Portland, Oregon has a venerable tradition (55 years and counting) of parading lighted boats up and down the Willamette and Columbia Rivers during the holiday season. It's a lot of fun to pull up on the lawn or dock of one of the many riverside parks, wrap up in a blanket and watch the imaginative boats parade by. If the weather doesn't cooperate, you can catch them the next day at a different stretch of river Andrew Curtis produced a
great little video of the 2008 Christmas Ship Parade that runs through the entire parade in about a minute set to Vince Guaraldi Christmas music.
For more info on the Portland Parade visit the Christmas Ship Parade web site at
http://www.christmasships.org/.
If you're not in Portland, there are dozens of similar parades around North America. Blue Water Sailing has a
current schedule of events around the US and Canada.
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