The 19th of June was a great day for Morjana, a remarkable yacht that had been undergoing a meticulous restoration led by a team of the Kurzeme Cadet Club in a hangar located in the South End of Andrejsala. That day, the newly built vessel was finally brough afloat after almost six years of patient work.
The reconstruction process was a regionally unique experiment that made Morjana the only schooner made here in the Baltic states. She has two masts and measures 27 metres long by 5.4 metres wide (89 by 18 feet).
Morjana was initially built 30 years earlier, but now her looks are completely different with 4 individual cabins plus one bigger shared cabin. There are 12 berths and a well-equipped grill area. Morjana can take onboard up to 30 people.
The yacht is named after a Spanish girl. The Latvians who reconstructed the yacht first heard of the name while visiting a Spanish port where there's a statue, and a romantic legend, of a girl waiting for her boyfriend returning from the sea.