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Mission Bay, San Diego: Mission Bay Christmas Boat Parade; San Diego: North Park Toyland Parade and Festival; San Diego: Port of San Diego Holiday Bowl Parade; Ocean Beach, San Diego: Ocean Beach Holiday Parade; San Diego: San Diego Bay Parade of Lights; San Francisco: Fisherman's Wharf Holiday Lights & Sights Boat Parade; San Francisco: Parol ...
Christmas ships are boat parades held at Christmastime, typically featuring boats festooned with Christmas lights or winter/holiday decorations. In the United States in the nineteenth century, German and Irish immigrants shipped trees from Michigan and Wisconsin down to Chicago via boat to satisfy the large demand for Christmas trees. [1]
Boat parades are a waterway event with illuminated boats. Some of the well known water parades include locations such as Walt Disney World, the Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade, [1] and Fort Lauderdale. Fort Lauderdale's annual parade in December is titled the Seminole Hard Rock Winterfest Boat Parade. [2]
Head to Newport Beach to see beautifully decorated yachts, boats, kayaks, and canoes sail along the harbor in the 115th Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade. This year’s parade will be held ...
For more 20 years, the Savannah Boat Parade of Lights has marked the beginning of the holiday season in bright style. This year it launches from Eastern Wharf with music and Santa Claus.
Portsmouth celebrates its annual illuminated holiday parade and tree lighting Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023. The 2024 event will be held Saturday, Dec. 7.
A boat from the 35th annual North Carolina Holiday Flotilla at Wrightsville Beach, Nov. 2018. The 40th annual flotilla will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023.
A rocket ship float with Santa Claus during a Christmas parade in Los Angeles, 1940. The Christmas parade is a direct descendant of late Medieval and Renaissance revivals of Roman Triumphs, which had music and banners, wagons filled with the spoils of war, and climaxed with the dux riding in a chariot, preferably drawn by two horses, and thus called the biga.