Tillicum 1 is a stays’l schooner, registered Victoria B.C. and is in her prime!  She was designed by Lee Coolidge and built in Anacortes, Washington in 1982 by Kenneth Powell. 

She is finely detailed inside and out, (10 types of wood total), built of Western Douglas Fir planking (carvel planked on 2x2 steamed oak frames), deck and foremast. She has been updated with hollow masts, the main being Sitka Spruce and oversize standing SS standing rigging. Last survey was June 2020, passed with flying colors.

She has competed in the San Francisco schooner race in 2009 to a third finish in a fleet of 8. She won first place in the Gloucester schooner race, small vessel division and best overall time of 14 boats. Other notable finishes include ; Mayors cup in Gloucester Massachucetts, 1st place Betty Ramsey trophy, NSSA races, 1st place Edward Murphy Cup, NSSA races 1st place Morris Tea Tray, NSSA races 1st place Founders trophy.  She has also been a feature vessel in the Anacortes wooden boat festival.

As a cruising boat, she has completed a transit of west coast to east coast of Canada leaving Vancouver June 2009 cruising the West coast, visiting 10 countries, transiting the Panama Canal and arriving in New York City in July of 2011. In thesummer of 2013 she completed the return to Canada arriving in Yarmouth and travelling up to Lunenburg. Overall distance travelled in excess of 11,000 miles.

The boat has ALL the desired cruising equipment to insure comfortable long range cruising including a 44hp Yanmar engine, Frig-o-boat refrigeration and Village Marine water maker. A large sail inventory of 6 sails includes 2 gollywobblers.