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Official Event Guide September 10–12, 2021 Dana Point Harbor Purchase tickets online at Oceaninstitute.org 37th Annual Maritime Festival Special Events With the purchase of these special event tickets, you also gain general admission Schedule access to the Ocean Institute campus! Saturday, September 11 & Sunday, September 12 General Admission: 10 a.m.–4 p.m. | Adults: $20 | Kids: $15

8 a.m.–9:30 a.m. Mermaid Breakfast 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Maritime Festival Opens! • F estival General Admission (Ocean Institute Campus): Ticket required Join the Ocean Institute for fun interactive hands-on activities that will • Ship Tours (every 15 minutes) spark curiosity in Marine Science and Maritime History! Explore our • Sailor’s Life Tours new Chambers Artifact Gallery, which is home to a variety of marine • Intertidal Touch Tank life artifacts. Learn about the history of whaling during our scrimshaw Kick-off the • Shark Touch Tanks activity; you even get to take home your very own sailor’s art! celebration Friday • Activities: gold panning, scrimshaw, with N’ Ales Morse code, telegram, archeology dig. featuring live music, Can you dig it? Learn the proper and Shovel Nose Guitarfish. Learn • Scavenger Hunt techniques of an archeological dig what their skin feels like, adaptations local craft beer • Arts & crafts and more! for artifacts or see if you can strike it to habitats, importance in ecosys- • Local marine life rich by staking your claim at our gold tems, diet, and make your own shark • And more! panning station. Our At Sea Learning hat to blend into their habitat! • Beer Garden Center, which is home to our eels, Looking for more? Partake in our • Live Music schooling fish and many other marine Sea Monster Scavenger Hunt and • Food Trucks (open until 5 p.m.) life animals, will include lessons learn the myths of the Ocean, what’s • Vendor Booths (open until 5 p.m.) on Morse code and how to send a true and what’s false and the animals 11 a.m.–11:30 a.m. Mermaid Swim Show telegram. that inspired these stories. You might Next, stop by our Sahm Marine even find a Mermaid! Don’t miss the 12 p.m.–12:30 p.m. Mermaid Swim Show Education Center and experience our opportunity to learn about life as a Cannon Discovery touch tank, which features sailor during the Ship Tours and A 1 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Mermaid Swim Show intertidal animals such as Sea Star, Sailor’s Life Tours. Battles 2 p.m.–3 p.m. Cap’n Jack’s Pirate School Sea Urchins, Sea Cucumbers and You won’t want to miss out on this more. And check out our Shark touch fun-filled day! Set For High Sea 3 p.m.–4 p.m. Mermaid Swim Show tank, which has Horn Sharks, Rays Additional Adventures! Photography by Scott Schmitt & Chelsie Rex Friday, Saturday, and Sunday Special 4- 8 p.m. Tickets: Starting at $75 Activities Join in the celebration of all things Festival General Admission included with your ticket. maritime. Step aboard a historic and set sail off the coast of Dana Point. While on board, Mermaid Swim Show Cap’n Jack’s Pirate School Sails N’ Ales learn about maritime history and 11 a.m., 12 p.m., 1 p.m., 1 p.m. $35 per person. experience the thrill of mock Mermaid Breakfast 3 p.m. $35 per person. For ages 8-12 years old. Friday, September 10 | 6 p.m.-9 p.m. cannon battles at sea. Enjoy Join our friends from “School” is back in session: Tickets: $50 for unlimited tastings, $35 for Designated Driver blasting cannons, towering Saturday, September 11 & Sunday, September 12 | 8-9:30 a.m. Sheroes Entertainment Cap’n Jack’s School for Lil’ , bustling decks, and the Join the Ocean Institute in kicking off the Maritime Festival Tickets: $65 for adults, $60 for children, and $10 for toddlers as they dazzle with an Scallywags! Join our very magnificence of a canvas full of with our Sails N’ Ales event! Enjoy craft beer tasting from (1 yr. or less) amazing mermaid swim own Captain Gray Beard wind during a Cannon Battle! eight different local brewers as well as live music byAmerican show. Join the show