Word is in from America’s Privateer Lynx that there are still spots available on the Baltimore clipper’s transit south from Victoria.

For $150, you can sail from Port Townsend to Quartermaster Harbor, a trip that will take you dashing through Elliott Bay. Nimble raider that she is, Lynx last made that journey firing her carronades at tourists along Seattle’s waterfront.

For $150 you can board in Quartermaster Harbor on Vashon Island and return home as part of the Parade of Sail. Again, there will be cannon fire. Add to that the thrill of seeing the celebration from the deck of one of the parade’s stars.

Once the festival’s over, Lynx has berths for the sail north to Port Alberni, B.C., July 8-12. For $700, you’ll sleep in a curtained compartment in the main cabin, take your meals with the crew and learn about modern life aboard historic ships.

Lynx will hit the open ocean on the sail back down the coast to San Francisco July 13-18. You can test your sea legs on that voyage for $1,000.

Call me biased, because I sailed from Victoria to Tacoma aboard Lynx three years ago. And I’m from Baltimore, where Fells Point shipwrights built the original Lynx to harass British shipping during the War of 1812. So give me a choice between cruising on Lynx or a modern liner, and I’ll go for patriotic piracy true to our maritime heritage.

Interested? Log onto www.privateerlynx.org to learn about the ship. Then call Cindy Buffa of the Lynx Educational Foundation at 1-866-446-5969.