Toronto Hosts Tall Ships

The Redpath Toronto Waterfront Festival started yesterday and will run through July 4th.   The festival is hosting fifteen sailing ships and schooners, including HMS Bounty, the brig Niagara, the Bark Europa, the Pride of Baltimore II,  Brig Roald Amundsen, the schooner Roseway and the topsail schooner Unicorn. The tallships are part of the Great Lakes United TALL SHIPS CHALLENGE, a series of tall ship port to port races coordinated by the American Sail Training Association (ASTA) across all five Great Lakes.  Toronto will be the first and only Canadian port.