Pin Collectors Set OpSail 2000 Sailing OpSail 2000 and 1992 Commemorative Books

On July 4th 1992, the international flotilla of 260 ships made its way from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge through NY Harbor and up the Hudson River to the George Washington Bridge. It had rained the evening before, and that morning was still misty and foggy. From my view on a boat in the Upper NY Bay, the tall ships emerged from the fog as they passed under the Verrazano-Narrows. It was as if they were coming from 1492, a magical and special effect courtesy of Mother Nature. Operation Sail 2000 served as a tremendous celebration of the coming of the new millennium. It unfurled as a greater nautical spectacle than ever before, with the largest peacetime assembling of naval & training ships to date-120 tall ships, more than 40 warships from around the world, and 70,000 smaller pleasure craft. The pins are perfect, the books have a minor bend in the middle at the binding. The 1992 book has bent corners at the top & bottom on the open side and a mark on the cover, but it is a great read!!