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Posted 4/8/08
Maritime Day – Free Boat Rides and Lunch
There will be an old fashioned, family-oriented picnic at the N.C. Maritime Museum’s expansion site at Gallants Channel in Beaufort on Sunday, May 18.
The grounds will be open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Come and sail in the museum’s fleet of traditional wooden boats, or cast a line with a cane pole, join in games or just relax and enjoy the music and spectacular view of Gallants Channel and the surrounding waterway. The museum’s site on Gallants Channel, once a menhaden processing facility, is the site for expansion of the N.C. Maritime Museum in Beaufort. The Friends invite you to take a few hours to see for yourself the potential this property has for the future enjoyment and education of your children and grandchildren.
At the docks for viewing will be the 71-foot Royaliste, a square tops’l ketch refit to specifications of an 18th century dispatch gunboat/bomb ketch. The Royaliste is a living history interpretation and reenactment vessel that emphasizes period sail training, mock battle sails, and an extensive “floating artifact museum.”
Captain Sinbad’s Meka II will be also be docked alongside for on shore viewing.
Again this year is the breeches buoy demonstration and visitors will be able to actually hang in an antique breeches buoy – over land (of course)! Historically, the U.S. Lifesaving Service’s preferred means of rescue from vessels near the shore involved using the beach apparatus, all loaded onto a cart pulled down the beach by men or by horse. On the cart was a Lyle gun, line in its faking box, powder for the gun and a breeches buoy.
All Maritime Day activities are free and open to the public including lunch, which will be served throughout the day. Reservations are appreciated but are not required. You may contact boating@ncmm-friends.org or call The Friends office at 252-728-2762.
During Maritime Day information will be available about The Friends of the Museum and the myriad of ways the organization provides museum support.
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Friends
of the North Carolina Maritime Museum
315 Front St., Beaufort, NC 28516 » Phone
252.728-1638 » Fax 252.728-2762
E-mail: info@NCMM-Friends.org
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