Boat Show in Newburgh
The Hudson River waterfront in Newburgh will be hopping this weekend with its annual boat show and a special appearance by the tall ship, the Peacemaker, which will be open for tours.
Free cooking demonstrations and the Simmons Wildlife Program with its display of wild animals will be held each day.
Activities start at 11 a.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
History of the Peacemaker from Wikipedia: The Peacemaker, originally named Avany, was built on a riverbank in southern Brazil using traditional methods and tropical hardwoods, and was launched in 1989. The original owner and his family motored in the southern Atlantic Ocean before bringing the ship up through the Caribbean to Savannah, Georgia, where they intended to rig it as a three-masted staysail Marconi rigged motor sailer. The work was never done, however, and in the summer of 2000, it was purchased by the Twelve Tribes, a religious group with 50 or so communities in North and South America, Europe, and Australia.[2] They spent the next seven years replacing all of the ship’s mechanical and electrical systems and rigging it as a barquentine. The refit vessel set sail for the first time in the spring of 2007, under the name Peacemaker.[3]
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