Tall Ships to Visit Sturgeon Bay

The Baylake Bank Tall Ship Festival® will return to Green Bay, Aug. 16 – 18. Baylake Bank requested arrangements for some of the Tall Ships® to navigate into the Sturgeon Bay canal on Aug. 14 between 3 – 6:30 pm (timing is approximate and is pending weather and other sailing conditions).

While in Sturgeon Bay, the ships will tie up for the evening along the many public docks and waterfront walkways between the Bay View Bridge and north of the Michigan Street Bridge.

The confirmed ships include: Sorlandet, a Class A square-rigged ship built in Norway in 1927; Appledore IV, a gaff-rigged schooner; Hindu, a sleek 79-foot tall ship; Halie & Matthew, a two-masted, Gaff-rigged schooner replicating the design of a 19th century New England fishing schooner; Windy, the first certified four-masted traditional sailing vessel built in the USA since 1921; Peacemaker, owned by the Twelve Tribes; S/V Denis Sullivan, Wisconsin’s flagship S/V Denis Sullivan, which was designed by Sturgeon Bay marine architect Timothy Graul; STV Unicorn, sails with the only all-female crewed tall ship in the world; and Flagship Niagara, a 98-foot training vessel.

According to Sgt. Chad Hougaard of the Sturgeon Bay Police Department, the ships will be escorted by the US Coast Guard and the Sturgeon Bay Police Department Marine Patrol Unit and will come through the channel in groups of three or four and plan to tie up for the evening on both the east and west sides of the bay where the City will accommodate them overnight at various public docks. A Sturgeon Bay waterfront map is currently available at the Sturgeon Bay Visitor Center or online at sturgeonbay.net/experience/events/tall_ships.

Trolley services have also been sponsored by the Sturgeon Bay Visitor Center and will be downtown to take visitors to the east and west sides of Sturgeon Bay. For more information visit tallshipgreenbay.com.