Tall Ships Hit Duluth Harbor For 4-Day Festival
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — Eight tall ships from around the world have arrived in Duluth for a festival that's expected to draw 300,000 spectators to the Lake Superior port.
The star vessel of this year's four-day festival is expected to be the 170-foot El Galeon Andalucia, a replica of a 16th-to-17th century Spanish galleon that was part of Spain's West Indies fleet.
But one ship is absent from the lineup. The Draken Harald Harfagre, billed as the world's largest Viking ship, had to turn around following a festival in Green Bay, Wisconsin, after failing to raise the money required to pay U.S. pilots to guide the ship through the Great Lakes.
Duluth's last tall ships festival, in 2013, drew an estimated 250,000 people, and generated $15 million in economic activity.
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