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After World War II, tall ships were a dying breed, having lost out to steam-powered ships several decades before. It was a retired solicitor from London, Bernard Morgan, who first dreamed up the idea of bringing young cadets and seamen under training together from around the world to participate in a friendly competition.
It participated in a series of tall ship events such as the World Peace Cup, Maritime Festival of Charleston, Sail Virginia, Sail Rhode Island and Sail Boston and returned to port in October 2007 after covering 22,000 nautical miles (41,000 km). [7]
To reach New York for the July 14 parade up the Hudson River, some of these tall ships will have sailed from their home ports as long ago as early March. Some will have raced from Plymouth, England, to Lisbon, Portugal, then 3000 miles across the Atlantic to Bermuda rendezvous, and a 630-mile northwest run, in company, to New York.
A festival celebrating traditional sailing ships may have fewer on display in the future. Gloucester City Council's report on the Gloucester Tall Ships Festival, which made a loss of £117,000 ...
This weekend brings a Tall Ships festival, hot sauce festival, a Jewish festival and Bela Fleck and Soccer Mommy concerts to the Seacoast.
The Sail Portsmouth tall ships festival's Parade of Sail makes its way on the Piscataqua River Friday, July 26, 2024. The two-hour sails on the Ernestina-Morrissey are sold-out all weekend long.
On 23 June 2009 while she was en route to the Charleston, South Carolina Harborfest, ... PHOTOS: Kruzenshtern at Tall Ships Nova Scotia 2009 Festival in Halifax.
Spirit of South Carolina is a "tall ship" built and home ported in Charleston, South Carolina.She was owned and operated by Tommy Baker and Michael Bennett till March 2016, when they donated it to the "Spirit of South Carolina Inc" a 501(c)(3) not for profit foundation. [1]