Pride of Baltimore II will host a festival celebrating the lives of sailors and the art of tattooing on Saturday from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. on Fells Point Broadway Pier.
Sailabration: Sailing Traditions in Ink explores and explains the connection between sailing on the high seas and tattoos. This inaugural event is free and family-friendly.
“Learn about sailors and life at sea as the festival highlights the history and art of tattooing, presented by the Baltimore Tattoo Museum or experience ‘hand poke tattooing’ with a live demonstration aboard the ship,” reads the press release. March along to performances by the Fort McHenry Fife and Drum Corps, and enjoy The Marching Elite and Ship’s Company Chanteymen, who will provide nautical music from the 1700s and 1800s.
Drink grog, sample “hardtack,” and partake of other activities that will give you a taste of what life on the high seas was like in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The Pride of Baltimore II is a historically evocative reproduction of one of the most famous War of 1812 privateers, Chasseur. A privateer is a private ship or vessel that is engaged in maritime warfare, commissioned by a government. Pride of Baltimore II (and Pride of Baltimore I before her) has provided more than four decades of education and fostered economic development and tourism in Maryland.
The Fells Point Broadway Pier is located at 920 S. Broadway, Baltimore, MD. For more information about this Sailabration event, click this link.
