My wonderful daughter bought us two tickets for the Father's Day sail on the Pride of Baltimore II, the 157' wooden replica square-topmast-rigged schooner based in Baltimore. Such a beautiful vessel, and with such a spiderweb of rigging. Arrived in the area a tad early and easily snagged street parking in Fells Point, and got to Pride about ten minutes before 10. 6 crew and about 25 passengers don't feel at all crowded on a deck that's 100' long and 26' wide, and within just a few minutes of motoring away from the dock the crew had three sails up and bearing. Wind was unfortunately light (3-5 mph) for most of the trip out of Baltimore Harbor, filling in only about 11:20, and they had to turn us around and turn on the engine at about 11:40. But a truly glorious voyage it was, and such a treat to have my daughter pick it out as a Father's Day gift -- couldn't have been a better place to be with her. And while passengers don't get to steer, we did get to haul lines to raise the sails, so we did have something to do. And Pride arranges for an NPS historian to accompany the voyages, so we got to hear much about the history of Balimore Harbor on the way out and back, with special emphasis on Ft. McHenry and the War of 1812 -- all wonderfully told while we slowly sailed the sights. Beautiful!