A week on a tall ship with twenty spaces, from the weekend after Port Townsend's Wooden Boat Festival. This list gauges interest; dates follow the festival's.
In September 2026 thirty of us sailed out of Port Townsend on Adventuress for four days and made a record of the Salish Sea as we found her (the log). The 2027 voyage reads the same waters a year on. Watches, meals cooked together, one five-minute talk each, and a record made by many hands.
A charter is booked months ahead: tell us you could sail, and when twenty people have, we book the ship and write to you with the exact dates, the rates and the application. The 2026 voyage had two rates by application, a crew rate and an artist and early-career rate. The 2026 voyage page shows what four days aboard were like.
The ship, the exact dates and the rates are still being set. The window:
What has changed on this water in a year, and what did we miss the first time?
How the Salish Sea Got its Name, Bert Webber, SeaDoc Society. The man who named the sea on why it is one body of water.
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Island Lab runs coastal research trips on chartered ships and members' own boats. Every gathering, past and coming, is at islandlab.dev/gatherings.