Special to the Times-Free Press
Sail Boston is proud to announce berthing locations for the July 11-16 festival, where ships from around the world will tie up in Charlestown, Downtown, and across Boston’s Seaport. Following the Meet Boston Parade of Sail on July 11, ships will be led to the berths where they will be based for the remainder of the festival. A full listing is posted below, and the ship map is available for exploring both in the Sail Boston 2026 mobile app, and at www.sailboston.com.
Among the top locations are Seaport, where ships will be within walking distance of the Sail Boston Festival, located at 302 Northern Avenue. The Amerigo Vespucci of Italy and Libertad of Argentina will rest just steps from the Festival. A temporarily built “Wharf 8” will be accessible by the Boston Harborwalk behind the Leader Bank Pavilion, and host Ernestina Morrissey (the State Ship of Massachusetts), Juan Bautista Cambiaso of the Dominican Republic, Lynx from Nantucket and HMS Gladen from Sweden.
Class A ships Gorch Fock of Germany, Sudarshini of India, and Sagres from Portugal will be berthed at the historic Boston Fish Pier, while the two largest ships in the fleet, BAP Union of Peru and Esmerelda from Chile will highlight the ships berthed at the newly refurbished Commonwealth Pier. Charlestown will host 18 ships, including Mircea from Romania and Dar Młodzieży from Poland at Pier 4, and US Coast Guard Eagle behind the Constitution at Pier 1.
Rowes Wharf at the Boston Harbor Hotel will host Oosterschelde of the Netherlands and Kalmar Nyckel of Delaware, while the Moakley Courthouse will host nine ships from the East Coast, and mostly from Massachusetts. Fan Pier will host four ships, including the Mayflower II from Plymouth and Elissa from Texas. The gray-hulled USS Arlington will be located at Black Falcon Cruise Terminal and joined by TS Patriot State, the official training vessel of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
Ship viewing from the piers is open from 10:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. from July 12-15, and ship boarding is widely welcomed within these windows and at the Captains’ discretion. Ship viewing and boarding on July 11 will be dependent upon each ship’s arrival time to the berth, and its ability to prepare to host guests. Most ships should be ready for visitation by 5:00 p.m. Boston Fish Pier opens for viewing and boarding at 12:00 p.m. on July 12 and 2:00 p.m. on July 13-15.
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Parade of Sail Public Viewing Areas/Eastie, Charlestown, North End
There are numerous public viewing areas in Eastie, Charlestown, and the North End for the Parade of Sail — the Tall Ships’ procession into Boston Harbor — on July 11. The Tall Ships will make way into the Inner Harbor, past East Boston, the North End, and Charlestown (many of them turning around off the Charlestown Navy Yard).
East Boston
LoPresti Park
Piers Park
Pier 1 off Marginal Street
Navy Fuel Pier at Jeffries and Marginal streets
Charlestown
Pier 4 and Pier 11 at the Navy Yard.
North End
Lewis Wharf
Christopher Columbus Park
Long Wharf
| Name | Class | Country | Home Port | Berthing Location | Length |
| USS Arlington (LPD 24) | United States | Norfolk, VA | Black Falcon | 684’ | |
| TS Patriot State | United States | Buzzards Bay, MA | Black Falcon | 525’ 1” | |
| Gorch Fock | A | Germany | Kiel | Boston Fish Pier | 292’ |
| Sagres | A | Portugal | Lisbon | Boston Fish Pier | 293’ 8” |
| INS Sudarshini | A | India | Kochi | Boston Fish Pier | 177’ |
| USS Constitution | A | United States | Boston, MA | Charlestown Navy Yard – Pier 1 | 305’ |
