The Boston Licensing Board tomorrow decides tomorrow whether to let the Tall Ship, which includes both a moored sailing ship and its pier off Marginal Street in East Boston, into a year-round operation with a "winter village" featuring a skating rink and bumper-car area that would change into summer-time bocce and shuffleboard courts and a rollerblading area.

The plans under consideration would also double the Tall Ship's overall capacity, from 600 total seats across the ship and the pier to 1,250 - and increase the number of bars from six to eight.

At a hearing today, owner Charles Larner told the board he has hired a sound engineer to help him dampen the impact of the ship's summertime music speakers on residents of the North End across Boston Harbor. He said he had the speakers turned

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