Grand Parade of Sail - Friday, August 15th 2008
10:00AM - 12:00PM
Entering through Angels Gate, the vessels will proceed north up the main channel, beneath the Vincent Thomas Bridge, and turn around in the turning basin. Each vessel will proceed south in the channel until they reach their dock. Narrated viewing sites are located at Berth 87, Berth 84 (Maritime Museum), Fish Market, and Ports O' Call, and visible from other locations with a view of the channel.
 
Ship Descriptions in Parade Order
(Parade order may change without notice)
 
FIRE BOAT NUMBER 2
Fireboat #2 is the world’s most powerful fireboat. Assigned to protect the world's largest man-made harbor, the Department's fleet of five fireboats are indispensable in controlling ship and wharf fires. Coordinating their efforts with engine companies, fire attack can be simultaneously made from the land and water sides. Qualified Firefighters are assigned to the fireboats as Pilots, Mates, and Scuba Divers, where the art of underwater fire-fighting was conceived and refined.
 
This 105-foot vessel has state-of-the-art technology with the capability of pumping up to 38, 000 gallons per minute. It was designed with an extremely unique propulsion system, for a fireboat, allowing it to maneuver in ways that were unheard of in the past. There is also a dedicated area for patient treatment and care in the event of an at sea medical emergency.
 
The Ralph C. Scott, the original Los Angeles fireboat, is on display in the parking area near berth 87.
 
Architect Robert Allan LTD
Constructed by Nichols Boats of Freeland, Washington
Launched January 17, 2003
Arrival in Port of L.A. March 21, 2003
Dedication April 12, 2003
 
 
 
EXY JOHNSON and IRVING JOHNSON
The host vessels of the festival, Exy Johnson and Irving Johnson are known as the “Twin Brigantines.” They are the Official Tall Ships of the City of Los Angeles, and the youth who sail them are the Maritime Ambassadors of the city. Built right here in San Pedro in the parking lot next to the Maritime Museum at a cost of $4.5 million each, they were launched in 2003. They are 110-foot brigantines, custom-designed to accomodate young crews, and were “built to last 100 years.” Though professional shipwrights were employed, most of the work was done by local volunteers. Most needed repair and maintenance work is still done by volunteers.
 
The brigantines were named after husband and wife Irving and Electa “Exy” Johnson, who pioneered the concept of youth sail-training. Beginning in the 1930s, they sailed around the world with youth crews seven times, in vessels named Yankee. The American Sail Training Association grew out of their vision. Irving died in 1991, but Exy participated in the christening of their namesake brigantines in 2003.
 
The brigantines are owned and operated by the Los Angeles Maritime Institute, a non-profit organization which runs the award-winning Topsail Youth Program. Through Topsail, thousands of at-risk youth from the Los Angeles area have been exposed to the real world of sailing and given opportunities to learn team-building, self-confidence, and leadership. The Institute’s motto is, “We do not train youth for lives at sea, we use sailing the seas to educate youth for life.” Topsail Youth Ambassadors have participated in Tallship races in Europe, and some have gone on to maritime careers.
 
Though the vessels were built as twins, there are differences between them, some obvious, some more subtle. The most obvious is the coloring. Exy Johnson may be identified by her bright red stripe and scrollwork under the bowsprit, while Irving Johnson sports a distinctive blue. Challenge yourself to find some of the other differences as you tour both vessels.
 
The Maritime Institute welcomes new and experienced volunteers to sail the brigantines along with Topsail Youthand help with various other ship and shore tasks. Ask the crewmembers for more information.
 
As hosts of this Festival, the Institute would also welcome the public to volunteer today, Saturday, or Sunday to help with the festival. Sign in as the Volunteer Booth behind the LAMI offices on the grass in front of the fireboat house.
 
Class: B
Type: Brigantine
Sparred Length: 110 feet
Tonnage: 128
Draft: 8 feet
Rig Height: 86 feet
 
 
UNITED STATES COAST GUARD BARQUE “EAGLE”
Eagle is the largest vessel participating in the festival, at 295 feet in length. She is proudly operated by the Coast Guard as their premier training ship for U.S. Coast Guard Academy cadets and officer candidates. Her commanding officer is Captain Joseph “Chris” Sinnett, a 1983 graduate of the Coast Guard Academy with a bachelor of science degree in marine engineering. He also holds a master of business administration from Florida International University in Miami and a master of arts in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island.
 
