"John Cairns" wrote in message

| The tall ships come to Detroit every once in a while, it would be a real
| pita to motor your boat up there then have to fight powerboat traffic to
get
| a good look. One of the disadvantages of sailing around here, the only big
| city interesting enough to take your boat to is Cleveland.

H-m-m-m-m-m....... I would have thought Boston to be the spot for Tall
Ships.

They had over 200,000 visiting boats in Halifax Harbour for Tall Ships 2000
[50 Tall ships] and managed the traffic very well. Port Authority
established 6 lanes of vessels parallel to the docked ships with a 50 meter
stand-off zone and a 5 knot max speed limit. Half the cops were on jet skis
and RIBs with a couple of high speed chase boats standing by.

Sure there was the occasional glitch and stupidity.... but nothing out of
hand and mostly caused by newbies who didn't know better. The Canadian
tendency to courtesy and easy going attitudes allowed everyone to have a
nice time.

I took the Belgian Consulate General and Embassy Staff for a tour... we put
the Belgian Flag up and ran the Consulate flags on both port and starboard.
This allowed us to request a police escort to visit the Belgian Tall Ship.
Now that was way cool... I got whistled aboard and dined with the Officers.

CM