More about Harborfest

There will be several "Tall Ships" visiting the Oswego Harborfest. One of them is the "Schooner La Revenante" which is shown below. It is used to support historical pagentry, re-enactments as well as community celebrations and scholarly research.

Below is a tentative schedule for the tall ships at Harborfest..
Friday. July 27.2012

12:30 PM               Tall Ship Rendezvous - Abeam Oswego Lighthouse

1:00 PM                 Parade of Sail down Oswego Harbor (East Breakwater)

1:30 PM                 Turn West & Salute Fort

2:00 PM                 Pier side (43"-27'-55"N/76"-30'-56"W)

2:30 PM                 Clear Customs (Harborfest will arrange)

6-30 PM                 Captain/Sponsor Meet- Hang Sponsor Flag

6:30 PM                 VIP Tour Sponsor (Max 8 people)

Saturday. July 28.2012

10:00 AM -1:00 PM    General visit for public

2:00 PM                       Underway for Fort Ontario Battle (6 sponsors as passengers)

2:30 - 3:30 PM            Exchange fire with Fort Ontario

4:00 PM                       Pier side

7:00 -10:00 PM           Sponsor Reception (Pier side) & Fireworks

Sunday. July 29.2012

10:00 AM -1:00 PM       General visit for public

Z:00 PM                          Underway tor Fort Ontario Battle (with 6 passengers)

2:30 - 3:30 PM               Exchange Fire with Fort Ontario

4:00 PM                          Passenger drop-off & Ban Voyage                      „-

By the way, this is the 25th anniversary of Harborfest and as of July 9th, there are 65 signed up for the rally.

For a complete list activities, check their link at -

http://www.oswegoharborfest.com/

Our rally agenda is on the
http://pennymixers.blogspot.com/p/haborfest-rally-itinerary.html
TAB above

June Rally highlights

Plagiarised from newsletter, here are highlights written by Sylvia Plaisted from the June rally.

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Our June Pen-NY Mixer Rally was a big success. Bill and Cheryl Ortlieb, our rally masters worked very hard and did a great job. Some of us arrived on Thursday and were welcomed by our hosts. The rest arrived on Friday. Those attending were, Bill and Rose McGlynn, George and Barb Cole, Jim and Sherry Miller, Phil Liberatore and Lury Wallenbeck, Charlie and Doris Kline, Jean Horton and Bill, Ed and Sylvia Plaisted, Lee and Shirley Moore, Bill and Cheryl Ortlieb and John and Carla Couture'.

On Friday morning Sherry Miller and Sylvia Plaisted went to the Diamond mines. Sherry found several quite large "diamonds" and I found one small one. We loved it. Friday afternoon most of us went to Utica to the Matts Brewery for a 2 hour tour. Very interesting. We enjoyed a dinner of hot dogs, mac salad and tossed salad put on by our hosts and some helpers. Half of us brought desserts. We had some mouth watering desserts. They were all wonderful.

Saturday started out with a large breakfast of blueberry pancakes, eggs etc. Most of the girls went to a local quilt shop in the morning. Some of the guys went back to the brewery in the afternoon. Bill and Cheryl outdid themselves by cooking a gourmet dinner for us. We dined on Cornish game hens (prepared and baked in the ovens ant the Fair Grounds), mashed potatoes, baby carrots, fresh cooked green beans, cabbage salad, rolls. It was a dinner fit for a king. Half of us brought dessert. We had lots of fun with a "horse race" in the evening.

Sunday Morning, we had a great dish to pass breakfast. So as you can see we ate very well as usual at our rallies.

It was our first official rally for the year and it was a big success.

Sylvia Plaisted