Eagle is a steel-hulled three-masted barque, which means that she has square sails on her foremast and mainmast, but only fore-and-aft sails on her mizzen, or rear, mast. She can fly 28 sails when everything is set. She is a true flyer, having beaten the previously undefeated schooner Lynx in the recent race from San Francisco to Channel Islands Harbor! This is Eagle’s second visit to Los Angeles this month. She was here two weeks earlier for a crew and cadet “swab” exchange and port visit.
 
She is one of five sister ships built for sail training in Germany in the 1930s. Eaglewas included in reparations paid to the United States following the end of the Second World War. Today, she is an integral part of the training of the United States Coast Guard Academy. Aboard the Eagle, cadets are able to actively utilize their leadership and professional training in navigation, engineering and other maritime skills. She is maintained and operated by six officers and a permanent crew of 54, stationed on board for two to three years at a time. Each year, the Eagle provides leadership and coaching to more than 700 trainees and 60 short- term temporary crew.     
 
Class: A
Type: Barque
Sparred Length: 295 feet
Tonnage: 1824
Draft: 16 feet
Rig Height: 147 feet
Web Site: www.uscga.edu
 
 
CALIFORNIAN
Built in 1984 at Spanish Landing in San Diego Bay, the Californian is the “Official Tallship of the State of California”, the only ship to ever carry such a prestigious title. She is s 145-foot square-topsail schooner and is a replica of the 1847 revenue cutter the C.W. Lawrence, a vessel that patrolled the California coast against smugglers. The Revenue Service was the precursor to today’s Coast Guard.
 
The Californian is owned and operated by the San Diego Maritime Museum. She is manned by a volunteer crew and specializes in public day-sails and educational voyages. She has made numerous journeys up and down the West Coast and voyages to Hawaii and Mexico.
 
Class: B
Type: Square-topsail schooner
Sparred Length: 145 feet
Tonnage: 130
Draft:
Rig Height:
 
 
SEAWARD
Seaward is an 82’ steel-hulled classic staysail schooner built in 1988 for both comfortable charters in protected waters and for rigorous offshore sailing. She is annually inspected and certified by the U.S. Coast Guard as a passenger vessel for voyages up to 200 miles offshore from Alaska to Panama. She has the highest possible stability rating — for exposed waters — and has a smooth and comfortable motion.
               
Seaward is operated by Call of the Sea, a non-profit organization in San Francisco, whose mission is to inspire people of all ages and backgrounds to connect with the sea through educational programs aboard traditional sailing vessels that focus on marine sciences, nautical heritage, the ocean environment and careers in the maritime profession. Call of the Sea relies on volunteers and the financial support of people in the community.
 
Class: C
Type: Staysail schooner
Sparred Length: 82 feet
Tonnage: 65
Draft: 8 feet 4 inches
Rig Height:
 
 
ROBERT C. SEAMANS
Owned by the Sea Education Association (SEA), the Robert C. Seamans was designed by Laurent Giles and built at JM Martinac shipbuilding in Tacoma, Washington. She is a 134-foot steel brigantine and is the most sophisticated oceanographic research/sailing school vessel ever built in the United States. Improvements in design and equipment, including a wet/dry laboratory and larger library, classroom, and computer laboratory, greatly enhance the ship's academic program. Sea Education Association is based in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and operates in the Atlantic with a second vessel, the Corwith Cramer. Robert C. Seamans will be participating in the parade and a crew exchange only.
 
Class: B
Type: Brigantine
Sparred Length: 134 feet
Tonnage: 300
Draft: 12 feet 3 inches
Rig Height: 110 feet
Web Site: www.sea.edu
 
 
PILGRIM
Pilgrimis a 130-foot brig and marks its 60th birthday this year. The ship is a full size replica of the hide brig immortalized by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. in his American classic seafaring novel "Two Years Before the Mast." Flying fourteen sails, including eight square sails, the Pilgrim maintains a distinctively majestic appearance.
 
