1877 ELISSA Parade of Sail Passage - TALL SHIPS® GALVESTON

2200 Harborside Drive,Galveston TX 77550

13 April, 2023

Description

The parade of sail is the official opening of the 2023 TALL SHIPS® GALVESTON, and you could be onboard for this exciting start! Board the 1877 ELISSA as you depart the festival area and enter the Gulf of Mexico with the other visiting tall ships as they parade down Galveston's iconic Seawall Boulevard. Please note that the time posted on this page is an estimate, and you will be emailed prior to the event with appropriate departure and return schedules. Seats are extremely limited. Please RSVP now to confirm your place onboard. YOU WILL BE CONTACTED PRIOR TO YOUR SAILING DATE WITH ARRIVAL DETAILS. PLEASE MAKE PLANS TO BE ON SITE 30-MINUTES PRIOR TO DEPARTURE. CHILDREN UNDER 12 ARE NOT ALLOWED ONBOARD FOR SAILS. ABOUT THE 1877 TALL SHIP ELISSA Galveston Historical Foundation brought ELISSA, an 1877 square-rigged iron barque, from a scrapyard in Piraeus Harbor, Greece to Galveston to begin restoration work in 1978. By 1982, GHF staff and volunteers completed restoration and transformed this rare, historic vessel into a floating museum that would actively sail. Today, ELISSA is one of only three ships of her kind in the world to still actively sail and welcomes over 40,000 visitors annually. She also serves as the Official Tall Ship of Texas, a National Historic Landmark, and a symbol of the Gulf Coast’s historic beginnings as a seaport and active waterfront. Learn more here. ABOUT TALL SHIPS GALVESTON® The 2023 Tall Ships® Galveston festival hosts tours of participating ships, numerous special events, sail-away excursions, music, food, and fun in a family-friendly format. Galveston Island serves as one of three ports for the TALL SHIPS CHALLENGE® Gulf Coast 2023 Series, which features a fleet of ships traveling across the Gulf of Mexico as they visit other participating cities. Learn more here. ABOUT THE TALL SHIPS CHALLENGE® The Tall Ships Challenge® is a series of annual events organized by Tall Ships America. These events draw hundreds of thousands of people to witness beautiful tall ships from the age of sail and provide a unique opportunity for the participants to interact with the crews of different vessels in friendly rivalry as they race from port to port. The series began in 2001 on the Great Lakes and saw vessels from six countries and visited seven US and Canadian ports. Since its launch, the Tall Ships Challenge® series has visited dozens of North American cities, bringing millions of spectators down to the waterfront to experience the tall ships and creating a cumulative economic impact of hundreds of millions of dollars for host communities. It has continued to grow every year and is an eagerly anticipated event in the seaside communities that host the vessels and beyond. Learn more at tallshipsamerica.org. ABOUT GALVESTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION Galveston Historical Foundation (GHF) was formed as the Galveston Historical Society in 1871 and merged with a new organization formed in 1954 as a non-profit entity devoted to historic preservation and history in Galveston County. Over the last sixty years, GHF has expanded its mission to encompass community redevelopment, historic preservation advocacy, maritime preservation, coastal resiliency, and stewardship of historic properties. GHF embraces a broader vision of history and architecture that encompasses advancements in environmental and natural sciences and their intersection with historic buildings and coastal life and conceives of history as an engaging story of individual lives and experiences on Galveston Island from the 19th century to the present day. Learn more at galvestonhistory.org.