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Tall Ships Tacoma is bringing dozens of vintage sailing ships and other vessels back to town July 3 through 7. Here's your definitive guide to the ships and the festival. 
Published July 5th, 2008 - 1:00AM
Pirates roamed Dock Street. Performers belted sea chanteys for anyone who would listen. Hungry attendees munched on elephant ears. F-16s from the Freedom Fair’s Fourth of July air show screamed overhead. And the demand to tour tall ships from around the hemisphere was constant.
Published July 4th, 2008 - 1:00AM
Tacoma welcomed the return of more than two dozen tall ships to its waterfront for the first time in three years Thursday with cheers, whoops and waves.
Published July 3rd, 2008 - 1:00AM
Bryan Cargill had spent only three nights aboard a tall ship, but the 16-year-old from University Place was already talking like a seasoned sea veteran.
Published July 2nd, 2008 - 2:45AM
ABOARD THE EAGLE, PUGET SOUND - I slept right through reveille. My roommate Food Service Chief Leta Gibbons had to remind me that if I wanted breakfast, it would not come to me, and it would be gone by 7:30 a.m.
Published July 2nd, 2008 - 1:00AM
ABOARD AMERICA – This tugboat’s crew is hungry and lonely. Four men work and live aboard Foss Maritime’s Tacoma-based tanker escort 24 hours a day.
Published July 1st, 2008 - 1:00AM
For some, it’s the clothes: billowing shirts and brocaded britches for the men; bustiers and corsets, along with flowing silky skirts, for women. And plenty of leather vests, belts, jackets, hats and boots for both genders.
Published June 30th, 2008 - 1:00AM
THE BIG BANG STRATEGY
Published June 30th, 2008 - 1:00AM
For the next week, whenever you hear the word “tall” it’s likely to have “ships” attached to it. But those tall ships in Commencement Bay got us thinking: What else in the Tacoma area is tall? A little digging, a little snooping around, and we came up with a few fun facts about the tallest of tall stuff.
Published June 29th, 2008 - 1:00AM
Tall Ships Tacoma promises to draw 31 ships, 2,000 volunteers and hundreds of thousands of visitors during the four-day festival this week. Such numbers could mean a logistical nightmare for the city government and the small nonprofit running the event. Instead, with lessons learned from the 2005 festival, city leaders and Tall Ships organizers are certain they’re prepared to handle the influx of people and activity when the festival begins Thursday.
Published June 29th, 2008 - 1:00AM
Sure, they’re tall, and worth seeing as they sail in. But tall ships both past and present have also inspired some pretty cool art, song, drama, literature and science – and a lot of it is coming to the South Sound this week.
Published June 29th, 2008 - 1:00AM
When the barques and brigantines of Tall Ships Tacoma sail into town this week, they’ll navigate well-marked channels. The journey will take them from Vashon Island’s Quartermaster Harbor to Commencement Bay, and past Point Defiance.
Published June 28th, 2008 - 1:00AM
When Tall Ships opens, we’ll be getting a lot more than we paid for.
Published June 26th, 2008 - 1:00AM
A historic schooner that ran aground near Orcas Island sustained only a ding on its keel and will be able to head to this weekend’s tall ships festival in Victoria, B.C., and next week’s Tall Ships Tacoma festival.
Published June 24th, 2008 - 1:00AM
The Adventuress, a historic schooner scheduled to visit Tacoma next month for the Tall Ships 2008 festival, apparently escaped unscathed after running aground Monday in the San Juan Islands.
Published June 15th, 2008 - 1:00AM
The summer solstice might never be the same again.
Published June 14th, 2008 - 1:00AM
ASTORIA, Ore. – America’s Tall Ship is charming this historic port. Thursday around 9 a.m., the U.S. Coast Guard barque the Eagle crossed the Columbia Bar, and this weekend is giving residents and visitors a close-up view of a vintage sailing vessel and its mission training 21st-century cadets.
• Meet the Eagle: 360 degree panorama
• Meet the Eagle: 360 degree panorama
Published June 4th, 2008 - 4:07PM
It sounded like an urban legend. A myth fueled by muddled mis-understandings of foreign sailors speaking Spanish and Russian. The story goes like this:
Published June 4th, 2008 - 4:02PM
Tacoma police want the power to remove rowdy festivalgoers from the city waterfront July 4 without necessarily making an arrest.
Published May 18th, 2008 - 1:00AM
Eric Franklin had never been aboard a sailboat when he signed up for the Youth on Board program. Soon enough, he’ll spend four days as a crew member on a tall ship sailing from Victoria, B.C., to Tacoma.
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