Coming to Dana Point in 1981, the vessel serves the Ocean Institute as a powerful educational tool. Thousands of children step aboard the Pilgrim’s decks each school year to participate in one of her many award-winning living history programs. She is manned by a volunteer crew who spend much of the year maintaining this beautiful vessel.
 
Class: B
Type: Brig
Sparred Length: 130 feet
Tonnage: 64
Draft:
Rig Height: 98 feet
 
 
SPIRIT OF DANA POINT
The Spirit of Dana Point is a traditionally built, 118-foot accurate replica of a 1770’s privateer used during the American Revolution. These ships were known for their speed and were used for smuggling and the slave trade. She is owned and operated by the Ocean Institute in Dana Point and is an excellent platform for youth to directly experience life at sea as it was for hundreds of years. She sails with educational programs over 150 days a year. If she looks familiar, you’ve likely seen her in numerous movies, documentaries, commercials, and catalogs.
 
Class: B
Type: Baltimore Clipper schooner
Sparred Length: 118 feet
Tonnage: 64
Draft:
Rig Height:
 
 
HMS BOUNTY
HMS Bounty is a 180-foot full-rigged ship straight out of the classic Age of Sail. A true old-Hollywood celebrity, the HMS Bounty was built for the 1962 MGM movie “Mutiny on the Bounty”, starring Marlon Brando, which tells the true story of the famous 1789 mutiny against Captain William Bligh of the British Royal Navy in the South Pacific.
 
Captain Bligh is generally portrayed as a cruel tyrant, quick with punishment and the lash. The crew, led by Fletcher Christian mutineed and set the captain and his loyal followers adrift in one of the ships boats. The crew, meanwhile, took the Bounty to Tahiti and later Pitcairn Island, where they intermarried with the island women. Miraculously, Captain Bligh survived a 4000-mile journey in the open boat, and brought the Navy to search for the mutineers.
 
An interesting story about the making of the movie is related by current Bounty Captain, Robin Wallgridge: Marlon Brando reportedly refused to accept his starring role when he found out that the studio planned to burn the newly-build ship in the final scene. He felt it an unacceptable waste to destroy the majestic replica. To placate their star, MGM built a 40-foot model which was burned instead. This model, however, burned faster than expected, so a careful viewing of the scene will show the same mast buring twice as the film clip is repeated to extend the scene.
 
Today, the ship is dedicated to educational development and works closely with various organizations on leadership-learning and youth education-at-sea programs. In 2008, the ship is traveling around the world in commemoration of the 220th anniversary of the original Bounty’s first arrival in Tahiti in 1788. She is based in Greenport, New York.
 
There will be a special screening of “Mutiny on The Bounty” tonight at 8 o’clock.at the Warner Grand Theater in downtown San Pedro. Tickets are available in booths here at the Festival as well as at the theater.
 
Class: A
Type: Full-rigged ship
Sparred Length: 180 feet
Tonnage: 412
Draft: 13 feet
Rig Height: 115 feet
 
 
CURLEW
Curlewis the oldest tall ship in the festival. Designed by the legendary John G. Alden, built in 1926 at Fred F. Pendleton’s shipyard in Wiscasset, Maine. In the ‘40’s, she was donated to the Merchant Marine Academy where she served as a sail-training vessel and saw coastal submarine patrol duty for the Coast Guard during WWII.  A pioneer in the Caribbean charter trade, Curlew gained fame in 1962 by surviving a hurricane-like storm that claimed 144 lives, and later cruised extensively in the Central and South Pacific. In 1976, she was meticulously restored in New Zealand and then sailed to Hawaii where she was engaged in inter-island charters. 
 
Curlew is a classic wooden boat. Her strong and graceful hull is sheathed in long leaf yellow pine over sturdy frames of white oak. Curlew is home-berthed in Dana Point Harbor at the Dana Wharf Sportfishing docks.
 
