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chooner Lavengro is part of the Northwest Schooner Society and we use historic ships to demonstrate the power and exhilaration of teamwork. We harness the wind, giving our students-of-any-age a new perspective on their own strengths and weaknesses.
From our home ports in Bellingham and Seattle, we sail the stunning and protected waters of Washington State and British Columbia. The Society organizes a variety of learning cruises aboard the historic Schooner Lavengro as well as enlisting the privately owned Schooner Zodiac for activities requiring a larger vessel.
The Northwest Schooner Society provides a unique opportunity for teens and adults to experience a piece of American history. It's a non-profit, tax exempt organization, founded in 1994 to allow more people to experience the excitement and challenge of old-fashioned seamanship, twenty-four hours a day.
Mission Goals of The Northwest Schooner Society
People
The Northwest Schooner Society is powered by people, as much as our boats are powered by wind. Schooner people know the joy of working with-- rather than against-- environmental forces. We would like to share that knowledge with you.
Programs
The Northwest Schooner Society has created a multi disciplinary educational program that will be offered in 1998 aboard the privately owned schooner Zodiac. Under billowing canvas, students will learn physics as demonstrated by the principles of sail propulsion and hull speed, mathematics as applied to navigation, environmental awareness, teamwork, and most importantly, self-esteem as they work with their shipmates, hauling sail to harness the elements.
Places
The Northwest Schooner Society operates in the waters which unite British Columbia, Canada and Washington State. We facilitate educational cruises which take place within Seattle's Lake Washington - Lake Union waters, all the way up to Desolation Sound, B.C.
Preservation
The American fishing schooners have now gone out of existence, except for one or two vessels preserved as museum exhibits. During the last sixty years of their evolution, as sail-driven commercial craft, they were admired at home and abroad for their sailing qualities, seaworthiness, and beauty.
The American Fishing Schooners, 1825-1935
by Howard I. Chapelle
In 1973, when historian Chapelle wrote these words, it did appear that the last of the wooden schooners would sink beneath the waves with scarcely a ripple of notice. Fortunately a number of people and organizations around the country had already fallen in love with a number of the surviving tall ships, and were working to preserve them. Northwest Schooner Society volunteers have a long history of working to preserve historic vessels, and to introduce hundreds of people each year to our rich maritime heritage.
Experience It For Yourself...!
Lavengro is a living history of our maritime past. Learn how we are connected to the great wind ships and sailors of yesteryear. You will 'man' the helm and be called to 'watches' by the ship's bell. Learn your sailing station and raise the sails on the only working and classic gaff-rigged Biloxi Schooner on the West Coast. Using charts, learn to identify aids and hazards to navigation. Plot the schooner's course as Captain Vancouver did in these waters two hundred years ago.
1 - 800 - 551 - NWSS (6977)
Northwest Schooner Society - 900 Terry Ave. - Seattle WA - 98105
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