The 10th annual Maritime Festival is scheduled in Greenport from noon to 5 p.m. with visiting ships, sailing tours, maritime arts and crafts for children, a street fair, art show, and kayak rescue demonstrations.
Other operators offer full and half day sailing tours, fishing expeditions for snapper and barracuda or bigger catch in deeper waters. .
In February an all-women crew took part in Sailing Arabia The Tour 2013, the third edition of a race in the Arabian Gulf.
"In a region where Dubai and Abu Dhabi put the emphasis on the marketing side of sport Oman has a more political message," suggests Betrand Pacé, winner of Sailing Arabia The Tour 2013 at the helm of a Dubai yacht.
Constitution experienced an uneventful tour, sailing in company with and, until the behavior of the crews during shore leave gave Jones a reputation as a Commodore who was lax in discipline.
Add to that a beefed up Sail Arabia The Tour and February is proving a busy month.
On their sailing and walking tours, they patiently attempt to explain that this landscape is not just natural but cultural.
The Boston Harborfest, held downtown from June 28 to July 4, encompasses music ranging from Motown cover bands to the Middlesex Country Volunteer Fifes and Drums; Tea Party re-enactments; history tours; sailing trips aboard the Liberty Clipper schooner; storytelling sessions; and a clam chowder competition.
Begin your own adventure Hurtigruten's 12-day Voyage of the Vikings tour sails from Bergen to Kirkenes on the Barents Sea, stopping at many historic Viking sites, from £1,863pp A couple of years ago, photographer Federico Cabrera came across The Burning House, a project where blogger and adventurer Foster Huntington asked people what they would take with them if their house was burning.
Packed to the brim with fellow day-trippers (for the best views, score a seat on the either side of the upper deck), the tour sails its way up the Bosphorus, passing the ornate palaces and wooden yalı (Ottoman summer houses) that cling to the shore.
