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PHOTO GALLERY:
1st Annual Richmond Maritime Festival
August 20-22, 2004
The 1st annual Richmond Maritime Festival was held August 20 to 22,
2004 at the Britannia Heritage Shipyard in Steveston (Richmond) BC.
Highlights of the festival were the 188' Barkentine Concordia there
Friday and departing Saturday morning, CH-CCH (the Liv Viking) the Coast
Guard Hovercraft there Sunday afternoon, all the other sailboats,
powerboats and fishing boats, some made of mahogany and many 50 years
old, the 2 day music festival ashore, the Captains' Barbeque Friday
evening, the Sea Dragon flag raising Sunday, the RCMP Dive Team and
Coast Guard Auxiliary displays.
Also there were boats undergoing restoration, model ships, maritime
storytelling, displays on knot tying, rope making, the kids' area with
toy boat building and painting, the food booths, and last but not least
the wonderful Britannia Heritage Shipyard—home to some of the oldest
buildings on the Fraser River, and a working maritime museum.
Click on any image to see enlarged view.
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