page_title: Sail and Life Training Society
section_title: Pacific Grace
hierarchical_section_title: Sail and Life Training Society / Ships / Pacific Grace
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo taken by Graham Kingsley
context_page_description: The Sail and Life Training Society, founded in 1974, is a non-profit Christian organization based in Victoria, British Columbia. SALTS provides sail training and life lessons for 1,700 young people each year on tall ships and provides a valued link to the area's maritime heritage. Currently, SALTS administrative offices are located on Herald Street in downtown Victoria, with a shop space located nearby in the Rock Bay area.
context_section_description: Pacific Grace was built at the S.A.L.T.S. Heritage Shipyard in Victoria, launched in October 1999 and commissioned in May 2001. Her total sail area is 740 sq m. and weighs a total of 94 gross tons. She is based on the Grand Banks fishing schooner Robertson II, one of the last fishing vessels to have been built in Canada which the society operated from 1974 to 1995.  After two seasons of coastal sailing, she departed in September 2003 on her first offshore voyage: down the coast to Costa Rica, west to Galapagos and Pitcairn, and back through the Marquesas and the Hawaiian Islands. From June 2007 to June 2008, she made a longer voyage, to the South Pacific, calling at: Hawaii, Tahiti, Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Guam, Okinawa, Shanghai, Osaka, Hawaii.
caption: Pacific Grace
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