European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday july 29, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 a Small plane flits overhead Bove As a tall skip tails near Bremerhaven during Sill 86 festivities. Below a Organ grinder and � toy Monkey entertain the crowds which reached 1.s million people during the week. And a youngster gnaws on a pair of binoculars while watching the tall ships. Stately Parade of tall ships closes sail 86 byjoe Mapother Bremerhaven Burean Bremerhaven Germany an overflow crowd of 500,000 sailing buffs spilled out into shallow Waters of the a scr River to Walch the tall ships Parade thai closed sail 86 festivities on a Sun drenched sunday afternoon. Roughly three times the number of sunday spectators came to the we Klong festivities. The 15 Mill inn visitors More than fulfilled the expectations of event organizers who had expected Between 500,000 and700,000 people said a spokeswoman or the City of Bremerhaven. Despite the throngs police reported Only one Inci Dent Over he final weekend a Light plane crash thai was unconnected to festival activities. Two people were slightly injured in the crash said Marita Meinen. The City spokeswoman. Ideal sailing weather boosted the size of the crowd which began to form saturday night following fire works set off from the deck of a ship moored in the River. More than 110,000 spectators watched the fire works display Meinen said. Some spectators rated out steeping bags along thew Cser Dike to protect Choice viewing spots for the tall ships Parade sunday evening. By the time the first ship dropped Anchor Al 5 p.m., lines of spectators had pushed out beyond the River s Banks to obtain a better View. All of the 35,000 parking spaces added for sail 86were full sunday Meinen said. Food and beverages had All but disappeared from stands along the Midway by the festival s end she said. Leading a flotilla of 260 sailing ships was he Gorch Fock the official training ship of the German Navy. Another half dozen tall ships followed in single file before the River became crowded with a variety of Mulli masted sailing Craft. West German president Richard von Weizsacker bid Farewell to each passing ship and departing Crews were serenaded from Shore with their National anthems. Participants included ships from a number of East bloc countries and the soviet Union. The ships swapped Crews before leaving Bremerhaven for Larvik Norway. A spokesman for the sail training association of Germany said the mixed com Pany cruise is supposed to further International under standing and allow Young sailors the Opportunity los ail a strange ship. From Larvik the ships will Start out on he seconds cries of races that Are a part of the biennial Cully Sark tall ships race. The race will end in Goteborg swe Den in mid August the ships left Newcastle England july 19 for the first race which ended in the North sea West of Bremerhaven. Is photos by Joe Mapother