EQUATOR

Port of Everett, WA

Beginning in September 2023, we will disassemble and salvage the wood from the historic schooner Equator for use in a future sculpture.

Built in California in 1888, the two-masted vessel sailed the South Seas (in 1889 it was chartered by Robert Louis Stevenson). In the 1890’s she received a steam engine and worked as a tender for an arctic whaling fleet and fishing operations in Alaska. In 1915 the Equator was used as a wire drag vessel for coastal geodetic survey. In 1956 she was left to decay as a breakwater with other discarded vessels on the coast of Jetty Island outside Everett, WA. In an effort to salvage the Equator, she was hauled ashore and dry-docked at the Port of Everett in 1967. Finally, in 2023 the Port of Everett determined that the Equator was beyond repair and needed to be dismantled and removed. An archeological team from Texas A&M University thoroughly documented the vessel in June 2023.

Updates to follow here about the upcoming sculpture that we will fabricate with the wood salvaged from the Equator.