Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Tole Mour"
Photos of the sailing ship:
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Source, location, date:
Thad Koza (http://www.tallshipsinternational.net/),
Catalina Island,
09/2002
Source, location, date:
Thad Koza (http://www.tallshipsinternational.net/),
Catalina Island,
09/2002
Technical data of the sailing ship:
| Name: | Tole Mour |
| Registered port: | Wilmington, LA |
| Nation: | USA |
| Type of rigging: | 3-MAST-TOPPSEGELSCHONER |
| Year built: | 1988 |
| Yard: | Nicols Bros. Boatbuilding, Seattle, USA |
| Overall length: | 47.40 m |
| Length (hull): | 37.20 m |
| Breadth: | 8.80 m |
| Draught: | 4.10 m |
| Sail area: | 790 m2 |
| Ship's hull: | Stahl / Steel |
| Power: | 564 PS |
| Engine: | Deutz |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 20 Dec 2002
- built in 1988 for the Hawaii-based Marimed Foundation to support primary health care and educational programs in Micronesia in the Central Pacific Ocean.
- designed by Ewbank, Brooke & Associates of Auckland, New Zealand as a near sister ship to the national training ship of New Zealand, the "Spirit of New Zealand"
- with a multinational team of educators and health care professionals on board, most of whom served as volunteers, she made regular teaching and medical "rounds" through the remote coral atolls of the Marshalls until 1991, when the volunteer professional health teams were replaced by Marshallese counterparts using powered patrol craft.
- since 1992, Marimed Foundation used the ship to support programs for special needs of adolescents, nonprofit joint venture with the VisionQuest organization until 1994 for resocialization of youth, return to Hawaii in fall of 1995, served in the Kailana-Kokokahi Program together with a Hawaii-based nonprofit agency to help emotionally impaired youth since 1996.
- in May 2001 the "Tole Mour" was sold to Guided Discoveries, a teen activity program on Catalina Island in California, commissioned as a ship for sail training adventure that focuses on marine science of the past and present and for stimulation of minds, encouragement of team work, building of character, and development of self esteem.
- name "Tole Mour" means gift of life and health in the Marshallese language, the name was found in a nation wide contest among the school children of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
Contact:
Website (English, 26 Dec 2006):http://www.guideddiscoveries.org/
Tole Mour: website of the operating organization, information about the ship, her sailing programme and her operator
Literature for further reading:
We recommend the following references for your further research of the ship. The references marked with have been included in the generation of the ship profile on this page.
Otmar Schäuffelen
"Die letzten grossen Segelschiffe"
Delius Klasing Verlag 1997 ISBN: 3-7688-0483-6
(9. aktualisierte Auflage)
Page: 365 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data
Thaddeus Koza
"Tall Ships - the Fleet of the 21th Century"
Tide-Mark Press, East Hartford 2000 ISBN: 1-55949-551-0
(http://www.tallshipsinternational.com/)
Page: 166 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data
Otmar Schäuffelen
"Die letzten grossen Segelschiffe"
Delius Klasing Verlag 2002 ISBN: 3-7688-0483-6
(10. aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage)
Page: 417 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data
American Sail Training Association (ASTA)
"Sail Tall Ships! A Directory of Sail Training and Adventure at Sea"
2000 ISBN: 0-9636483-5-7
(12th Edition)
Page: 251 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data Quelle with contact
American Sail Training Association (ASTA)
"Sail Tall Ships! A Directory of Sail Training and Adventure at Sea"
2007 ISBN: 978-0-9799878-0-9
(17th Edition)
Page: 281 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data Quelle with contact