The South Street Seaport Museum's tall ships weathered the storm, but its mechanical systems escalator, elevator, heating and air conditioning were all knocked out.
Plans to clear silt from Gloucester Docks, using a new type of dredging, have been welcomed by organisers of the city's Tall Ships Festival.
Nick Worthington, from the Canal and River Trust, said there was no other event like it "in the world" in terms of tall ships coming so far inland.
BBC: Tall ships arrive in Gloucester for bank holiday festival
The biennial Gloucester Tall Ships Festival runs until 27 May.
BBC: Tall ships arrive in Gloucester for bank holiday festival
Down at the dockside (where fast catamarans will take you 16km upriver to MONA), it is all waterside dining with views over the working fishing port, Antarctic icebreakers and tall ships.
Highlights later in the year include the Liverpool Sound concert at Anfield on 1 June, the Tall Ships Races which start on 18 July and the MTV Europe Music Awards in November.
For the first time in 200 years, 17 tall ships will line up against each other and fire black gunpowder cannons to recreate the fight against the British that allowed the United States to secure its current border with Canada.
The trimaran Race for Water will participate in several race events this year, starting with the Krys Ocean Race, a transatlantic race sailing from New York on 7 July and arriving in Brest around 14 July during the Tonnerres de Brest, a fantastic gathering and parade of tall ships.
Eighteen ships from five nations, including tall sailing ships from the Mexican and Indian navies, will be sent upriver by a 21-gun salute from Fort Hamilton, in the shadow of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
Mr. Babits, who had been aboard the HMS Bounty replica several times and has sailed on other tall-mast ships, said he didn't understand why the ship entered the path of a large storm that everyone knew was coming.
Before that they had known two centuries of splendid middle-class rule, when prosperous merchants in tall black hats had sent out ships to the far ends of Asia and, with the profits, sponsored De Hooch and Vermeer.
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