and as he trains you on what it Work with the crew hauling up Join us for breakfast, where you will dine with mermaids. Idol contestant Casey Abrams, mermaid encounters, food get your own mermaid means to be a pirate. Do sail or simply sit back and enjoy After you eat, you will experience a dazzling swim show and vendors, and a prime viewing location of the visiting tall ships. craft. An experience you you have what it takes to sail the spectacular demonstration of story time with mermaids from Sheroes Entertainment. An Participating Breweries: Sierra Nevada, Mother Earth, Docent, and your family will not the high seas and become skill, knowledge, and survival! experience you and your family will not want to miss! Festival Project X, Station Craft, Lost Winds, Dog Pawrk, Delahunt, and want to miss! masters of maritime? General Admission included with your ticket. Left Coast Brewing Activities at locations 3, 4, and 9 require a Special Activity or Event ticket purchase. Special Activity and Map Key Event tickets include General Admission to Ocean Institute. Please see the ticket booth in front of Ocean Institute for more details or to purchase tickets. 1 Ocean Institute Main Lobby Come to the front for all ticket purchases, special 12 Parking Purchase event check-in, or to learn more information. 7 Chambers Gallery tickets online at SAILOR’S Oceaninstitute.org Visit the Laurena G. Chambers Gift Shop located Marine Mammal Exhibit in our lobby for Maritime Festival and Ocean CAMP Institute Swag! Explore a variety of marine life artifacts  and learn about the history of whaling during   Event Vendor our scrimshaw activity; you even get to take 2 Mermaid Story Time Food Trucks Restroom Parking home your very own sailors art! 1 p.m. Located in the Courtyard. 11 Baby Beach Sit back and enjoy an interactive story time with SEAFARER’S 8 Peddler’s Village the mermaids from Sheroes Entertainment. LANDING Shop the fare of local craftsmen at the Ped- Map dler’s Village, featuring a variety of vendors. 3 Mermaid Breakfast Saturday & Sunday 8 a.m.–9:30 a.m. 9 Maddie James Seaside Learning Center Located in Samueli Conference Center Food Trucks Dock and Historical Maritime Wharf Start your day at the festival at our Mermaid Ship Tours Breakfast. Eat yummy breakfast foods and listen All day, every 15 minutes. to stories about what it is like to be a mermaid! 10 Tall Ships Climb aboard and step back in time. Tour Tickets required. Festival General Admission Festival Restroom all six historic tall ships! Please note that the included with your ticket. Shuttle ships will stop tours at 3 p.m. in preparation Stop 8 for the cannon battles. 4 Mermaid Swim Shows R/V SEA EXPLORER Cap’n Jack’s Pirate School 11 a.m., 12 p.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m. PEDDLER’S VILLAGE 2 p.m. Located in the Surf Science Learning Lab “School” is back in session: Cap’n Jack’s Join our friends from Sheroes Entertainment for School for Lil’ Scallywags has some new les- an amazing swim show as you partake in the son plans for his pirates-in training! Suitable creation of your own mermaid craft. Festival for ages 8-12 years old. General Admission included with your ticket. 7 9 OCEAN A Sailor’s Life Tour 5 Sahm Family Foundation INSTITUTE 1 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m. Marine Education Center CAMPUS Parking Learn what life was like for a sailor in the time 2 of Richard Henry Dana in this completely Experience our Discovery Touch Tank featuring Ocean Institute is happy outdoor tour. You will raise sails and lift intertidal animals such as Sea Stars and Sea Ur- 6 3 to provide free parking and 250 lb. barrels with a single heave (using a chins, as well as our Shark Touch Tank featuring block a tackle)! 3 different varieties of sharks. Learn about their shuttles to all of our guests. Mermaids adaptations to habitats, importance in eco- 4 systems, diet, and make your own shark hat to PARKING & SHUTTLE SCHEDULE 10 Maritime History Center and Barn blend into their habitat! 