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2006 Sailing and Special Event Schedule:

  • June and early July - Piracy on Lake Erie, with a special preview battle sail in Cleveland on July 6


  • July 9 - Royaliste featured in True Carribean Pirates
    History Channel


  • July 12 - August 9, 2006 - ASTA Great Lakes Challenge Series
    Cleveland, Ohio; Bay City, Michigan; Green Bay, Wisconsin; Chicago, Illinois


  • August 18-20, 2006 - Alexandria Bay Pirate Festival
    Alexandria Bay, NY on Lake Ontario, in the beautiful Thousand Islands


  • Sept 9 & 10, 2006 - Battle of Plattsburgh
    Lake Champlain, New York


  • Sept 16 & 17, 2006 - Crown Point, NY
    Lake Champlain, New York


  • September - Royaliste featured in The Pirating
    Sundance Film Festival


  • Oct 2006 - Sailing South on the ICW


Photo above: Make a Wish Foundation and Privateer! help grant the wish of a 13 year-old boy

Royaliste is traveling overland to the Great Lakes in May then will be sailing from Cleveland to Chicago as part of the 2006 ASTA Tall Ship Challenge series. In August we'll sail east through the lakes to the annual Alexandria Bay, Pirate Festival in the Thousand Islands area of New York on Lake Ontario. From there the ship will head out the St. Lawrence Seaway to the Richleau River and through the Chambly canal into Lake Champlain to participate in a reenactment of the Battle of Plattsburgh. Next stop will be at historic Crown Point, also on Lake Champlain. Early fall will find the ship traveling south on the Intra Coastal Waterway (ICW).