NEWS
By Gus G. Sentementes | May 9, 2008
As the Mexican flag flapped in the wind high above the Patapsco River, the crew on the decks of the Cuauhtemoc prepared for the final leg of their trip up the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore awaited them. One sailor dabbed at a white wall with a paintbrush, giving it a final gleam. Others climbed up the masts to partially unfurl the sails. Using an electric pump, another pair of sailors pulled in the anchor, caked with black mud from the bottom of the Chesapeake. With a few short blows from his boatswain's whistle yesterday, a lieutenant directed scores of sailors up the ship's three tall masts.
NEWS
November 11, 2007
Phillips Foods World Headquarters was bustling with activity long after work hours on a Friday evening. The activity was also of the after-work sort - drinking, eating and listening to good music - all in the name of raising money for Sail Baltimore. This was the organization's fourth annual "Beer, Boats & Ballads" celebration, already a tradition for some of the guests. And everyone had his or her favorite part. "Raw oysters. Cold and salty," said Jim Stevens, a University of Maryland accountant.
NEWS
June 16, 2006
Tall ships -- The Annapolis Maritime Museum will present a Tall Ships Festival on June 24 at Annapolis City Dock. The Schooner Sultana and Delaware's tall ship Kalmar Nykel will be open for public boarding and inspection, along with maritime music and historic exhibits. The Kalmar Nykel, a reproduction of a 1625-era Dutch pinnace, was built in Wilmington, Del., in 1998, to commemorate those who crossed the Atlantic from 1637-1638 and settled in the Delaware Valley. The Kalmar Nykel will be open for tours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Sultana will be open from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets to visit both ships are $10 per adult and $8 for children 3 to 11 years old. 410-268-7601, ext. 104.
NEWS
By BRENT JONES | April 11, 2006
Five tall ships and a government research vessel are slated to dock in at the Inner Harbor during visits late this month and in early May as part of the Volvo Ocean Race stopover in Baltimore, according to Sail Baltimore, a local nonprofit group that welcomes visiting ships. The vessels, along with the racing craft, are expected to draw as many as 500,000 visitors, said Laura Stevenson, executive director of Sail Baltimore. The organization was founded in 1975 and has hosted more than 400 visiting ships and 35 maritime events.
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By JACQUES KELLY | April 8, 2006
It's hard not to catch the fever when Baltimore's harbor fills up with sleek sails. In a few days, we'll be home to the Volvo Ocean Race, and I'm sure I'll be among those who will have a long look at our Patapsco and the Baltimore Waterfront Festival. Now, 30 years after a similar event, I'll divulge the details of my own personal festival the summer of 1976. In those days I was reporter at the old News American. Then, as now, I never left the city on newspaper assignments and only covered stories as far away as taxicabs or, more likely, a Maryland Transit Administration bus could take me. But that summer, as Baltimore's new and largely unbuilt-up Inner Harbor was showing signs of a terrific rebirth, Baltimore netted a big catch -- the tall ships Danmark, Amerigo Vespucci, Gorch Fock, Esmeralda and Eagle called here after appearing at a huge bicentennial celebration in New York's harbor.
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By Tanika White | July 5, 2004
Despite a day darkened by clouds and dampened by rain, thousands of people, many dressed in red, white and blue, thronged the Inner Harbor yesterday for the city's Fourth of July Sailabration, which brought tall-masted ships from across the globe to the Baltimore Harbor. In celebration of the 150th year of Baltimore's Constellation - the Navy's last all-sail warship and the last Civil War-era naval vessel still afloat - ships from Nova Scotia, Romania, Uruguay and other foreign countries docked in the Inner Harbor and opened their decks to visitors.
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By Lorraine Mirabella | June 30, 2004
Ron Krieger was savoring the harbor view from his downtown Baltimore hotel yesterday morning when a tall-masted ship glided into the picture. The sight of the Brazilian Cisne Branco, white and graceful like its namesake (white swan), captivated the tourist from Florida. The tall ship and six others from as far as Romania are sailing into the Inner Harbor and Fells Point this week, where they are expected to provide an inviting centerpiece to mark the start of what tourism officials hope will be a banner summer for visitors.
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By Katie Leslie | June 24, 2004
Ask any local, and he or she will probably tell you that it's normal to see a bunch of boats floating at the Inner Harbor. But when the boats are so huge that they begin to compete with the skyline, then you know something's up. Starting Sunday, the waters of the downtown port will be teeming with a selection of the world's tallest sailing ships as the city gears up to celebrate Independence Day. The ships, ranging from the 170-foot Pride of Baltimore II...
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | November 24, 2002
Tall Ships Down, by Daniel S. Parrott. McGraw Hill. 224 pages. $24.95. There is something endlessly fascinating about shipwrecks, as this book so admirably demonstrates. To think that a man-made object as large as a ship, sailed by a trained crew, fitted out with the latest technology, can suddenly come to woe and vanish beneath the waves almost defies explanation. Well, maybe. The ocean bottom is littered with wrecks, some of which came to rest there as a result of sudden freakish weather conditions, roaring storms or rogue waves.
NEWS
By Eric Siegel | April 4, 2002
IF YOU want a benchmark of where the west side is in terms of its development, think of the Inner Harbor before Harborplace opened in 1980, putting Baltimore on the cover of Time magazine. Or, better yet, before the Tall Ships sailed into town as part of the country's bicentennial celebration in 1976, drawing a million visitors to the waterfront. That, at least, is the view of Ron Kreitner, Mark Sissman and Mark Wasserman -- three key players on the west side who also played important roles in the Inner Harbor.