of the turn of the nineteenth century. Her hull shape and rigging are similar to those of Spanish explorer's ships used in the expeditions of the late 18th century along the Washington, Oregon, and California coasts. CLICK FOR MORE Hawaiian Chieftain is a Topsail Ketch
	North Star Of Herschel Island North Star of Herschel Island is the last of the sailing Arctic cargo ships. CLICK FOR MORE North Star of Herschel Island is a fully rigged ship.
	Blarney Pilgrim Blarney Pilgrim, built in 1986, is based on a design found in Frederik Chapman’s 1768 book, Architectura Navalis Mercatoria. She was voted the “Boat of Greatest Interest” at the Vancouver Wooden Boat Festival in 2001, and participated in Tallships 2002 and 2005. CLICK FOR MORE Blarney Pilgrim is a Top's Schooner
	Adventuress Adventuress, a 133’ gaff-rigged schooner, was built in 1913. On her first trip, she sailed all the way down to and through the Straits of Magellan and then up to arctic waters. CLICK FOR MORE Adventuress is a Gaff Topsail Two-masted Schooner
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	Lynx LYNX “America ’s Privateer” sails as a living history museum, serving as a classroom for the study of history, ecology and the environment. CLICK FOR MORE Lynx is a Square Topsail Schooner
	Mycia S/V Mycia .. Designed, lofted and keeled at the School of Wooden Boat Building, Mycia was built on site at the family home shop also in port townsend Washington. CLICK FOR MORE Mycia is a Gaff Schooner
	Rejoice Rejoice was donated to the La Conner Sea Scouts in 1992 by Ramon and Florence Brown. The story goes that Rejoice was built as wedding gift by a man who was marrying his wife for a second time, her name was Joyce so hence the name "Rejoice" CLICK FOR MORE Rejoice is a Schooner
	Maple Leaf In 1904, the schooner Maple Leaf splashed from Vancouver Shipyard’s ways into the Pacific, beginning a century of highlights as B.C.’s fastest sailing yacht, tough halibut long liner and, now, B.C.’s heritage tall ship... CLICK FOR MORE Maple Leaf is a Schooner
	Yankee Clipper A familiar sight through Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands, the Gaff Ketch Yankee Clipper has been training young men and women in the ways of the sea since 1950. Based out of West Seattle on the Duwamish River, the Yankee Clipper carries on the Sea Scout program started in 1930 and its new year round youth maritime training program. CLICK FOR MORE Yankee Clipper is a Gaff Ketch
	Amazing Grace Amazing Grace is an 83’ topsail schooner and sets a square topsail on the foremast and seven fore and aft sails. Based out of Gig Harbor, Washington, she sails with a crew of five and is available for charter. CLICK FOR MORE Amazing Grace is a Topsail Schooner
	Grail Dancer Grail Dancer was built on Thetis Isld. by owners Maureen and Wayne Loiselle and launched off the beach in 2000. Based on the lines of a Noank Well Smack (a working fish boat from 1866,) she presently sails B. C. waters as a schooner rig CLICK FOR MORE Grail Dancer is a Schooner
	Cutty Sark This 52-foot long vessel is the first of ten sister ships of the Mayflower class designed by Hugh Angleman and Charlie Davies, she wears the number 1 proudly on her mains’l. CLICK FOR MORE Cutty Sark is a Gaff Ketch
	Zodiac The Zodiac is the largest working schooner on the West Coast. It is a U.S. Coast Guard Certified vessel. It is fully equipped to take up to 24 passengers comfortably on a week-long cruise. CLICK FOR MORE Zodiac is a Schooner
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	Kia Ora Kia Ora was built from the famous L. Frances Herreshoff schooner design “Joann” with a five-foot keel to enter shallow lagoons and traditional hands on rigging. She launched in Seattle in 1980, and participates in local and international schooner races. CLICK FOR MORE Kia Ora is a Schooner
	Sooke Longboats The building of T'Sou-ke and her sister longboat, Doña Rosa, was undertaken in 1989 to celebrate the bicentennial of the founding of Sooke. Following a design by Master shipwright Greg Foster, students from the Edward Milne Community School and local volunteers, working under the guidance of both Greg Foster and shipwright Sean Luttmer, completed the two longboats for launching in April of 1990. CLICK FOR MORE
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