Viewing the wonder and amazement of the Tall Ships at Sail Boston 2026.

4th of July on the River Charles, Boston, Massachusetts for the 25oth anniversary of USA.

Last weekend in July the easterly winds collected into a gentle breeze, just enough to push the cool sea air towards the warm land and compress it into a thick fog but not enough to blow it away.

Scenes of Summer: F/V Atlantic out of Woods Hole, Ma at Fish Pier in Boston, early summer unloading the catch.

Watch your depth, the tide is low. The sun is dropping, ushering the light away and giving the water an uninviting darkness, but the seas are calm, breeze so fresh and colors are vivid. Traveling on through Dorchester Bay the sky is bright with a hazy peach colour as the last minutes of sunset pass by giving way to vibrant pre-darkness blue tones. In the early days, sailing into Boston Harbor would have looked much different….

Nix’s Mate, by the Narrows and just north of Gallops Island was long known to stand for tragedy and terror now long forgotten by modern society. Until as late as 1835 those accused of piracy and severe crimes at sea were given the ultimate punishment. Sailors were hung on Boston Common in a public spectacle before being thrown back on a boat and taken far from the good people of town to Nix’s Mate.