Tall Ships Are Coming® thirteen vintage vessels will sail into the Port of Green Bay, dock on the shores of the Fox River and host a three day festival as part of American Sail Training Association’s (ASTA) 2010 Tall Ship Challenge.®

Green Bay is one of only six ports in the USA and Canada and the only port
in Wisconsin to be honored as a host.

An international festival of sailing pageantry!

Visitors will be able to tour the ships - each offering their own historic story. Relaxing sailaways, free entertainment and food and drink from dozens of vendors make this truly one of a kind festival experience. In addition, the Baylake Bank Tall Ship festival will include environmental programming on protecting our earth’s natural resources.

Detailed Ticket Info

Ship Arrival into Green Bay

• Watch the ships as they arrive and dock in Green Bay
• Thursday, Aug 12 from 1 - 5pm
• Tickets are $4 ( 4 and under is free)

Enjoy the Festival & tour the ships

• Adults $10, Kids/Seniors $8, Kids 4 and under FREE

Sail on one of the sailaway ships (75-90 minute sail)

• Tickets $40 & price includes festival admission

Quick Ship Pass

• $40 and includes admission to the festival, but saves you time to tour the ships.
• The pass gets you to the front of the line to tour 8 ships.
• Only 120 of the Quick Ship tickets are sold each day and they are valid for only one day.

Private 1 Hour Tour

• Private Tours are $30 and provide a more in depth look of one ship where guests learn more about the intimate details about the ship’s operation.
• Involves a tour of where the crew sleeps and eats. This tour is in the morning before the festival opens and provides more access to the ship.
• Only 30 people allowed for each tour.
• Festival admission is included.

Parade of Sail

• Sail on one of the Tall Ships from Sturgeon Bay to Green Bay August 12.
• Be on board as the ships arrive in Green Bay for the 3-day Baylake Bank Tall Ship Festival.
• Tickets $250 and includes box lunch and admission ticket to the festival the next day. Bus available from Green Bay to Sturgeon Bay for $5.
• A special three hour plus sailing experience from Sturgeon Bay to Green Bay on one of the Tall Ships® is available for purchase. This incredible opportunity puts you onboard one of these historic vessels with a unique chance to sail and rub elbows with captain and crew as they make their trek to Green Bay.
• Ships participating in Sturgeon Bay to Green Bay Trip: Roseway, Lynx, Denis Sullivan, Friends Goodwill, Appledore IV

Ships

Unicorn – built in 1947, Unicorn’s hull was crafted from the metals of captured German U-boats salvaged after World War II. The Dutch-built fishing vessel was converted into a sailing ship in 1979. Unicorn conducts a sail training leadership development program specifically for girls age 13 – 21. Sisters Under Sail challenges young adventurers to work together as a team, learning from each other and supporting each other – sisters helping sisters – as they learn how to sail a real schooner on open water.

S/V Denis Sullivan – Denis Sullivan is Wisconsin’s official flagship and is known widely as one of the finest ocean-going sailing vessels in the world. As a teaching platform, Denis Sullivan and her crew provide an intensive, adventure-based, academic program. It is designed to provide students of all ages with real world experience in oceanography, nautical science, maritime studies, seamanship and natural resources.

H.M.S. Bounty – used in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean II. She was built for the 1962 movie Mutiny on the Bounty by MGM Studios and later operated as a sail training vessel. Bounty and her crew helped prepare the officers and crew to sail USS Constitution for her bicentennial sail in 1997.

Roseway – first built as a private fishing yacht. She is now used as an educational vessel focusing on marine ecology, maritime history, stewardship, seamanship and community services. She also starred in the TV movie Captains Courageous.

Pride of Baltimore II – is a top-sail schooner built to the lines of an 1812-era Baltimore Clipper. Part of her mission is to provide a unique education platform through onboard activities and the Internet for American history and marine sciences. She maintains an international sailing schedule.

Roald Amundsen - this sail training vessel hails from Germany and was originally built as one of a series of deep sea fish luggers in 1952. She is at home on the North Sea and in the Baltic during most summers and in the Mediterranean during the winter.

Europa - launched in Germany in 1911 as a lightship, Europa now sails from the Netherlands and has become famous among tall ship lovers as a ship which really sails. Her motto is “anything you may, nothing you must.”

Niagara - built in 1988 as a reconstruction of the warship used in the Battle of Lake Erie in 1813 during the War of 1812. Her primary mission is to interpret War of 1812 history, preserve the skills of square-rig seafaring and to promote the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the City of Erie.

Lynx - a square topsail schooner designed and built to interpret the general configuration and operation of a privateer schooner or naval schooner from the War of 1812. The original Lynx was among the first ships to defend American freedom.

Appledore IV - a schooner whose mission is to foster environmental stewardship of the Great Lakes ecosystem and to provide personal development opportunities for learners of all ages through shipboard and land-based educational experiences.

Friends Good Will - a square topsail sloop that serves as a historic flagship for the preservation of traditional maritime skills. She’s the replica of a ship that was the subject of a famous quote by Commodore Oliver Perry at the Battle of Lake Erie: “We have met the enemy and they are ours.”

Royaliste - is a gaff-rigged, square topsail ketch built in 1971 in Nova Scotia. In the late 80s, she was refit to the specifications of a mid 1700s sailing vessel. Since then care has been taken to maintain both her period look and attitude. Royaliste offers sail training with a privateer’s flair: a costumed crew, historical re-enactments, and mock sea battles with the smell of gunpowder wafting across the bulwarks from her four carronades. A unique feature of the ship is her ability to be transported overland. It is a huge undertaking to prepare the ship to travel by trailer, but Royaliste has traveled more than 6000 miles via highway. She has sailed both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans as well as four of five Great Lakes.

La Revenante - is a replica of an 18th century New England “pinky” schooner. Her purpose is to serve as an historical display and voyaging vessel in support of historical pageantry, re-enactments, community commemorations or aspects of North American colonial marine history, voyaging expeditions in support of scholarly research into colonial history, and work in film and television productions.