Friday, September 5th

4:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Vendors

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM: Live music by George Ward (Visitor’s Center)

5:45 PM (Approximately): Tug parade arrives in Waterford

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM: Live music by Troy Samba (Visitor’s Center)

Saturday, September 6th

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM: Tours of docked tugs (Open times vary by tug)

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Live Music by Curragh (Visitor Center)

10:00 AM - 3:00 PM: Boat rides (at battery/boat launch)

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM: Farmers Market, Bounce House (at Lock 2)

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM: Waterford Fire Department Obstacle Course (at Lock 2)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM: Tug Talk (Peeble’s Island): The Thomas X. Grasso

11:00 AM - 2:00 PM: Face Painting (at Lock 2)

12:00 AM - 2:30 PM: Live music by Tom Harding (Visitor Center)

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Live music by the Word (Lock E-2 Park)

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Tug Talk (Peeble’s Island): A Nontraditional Trip on the Canal

3:00 - 5:45 PM: Live music by Capt. Squeeze and the Zydeco Moshers

3:00 PM Mariners Line Toss ROUND 1 (Visitor’s Center, outside)

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM: Tug Talk (Peeble’s Island): Ideas Borrowed, Adapted, or Rejected: Designing NY’s Canal Structures

6:15 - 9:00 PM Live music by River Junction

8:45 PM: Fireworks!

Sunday, September 7th

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM: Tours of docked tugs (Open times vary by tug)

10:00 AM - 2:00 PM: Boat rides (at battery/boat launch)

10:00 AM - 2:00 PM: Farmers Market and Bouncy Slide (at Lock 2)

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM: Live music by Scott Stockman (Visitor Center)

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Tug Talk (Peeble’s Island): How it Started, How it’s Going: 200 Years of the Erie Canal

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Live Music by Mark Rust (at Lock 2)

12:30 AM - 1:30 PM: Live Music by Mark Rust (at Lock 2)

11:00 AM - 2:00 PM: Face Painting (at Lock 2)

1:00 PM: Mariners Line Toss Competition, FINALS (Visitor Center, outside)

2:00 PM: Closing ceremonies