A beautiful Friday evening at the Sultana Downrigging Weekend in Chestertown, MD. The schooner Sultana, launched in Chestertown, Maryland, in 2001, serves as an educational vessel for schoolchildren as it travels around the Chesapeake Bay. Now in its fifteenth year, Sultana’s Downrigging Weekend Tall Ship and Wooden Boat Festival has evolved into one of the largest annual Tall Ship gatherings on the East Coast.

• Kalmar Nyckel

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• Sultana & Kalmar Nyckel

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• Sultana

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• Furling the jib on the AJ Meerwald

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• Rolling the bunt, Pride of Baltimore topsail

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• Kalmar Nyckel tops

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• Masts at Sultana Downrigging Weekend

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• Sultana Downrigging Weekend

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