She’s got 3 masts measuring 13 1/2 stories tall, 7 miles of rigging, 20 sails measuring 40,000 square feet, she’s 200 feet in length and on Sunday she’ll be pulling into Lunenburg Harbour.
She’s the Oliver Hazard Perry, the largest Civilian Sailing School ship in the United States.
From her home berth in Newport, Rhode Island, the tall ship is on an Atlantic voyage to Lunenburg, and then onward to Boston, Massachussetts, to give the youth on board a hands on learning experience like no other.
“You have George’s Bank, you have the Grand Banks, all of that sort of area where the students can see that on the charts and detect the changes in the depths and the temperature and then link that back to a Maritime tradition,” says Liz Fisher-Sullivan, Education Director for the Oliver Hazard Perry SSV Rhode Island.
As for choosing to come to the South Shore and dock for three days, Fisher-Sullivan says it was an easy decision.
“Lunenburg has just always had a special place in all of our hearts; we’ve spent a lot of time there on vessels that have come in and out,” says Fisher-Sullivan, adding, “and also the Maritime tradition of Nova Scotia in general.”
You can glimpse the Oliver Hazard Perry SSV docked outside the Atlantic Fisheries Museum in Lunenburg Sunday through Tuesday.
Story by Craig Power
@CraigTPower
power.craig@radioabl.ca
Above Photo: The Oliver Hazard Perry SSV Rhode Island. Photo Credit © Ted Neighbors.
Join us in welcoming Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island to Lunenburg this Sunday, July 8th at 3pm. This majestic tall ship will be in Lunenburg until July 10th. Don’t forget your cameras!… https://t.co/SXd40lKf2P
— Board of Trade (@Lunenburg_NS) July 6, 2018
