SSV Oliver Hazard Perry will be open for tours on Saturday, July 23rd, during the Newport Folk Festival.
The 200-foot??SSV Oliver Hazard Perry will be open for tours on Saturday, July 23rd, 2016 from 10 a.m. ??? 1 p.m. at Fort Adams State Park during the??Newport Folk Festival. Stop by on your way into the festival to check out the country???s newest Tall Ship and Rhode Island???s Official Sailing Education Vessel.??
There is no charge to visit the ship, and you do not need a Folk Festival ticket to reach the ship.
Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island (OHPRI) is the non-profit organization behind SSV Oliver Hazard Perry, a 200-foot, three-masted, square rigged tall ship, designated as Rhode Island???s Official Sailing Education Vessel. As an education platform, SSV Oliver Hazard Perry will allow students to study a wide range of subjects onboard while sailing waters in New England and the Canadian Maritimes during summer months, and Florida and Caribbean waters during winter months.
Above decks SSV Oliver Hazard Perry looks like a historical ship; however, she is in fact a fully modern and technologically sophisticated steel-hulled ship. Below decks is a modern galley and Great Cabin (where captains, in days of yore, entertained); high-end navigation and communication systems; a??state-of-the-art science lab, and classroom spaces outfitted with monitors displaying real-time navigation and meteorological data.
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