| USCGC Eagle | A | United States | New London, CT | Charlestown Navy Yard – Pier 1 | 295’ |
| Dar Młodzieży | A | Poland | Gdynia | Charlestown Navy Yard – Pier 4 | 357’ |
| Mircea | A | Romania | Constanta | Charlestown Navy Yard – Pier 4 | 266’ 4” |
| American Eagle | B | United States | Rockland, ME | Charlestown Navy Yard – Pier 8 | 123’ |
| Angelique | B | United States | Camden, ME | Charlestown Navy Yard – Pier 6 | 130’ |
| Bloodhound | B | United States | Provincetown, MA | Charlestown Navy Yard – Pier 8 | 98’ |
| Hindu | B | United States | Provincetown, MA | Charlestown Navy Yard – Pier 8 | 80’ |
| SSV Tabor Boy | B | United States | Marion, MA | Charlestown Navy Yard – Pier 8 | 115’ |
| Tyrone | B | United States | Rockland, ME | Charlestown Navy Yard – Pier 6 | 73’ |
| When And If | B | United States | Key West, FL/Salem, MA | Charlestown Navy Yard – Pier 8 | 80’ |
| Columbia | A | United States | Charlestown Navy Yard – Pier 6 | 171’ | |
| Liberty Clipper | B | United States | Boston, MA | Charlestown Navy Yard – Pier 8 | 125’ |
| Malabar II | C | United States | Vineyard Haven, MA | Charlestown Navy Yard – Pier 8 | 42’ |
| STV Vela | B | British Virgin Islands | Gorda Sound | Charlestown Navy Yard – Pier 8 | 112’ 1” |
| Virginia | B | United States | Bath, ME | Charlestown Navy Yard – Pier 6 | 65’ |
| ARC Gloria | A | Colombia | Cartagena | Charlestown Navy Yard – Pier 11 | 212’ 3” |
| BAE Guayas | A | Ecuador | Guayaquil | Charlestown Navy Yard – Pier 11 | 257’ |
| Capitán Miranda | A | Uruguay | Montevideo | Commonwealth Pier | 210’ |
| Esmeralda | A | Chile | Valparaíso | Commonwealth Pier | 371’ |
| BAP Unión | A | Peru | El Callao | Commonwealth Pier | 378’ 11” |
| Bluenose II | A | Canada | Lunenburg, Nova Scotia | Fan Pier | 143’ |
| Elissa | A | United States | Galveston, TX | Fan Pier | 205’ |
| Mayflower II | A | United States | Plymouth, MA | Fan Pier | 106’ |
| Spirit of Bermuda | B | Bermuda | Hamilton | Fan Pier | 118’ |
| Adventure | B | United States | Gloucester, MA | Moakley Courthouse | 137’ |
| Ardelle | B | United States | Gloucester, MA | Moakley Courthouse | 72’ |
| Bowdoin | B | United States | Castine, ME | Moakley Courthouse | 88’ |
| Denis Sullivan | B | United States | Milwaukee, WI | Moakley Courthouse | 137’ |
| Harvey Gamage | B | United States | Portland, ME | Moakley Courthouse | 138’ |
| Isabella | C | United States | Gloucester, MA | Moakley Courthouse | 51’ |
| Lewis H. Story | C | United States | Essex, MA | Moakley Courthouse | 35’ |
| Pride of Baltimore II | A | United States | Baltimore, MD | Moakley Courthouse | 157’ |
| Thomas E. Lannon | B | United States | Gloucester, MA | Moakley Courthouse | 93’ |
| Kalmar Nyckel | A | United States | Wilmington, DE | Rowes Wharf | 141’ |
| Oosterschelde | A | Netherlands | Rotterdam | Rowes Wharf | 164’ |
| Amerigo Vespucci | A | Italy | La Spezia | Seaport Pier 5 | 331’ |
| ARA Libertad | A | Argentina | Buenos Aires | Seaport Pier 5 | 341’ 3” |
| Ernestina-Morrissey | A | United States | New Bedford, MA | Seaport Wharf 8 | 156’ |
| HMS Gladan | B | Sweden | Stockholm | Seaport Wharf 8 | 129’ |
| Juan Bautista Cambiaso | A | Dominican Republic | Santo Domingo | Seaport Wharf 8 | 178’ 6” |
| Lynx | B | United States | Nantucket, MA | Seaport Wharf 8 | 122’ |
| Adirondack II | B | United States | Boston, MA | N/A | 80’ |
| Adirondack III | B | United States | Boston, MA | N/A | 80’ |
| Captiva | B | United States | Boston, MA | N/A | 45’ |
| Fame | B | United States | Salem, MA | N/A | 72’ |
| Liberty Star | C | United States | Boston, MA | N/A | 67’ |