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Summer Sailstice News & Stories

Three Weeks and Counting Down!

by Monica Grant

Summer Sailstice 2016 is now only 3 weeks away... Are you ready?If not, here's a quick run down on what you need to do - 1. Sign up

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Three Day Weekend For Full Moon Solstice

by jarndt

The solstice was chosen for a global celebration of sailing because it's an awesome weekend

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Celebrate Summer Sailstice on the Gulf of Mexico!

by Monica Grant

Has anyone sailed in the Gulf of Mexico recently? How about ‘planning to sail’ the in Gulf? From what I hear the Gulf Coast provides some pretty fun sailing opportunities, and judging by some of the Summer Sailstice events posted from the locals there, I might have heard right! Here are what some… read more

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Beneteau Invites Owners to Hoist Sails and Win!

by jarndt

 Beneteau has been launching boats and sailors for over a century.

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Mystical Paradise - Singlehanded on a Catalina 400

by jarndt

Tony Pozun of the Long Island Sound Catalina Owners Association is hosting their Summer Sailstice weekend picnic sail to Oyster Bay aboard his Catalina 400 with his wife Barbara.

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Summer Sailstice in Maine, anyone?

by Monica Grant

If you're heading to Maine this summer or are lucky enough to live there, take a look at some of the Summer Sailstice events you might find in y

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Frank Bulter - Builder of 75,000 Boats

by jarndt

Back in 1970 Frank Butler founded Catalina Yachts by launching the Catalina 22 hoping he might sell 300 of them.  He went on to sell 16,000.

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Life Under Sail - Exploring Why We Sail

by jarndt

We recently spent a couple of days touring and sailing around San Francisco Bay for a high school senior video project with Colby Marsh to explore the question why we sail and why it's worth celebrating.

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Sailing Renaissance On The Water And In The News?

by jarndt

Has everyone spent so much time staring at computer screens that they're finally looking up to see a lone sailboat and starting to think, how come I'm not out there sailing?

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What's Your Yacht Club Doing On Summer Sailstice?

by jarndt

On the solstice weekend Southern yacht clubs may be just starting to 'reason with hurrican season' while those in the North are putting on the last coast of varnish before launching for the long days of the short summer sailing season.

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