Ahoy, mateys!
The brig Lady Washington will sail into Edmonds with a cannon salute at 9 p.m. Wednesday for a five-day visit at Edmonds Marina.
Visitors can take tours from 12:30 to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Crew in era- appropriate costumes will welcome visitors and explain the history and activities of the ship. Guests are asked to give a $3 donation per person.
Three-hour sailings, which include demonstrations of tall ship handling, sea-shanty singing and maritime storytelling, will be offered at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $55 for adults, $45 for students, seniors and active military, and $35 for ages 11 and younger.
Tickets are also on sale for Lady Washington’s eight-hour, one-way, red-eye passage from Edmonds to Port Townsend at 6 p.m. Sunday. Those tickets cost $135.
Purchase tickets in advance for all sailings at www.historical seaport.org or call 800-200-5239.
The 112-foot Lady Washington, designated by the Legislature as the state’s official ship in 2007, has appeared in several movies, including the Disney picture “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” in 2003.
First launched in 1989, the ship is a full-scale reproduction of the original Lady Washington, which became the first American vessel to make landfall on the west coast of North America in 1788 after sailing around South America’s treacherous Cape Horn.
Sarah Jackson: 425-339-3037, sjackson@heraldnet.com.
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