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San Juan, Gulf Islands and Puget Sound cruises from April through end of October. Check out www.scho

01/02/2025

Happy New Years!

Here’s one of the perks of having the ship in Seattle for the winter! A stunning view of the fireworks show

12/21/2024

Interns wanted! We’re currently seeking applicants to join our crew as deckhand interns for the 2025 season.

Candidates seeking maritime careers strongly preferred, but minimal previous experience is required - we’ll train you! Zodiac sea time is 200 ton near coastal so can be applied USCG licenses up to 1600 tons, and all AB ratings. The internship would be ideal for either the aspiring mariner just starting out, or someone looking to upgrade existing credentials.

The internship is a live-aboard position with room and partial board provided. Interns earn money cleaning between trips, bartending, and selling merchandise. Tips from sails are split evenly among the crew and can be substantial.

Our season runs April through October, interns are requested to commit to at least three months aboard. Trips range from 2 hours to 11 days, split between day sails in Bellingham Bay, Washington, and overnight trips in the beautiful San Juan Islands with occasional forays into British Columbia.

Internship will include TONS of coastal navigation, small boat handling, seamanship, and sailing maneuvers, plus ship maintenance skills. Interns can expect to work hard, learn a ton, have a LOT of fun, eat like kings (our cook is phenomenal), and take a lot of pictures of our ship’s cat, Abby.

Email [email protected] for more information

12/16/2024

We love the holidays! Just not in our varnish.

Two of our rookie volunteers picked up varnishing tools for the first time in their lives on Saturday and laid down a perfect coat on our main boom. No sags, no runs, no holidays!

Want to join our merry band? Email us at
volunteer (at) schoonerzodiac.com to get involved!

12/12/2024

12/09/2024

‘‘Tis the season!

12/02/2024

If you are looking for a unique holiday gift idea please consider a Schooner Zodiac gift certificate. You can give friends and family an unforgettable experience and help support a 100 year old piece of living history!

Purchase online via the link below or call (206) 719-7622:

https://schoonerzodiac.starboardsuite.com/gift-certificates

10/29/2024

HUGE progress at our work parties over the weekend. Got all the sails folded up Friday, all the blocks, lines, and spars down from aloft and sent up to the shop along with the deck boxes, pop box, life rafts, small boats, and grill on Saturday, and the frame for the winter cover loaded up on Sunday!

Pictured: the view from aloft about halfway through Saturday’s work party as the colorful fall leaves floated past like autumn confetti.

Thank you to our amazing volunteers!

10/26/2024

Today marks the beginning of our winter season! Today we had a very productive workparty starting downrig for winter. Thank you to the volunteer crew that came to help us on a Friday! We were able to removed & fold each of Zodiac’s 4 sails (7,000 sq ft) on deck

10/21/2024

138 days down, 0 to go! Zodiac finished out her centennial sailing season on Sunday in typical autumn weather!

Some fun stats for year 100: We took 2740 guests sailing on a combined total of 91 individual sails over 138 sailing days. These trips were made possible by the efforts of 49 crew members (plus Abby!) putting in a whopping total of 1317 person-days under way!

Thank you so much to all of our crew, guests, friends, and supporters for another brilliant season!

10/10/2024

Screaming into Bellingham Channel under full sail and full sun on our fall lighthouse cruise. Life is good.

10/05/2024

Bellingham’s SeaFeast is underway! Come on down to Zuanich Park to check out and support your local maritime community!
A couple Zodiac crew spent the morning volunteering at the kids boat building booth with Whatcom Maritime Heritage Museum! Bring the kiddos down see what this amazing community has to offer!

09/22/2024

Thanks to crew member John W for these great shots from this evening’s private charter on Bellingham Bay!

If you’re looking for a sign to come sail with us, this is it! Just a couple more daysails left this season.

09/16/2024

Here's a great article about the Zodiac in Northwest Yachting Magazine!

At one hundred years old and counting, the historic schooner Zodiac has sailed through vast stretches of time. Emily Molina recounts the tall ship’s past and present lives—and predicts its continued bright future.

09/13/2024

We love (& hate) sailing this time of the year - fog messes with plans but the sights are really beautiful

09/04/2024

Join us at the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival this Friday through Sunday!

We have five sailing opportunities with tickets available - including the schooner race! We will also be conducting deck tours Friday from 2-5pm, Saturday and Sunday from 12:30-1:30pm. Stop by and say hi!

09/02/2024

Happy birthday to this afternoon’s fabulous helmswoman!

Zodiac is honored to be included in a huge number of birthdays, weddings, and anniversaries. Always a great way to celebrate!

09/01/2024

Gorgeous evening on a salmon dinner sail! Not too many daysails left this season, if you wanna come sailing, get your tickets soon!

08/30/2024

Ales ‘n’ Sails with Kulshan Brewing tonight! The mountain is out, the sun is out… the wind is… trying (A for effort?)… and dinner is of course absolutely fabulous! What a way to spend an evening.

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355 Harris Avenue, Ste 104
Bellingham, WA
98225

Website

http://www.schoonerzodiac.com/

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Get excited! Sailing season for us aboard the #schoonerzociac is right around the corner!

Spring sailing is right around the corner and we have strong winds & cool temps to look forward to. This is the most exciting sailing of the year and we’re still searching for a SPRING INTERN to join us for April - June! If you or somebody you know is looking to get into the maritime sector and want a diverse maritime experience - email us and let us know why you want to join our internship program. Zodiac’s internship program is aimed to educate/train future captains & crew - aboard Zodiac, you’ll learn all the sailing stations (safety precautions), navigation, small & large boat operations, rigging, maintenance of an old wood boat and so much more (difficult to list everything you’d learn over sailing for 3 months). There is no age limit for applicants, more importantly we will be looking favorably towards applicants who desire to enter the maritime sector as a career. In the United States, we are painfully short of future mariners entering into the industry- we don’t have folks to replace retirees! This is why we are focused on helping out the maritime industry by training future sailors. We know first hand of the shortage, we receive calls & messages from marine based companies asking if we have any AB level crew that want a job (very well paid job) Email resumes and/or questions to us at: [email protected]

When your crew get their first smart phone - you pose for a photo… but it’s a video

Steve, singlehandedly holding the ship up during dry dock. What’s really happening is a hull seam was just filled with a hydraulic cement that’s curing. The stream of rainwater running down the hull will wash out the concrete before it cures. Steve is protecting the cement from the water while it cures, this stuff has a VERY short working time and can cure in minutes. Behind the cement inside the seam is oakum & cotton and the cement seals and protects the seam from being washed out by water while sailing/motoring.

SOUND ON for the calming sounds of two of our corkers, working away during drydock last week. #schoonerzodiac is out of drydock and floating again! We got a huge amount done with our crew, it was really amazing to watch all our folks focus and tackle so much work! The ship looks amazing with our new paint job! A huge THANK YOU to all the folks that came out and helped out during dry dock!

Please don’t feed the wildlife Folks that have sailed with us are familiar with this scene - Abby begging for some people food. She has a tendency to beg but don’t fall for it, she will get sick! But she sure is cute when she tries

A montage of sailing with us #bellingham #bellinghamwa #bellinghambay #tallship #pnw #pnwtallships #sailing #sailinglife #schooner #schoonerzodiac