Green Bay, WIS-- The Tall Ship Festival is back in Green Bay with a new addition to their fleet the largest rubber duck in the world standing 5 stories high will be floating with ships from all around the world.
It's one of the largest outdoor festivals in northeast Wisconsin. "It's a chance to get a glimpse at an era gone by" says Terry Charles, Public Relation PMI Entertainment Group.
The Festival welcomes ships from all the over the map like the Denis Sullivan from Milwaukee. "This was pretty much a cargo ship between the 1830's to possibly as late as the 1930's" says Carlos Canario, Capt. Denis Sullivan.
This is the fourth time green bay has hosted the Tall Ship Festival. It's the only port in Wisconsin to have an event like this. "We get folks from Minnesota, Iowa and then states even further out because let’s face it unless you're on a large body of water these ships aren't going to make it to you” says Charles.
The festival hosts nine different ship all of them providing on ship tours and three of them that leave port. Taking folks out for rides out into the bay giving folks a real chance to see what it's like to sail on one of these ships.
The festival is expected to draw about 50,000 people from across the nation this weekend.
