The Great San Francisco Schooner Race 2011 was hotly contested.
The Freda B runs a vintage 'Flooper" sail while going wing and wing for the finnish.

Chilean tall ship Esmerelda visits San Francisco and held an open house, welcoming friends and family aboard for the afternoon. She is the second largest sailing vessel and the expanses of deck and canvas serve as an inspiration for crew and visitors alike...how can one not be impressed ?

The officers and cadets extended every hospitality to visitors, and we can't thank you enough !!

Goodwill visit from the Russian Navy

The SF Maritime Museum's Gracie Quan, build in the traditional manner of the old Chinese shrimp fisherman at China Camp S.P. makes for the Golden Gate to welcome the Polynesian Ocean Voyaging canoes

Cpt. Harold Summer's old Crowley Tug making the rounds on Richardson's Bay after a day of work....the old man ould be proud !

Six Traditional Ocean Voyaging catamarans from throughout the western Pacific coverged on San Francisco after navigating in the length of the Pacific using only the traditional methods, handed down from generation to generation for over a thousand years ! Look Ma, no GPS !!

Hats off to the builders, and crews for visiting our shores and proving, it can be done.