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June 20-23 the TALL SHIPS®
1812 Tour will arrive in Toronto Harbour as the centrepiece of the Redpath
Waterfront Festival.
Produced in partnership with the
TALL SHIPS CHALLENGE® Great Lakes 2013 series, the TALL SHIPS® 1812 Tour is a
Pan Provincial event that will travel throughout Ontario during the summer of
2013. Sixteen ports will participate in this event commemorating the
bicentennial of the War of 1812. The first port was Brockville June 14-16
where thousands of visitors attended welcoming the ships to the Great Lakes.
SHIP
ARRIVAL June 19
You will be able to get a good glimpse of the
210' flagship from Norway, the SS SØRLANDET outside the ABYC harbor at
approximately 10:00.
DECK
TOURS June 20-23
General admission to the festival
is free and incudes all shore based programming. If you are interested in
touring the ships, deck tours are available aboard participating ships by
purchasing a wristband - some of which will give you priority boarding.
Wristbands are available on site, or if you order before midnight June 19 and
use coupon code RWFyacht to enjoy an approximate 40% discount! Details
at TOwaterfrontfest.com.
PARADE OF
SAIL June 23
The Parade of Sail is the Sunday
afternoon finale of the Festival as the fleet of tall ships parades along
Toronto's waterfront. Following is an outline of the event:
* Starting at approximately 14:00 the vessels with leave their berths at the waterfront, exiting the Inner Harbour through the Eastern Gap under power.
* The ships will sail around the
south shore of the Toronto Islands and Gibraltar Point. The fleet will muster
near the former Ontario Place site, close to the entrance to the Western
Gap. Conditions permitting, the vessels will raise sail at this time.
* At approximately 16:00 the
vessels will enter the Inner Harbour through the Western Gap via the Tall Ships
Channel. The vessels will form a single line, from smallest in length to
the largest. The parade is expected to take approximately 45 minutes
to pass, from the first to the last vessel.
* From the Western Gap the Parade
of Sail will move from west to east along the waterfront, turn south
and exit the Inner Harbour through the Eastern Gap.
* The best locations for viewing
the Parade of Sail are on shore along the waterfront.
* After exiting the Harbour, the
Parade of Sail will move in the general direction of Ashbridge's Bay.
IMPORTANT: Western gap will be restricted to inbound traffic only for a period of time on Sunday afternoon during the Parade of Sail.
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TALL SHIPS
CHALLENGE® GREAT LAKES 2013 Race Start June 23
Between ports, the tall ships
have the option to compete in five offshore races, one in each of the Great
Lakes.
Race 1 is called the Lake Ontario "Round The Buoys" Race and ABYC is honoured to provide race committee and equipment for the start of this race. You will get good views of the start from just outside the ABYC harbour or on the spit at approximately 19:00.
More information about the race can be found here.
Race 1 is called the Lake Ontario "Round The Buoys" Race and ABYC is honoured to provide race committee and equipment for the start of this race. You will get good views of the start from just outside the ABYC harbour or on the spit at approximately 19:00.
More information about the race can be found here.
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Race One: Lake Ontario "Round The
Buoys" Race
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Starting Point: Ashbridge's Bay area just east of
the Leslie Street Spit to weather buoy ODAS 45159 (43º 46.0'N, 078º 59.1'W),
starboard rounding then to ODAS 45139 (43º 25.8'N, 079º 22.8'W), port
rounding then to finish line. Finish line - in the vicinity of 43º 18'N, 079º
18'W (approx. 65 nautical miles)
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