Posted on: Friday, November 9, 2001

Maritime merriment scheduled Sunday

Advertiser Staff

Last year's festival featured a tugboat hula event. This year's will, too. Advertiser library photo • 2000

Harbors in Hawai'i are often overlooked as so much blue-and-steel background. Organizers of the 2nd annual Honolulu Harbor Festival Sunday want to change that.

Underwritten by the local maritime industry, the festival aims to celebrate the industry's role in Hawai'i's economy, culture and history. From 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., people are invited to take in — for free — harbor tours, a "tugboat hula" competition, a synchronized sailing show, and the first Sand Island Challenge Outrigger Canoe Race, in which more than 200 paddlers will race. Tours of the sailing ship Falls of Clyde will be offered, and there will be food booths, a celebrity dunking tank, a student art display and entertainment. Call 566-2306 for details. (A related lecture series runs 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. tomorrow at the center; $25; call Cheryl Uyehara at 842-5380.)