Class: C
Type: Staysail schooner
Sparred Length: 82 feet
Tonnage: 42
Draft: 9 feet 6 inches
Rig Height:
 
STSKASEI
Kasei, which means “Ocean Planet” in Japanese is a 151-foot steel-hulled brigantine which spent much of her existence with the Sail Training Association of Japan. Built in Poland and launched in 1990, Kaisei has already traversed the globe and sailed thousands of people to far reaching ports in the spirit of Global Friendship.
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.
Kaisei has visited over 15 countries, crewed by volunteers from over 26 nations.  Her voyages have created a powerfully diverse network of supporters; dissolving racial, ethnic, religious, political, and age barriers around the world.  Kaisei has sailed International Peace Missions with citizens of political "hot spots" such as joint crews of Japanese and Korean citizens.
Today, she is operated by the Ocean Voyages Institute of Sausalito, California.
 
Class: A
Type: Brigantine
Sparred Length: 151 feet
Tonnage: 180
Draft: 13 feet
Rig Height:
 
 
AMERICAN PRIDE
American Pride is a 129-foot 3 masted schooner.Originally built as a two-masted “schooner-dragger,”  shehad a third mast added along with a complete restoration in 1986. She spent more than 40 years commercially fishing in the Grand Banks and George Banks region off New Foundland. 
 
Today, American Pride is part of the American Heritage Marine Institute and offers scientific and living history educational programs, sail training, team building and sailing adventures.   Her home port is Long Beach, California, and she is often seen locally, easily recognized by her distinctive red sails.    
 
Class: B
Type: 3-masted schooner
Sparred Length: 129 feet
Tonnage: 200
Draft: 10 feet
Rig Height:
 
 
SSV TOLE MOUR
Tole Mouris a 156-foot steel-hulled square-topsail schooner, and is the largest working tall ship on the West Coast. She is operated by the Catalina Island Marine Institute as a sailing school vessel, teaching marine science and oceanography to students in grades 4 – 12. Her home port is Long Beach, and she is frequently seen sailing in the local waters.
 
Tole Mour began life in 1988 as a hospital ship serving in the Marshall Islands, where health conditions were horrific. Her original configuration included medical, dental, and opthamalogical offices and a fully equipped, compact surgery. She made regular rounds to the outer islands for the next four years, providing medical services to over 15,000 outer islanders, most for the first times in their lives. The name Tole Mour means "A Gift of Life and Health" in the Marshallese language.
 
Class: A
Type: Brigantine
Sparred Length: 156 feet
Tonnage: 229
Draft: 13 feet
Rig Height: 110 feet
 
 
LYNX
Lynx is an interpretation of historic privateer built by Thomas Kemp in 1812 in Fell’s Point, Maryland. The original Lynx was among the first ships to defend American freedom by breaking the British blockade of American ports during the War of 1812. Today’s vessel has honored the spirit of the original in her design, while her planning, design, and construction have added a healthy infusion of modern technology to insure safety.
 
Launched in 2001, Lynx is operated by the Lynx Educational Foundation. She currently has no home port, but sails up and down the West Coast, with occasional voyages to Hawaii. Her mission is to provide the public of all ages with a “living history” experience like no other. Lynxhas also been featured in movies and a commercial for Best Buy Stores.
 
Class: B
Type: Square-topsail schooler
Sparred Length: 122 feet
Tonnage: 98.6
Draft: 8 feet 6 inches
Rig Height: 94 feet
 
 
HMS SURPRISE
HMS Surprise began her life as a completely different ship, the HMS Rose, and served as a sail training vessel on the East Coast for 30 years before getting the call from Hollywood. She was purchased by 20th Century Fox Studios and transformed into the Surprise for the 2003 film “Master and Commander,” starring Russell Crowe.
 
Surprise is designed to replicate a 28-gun frigate of Great Britain’s Royal Navy. In the film and the related series of novels by Patrick O’Brian, fearless Captain Jack Aubrey sailed her against the enemies of Great Britain during the Napoleonic Wars of the early 19th century. Captain Aubrey though a creation of fiction, is modeled after Admiral Lord Thomas Cochrane, and many of the exploits described in the books and movie are based on Cochrane’s historic actions. The Surprise itself was a real ship, originally built in France and captured by the British, then renamed and put into service in the Royal Navy. 20th Century Fox used actual blueprints from the British Admiralty archives in order to achieve historical accuracy.
 
