Finished · Sunday, September 6
This one has wrapped.
Victoria Classic Boat Festival finished on Sunday, September 6. Everything below is how it ran, so you know what to expect if it comes round again.
The 2027 dates are not up yet, so watch mmbc.bc.ca. The Maritime Museum of BC has held this on the Labour Day long weekend for decades, and this was the forty-sixth.
What to expect
The Maritime Museum of BC brings more than eighty classic boats into Victoria’s Inner Harbour for its 46th festival over the Labour Day long weekend, and you can walk the docks among them. Friday and Saturday run 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday closes at 6 p.m. Two of the boats are the museum’s own: SV Dorothy, an 1897 gaff-rigged sloop built in Victoria and registered for the sail past, and the Rainbow skiff-gig, a circa 1890s boat off HMCS Rainbow, the first vessel in the Royal Canadian Navy’s Pacific Command.
Live music runs all three days on Deerleap at Dock D, with the Hounds of Cuchulain and the museum’s own Salty Singers among the acts, and Yacht Dogs sells hot dogs, ice cream, and snacks from the barge beside the causeway entrance, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., cash or card. Moments to plan around: Rainbow Row goes out around the harbour on Friday at 2 p.m., the Victoria Harbour Ferries do their ballet by the Steamship Building at 10 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday, and the sail past begins Sunday at 11 a.m., running with the race to 1 p.m. The Ogden Point causeway and Clover Point are both good places to watch the Sunday sail from shore.
The docks are open to the public. Note that the museum’s own building at 744 Douglas Street is closed September 3 to 8 while staff run the festival, reopening Wednesday, September 9, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
How it ran
- When
- Friday 4 to Sunday 6 SeptemberFrom 9 a.m.
- Cost
- Docks open to the public
- Booking
- Not listed
- Suits
- Not listed
- Where
- Docks in the Inner HarbourDowntown