So it was one schooner with a 3 person crew sailing around the Marina and docking.  There were some bag pipes and 4 wenches.  Overall it wasn't much but it was a nice day to get out and see a boat and some of downtown.

Getting ready to dock to boat.

I told you there were bag pipes.

Then someone said free beer samples.  There was not a single ad for this event.  Just the little notice in the paper and over 1000 people showed up.  When they started serving the beer we walked around the marina and got some other oictures and saw the work on the new museum/display for the Erie Canal.  Those pix will be in another blog.

Replica tall ship here will deliver new beer

A tall ship carrying mystery beer will weigh anchor Saturday at Erie Basin Marina.

The 96-foot Challenge, a replica of an 1800s schooner, is scheduled to tie up at noon to promote the U. S. debut of a “new craft brew.” Bagpipers and drummers will play as deckhands and “wenches” in period dress unload barrels of the product for nationwide distribution.

Kara Zale of Eric Mower Associates, representing the unidentified brewer, said Buffalo will get the first taste because of its nickname, City of Good Neighbors. The secret beer has “hospitable roots,” dating to a time when people gave kitchen parties featuring suds and lively music, Sale said.