Mast stepping ceremony for SSV Oliver Hazard Perry

by Barby MacGowan on 23 Sep 2014 The main mast of the 200-foot Tall Ship SSV Oliver Hazard Perry will be stepped in a public ceremony Wednesday, September 24, beginning promptly at 10:30 a.m. (rain or shine) at The Hinckley Company, One Little Harbor Landing, Portsmouth, R.I. (Parking is limited, so please consider carpooling.).

Earlier this month, the forward mast was erected, also at the Hinckley Boatyard where dozens of riggers and shipwrights have been working on the ship this summer. The Perry, when completed, will be a Coast Guard-inspected and approved steel-hulled technologically sophisticated 21st Century ship – the first ocean-going, full-rigged ship to be built in the United States in 110 years and the largest civilian sail training vessel in America. It will be owned and operated by the non-profit Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island and based in Newport. The three-masted, square-rigged sailing vessel will provide education-at-sea programs as the state’s Official Sailing Education Vessel.

For more information, visit OHPRI.