This three-masted
topsail schooner Tole Mour has been docked at
Seattle's Pier 90 across from Norm's Pier 89
PhotoWorks office.
Although it looks like a traditional old wooden
schooner, it actually
was built in 1988 at Whidbey Island's Nichols
Brothers Boat Builders
in Freeland, WA, near Norm's home, with a steel
hull. air conditioning
and modern electronic navigation equipment.
The Tole Mour is
currently owned by Guided Discoveries of
nonprofit
Catalina Island Marine Institute (CIMI) who use
it for their Tall Ship
Expeditions program which runs sail training and
marine science trips
to the Channel Islands off southern California
for students age 10-17.
Their website is http://www.guideddiscoveries.org.
The Tole Mour was
originally owned by the nonprofit Hawaii-based
Marimed Foundation, who built it to provide
health care and education in the
Marshal Islands. The ship's name is Marshallese
for "gift of life and health".
In 1996, the Tole Mour became part of the
Kailana-Kokokahi Program for
emotionally impaired youth in Hawaii.
The ship is 156
feet long and spreads 9,000 square feet of sail.
Fellow PhotoWorks
programmer Louie Bergsagel snapped the three
digital
camera photos below as it sailed away into
Elliott Bay.
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