During the filming of the movie, star Russell Crowe took matters into his own hands. Well-known as a Method Actor intent on accurace, he organized the entire cast into the military ranks they would be portraying, including color-coded shirts, and ran a two-week “boot camp” to help them fully understand and feel their roles. He also insisted on authenticity for himself. This included learning to play the violin for the roll as Captain Jack Aubrey, a musical enthuiast. Crowe also took historical accuracy to a new level when he horrified the production team and insurance company by climbing the mainmast without a safety harness in order to experience what the real sailors did in those days.
 
The Maritime Museum of San Diego purchased the HMS Surprise in 2004 where she is now part of its maritime programs. Operated as a museum attraction since her arrival, she is currently undergoing Coast Guard recertification to be operated as a sailing vessel once again. Since being sailed to the West Coast for the movie and being turned into the Surprise, this is her first visit to a port outside San Diego.
 
There will be a special screening of “Master and Commander” tomorrow night at 8 o’clock at the Warner Grand Theater in downtown San Pedro. Get your tickets from Festival booths or the theater box office.
 
Class: A
Type: Full-rigged ship
Sparred Length: 179 feet
Tonnage: 500
Draft: 13 feet
Rig Height:
 
 
USCG NARWHAL
United States Coast Guard Cutter Narwhal is the Thirty Fifth cutter of the newly-designed Marine Protector Class Coastal Patrol Boat fleet. Narwhal was built at Bollinger Shipyards in Lockport, Louisiana and was commissioned on November 2, 2001.
 
The 87 foot Coastal Patrol Boats of the Marine Protector Class were designed to replace the aging, Vietnam War-era 82 foot Point Class patrol boats. The 87 ft CPB has several significant improvements over the 82 ft Point Class that make it more mission capable while improving crew and habitability.
 
Narwhal is home ported in Corona Del mar, California and serves under Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach in the Eleventh Coast Guard District. She patrols between Dana Point and Morro Bay, and occasionally as far as the Mexican borders. Narwhal's missions include Search and Rescue, Counter-narcotic and Fisheries Law Enforcement and Marine Environmental Protection.
 
Recently, the Narwhal was in the news, as crewmembers set free an infant Guadalupe Fur Seal off the coast of Catalina Island. The 40-pound seal had originally been found two months ago with fishing line around its neck and was rehabilitated at the Marine Mammal Care Center here in San Pedro.
 
Web Site: www.uscg.mil/d11/narwhal
 
 
BILL OF RIGHTS*(not in parade; not open for tours; outside viewing only)
Docked by the Fish Market, and available for outside viewing only, the Bill of Rights is a 136-foot schooner, and one of the most beautiful sailing ships in the world today. the Bill of Rights was designed by McCurdy & Rhodes, who modeled her after the traditional American coastal schooner of the late nineteenth century. She was built in 1971 in South Bristol, Maine, by the Harvey Gamage Shipyard, a famous old-school New England yard established in 1850 and well-respected for having produced such ships as the Shenandoah, Harvey F. Gamage, Clearwater and the Antarctic research vessel Hero.
 
In 1998, Bill was purchased by the Los Angeles Maritime Institute and sailed from Norfolk, Virginia to join LAMI’s Topsail Youth Program. She joined the Swift of Ipswich until the program’s needs led to the building of the “twin brigantines” Exy Johnson and Irving Johnson.
 
Today, the Bill of Rights is undergoing repairs and is in the process of being sold to a new program, where she will almost assuredly continue her mission of bringing the ocean alive for youth.
 
Type: Schooner
Sparred Length: 136 feet
Tonnage: 117 tons
Draft: 10 feet
Rig Height: 100 feet
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
CLASSIC WOODEN BOATS
 
BUNJI
Bunji is a 28-foot ketch, and a replica of the legendary Yanbarusen wooden sailboats from the 17th Century
Ryukyu Kingdom, which is now known as Okinawa, Japan. Its design re-creates a masterpiece of the late boat builder, Bunji Goeku, who was awarded the Distinguished Cultural Merit Award from the
Japanese government in 2000. The boat features a black hull, red sails, and the eyes of a bird on the bow, just as seen in antique scrolls in museums.