5 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 Learn about the importance of knots and Saturday: Learn all about sharks with a visit Strands Vista Park: where they come from, via the International from CSULB’s Shark Lab! Find out about their Selva Rd. Right past PCH. Guild of Knot Tyers! histories and what the lab is doing to help the 3 p.m.-10 p.m. sharks of today. 11 Seafarer’s Landing Maddie James SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Saturday & Sunday: Find out about the sea Seaside Enjoy grub from a variety of local food trucks Learning Center AND SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 monsters that maritime sailors of the past creat- featuring different types of food from all over ed legends about. Beach Strands Vista Park: the world. Access Selva Rd. Right past PCH. 6 At-Sea Learning Lab 7 a.m.–10:30 p.m. * If you are doing Mermaid Breakfast or Cannon 12 Sailor’s Camp Our At Sea Learning Center, which is home to Battle, be sure to park at Strands Vista Park Learn from our historic reenactors, including our eels, schooling fish and many other marine Dana Hills High School: blacksmiths, pirates, and more. Enjoy live life animals, will include lessons on Morse code music from Los Rios Rock School and enjoy a and how to send a telegram. 33333 Golden Lantern. 9 a.m.–6 p.m. cold beer. Purchase tickets online at Oceaninstitute.org Tall Ships A look at the ships that will be in attendance at this year’s festival.

Curlew Bill of Rights Built in 1926 at Fred F. Pendleton’s shipyard Designed around the lines of an 1856 Amer- Built in 2002, Irving Johnson and Exy in Wiscasset, Maine, Curlew is the most ica’s Cup , Bill of Rights finished Johnson are twin ships modeled after Henry senior ship in the Maritime Festival. construction in 1971 in South Bristol, Maine Gruber’s never-built 1930 designs. Type of Ship: Schooner by Harvey F. Gamage. Type of Ship: Brigantine Length Overall: 82 Feet Type of Ship: Schooner Length Overall: 110 Feet Home Port: Dana Point Length Overall: 129 Feet Home Port: (Curlew Charters) Home Port: Chula Vista (Los Angeles Maritime Institute) Who we are. The Ocean Institute, founded in 1977 as the Orange County Marine Institute, is a community-based 501c3 organization that offers in-depth marine science, maritime history and outdoor education programs. The facility includes state-of-the-art teaching labs, the Maddie James Seaside Learning Center, a historic tall ship and an oceanographic research vessel. = Become a Member! Experience the wonder of the Ocean Institute all year long and build a connection to the ocean that will last a lifetime. Member- ship provides the satisfaction of knowing that you are supporting ocean conservation, marine life protection, and maritime history programs. All seven membership levels include numerous benefits such as free daily admission, access to member-only events, and discounts on special events. Exy Johnson American Pride America Our Most Popular Membership Option: On both Exy Johnson and Irving Johnson, Christened as Virginia, American Pride America is a replica of the 139-foot Sea Star- $150 2½ miles of running rigging support a total of was originally built in 1941 as a two-masted that won the historic Royal Yacht Two named adults and their children can enjoy the added bonuses of complimentary cruise passes, early registration and discounts 5,032 square feet of canvas on two masts and eastern rigged trawler and functioned Squadron’s 100 Guinea Cup race in 1851. for Ocean Institute summer camps, and complimentary admission tickets to special events. 13 sails, controlled by 85 lines on . as a fishing vessel. Type of Ship: Gaff Rigged Schooner Type of Ship: Brigantine Type of Ship: Schooner Length Overall: 139 Feet Length Overall: 110 Feet Length Overall: 105 Feet Home Port: San Diego Can’t make it to the Maritime Festival? Home Port: Los Angeles Home Port: Long Beach (Next Level Sailing) Visit our website for information about weekend activities and upcoming events. Become a member today! (Los Angeles Maritime Institute) (Los Angeles Maritime Institute) Thank You To Our Sponsors.

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