Festival of Sail

The following ships have been invited to attend the Festival of Sail San Francisco 2008. As we get closer to the event, look for the 'confirmed' stamp next to those that will be attending. If you own a vessel and would like to participate in the Festival of Sail San Francisco please contact Joanne Fedeyko at jfedeyko @ maritime.org or (415) 307-1382.

Alma

Alma is a wooden-hulled scow schooner built in 1891 to carry bulk cargo.

The flat-bottomed hull was designed to navigate the shallow waters of the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta and to rest on the bottom at low tide.

Balclutha

Balclutha is a three-masted, steel-hulled, square-rigged ship built to carry a variety of cargo all over the world.

Bounty

Today's HMS Bounty was built as an ocean-faring vessel in 1960 for the movie, Mutiny on the Bounty, the famous story of the British crew who overthrew Captain Bligh in order to remain in the Islands of the Pacific, rather than return to England. MGM sailed the ship around the world to promote the film, eventually bringing her to New York for the World’s Fair in 1964.

Official Tall Ship of the
State of California

Californian

Designed for speed, Californian has nine sails, carries 7,000 square feet of canvas, measures 145 feet in length, weighs 130 tons and is armed with four six-pound deck guns. She casts a distinctive and instantly recognizable silhouette and has become one of the most well known tall ships in America.

US Coast Guard Cutter EAGLE

The USCGC EAGLE serves as a seagoing classroom for future Coast Guard officers. The 295-foot USCGC EAGLE is the only active commissioned sailing vessel in the U.S. military service and is homeported at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut.

Lynx

Lynx is a Square Topsail Schooner

Notably, the Lynx is known for her summer program where she sails to Hawaii with students. Along the way students learn about sail handling, navigation, seamanship, leadership and learning to face unforeseen challenges.

Nehemiah

The Nehemiah has twice circumnavigated the globe and has been sailing San Francisco Bay for 10 years. We are certified by the Coast Guard for 32 passengers.

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Nina

The Nina has visited over 425 ports since 1991. She has sailed the Gulf of Mexico, the Great Lakes. She has also extensively toured the inland rivers including the Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois, and Mississippi. During the winter months the Niña berths in Mexico taking passengers for day trips. It is the only touring maritime museum of its kind.

HMCS Oriole

The oldest commissioned ship in the Canadian Navy, a regular participant in the annual Swift sure Classic race from Victoria to the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca and return.

Pampanito

USS Pampanito (SS-383), a World War II Balao class fleet submarine, was launched on July 12, 1943, 120 days after her keeled was laid, at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard as part of an expanded war time production effort. At the time of her launch the Pampanito represented the state of the art in U.S. submarine design and construction. Between March 15, 1944 and Japan’s surrender on August 15, 1945, the Pampanito completed six war patrols in the Pacific Theater and recorded six enemy vessels sunk, four enemy vessels damaged, and 73 Allied POWs rescued. Beginning in 1982, the Pampanito opened her hatches to visitors and school groups as a floating museum and memorial to the Silent Service during World War II.

Robert C. Seamans

SEA's newest vessel, was designed by Laurent Giles of Hampshire England, and built at JM Martinac shipbuilding in Tacoma, Washington. Named after former trustee and Chairman of SEA's board, the Robert C. Seamans is a 134-foot steel brigantine and is the most sophisticated oceanographic research/sailing school vessel ever built in the United States.

Seaward

Seaward is an 82' classic staysail schooner built in 1988 for both comfortable charters in protected waters and for rigorous offshore sailing.

M/V California Hornblower

The California Hornblower is a historically designed replica of a late 1800's 174' Plumb Bow Classic Yacht. She was built by Moss Point Marine, Inc. located in Escatawpa, Mississippi in 1989 for Hornblower Cruises & Events to serve as a Dinner Cruise and Private Charter Yacht. California Hornblower became the flagship yacht of the luxury fleet.

M/V Empress Hornblower

The Empress Hornblower is a historical replica of a turn of the century 90' Western Rivers Excursion Vessel. In 1988, Hornblower Cruises & Events had her built by Freeport Shipbuilding in Florida. With her elegance, she was to serve as a Dinner Cruise and Private Charter Yacht.

SS Jeremiah O'Brien

The S.S. Jeremiah O’Brien, moored at Pier 45 at Fisherman’s Wharf, is the world’s oldest, fully functional and most historically accurate World War II vessel still in Coast Guard-approved operation.

Fireboat Phoenix

The Loma Prieta Earthquake was an instant media event. On October 17, 1989, thanks to cameras overhead in the Goodyear blimp, the world watched as the Phoenix and the S.F.F.D. fought the conflagration at Beach and Divisadero Streets in the Marina. The start of the third game of the World Series flickered off the world's TV screens to be replaced, almost instantly it seemed, by graphic pictures of flames and collapsed buildings, bridges and freeways.