Goeku’s first son, Sam Goeku, a fourth generation boat builder, sought to fulfill his father’s dream by building Yanbarusens that bear his name in the United States of America. Made in the U.S.A., these handcrafted and hand-curved vessels have neither visible nails nor screws, traditional techniques used by few master craftsmen today. His passion for technical sophistication and unsurpassed craftsmanship come
together to create the ultimate pleasure boats. Bunji Yachts are making a debut onto the market this year.

TALISMAN:
Talisman was designed and built at the David Hillyard Shipyard in Sussex Little Hampton, England in 1953. She was built for an architect as an 18 ton Auxiliary cutter. She is one of around 800 wooden boats built by the shipyard that is still in business and still family owned. The Hillyard Owners Association knows where about 600 of those vessels are. She is made of 2x5 milled African Mahogany planks, copper riveted to English Oak. She is double ended and built for the North Sea and long distance cruising. She was brought to the United States in the early 1970’s by a boat broker in Marina Del Rey, who spent 4 years cruising and sailing her to the West Coast. She is owned by Stephen Kincaid.

RIPTIDE
Riptide is a 53-foot Elco, built in 1939. She was the yacht featured in the 1980’s television show “Riptide.”
Originally named DOHO, she was purchased by Mr. Howard Johnson, and later by Detroit gangster, Mo Dalitz, who transported her by truck to Las Vegas, where he was opening the Desert Sands Hotel. She was in most of the 56 episode of the TV show Riptide, as well as the movie “The Aviator”.
 
BLACK DOUGLAS
Black Douglas is a 23-foot Iron Works motor launch, built in 1928. She served as the launch for the 295-foot yacht Savarona II, the personal yacht of the founder of the modern nation of Turkey. She was built for Emily Roebling Cadwalader of the Roebling family who built the Golden Gate and Brooklyn Bridges.She is Oak Plank, Teak Decks, with Heavy Brass Trim.
 
*MADRIGAL
Madrigal is a 45-foot Lake Union, built in 1929. She is owned by Tom and Peggy Brown. Tom is the 2008 Classic Yacht Association (CYA) Commodore.

*MINDFUL
Mindful is a 53-foot Chris Craft Conqueror, built in 1955. She is owned by Bill Brantley.
           
ComOcean
ComOcean is a 33-foot Chris Craft, built in 1953. She is originally a Chris Craft Brochure Boat and
toured the East Coast and Midwest. She is owned by Ron and Cathy Yatch.
 
PATIENCE
Patience is a 44-foot ketch, built in 1933 by Hereshoff Neria. She is owned by Dennis Jensch/Denton Porter.
 
LARK
Lark is a 46-foot Pacific Cruising Class sloop from 1950, built and designed in San Diego by Kettenburg. These boats are fast and were very successfully raced in the Transpacific, Ensenada and other races. Lark won the last Pacific Cruising Class chanpionship race in San Diego in 2007. The 53 and 07 on the sail are the years the boat won the nationals.
 
DYAD II
Dyad II is a Kettenberg sailboat owned by Steve Barber
 
BANSHEE
Banshee is an Island Clipper, built in 1946, in Wilmington, CA by Fellows and Stewart.She was one of their most successful "semi-production" designs. Approximately 20 were built, but only 5 remain. She is owned by Richard Whearty.
 
HERON
Heron is a 40-foot cutter, built in 1978 by William “Eric” Atkins. She was built locally, fitted and finished at Shelter Point. She is owned by Julia Gombert & Micheal Stocks
 
DEVONSHIRE
 
ANTARES
Antares is a 40-foot sloop, built in 1961 by Ketternberg. She is owned by Steve Gilford.
 
*ENCHANTRESS
Enchantress is a 47-foot Stephans motor yacht, built in 1949.
 
*MIRIAM
Miriam is a 75-foot Fantail, owned by Mike and Janie Horton.
 
*GRACIE
Gracie is a 40-foot Walker, built in 1950. She is owned by Larry Walker.
 
*RENA MAR
Rena Mar is a 42-foot Grand Banks, built in 1964.
 
LOBO DEL MAR

Lobo del Mar is a 34-foot ketch, built in 1970 by Angleman-Ward. She is modeled after Sea Witch, winner of the 1951 Transpac, and was originally to be called Sea Wolf. She is owned by Greg Jordon and Nancy Naylor.