WEEKEND EVENT SCHEDULE
SHIPS MARITIME CRAFT ARTISANS 4:00 pm Ron Reid (Steel Drums/ Calypso) Charlestown Navy Yard USS Constitution SATURDAY & SUNDAY 10:00 am – 6:00 pm, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm 5:00 pm Debra Cowan (Folk) Drydock 1 • Boat Builder - Bob Fuller SHIPYARD PARK STAGE Experience “Old Ironsides” -- the oldest • Sign Painting - Robert Leonard commissioned warship afloat in the SATURDAY • Custom Scale & Spar - Salem world. 10:00 am Rum Soaked Crooks Maritime National Historic Site A government issued ID is required of all 11:00 am Debra Cowan visitors 18 and over to board. • Maritime Knots - Barbara Merry 12:00 pm Rum Soaked Crooks • Scrimshaw Artist - Nancy Lyon USS Cassin Young 1:00 pm Debra Cowan • Ship Figure Head Painter - Sheila 10:00 am – 4:30 pm Billings 2:00 pm Gerson Eguiguren (Equador) Pier 1 Explore this restored World War II 3:00 pm Atileo Tedoldi (Canadian FAMILY ENGAGEMENT STATIONS destroyer and meet some of its crew. R&B) SATURDAY & SUNDAY 4:00 pm Gerson Eguiguren (Equador) Tall Ships 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Piers 1, 4, 6 & 8 • Charlestown Navy Yard Scavenger 5:00 pm Atileo Tedoldi (Canadian Hunt R&B) USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM SUNDAY PROGRAMS & ACTIVITIES • Naval History and Heritage Command 11:00 am Tripp and Toddy SATURDAY & SUNDAY 12:00 pm Fellswater (Irish) 9:00 am - 7:00 pm • Block and Tackle “Rug Up” Set sail on a voyage of discovery! Challenge 1:00 pm Tripp and Toddy Hands-on exhibits and family • Creativity and Imagination 2:00 pm Olivia Swan (UK) programming that explores the • Trusted Knots & Lines 3:00 pm Mamadou (Diop - Welcome to Sail Boston 2017 in the Charlestown Navy Yard! history of USS Constitution from her • Things that Came by Water Senagalese) construction in the 1790s to today. The National Parks of Boston, Sail Boston 2017, the City of Boston, USS Constitution, USS Constitution Admission is by donation. 4:00 pm Olivia Swan (UK) 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm Museum and the Charlestown community will celebrate Boston’s nautical history with a full lineup of food, SATURDAY & SUNDAY • Knucklebones 5:00 pm Mamadou (Diop - live entertainment and music from around the world. Activities on Saturday, June 17 and Sunday, June 18 will 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Senagalese) COMMANDANT’S HOUSE STAGE include a Swing Dance, maritime and traditional crafts demonstrations ship tours and ranger programs. Life at Sea SATURDAY PARADE GROUND STAGE Discover what is for lunch in this 11:00 am Mufaro Kambarami SATURDAY Established in 1800, the Charlestown Navy Yard was one of the original six yards created to support the young delicious program about the early (Netherlands) Saturday Night Swing Dance with United States Navy. For the next 174 years, the yard served as a hub of innovation, an employer of skilled sailor’s daily diet. 12:00 pm Squeeze Box Stompers Baby Soda Jazz Band workers, and a home to Naval officers, sailors, and U.S. Marines. SATURDAY & SUNDAY 1:00 pm Mufaro Kambarami 6:15 pm - 7:15 pm 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm (Netherlands) • Swing Dance Lessons The heart of the original Navy Yard is preserved as a historic site open to visitors year-round. The most popular Marked for Life 2:00 pm Ron Reid (Steel Drums/ 7:15 pm - 9:15 pm attractions in the yard are the two historic warships who call the Navy Yard home: The undefeated sailing Learn the history of sailor’s tattoos and Calypso) • Swing Dance! frigate USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned warship in the US Navy and America’s Ship of State, and the mark yourself with a temporary tattoo. 20th century Fletcher class destroyer USS Cassin Young. Both are examples of what the yard built, repaired, Tattoos cost between $1 and $2. 3:00 pm KONG (R&B/Funk) MORE DOCKSIDE ACTIVITIES and maintained for two centuries. The two ships also illustrate the transition that the Navy underwent as it SUNDAY ONLY 4:00 pm Ron Reid (Steel Drums/ SATURDAY & SUNDAY shifted from timber and sail to steel and steam. Museum exhibits about the Constitution, Cassin Young, and 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Calypso) 10:00 am - 6:00 pm 5:00 pm KONG (R&B/Funk) Damage Control Trainer the Navy Yard, are at the nearby USS Constitution Museum and the Charlestown Navy Yard Visitor Center. Boston Area Chantey & Maritime United States Coast Guard - Learn what Sing with the Roaring Forties SUNDAY it takes to keep your boat afloat in an The Charlestown Navy Yard is part of Boston National Historical Park, that, along with Boston African Listen, learn and lift your voices! 11:00 am Victor Martin (Spain) emergency. American National Historic Site and Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park make up the National Parks Participate in your maritime heritage 12:00 pm Kalliope Jones by joining a rousing chorus of sea SATURDAY: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm of Boston. 1:00 pm Victor Martin (Spain) chanteys. SUNDAY: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm 2:00 pm Boston Area Chantey & United States Coast Guard Silent Maritime Sing with the Drill Team - Roaring Forties Watch a silent precision exhibition drill that exemplifies the pride, poise and 3:00 pm Debra Cowan (Folk) perfection of the US Coast Guard. Charlestown Navy Yard National Parks of Boston
Impossible Dream
Pier 8 Bloodhound Hindu Geronimo Pier 6 Halie Matthew
Shipyard Park
Chelsea Street Chelsea Pier 4
MBTA Water Shuttle Angelique First Avenue Pier 3 American Eagle Spirit of South Carolina Harvey Gamage USS Constitution Pier 2 Shenandoah Museum
Commandant’s USS Constitution House USS Cassin Young Decca Pier 1 Tour Boat Visitor Center Dock USCGC Eagle
Gate 1 Security Food Maritime Crafts Screening Food & Information Music Stage Drinks (21+)
Ships Restrooms Family Activities
Viewing Area First Aid MBTA Ferry (Parade of Sail)