I Missed the Tall Ships

And I was soooooo looking forward to them:

"Boston set to benefit from tall ship festival" by Martine Powers Globe Staff / June 3, 2012

Boston is gearing up for a six-day summer tall ship festival — but this year, the organizers have made a promise to share the profits of the event with the city.

The OpSail festival, a gathering of traditional sailing vessels to mark the bicentennial of the War of 1812, comes three years after another tall ship festival was fraught with controversy on who would foot the bill for event security.  

Yeah, let's celebrate another war.  

Once again, the thing is misunderstood. The War of 1812 was the House of Rothschild attempt to destroy the independence of the American colonies through their puppets on the throne of England after they rejected private central banking.

Related: Tall ship parade planned to mark War of 1812

Also see: Boston's Tall Ships Tacking and Jibing

I forgot that I get seasick!

But the city and OpSail organizers said that this year, they will be sharing revenue to help the city recoup money spent on the event.

“We have a revenue-sharing agreement with the city,” said William G. Armstrong Jr., spokesman for Operation Ship Inc., a nonprofit that hosts tall ship events throughout the country and is organizing the OpSail event here. “The city is going to make out pretty well.”

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Also see: Tall ship festivals set for 2 cities
 
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Civil War reenactors mark 4th of July in town of Orange

"Pressure on the Park Service and Navy to come up with a repair plan has been mounting. With neither able or willing to pay for extensive repairs — estimates ran from $3 million to $18 million — the Cassin Young was left in the dry dock..... 

No austerity there, huh?

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