{"id":24436,"date":"2017-07-20T11:12:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T18:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24436"},"modified":"2017-07-20T01:12:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T08:12:53","slug":"dont-miss-the-boat-for-these-great-ship-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/dont-miss-the-boat-for-these-great-ship-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Miss the Boat for These Great Ship Festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/stindi2.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the wildly popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/navy-days.html\">LA Fleet Week<\/a> brought traffic to a standstill on the Vincent Thomas Bridge heading into San Pedro several years ago, it became clear to event planners that:<br \/>\nA. There is great demand for rare glimpses into active, military ships<br \/>\nB. For future events offering free military ship tours, a ticket procedure would be needed rather than inviting the public to show up and get in line.<br \/>\nIn order to tour the visiting military vessels at LA Fleet Week now, guests must monitor the official website. When ticket reservations become available in August, tour hopefuls should fill out the form right away, or literally miss the boat! Ship vessel types, tour options, and ticket prices vary from port to port.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-ship-festivals.html\">California&#8217;s Ship Festivals<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>DANA POINT: Tall Ships Festival September 8-10, 2017<\/li>\n<li>HALF MOON BAY: October 17-30 Tall Ships<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/navy-days.html\">LA Fleet Week<\/a>\u00a0(formerly Navy Days) September 1-4<\/li>\n<li>MORRO BAY:\u00a0 November 22 -December 5 Tall Ships<\/li>\n<li>MOSS LANDING: November 2-20 Tall Ships<\/li>\n<li>OAKLAND: October 5-16, \u00a0Tall Ships<\/li>\n<li>SACRAMENTO:\u00a0 October 4 -December 4 \u00a0Tall Ship Hawaiian Chieftain<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-diego-sail-festival.html\">Festival of Sail<\/a> September 1-4<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-diego-cabrillo-festival.html\">Cabrillo Festival<\/a>\u00a0September 29-30<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-francisco-fleet-week.html\">San Francisco Fleet Week<\/a>\u00a0October 2-9<\/li>\n<li>SAN FRANCISCO: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/san-francisco-maritime-music.html\">Festival of Sea Music<\/a>\u00a0August 19<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the wildly popular LA Fleet Week brought traffic to a standstill on the Vincent Thomas Bridge heading into San Pedro several years ago, it became clear to event planners that: A. There is great demand for rare glimpses into active, military ships B. For future events offering free military ship tours, a ticket procedure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24436"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}