The Art of the Boat,” an exhibit of 40 vintage platinum-palladium process prints of last-century yachting by Morris and Stanley Rosenfeld, opens aboard the San Diego Maritime Museum’s 1898 ferryboat Berkeley Aug. 1. It’s free with paid admission to the museum, which includes the square-rigged 1863 Star of India.
   “Flying Spinnakers” (1938) and “Maybe” (1915) by maritime photographers Morris and Stanley Rosenfeld
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The museum’s annual Festival of Sail begins with a parade of more than 20 tall ships and other vintage vessels on San Diego Bay Aug. 20. Several tall ships will be open for tour and will engage in mock-cannon battle the following weekend.
Among the tall ships will be the U.S. Coast Guard’s Eagle, here for the first time in nearly a decade, and the replica HMS Bounty. The museum’s standing tall ships also include the HMS Surprise, the replica of an 18th century Royal Navy frigate used in the movie "Master and Commander," and the Californian, the San Diego-built replica of an 1847 cutter. For more, visit sdmaritime.org.
On behalf of one of the Tall Ships that have taken part in these events, I strongly recommend getting down to witness the spectacle. Even better see if you can get to sail on one of these ships - the more authentic the better! Sadly Tallship Soren Larsen will not be there this time - we're sailing from Tahiti across to Fiji and Vanuatu at the moment...
Posted by Ian Hutchinson at 7:51pm on 2008 July 01
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