Camden Windjammer Festival
| Hours: | 12pm- TBD |
| Ages: | Infants, Toddlers, Kids, Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Outdoor |
| Cost: | Free see below |
| Category: | Fairs & Festivals |
The Camden Windjammer Festival is a community-led celebration of Camden’s maritime heritage and living traditions. Starting in the 1930s, many of the sleek and hard-wearing vessels found new lives hosting seagoing visitors from around the world for anything from a few hours to several days. Camden's unbroken association with these beautiful vessels and those who make their living on the sea continues to this day. The festival is coordinated by the Camden Rockport Lincolnville Chamber of Commerce.
What: Camden Windjammer Festival
Where: Camden Harbor, Maine
When: September 2nd through the 4th, 2011
Highlights: Schooner and windjammer sailing tours, music concerts, fireworks, the Maritime Heritage Fair, Pirate invasion of Camden, and lobster crate race, and more! Also new this year, the USS John Hall, a Navy Fast Frigate built in Bath, ME, will join the fleet in the harbor. Tours and activities will be available. .
Full Schedule online at http://www.camdenwindjammerfestival.com/events
This year, Camden is going the extra nautical mile, pulling out all stops with a rich and full schedule of events to celebrate the history of windjammers in Maine which includes 14 historic rigged vessels still working in a commercial capacity- and more. The town is also expecting a record turnout this year as visitors experience a true working waterfront and get a taste of life on the sea.
The Camden Windjammer festival is a celebration sailing and tourism as marked by passenger sailing expeditions that, in Camden, began in the 1930s. The festival will have an abundance of sailing tours available for visitors as well as on-land activities for everyone. Sunday will also see the Pirates of the Dark Rose stage their annual attack on Camden, although visitors need not worry about losing any silver or gold.
“This festival has so many things to offer all of our visitors from couples who are looking for romance at sea to competing sea dogs,” says Dan Bookham, Executive Director of the Camden-Rockport-Lincolnville Chamber. “Watching the fleet arrive is an event in itself as all the ships with full sails come into the harbor makes for a spectacular site.”
Travel and lodging packages are available, for more information visit http://www.camdenme.org or call 1-800-223-5459.
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free
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Camden Harbor, Camden, ME, 04843 map
Phone: 207-619-7350
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