California (schooner)
Zodiac motoring east along the Lake Washington Ship Canal, just east of the Ballard Bridge, Seattle, Washington
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| Builder: | Hodgson Brothers Shipyard |
| Launched: | 1924 |
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| Status: | Historic landmark |
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| Tonnage: | 145 tons (gross) 89 (net) |
| Displacement: | 220 tons |
| Length: | 160 ft (49 m) (LOA) 127 ft (39 m) (on deck) |
| Beam: | 25.2 ft (7.7 m) |
| Draft: | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 11.5 ft (3.5 m) |
| Propulsion: | Caterpillar 400 hp (300 kW) diesel |
| Sail plan: | Gaff-rigged topsail schooner 7,000 sq ft (650 m2) |
| Speed: | 13.4 knots (24.8 km/h; 15.4 mph) (max), 9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph) (powered) |
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Zodiac (schooner)
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| Location | Seattle, WA |
| Coordinates | 47°37′56.5″N 122°19′38.1″W / 47.632361°N 122.327250°WCoordinates: 47°37′56.5″N 122°19′38.1″W / 47.632361°N 122.327250°W |
| Built | 1924 |
| Architect | William Hand, Jr. |
| NRHP reference # | 82004248 |
| Added to NRHP | 29 April 1982 |
Zodiac is a two-masted schooner designed by William H. Hand, Jr. for Robert Wood Johnson and J. Seward Johnson, heirs to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceuticals fortune. Hand intended to epitomize the best features of the American fishing schooner. The 160-foot-long (49 m) (sparred length; 127 feet (39 m) on deck), 145-ton vessel competed in transatlantic races. In 1931 the vessel was purchased by the San Francisco Bar Pilots Association, brought from the Atlantic, modified and placed in service as the pilot vessel California serving as such until retired in 1972.
The schooner was the largest vessel designed by William H. Hand, Jr., a renowned naval architect, who was a primary developer of the V-bottomed hull motorsailers.Zodiac was built in 1924 at the Hodgdon Brothers Shipyard, East Boothbay, Maine.
As built the vessel was 126 feet 10 inches (38.7 m) length over all, 25 feet 2 inches (7.7 m) beam, design draft of 13 feet 11 inches (4.2 m) and a water line length of 98 feet 6 inches (30.0 m) on design draft. Propulsion was by an Atlas 140 horsepower (100 kW), six cylinder, four cycle engine driving a 54 inches (1.4 m), two bladed propeller for a speed of about 7.5 knots (13.9 km/h; 8.6 mph) under power.
Robert Hood and J. Seward Johnson sailed the yacht as far north as Nachvak, Labrador and in 1928 entered Zodiac in a race from New York to Spain with the yacht finishing fourth among the large yachts.
The San Francisco Bar Pilots Association bought the schooner in 1931 on the Atlantic Coast and brought the vessel to San Francisco for modification and operation as the pilot vessel California bearing the name of an earlier vessel of the Association. The vessel was the largest schooner operated by the San Francisco Bar Pilots who operated her in peacetime and through wars until 1972 as the last sailing vessel in the United States to serve as a pilot vessel.
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