World's Largest Rubber Duck To Be Featured At Tall Ships Festival
By John McDevitt
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Every festival needs a "wow" factor, right? The four-day Philadelphia and Camden Tall Ships festival in late June is no exception.
Craig Samborski is the Tall Ships festival's planner and just so happens to own the world's largest rubber duck.
She weighs 11 tons and sits 61 feet tall. It made its debut at Los Angeles' Tall Ships festival last year and was a big hit.
"And the rubber duck was an idea that we though was either going to be really stupid or really brilliant." said Samborski. "Fortunately it worked out to be really brilliant."
Her name is "Mama Duck," and she has a 10-foot baby named "Rocky."
Mama is being brought to the Philadelphia and Camden festival to lead the 14 wind-driven tall ship fleet up the Delaware for the Parade of Sails around 1 o'clock on June 25th, to be reunited with "Rocky" in Camden.
The pair will be positioned along the Camden's side of the Delaware River during the four-day festival.
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