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Tall Ships organizers are being conservative with their crowd estimates this time around.
Festival spokesman Matt Erlich said they estimated a total of 200,000 by noon on Saturday, and another 150,000 by 6 p.m. on Sunday.
You might remember that in 2005, Tall Ships took guff for an exuberant estimate of about a million visitors. They later reduced that to 700,000, counting the people who came out in boats, lined the Ruston Way shoreline, dropped big bucks at the fair, and boarded the ships.
This year, they are being more cautious. They’re counting the people who use the $10 parking at the Tacoma Dome lots, and they are getting crowd estimates from the police.
They are not counting the people who found street parking in Tacoma, or used the transit lots by Freighthouse Square. Those, at 1 p.m. Sunday, were full.
