The city will be once again hosting a tall ships festival in 2016, September 8-11. The last one was 2013 and was so well attended some of the venues were overwhelmed. They said they would be making some changes this year, fortunately in the mean time a great deal of extra parking has been added on the waterfront as well as a new hotel currently under construction. I was out on the IP on Friday afternoon during the last festival, boat traffic was a total of four other boats taking pictures. The local TV news crew took a liking to the IP so we made the evening news.