Length Overall: 130’
Beam: 24.6’
Draft: 10’
Sail Area: 7,600 sq. ft.
Rig: Snow brig
Built: 1945 Denmark
Home Port: Dana Point, California

The Brig Pilgrim is a full size replica of the 1825 hide brig immortalized by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. in his American seafaring classic novel Two Years Before the Mast. Today’s Pilgrim was built in 1945 and was originally a three-masted Baltic schooner. In 1975, Captain Ray Wallace, a noted marine architect, sailed her to Lisbon, Portugal where she was converted to her present rig. In 1981, she was brought specifically to Dana Point where she was to become the Ocean Institute’s platform for its living history program based on Dana’s historic voyage. In addition to hosting thousands of school children, who experience the dockside living history programs, Pilgrim sets sail every year in the summer with a dedicated volunteer crew. Throughout the year the crews learn the traditional seafaring skills necessary to maintain and sail the vessel.