The Adventuress is owned and operated by the non-profit organization Sound Adventure. Their mission is to inspire people to take leadership positions in protecting and preserving the complex marine eco-system of the Salish Sea. Sound Experience offers both day trips, and overnight adventures varying in length from two to seven nights, and they have programs geared for participants of all ages.

Early History of The Adventuress

Built at the Rice Brother’s Boatyard, in East Boothbay, Maine as a private yacht, the ship was launched in 1913. Her owner, John Borden II, the founder of Chicago’s Yellow Cab Co. sailed The Adventuress from Maine, around the tip of South America, and north to the Arctic, apparently so he and his cronies could hunt bowhead whales.

Life as a Bar Pilot Boat

In 1914, just a little over a year after her commissioning, Borden sold The Adventuress to the Bar Pilot’s Association of San Francisco Bay. For 35 years she worked ferrying harbor pilots out to incoming ships. The waters of San Francisco Bay are fierce in the best of times, and The Adventuress sustained many bumps and scrapes during her career. After World War II, she was decommissioned and pretty much abandoned.