Yesterday which was July 2, 2009 in the Paul ship Dennis Sullivan was due in the Porter Duluth between 12:30 and 1:30 PM. in preparation for going down in photographing the arrival of the tall ship I went online to dilutes boats.com to check for updated arrival information only to be surprised by the fact that the ship had come in at 6:30 AM. I wonder he if this was a planned scheduling as last year when the three tall ships came in support there were literally 1,000 boats in the harbor, including the one I took to picture accompanying this post from.

I’m wondering if it was designed this way as a safety measure because there were too many boats all last year or perhaps they were just ahead of schedule. Anyways the arrival of the Dennis Sullivan was very anti-climatic. The ship will be in the port of the loose in till July 7. According to duluthboats.com the Sullivan is expected to depart Duluth today Friday, July 3 early afternoon and is expected to reach turn and is expected to arrive back in Duluth for a grand entrance between 230 and 330 p.m. this should in fact be quite spectacular hopefully they will have their sales up.

Apparently next year and the organizers of last year’s event in this year’s event are hoping to have between four and 10 tall ships visit Duluth harbor the amount of docking space is going to determine the actual number is some believe it’ll be four or six a lot of people are hoping its 10. No matter whatever the number ships come in next year I am sure they’ll be quite a spectacular event and I will be out there photographing it.

To all a happy and say Fourth of July 2009.