Saturday, August 18, 2018 – All Day | Cost: FREE* 
Hyde Street Pier | Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, CA

2018 Festival of the Sea
Saturday, August 18, 2018 | 10 am to 5 pm
Hyde Street Pier
FREE Admission

This year’s Festival welcomes renowned performers from across the country, representing the natural diversity of America’s rich maritime heritage. View performers.
Festival Slate of Activities:

10 am-4 pm:  Maritime-themed children’s activities, ropemaking, and info tables crewed by local parks, environmental and history non-profits, and the Park’s own Maritime Research Center aboard the 1890 Eureka. Photo banner near the shipwright shop. Tattoos (only temporary) and face painting in the Kingspoke store on Jefferson Street. Learn how to caulk a deck and raise/lower a dory near the stern of the 1895 schooner C.A. Thayer.
10:30 am-4 pm: Ongoing Forepier Stage Music
11 am:  Sail raise aboard C.A. Thayer
11 am-4 pm: Ongoing Eureka Stage Music
Noon to 2 pm: Park riggers splice, worm, and parcel line
Noon-5:15pm: Ongoing Midpier Stage Music
12:30 pm-3 pm: C.A. Thayer Open House
1 pm: Racing in the Aquatic Park Cove Cutter J row at the Small Boat Dock
1 pm -3 pm: 1907 Steam Tugboat Hercules Open House
1 pm-4pm: 1891 Scow Schooner Alma Open House at the Small Boat Dock
2:30 pm: Breeches Buoy Traditional Ship-to-Shore Rescue on the Pocket Beach. Cutter J row at the Small Boat Dock​