Bob Berg
Tall Ships Duluth 2013: Parade of Sail
The Pride of Baltimore II (left) and the Privateer Lynx.
Tall Ships Duluth tickets now available
The smash-hit Tall Ships festival returns to Duluth next year – August 18-21, 2016 – and tickets for the event went on sale at the stroke of midnight this morning.
More than 250,000 people attended the last festival, in 2013.
Ticket options include single- and multi-day passes, day sail packages and, for those who’d like to skip the lines, fast passes.
Nine ships are already invited to attend the festival, including the Viking ship Draken Harald Hårfagre, the Spanish El Galeón and General George Patton’s When and If.
There’ll be more than ships to gawk at this time around, too. Tall Ships has teamed up with Art in Bayfront Park, an annual fair featuring more than 150 artists, to offer “an event within an event,” says Craig Samborski, the festival’s executive producer. The Duluth Depot is also selling discounted bundles of Tall Ships and museum tickets.
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